If, as the saying goes, the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it, it’s probably true that no one knows better how to put that into practice than movie people. For a few silver screen luminaries, eating and drinking lavishly in restaurants was among their chief temptations – and they certainly did yield to it.
Columnist Liz Smith wrote of her friend Elizabeth Taylor’s enormous appetites in the late ’60s. ”God, I love food – and wine, I adore wine. Listen, I think I’ll have a hot fudge sundae,” she said, sitting with Richard Burton in an all-glass restaurant in Paris called Le Grande Cascade. The pair ordered mashed potatoes, white wine, steaks, and champagne, but were equally at home stuffing their faces with fried…
