Liz and Dick: The Ultimate Celebrity Couple | VF Daily | Vanity Fair

Now these two were Movie Stars!

Who the hell cares about Lindsey Lohan and today’s whiney, tacky wannabes?

Well, Brad and Angelina are probably the real thing…And George Clooney.  Maybe a couple of more…but very, very few can live up to the standards of the Stars of the earlier years…

Before Brangelina, before TomKat, before … Speidi … there was Liz and Dick—that is, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the super-couple who set the standard all others can only aspire to in terms of modern celebrity. What other couple has been condemned both by the Vatican and on the floor of the House of Representatives? What other couple lived as decadently, as opulently, and as passionately? What other couple could conquer both Hollywood and Broadway the way these two did over a span of two decades?

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