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Today we are returning to that old bastard Eddie Fisher,
continuing the saga with him and Elizabeth Taylor.
I got to say, doing this research like the Debbie Fisher
Eddie. Oh my God.
Debbie Reynolds I know, Remember I.
Said Burt Reynolds. Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher,
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, all this this whole
socket to me, it's so exciting to me.
This feels like one of the epitome significant lovers.
Like I feel like these people were meant to be covered on
significant lovers. Like I'm just getting so into
do. They have like any documentaries
about this whole thing. Probably, yeah.
It's so fascinating and also so glamorous and I'm just loving
it. So thank you to whoever
recommended it. I I I just feel like, wow, this
was meant for our podcast and last night we were at dinner, we
were talking a lot about Elizabeth Taylor, 'cause my
parents kind of remember some stuff about this and we were
talking about her for so long. And then I went to the bathroom
and her picture was. That's so spooky.
She's like, I know you're talking about that's crazy and
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Hope that makes sense. But yeah, so should we get into
it, the couple? So we left off in our last
episode and Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher were married, two
babies at home. They were good couple friends,
double dating with Elizabeth Taylor and her husband.
What was his name? Mike Todd, Mike.
Todd. Who was a producer?
And then he died. He.
Died in a plane crash. That's awful.
And so Eddie Fisher goes over there to console Elizabeth, and
then the two end up getting in bed together and having an
affair. And Debbie Reynolds calls up
Elizabeth one day, and her very own husband, Eddie Fisher,
answers the phone. Yes.
Oof, oof. That is tough.
So then Debbie and Eddie tried to make it work for a little
bit. Debbie really didn't want to get
divorced, but then that she had to.
She she was pressured too. Eddie wanted to be with
Elizabeth. And so they were.
They got together and this is Elizabeth's fourth husband.
Oh, they got married. Yes.
And we were theorizing in our last episode, too, that Eddie
Fisher might be a little bit of a narcissist, from the way he's
charming at first makes everyone feel special, but then is very
cold. Yes, yeah.
And if you guys have heard of the book 7 Husbands of Evelyn
Hugo, she is definitely the inspiration for that.
I think that's becoming a movie next year or something.
And we're going to talk a lot about Elizabeth Taylor.
She's a very interesting person, very crazy life.
But it's fascinating. And if I had to describe this
couple in three words, I was pacing around my apartment
thinking about what? What would I say?
I would say Eddie and Elizabeth were sensual, impulsive and
precarious. OK, so who is Elizabeth Taylor?
You've probably heard of her, but who is she really?
Well, she was an actress who made a big name for herself
throughout the 40s, fifties and 60s.
And she's been in movies like Little Women, Cleopatra, Cat on
a Hot Tin Roof, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
She was known for her extreme beauty.
People always said she had Violet eyes.
Which is like not true but. They're basically just blue,
yeah. In some lighting, maybe they
were purple, but they look blue. She's very glamorous and she's
known for her really dramatic love life and all of her
marriages cause yeah, famously had eight marriages, 7 husbands
one of them married twice. Some of you probably already
know who, but won't get to that yet she it's kind of crazy.
Reminds me of like Henry the Eighth, just thinking about like
each one of what happened between them and all their
names. How many marriages do you think
is like? Too many marriages to be like
OK, like that's. Definitely.
Too many? What does that even mean to be
married like? At that point, yeah, I guess
like there are benefits to being married logistically.
You, if you're in ICU, your husband or wife or spouse can
make decisions for you and visit you.
You can share health insurance. But when you're that much of A
celebrity, practical things don't matter as much.
I mean the ICU maybe, but still. It just seems a little
ridiculous. In many cultures and religions
and such, it's supposed to be like sacred.
It's supposed to be one person for someone to get married 8
times. You're kind of like what the?
Point is, you are committing, hopefully to do it for the rest
of your life. And sometimes that really
doesn't work out. But I feel like by your fifth
marriage you're like, yeah, I know that this could be
temporary. I don't know.
I was wondering if you remember from the last episode, her and
Eddie getting together seemed so not random, but it just
happened. It seemed so quickly how it
happened to her and Eddie getting together that you think,
why did you have to get married? Like couldn't?
This have just. Yeah, Exactly.
Yeah. It's almost like she marries
everybody she dates. Yeah, I know.
They all have to be married. I know.
I do think it could have something to do with the time
period. It was really not acceptable for
people just be living together and not married.
So maybe anytime she wanted to like take it to the next level,
you know, like have a serious relationship, she thought had to
be marriage. I don't know if that's why.
All right, I will have to stop the episode right there.
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