OK! Thank you!
Alejandro
--- In RichardBurton@yahoogroups.com, breezymiller51@... wrote:
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> yes, you might try "Rich. The Life of Richard Burton", by Melvyn
Bragg
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> ISBN 0 340 50043 3
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> there are excerpts from his memoirs that are quite interesting
[this was the biography that I couldn't recall before]
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> good luck...
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> ?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alejandro Skorzewski <polskafrei@...>
> To: RichardBurton@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 3:02 am
> Subject: [RichardBurton] Re: Hi everybody!
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> Yes, now I seem to stumble upon the same biographer all the time.
I'm
> looking for the webpage where I got this info in the first place,
to
> check if it was this same guy, Munn. I don't quite think so.
> What other Burton's biographies are there worth reading?
> Alejandro
> --- In RichardBurton@yahoogroups.com, breezymiller51@ wrote:
> >
> > and this from the telegraph this past spring
> >
> > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/05/
> bomun105.xml
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> > 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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> > ?
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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!
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> > 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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> > > ?
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> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > 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:
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> > > > 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.
> > > > ?
> > > > Heidi
> > > >
> > > > ?
> > > > ??????????????????????????????????????????
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> > > > --- On Tue, 10/21/08, Alejandro Skorzewski <polskafrei@>
wrote:
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> > > > From: Alejandro Skorzewski <polskafrei@>
> > > > Subject: [RichardBurton] Hi everybody!
> > > > To: RichardBurton@yahoogroups.com
> > > > Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 1:26 AM
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> > > > Hi everybody!
> > > > My name's Alejandro. If you don't understand something I
write,
> > > just
> > > > ask. I'm dyslexic and sometimes words get mixed up. No
problem.
> > > I've
> > > > just seen RB in Hamlet at school. Think it's great! And I've
> got
> > > > lot's of questions to ask. Was RB epilectip just as it says
in
> > the
> > > > net or is it just ... well, you know?
> > > > Well, just to say Hi! and Thank you! for letting me in.
> > > > Cheers!
> > > > Alejandro
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