wearing diamonds and wearing tuxedoes ♪ love, endless love >> chris williams is the editor of "the richard burton diaries been? >> these diaries in the possession of sally burton, rich's widow and she gave them to university in 2006, and the understanding was we would seek to public them in kind of a scholarly edition with appropriate context actual information. >> reading into the entries here, do you get the sense that richard burton ever thought these would be made public? >> i think that he didn't intend these to be made public as they stand. i think he was expecting perhaps later in life to go back to these and to use them possibly as the basis for a memoir. >> all right. let's go. some of the entries are elizabeth taylor are getting a lot of attention. here from november 19th, 1968. i have been inordinately lucky all my life, but the greatest luck of all has been elizabeth. she's a wildly exciting lover-mistress. she is shy and witty. she is nobody's fool. she is a brilliant actress. she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography. she can tolerate my impossibilities and my drunkenness. s

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