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‘Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes’ Review: The Legend In Her Own Words In HBO Documentary About Newly Discovered 1964 Interview – Cannes Film Festival
A review of 'Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes' uncovers some 40 hours newly discovered recorded interview with the late star who tells it all herself
It is a by the numbers account of her life through her own words up until that point, but the fact is it was actually written by Richard Meryman, a journalist credited with among other things the last interview with Marilyn Monroe (published two days before her August 4, 1962 death). They have been in fact in Meryman’s wife’s possession all these years, but now filmmaker Nanette Burstein( Hillary, The Kid Stays In The Picture) has rediscovered a treasure trove of about 40 hours of interview in order to produce the new HBO Documentary, Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes “. The section detailing the ups and downs during Cleopatra, her near death health experiences, the breakup with Fisher and his erratic behavior, and the marriage(s) to Burton are the film’s best with Burstein and team precisely choosing just the right portions of the interview to tell the scandalous tale.
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