Description: An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbreaking film it became, and how two iconic stars changed the image of marriage forever.
Review Quotes:
"A lively, well-researched book that displays great affection for the film and the highly gifted and vastly troublesome people who made it." --Glenn Frankel, Washington Post
"Good, harrowing fun." --The Wall Street Journal "Gefter deftly blends social history, textual analysis, and Hollywood gossip." --The New Yorker "Terrific! With a dynamically deft touch, Gefter chronicles how a uniquely volatile mix of timing, talent, pressure, and passion turned a landscape-altering play into a cinematic detonation." --Steven Soderbergh, Academy Award-winning filmmaker "Film and theater buffs will absolutely inhale this account of how Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? changed American theater forever, then became a classic 1966 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. How the scorching play became a movie classic - and its stars' own tumultuous marriage - is one of the most exciting stories about classic cinema." --People