
Every so often, a love story comes along that is so passionate, so volatile and so unworkable that it burns itself out. The Sixties had Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. The Seventies had Mick and Bianca Jagger. The Nineties had Pamela
Anderson and Tommy Lee. And the Noughties had Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, the fallout from whose divorce is still being felt, and — one imagines — may continue to be felt until the end of time.