Eric Brown

Can there be anything new to say about the king and queen of excess?Lewis answers with a stonking yes as Lewis' distinctive insight and wit bring the tale-binding, super-charged Hollywood couple who lived life as a spectacle and whose bed-hopping earned Vatican condemnation as 'erotic vagrancy.' Voluptuous Liz and Brooding Burton were two diamond-decked, mink-lined icons of indulgence for those who merged with illusion and reality. Their extravagance was delectable. When Taylor flew to Leningrad, she took 2,800lbs of excess luggage - that's nearly a ton and a half of clothes!She needed 21 suites at a Paris hotel on the Champs-Elysee in order to film in Paris. They simply bought their own jet to go for lunch in Nice one day.

INTERVIEW EXCLUSIVE: It's a wild morning on the outskirts of Royal Porthcawl. The lovely chap who was once known as the Welsh Bulldog is looking out from the pavilion at the younger men of the Senior Open as a realization dawns on him. 'You're here to make me feel old, aren't you?' It's the same glint he sees in his eye now as well, according to Brian Hugh. He is partially correct, because we are here to discuss the Ryder Cup, and he has many lines of distinction when it comes to one of sport's most coveted activities. He is Europe's longest serving captain at 86, not least because he is Europe's longest living captain. 'I've never been told, but I assumed I must be,' he says. 'Well, you've done it - now I do feel old!' Hugh is a cracking fella, a gle, and an albatross wrapped in a hole in a single. He hasn't played at a ball in a decade because it's difficult to believe a team, but he could still beat it up in his seventies if he could have swung it around in a swan's.