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This is from Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger. There are many references to Mike Todd, Taylor's third husband, the one who died in a plane crash who left her a widow at 26. Because their marriage was so short and ended so tragically, she romanticized him for the rest of her life. Here's how the humorist SJ Perelman described Todd in real time:
Todd’s living up to his legend, standing off from himself and admiring this Napoleonic figure he’s created by producing War and Peace and The Life of Toscanini at the same time he’s releasing Oklahoma! and preparing Around the World in 80 Days and sleeping with 16 dames alternately and flying back from Las Vegas and leaving for Paris tomorrow and arriving from London yesterday.
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