I'm a big fan of Elizabeth Taylor, and even more of her fifth (and sixth) husband, Richard Burton. Brower was able to bring out the "realness" of her: she was a human being, a real woman, who just happened to be insanely gorgeous and a talented actress. One of the things that really stayed with me after reading this was how readily she ran towards crises rather than running from them. When Montgomery Clift was in a terrible, disfiguring car accident, she pulled his teeth out of his throat because he was choking on them. When her good friends started getting sick and dying from AIDS, she became an advocate and nursed the ill without being afraid, even in those early days before we knew how the disease was transmitted. She let people try on the Krupp diamond, a 33 karat diamond Richard bought for her. She wore it all the time, even when she was just lounging at home. In short, Elizabeth was the type of gal who would wear a tiara to work for the heck of it. Like someone else I know 😄
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