Au revoir Elizabeth! Thank you for being such an inspiration!

The couple made love “like bunnies,” Taylor said. “Imagine having Richard Burton’s voice in your ear while you are making love. It drowned out the troubles, the sorrows, everything just melted away.”

Burton was similarly smitten. “She is a wildly exciting love-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody’s fool, she is a brilliant actress, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography,” he wrote in his diary. “And I’ll love her till I die.”

I am reading extracts in the NY Post of Furious Love by Sam Kashner and Nancy Shoenberger who managed to assemble a never-before-seen collection of 40 impassioned love letters from Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor.

The twice married, twice-divoced couple was legendary for fighting a lot, loving a lot and then fighting even more. Their relationship was fascinating, steamy, in essence: furious. Just reading these letters inspires to live life more passionately, more madly, more fully.

A stark contrast to the NY Times article discussing Al & Tipper breaking up after 40 years. Of course, Tara Poker-Pope pins it down by saying that “the sharpest reminders that the only two people who know what’s going on in a marriage are the two people who are in it.” And wisely adding : “The truth is that most marriages, even our own, are something of a mystery to outsiders.”

But then the article falls into this whole blah-blah-blah about scientific research on the things to do to revive marriages and how to stay out of the 40% of divorce rate or is out of the  60% ~I can’t remember.

Anyway in short :”couples who regularly do new and different things together are happier than those who repeat the same old habits. The theory is that new experiences activate the dopamine system and mimic the brain chemistry of early romantic love.”

The conclusion is that even tough Taylor and Burton , whose love story was called the Marriage of the Century, fought constantly and drank too much, they knew oh-too-well how to mantain rocket high DOPAMINE levels.

Which means that if Al & Tipper want a shot at the title ~ which they can claim with a 40 year marriage~ they should start indulging in an extra cocktail here and there and breaking a few plates.

Only then will we have a chance at seeing them in Season 2!