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‘Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes’ Review: Nanette Burstein’s HBO Documentary Reveals How Elizabeth Taylor’s Life Became a Parable
It's built around recordings of interviews Taylor did starting in 1964, and she speaks with a casual candor that's never short of revealing.
On these tapes, Taylor’s voice is singular in its expressiveness — she is insolent, mournful, sexy, outraged, dripping with debauched delight, and always casually candid. She describes how the day after her divorce from Michael Wilding was finalized, Mike Todd, the fabled producer, called her over to his office and said that he wanted to see her. During her marriage to Todd, she acquired a streak of his bluster; his death in a plane crash drove her mad with grief, resetting the paradigm of her life.
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