![]() For himself, he was proud of Becket, Woolf, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Shrew, Boom, The Night of the Iguana, Faustus, and Staircase. ![]() For herself, she was pleased with National Velvet, A Place in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, BUtterfield 8, Suddenly Last Summer, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Boom, Secret Ceremony, The Taming of the Shrew, and Doctor Faustus (“for her eyes and her breasts alone,” Burton added). ![]() In fourteen years under contract, he had enjoyed only Alexander the Great and Look Back in Anger.īut on July 26, 1969 (a week before all the loathing), he and Elizabeth did a bit of score-keeping. Yet he could also rejoice in the way “Burton-and-Taylor” had become their own film studio, able to do whatever they liked. I loathe it, hate it, despise, despise, for Christ’s sake, it.” That was the year he made Anne of the Thousand Days, on which he at least flirted with Geneviève Bujold, and the year in which Where Eagles Dare (an adventure film that has many enthusiasts) earned him around $7 million. I shudder at the thought of going to work with the same horror as a bank-clerk must loathe that stinking tube-journey every morning and the rush-hour madness at night. ![]() This is August 4, 1969: “I loathe loathe loathe acting. So what sort of actor was he? On the one hand, he was tormented by the job. ![]()
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