EROTIC VAGRANCY: Everything About Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

They come together in Rome during the making of Cleopatra, which gives Lewis the opportunity for a major farcial set-piece. We enter a world of jewels and private jets, vodka yachts and furs--the splendid vulgarity of the Sixties. Then, inevitably, it all goes wrong, with alcoholism, violence, recrimination and divorce. Illus.