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Erotic Vagrancy



You'd have to embrace the entitled chaos, writing about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Lear and Prospero of course have similarities, but I'm disinclined to collapse them into one, which Roger Lewis does in Erotic Vagrancy (2023).

Reading about Rachel Roberts, a fellow Welsh actor, who would jack her dog off was pretty weird, but not in the book, it only referenced something weird she would do to dogs, and then you go read about it on Wikipedia. The people who are against Wikipedia have a negative thing in their entry and want it erased.

I like this book because it discusses a lot of movies, and of course it's annoying to not have seen a movie. I've watched a lot of movies lately and I feel kind of at an end of having watched essential movies. I guess I need to drill down and watch all of Richard Burton and Liz Taylor, and maybe even Rachel Roberts. This book launches a few to be watched lists.

I didn't know Roberts was in Murder On The Oriental Express. I don't know if knowing an actress jacks off a dog changes my appreciation of a movie, in some ways not having all those details helps you freshly watch a movie without the clutter of irrelevant backstories about the actors. The moment when she's yelling at photographers that Liz Taylor isn't the star of a movie she's promoting, and losing attention to Liz Taylor, is quite delicious. There's so much comeuppance in Hollywood, except I'm ashamed at enjoying it some. Feels like a large force that is uncontrollable, and will never keep you favored forever.

Roger Lewis is Welsh, and explores the Welshness of Roberts and Burton. He plays off people, Roberts and Burton, and perhaps that's why he compares Prospero to Lear. 



Above is Elizabeth Taylor as Katherine glaring at Petruchio played by Burton, before their questionable marriage. I watched it because of this book, and because I love Shakespeare so much, I'll watch any version of Shakespeare on a screen. 

It's a long book and I'm really enjoying it.

Here are the movies they've been in together, ranked by popularity (not ratings) (11):




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