“I'm afraid we are temporarily out in the cold, and fallen stars. What is remarkable is that we have stayed up there for so long.”

In "Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor: The Love Letters. How drinking cocooned them from pressure of fame. Without it, they couldn't even make love."
The reason for this was the low-budget movies made by new kids on the block that were making money.

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