Celebrity comes at a price. Tabloids are speculating that Beyonce and Jay-Z are getting married this weekend. If they stay this in love, they could make it last … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryf1NpGOgvg

There can only be one star in a relationship.

Richard Burton was in a lot of stage plays and movies. Must have kept him pretty busy. And all this before Viagra!

I am married to a man who gives speeches gets rousing applause - it takes a strong woman to keep famous man’s ego in check. Why deal with a woman who holds up the “marital mirror” when he has all these adoring fans? Once I called him as he was getting ready to make his presentation. But, unknowingly, he did not hang up the phone when we were done, but stuck it in his pocket, so I was able to listen in while he gave part of his speech - and lo and behold it included a not too flattering incident about me. Boy did he have some ‘plain’in to do when he got home. He ate humble pie for dinner that night.

Talking about men and the “notches” on their belt. I once met a woman who was trying to sleep with every member of the Denver Broncos and Dallas Cowboys football teams. She had almost made her way through the Denver Broncos and was on her way to Dallas. I met her at a party as she was telling everyone that she was going to spend the evening with the man I was dating. I didn’t respond because I wasn’t sure if she was telling the truth and maybe I misunderstood him and he wasn’t meeting me. When he arrived at the party, unaware of what had been said, he walked up to me and gave me a big kiss. For a moment, I enjoyed the ego of success, and we left to have a quiet intimate dinner together. “Notches on the belt” who cares!

Joke: Why did Richard Burton stay home a lot? Because if you had lasagna you would have too?

I do not believe that this has changed. I still believe that majority of the “famous” still have affairs.

Oh, dear, Richard Burton, for all his talent & charm seems to have been such a flawed person - the alcohol! The Women - what hole in his soul was he trying to plug up? There are other ways - he would have been around longer if he had tried them.

Liz, Thanks for the tidbit. I saw Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Noel Coward’s “Private Lives” in LA after their divorce. There was much tension in the audience since everyone knew the characters they played ironically reflected their own lives: a divorced couple in a hotel with their respective new mates. Afterwards we went to the stage door. Liz looked glamorous as she exited with Larry Hagman of Dallas fame. Everyone cheered. Hagman very gentlemanly tried to shield her from flashblubs going off. They entered a limo and sped away. Five minutes later Richard Burton came out looking dour and trailed by his new wife Sally. She was rather plain next to the glamorous Liz. He died in August 1984 at age 58. And for the intervening 24-years Sally has not only remained a true keeper of his, she’s become quite attractive too. Here she is second on the left: http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/partypictures/2004/05_24_04/images/sco… Joe DiMaggio was a lifelong and very popular resident of San Francisco and he and MM were married here at City Hall. I think they were really in love. He was devastated at her death, arranged her funeral and for the next 20 years sent roses 3 times a week to her grave. He never remarried, nor talked about her. I used to see him in a San Francisco cafe in the Marina called, “Just Deserts.” A convenient stop for folks after walking along the Bay. The times I saw him there he was alone and looked wistful and sad. After he died of lung cancer in 1999, his lawyer claimed his last words were, “I’ll get to see Marilyn.” Here’s a short lovely clip of Joe and MM when they were so happy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJM43q7tpjc&feature=related

Richard Burton was “flawed”? Not so much flawed as enjoyed life to the full, which included sleeping with any women he wanted and who wanted to go to bed with him! It’s called honest not flawed!

Even as a very young woman, I knew Richard Burton had something special! He was brooding and sexy … and very dangerous to women, I think.