Boom! A melodrama fit for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s doomed love affair

A dying glamour puss falls for her parasitic houseguest in Joseph Losey’s 1968 fever dream that earns its exclamation mark Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email “My very first memory is of pain.” More than a touch dramatic, the words could easily be lifted from the script of Boom! Instead, they are a real-life confession by its leading lady, Elizabeth Taylor. When it comes to pain, Taylor is the poster child-star. In her long life, the actor underwent more than 30 surgeries and was su...

By Charles Carrall