“She even knocks Khrushchev off the front page.” Art Buchwald agreed. "Nuclear testing, disarmament, Berlin, Vietnam and the struggle between Russia and China are nothing comparable to the Elizabeth Taylor story." William Mann’s motive in writing about Taylor is not that she was once the world’s biggest movie star and the first female to be paid $1 million a picture plus a share of the profits but “to investigate the mechanics of her fame and the alchemy that assured her enduring celebrity”, which, clumsy as it sounds, he does horrifyingly well. Full Article at Irish Times