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Article: Richard Burton, RIP.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 7, 1984
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Richard Burton, RIP
He was the last of the old-time sinners, a man of world-shaking weaknesses who never tried to turn his transgressions into principles. His scandalous romance with Elizabeth Taylor consumed acres of newsprint, but he somehow refused to accept the role of swinger: He was betraying his wife, and he knew it, and he communicated guilt when other would have taken the current line that fidelity is an outmoded concept. Rooted as he was in the idiom of Shakespeare and Donne, he contemned such trendy ploys.
Most of the public learned of his thespian brilliance only by watching him throw it away in rotten movies. Offered an easy million, he ...
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