she wanted somebody like mike to and richard burton, who were physically abusive at times, and she waswards them. so i think a lot of that is from this childhood and this feeling of always having to prove her worth, her value to people. she was a commodity from the time she was 12 years old. judy: from, as you say, you write a lot about how -- she was into acting as a child. and then at 12 with "national velvet." eight marriages. difficulty with addiction. how did she cope with the adversity? she had successes, but she had plenty of adversity, too. kate: yh. i think she as she famously told off mgm head louis b. may when he was being rude to her mother and said, you know, go to hell and walked out of the room. and when they didn't fire her -- i think thiss a really revealing story, she was a teenager at the time -- when she wasn't fired back for you know, for talking back to mayer, she said she knew that she was worth a lot of money to them and it wasn't about who she was. and so she used that knowledge and making herself a commodity in a really unique way that i think actors are doing

her tumultuous romance with richard burton launched paparazzi careers and marked the beginning of modernshe was the first actor to successfully break the million-dollar mark negotiating her role in "cleopatra" and championed film making in "who's afraid of virginia woolff? she took on the aids epidemic when few would and created an iconic business all while facing tremendous loss and waging her own battle with chronic pain and addiction. joining us now is "new york times" best-selling author kate anderson brower, out with the first authorized biography of the legend entitled "elizabeth taylor: the grit and glamour of an icon. i read the excerpt about elizabeth in her years in washington and you forget she was married to senator john warner for a brief period and was riveted. you are a great historian, but you also weave beautiful stories. can you talk about some of what you uncovered about elizabeth taylor and how she fared in washington >> it was really because of john warn they're this book came together i got to know him. he was her sixth husband and i just thought what an incredible

play was shown on broadway more than 600 times, but the film version with elizabeth taylor and richard burton oscars and eight nominations in our sovremennik george played by valentin gaft marta galina volchek the current version is much tougher we speak locally about the world a separate family, but in general, we speak globally about the world in general, relationships between people about the fact that we are very intolerant, that he is very tenderly towards each other light to today hand over to you. josh there is no mean luna petite blonde honey who came to visit professor george and his wife marty the rector's daughter in sovremennik was played by marina nelola. the current hanya. maria smolnikova her husband alexander novin. handsome deceived prosperous as if from the cover glossy impudent self-confident and who is this night, she is his hmm she breaks him. she has this worldview, and after all, he really begins to love his hanya only later. that's after this night is over the accomplices of the director's assistants, this time were the audience, who were shown the performance even bef

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play was shown on broadway more than 600 times, but the film version with elizabeth taylor and richard burtonived five oscars and 8 nominations in our contemporary george was played by valentin gaft martu galina volchek, the current version is much tougher , we speak locally about the world of an individual family. but in general, we are talking globally about the world in general, about the relationship of people, about the fact that we are very intolerant, that we are very careless towards each other. i picked these flowers in the moonlight to give them to you today. george there is no foul moon, the miniature blonde hani who came to visit professor george and his wife march, the director's daughter in sovremennik played marina neilova, the current chania. maria smolnikova her husband alexander novin. handsome deceived the prosperous as if from the cover of a gloss. absolutely without powder impudent self-confident and that this night she had him hmm she breaks him. she gave me this worldview, and he truly begins to love his hanya, only after this night ended , this time the audience became

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like, she loves richard burton and mike todd.she present then >> she was a working mother. so a lot of the times they were in boarding schools. she was also a loving mother and cared so much about her family her four children are lovely people that don't crave the spotlight in the way she did what she did for hiv and aids is her greatest legacy. she was the original influencer. she went out in the '80s - >> when no one was doing it. >> there was such a stigma among these gay men who were dying there was no treatment at the time and she saved countless lives. and i interviewed dr. fauci about her, and he talked about how much she knew about the science behind the treatments. she was running kind of a dallas buyer's clubs, too, sending money to an organization to get experimental treatments at the time when there were none. >> what a legacy what a legacy. what a lot of untold stories we haven't heard before thank you so much. we are so happy to see you "elizabeth taylor: the grit and glamour of an icon" is out tomorrow thank you. >

it was on the set of cleopatra where the legendary story of elizabeth taylor and richard burton beganer the same again. a new book delves into this phenomenal life, going far beyond the movies and those magnificent jewels. noting how elizabeth devoted decades of her life to fighting hiv and aids, and that it was she who pressured president ronald reagan into making his first speech devoted exclusively to the aids pandemic in 1987, six years after the first cases were reported in the united states. hollywood took note. six years later, she received a humanitarian award at the 65th academy awards for her work in the fight against aids. >> i accept this award in honor of all the men, women, and children with aids who are waging incredibly valiant battles for their lives. those to whom i have given my commitment. >> joining me now is kate anderson brouwer, author of the new book "elizabeth taylor, the grit and glamour of an icon." thank you so much for being here. and you know, because my formative years were in the 1980s, my junior high and high school years, i remember this era very wel

he is directing the motive and the q and this is about richard burton. yes, sir.beth taylor. and elizabeth taylor suddenly happy, married to this sounds rather good to me because apparently burton and gielgud did not get on during this. no action of hamlet in new york. yes, it was a bit between peter o'toole and burton. they would do one in london, one in new york, and they tossed a coin for who go where and who would who would go where and who would direct. they clashed direct. you know, they clashed all burton didn't all the time. burton didn't want to costumes. to wear a period costumes. gielgud turned it into an experimental sort of like a rehearsal performance . and at rehearsal performance. and at the time, burton had just the same time, burton had just married taylor. so all of that was on as well. it's was going on as well. it's a thrilling prospect. fantastic cast, fantastic . and then cast, fantastic. and then there's a drama called sylvia. it's such a musical, and we're referring here to sylvia pankhurst, the suffragette. yes do you know anything about

things that she said yeah and in fact i mean as as a lot of people have reflected she was in richard burton'se'd have to be inside red . yeah. i think i be inside red. yeah. i think i read. yeah. and of course husband philip madoc. mm actor who if you remember was in the dad's army episode and he was the german officer when it was don't tell him the name pike. you really good. yeah. so had a real sort of yeah . hinterland of real sort of yeah. hinterland of comic you know. well it seems sad know it seems like every other week now i'm saying a different legend has passed and it's not until they pass away. we see this body of work which is reassess it. yeah. and you remember how good some of it was? yeah and i know there are a lot of people say certain, lot of people who say certain, i mean, they bring back fawlty towers certain towers and think about certain bits and pieces, don't they we do in more modern times, do live in more modern times, but those classic but some of those classic comedies were brilliant. do get into was allowed be into somebody was allowed to be jews it was a bit jews at