Synopsis
Boom is taken from the Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. Flora Goforth (Elizabeth Taylor) is a foul-mouthed, booze-swilling, pill-popping, middle-aged woman near death. She spends her time swearing at the servants and looks forward to the end of it all, until poet Chris Flanders (Richard Burton) comes to her island home. Known in literary circles as the "angel of death," the poet gives the dying woman some measure of comfort in his presence -- while he takes comfort in her liquor cabinet and her jewelry. Often she is visited by the Witch of Capri (Noel Coward), a gossip-minded homosexual who appears to be Flora's only friend. Williams wrote the screenplay, which unfortunately proved ineffectual, as Taylor and Burton were seemingly caught up in their own world of wallowing in self-importance. The feature did little to boost the sagging careers of Burton and Taylor or to alter the public's negative opinions of their personal lives.
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Annette Bening Baby Boom!
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 10, 2000 -- The ambulance that stood by for Annette Bening at the Oscars can go home. She's done. The "American Beauty" star, who was very much with child when she attended the March 26 ceremony, has given birth to child No. 4, the publicist for husband Warren Beatty announced today.
Details were beyond sketchy -- no word on when, where and how (although we can pretty much figure that one out on our own). Also no word on a name. All we know is that it was a girl.
Bening, 41, and Beatty, 62, have three other children -- daughter Kathlyn, born in 1992, son Benjamin, born in 1994 and daughter Isabel, born in 1997.
While Bening braved the Oscar ceremony (only to watch herself lose the Best Actress trophy to Hilary Swank), she was an in-abstentia winner at Sunday's British Academy Film Awards, the U.K. equivalent of the Academy Awards.