A lively, well-researched book that displays great affection for the film and the highly gifted and vastly troublesome people who made it.

Glenn Frankel, Washington Post

Good, harrowing fun.

The Wall Street Journal

Gefter deftly blends social history, textual analysis, and Hollywood gossip.

The New Yorker

Terrific! With a dynamically deft touch, Gefter chronicles how a uniquely volatile mix of timing, talent, pressure, and passion turned a landscape-altering play into a cinematic detonation.

Steven Soderbergh, Academy Award-winning filmmaker

Film and theater buffs will absolutely inhale this account of how Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? changed American theater forever, then became a classic 1966 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. How the scorching play became a movie classic - and its stars' own tumultuous marriage - is one of the most exciting stories about classic cinema.

People