and this from the telegraph this past spring

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/05/bomun105.xml

but again this Michael Munn fellow is the source - however, this was touched
upon in a Burton bio years ago that I read - I'm trying to recall the author -
btw Michael Munn's bio titled "Prince Of Players" - that title was used for a
bio of Edwin Booth [yes, older brother of you know who] - back in 1953 by
Eleanor Ruggles.


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-----Original Message-----
From: lovedrichard <lucianogirl2000@...>
To: RichardBurton@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:48 pm
Subject: [RichardBurton] Re: Hi everybody!






I don't know about this......I saw Burton many times towards the end
of his life on the Broadway stage. Would he take such a chance if
he had episodes such as this? And he was quite sober during these
periods. He did have one illness on stage during the 1980 Camelot
but audience members described it as a sort of a paleness and a
sweat that hit him. That was the only time I had ever heard of him
taking sick on the stage.

--- In RichardBurton@yahoogroups.com, breezymiller51@... wrote:
>
> the Daily Express printed this Feb. 3, 2008 - there is a new new
biography by Michael Munn..........
>
> http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/33665/Burton-cured-epilepsy-
with-drink
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> From: Alejandro Skorzewski <polskafrei@...>
> To: RichardBurton@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:51 pm
> Subject: [RichardBurton] Re: Hi everybody!
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> Hi!
> I haven't read any of his biographies. But I found this info in
the
> net, together with that about haemophilia - a mild form of it. I
also
> found that one of Burton's children was autistic and had epileptic
> fits. Is that right?
> Maybe it went unreported to help him get new parts in films.
There's
> still a lot of prejudice today, in those days people could have
been
> even more prejudiced, perhaps.
> Thanks!
> --- In RichardBurton@yahoogroups.com, H Morris <hehmorris@> wrote:
> >
> > As far as Burton's epilepsy, I find it interesting that came out
> only after his death.? I believe it was the Bragg biography that
> first mentioned it.? So I've always had a little question mark in
my
> mind as to how something so important could be previously
unreported.
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> > Subject: [RichardBurton] Hi everybody!
> > To: RichardBurton@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 1:26 AM
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the
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