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A BBC4 film about the thespian couple who loved each other but couldn't live together. It was very well performed by Dominic West as Richard Burton and Helena Bonham-Carter as Liz Taylor. If you get a chance to watch it, do.
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Helena was my favorite
At least I loved her in "A Room With A View". Lately she seems to have been doing only evil characters and I have not liked her at all. I will try to locate this latest.
Gwendolyn
Fell in love with Helena Bonham Carter
when I saw her in HOWARD'S END. She was sooooooooo sweet.
I guess she really hates doing "sweet" because like you say,
her characters have mostly been evil or totally damaged after that.
But she does that brilliantly too. Her portrayal of Marla Singer in THE FIGHT CLUB
has to be one of Cinema's most jaw-droppingly disturbing characters of all time...
And speaking of disturbing. I was just a kid when my parents took me to see Liz and Dick
in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLFE. That was scary. Since my mom and dad were essentially
Archie and Edith Bunker (my mom the eternal peacekeeper/doormat) I'd had no idea
people could act like that or have that much pure venom in them
as the toxic academics in that movie.
~~hugs, Ronni
And remember...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLqzLEB3E0
Noticed it on the iPlayer ...
... and I may at least start to watch it. I thought Bonham-Carter was excellent in the Enid Blyton BBC film. I devoured Blyton's books as a child (i must still have a few somewhere)and to find she wasn't quite such a nice person as she seemed was a revelation. Dominic West is also a fine actor who's played a wide variety of character recently, including mass killer Fred West (no relation, I assume :) )
I was never an admirer of Liz Taylor and I always thought Burton much the better actor. His narration of 'Under Milk Wood' is sublime in my view. He managed to bring out the difference between 'slow black' and 'sloe black' in the opening lines.
Robi