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This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most famous productions in film history, Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

If you are lucky, true love may come once in a lifetime. For Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton , their impossible love was born in front of the cameras.

Jessica Chastain dazzled at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday as she attended the 50th anniversary screening of Cleopatra wearing a diamond and sapphire Bulgari necklace once owned by Elizabeth Taylor.

The New Directions paperback copy of Tennessee Wiliams' great play The Night of the Iguana has lots of great extras.

There was the spectacle, the runaway budget, the fights with the studio. But almost everyone thinks about the 1963 movie "Cleopatra" for one thing: Liz and Dick.

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.