Richard Burton News

For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty and their fiery romance often called the marriage of the century was the most notorious, publicized and celebrated love affair of its day.

Public fascination with Elizabeth Taylor endures. "Cleopatra," famous as much for launching her romance with Richard Burton as for any cinematic virtue, will get a 50th-anniversary release on DVD and Blu-ray on May 28.

In the latest of our series exploring the lives of people commemorated with blue plaques, Adam Sonin delves into the booze-fuelled world of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who lived in a 'house or horror' in Camden Town Hannah Ellis, granddaughter of Dylan Thomas, at a wreath laying ceremony at Westminster Abbey to mark the 50th anniversary of his death.

KIM KARDASHIAN's ex-boyfriend REGGIE BUSH is a dad - the American football star's fiancee LILIT AVAGYAN gave birth to the couple's first child on Monday .

Actress JESSICA CHASTAIN is teaming up with the children of DAME ELIZABETH TAYLOR and RICHARD BURTON to host a special screening of the Hollywood stars' classic CLEOPATRA at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival in France.

Won Kar-wai Received Top French Accolade Hong Kong-based filmmaker Won Kar-wai was named a Commander of France's Order of Arts and Letters.

Research is combining film 'archaeology' with digital technology to create a new approach to 'sites of memory' for the London borough of Battersea.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Twentieth Century Fox's home entertainment division and Italian jeweler Bulgari are teaming to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cleopatra , the infamous production that cost an unprecedented $42 million to make and ignited the legendary love affair between its stars, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, The Hollywood reporter ... (more)

From Lifetime comes the original television movie Liz and Dick that stars Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor and Grant Bowler as Richard Burton .

We've been watching a lot of marvelous, old black and white movies lately. And last week we watched "Look Back in Anger," a classic British gem from the '50s in which Richard Burton plays a bitter jazz musician stuck in a menial retail job.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Jean Cocteau, a '60s Palme d'Or winner, the Munich Olympics and Alain Resnais are all on tap for this year's Cannes Classics.

Swarmed by paparazzi worldwide, their love affair was played out entirely in front of the media from the time they met on the set of the major motion picture Cleopatra, left their respective spouses, married and divorced, only to remarry and divorce once again.

Tony Award-winning playwright Tracy Letts will likely be nominated as Best Actor for his performance in the Steppenwolf Theater Company's stunning revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Reviews of Letts' performance in this 50th anniversary production of Edward Albee's scalding domestic drama were extremely positive, describing it as his ... (more)