Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Wow...make sure and watch this one when you're all rested up and in a stable mood because it's quite a battle. Elizabeth Taylor is phenomenal - loud, crude, biting. Richard Burton's performance increases at this steady pace that is just short of psychotic. The whole time I kept wondering how these people said these things to each other, even acting, and retained a half-way decent relationship. Then I read this on wikipedia:
The relationship between them portrayed in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is reputed to have been similar to Burton and Taylor's real-life marriage.
Well, there you go. It actually reminded me of the movie Closer, where the fights are so real they reach right through the screen and slap you in the face. Of course, they were both directed by Mike Nichols, which means his four marriages maybe aren't that surprising.
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