The filming of the 'Taming of the Shrew in Rome' in 1967 brought all these creative people together in a project that was critically acclaimed.

Love at the Langham Auckland's Langham hotel has the answer to Valentine's Day gift-giving with a range of luxury packages sure to woo.

HOLLYWOOD actor Anthony Hopkins has revealed how his "Welshness" was challenged by his childhood hero Richard Burton.

"SWEETHEART, you've had enough!" - Those were the words growled by an incensed Richard Burton as he took a drunken swing at an infamous celebrity snapper outside his London hotel in 1969.

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Published: Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 10:57 p.m. Jean Simmons, 80, the English actress who made the covers of Time and Life magazines by the time she was 20 and became a major midcentury star alongside strong leading men like Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and Marlon Brando, often playing ...

In time for this year's Oscar nominations, The New York Times' A.O. Scott takes a look back at a previous winner, Mike Nichol's 1966 film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Rover was big on safety back in the 1960s. So big, in fact, that they ran full-page advertisements urging folks to buckle up, with the picture of the car secondary.

What has become of Elizabeth Taylor's children? Taylor has four children, three she gave birth to and one she adopted.

WHEN Jan and Lee Jones remarried just one month after getting divorced, they were certainly spoilt for choice for bridesmaids and pageboys.

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Antony and Cleopatra. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images They were one of the world's most famous couples, who lived lives of power and glory a ' but who spent their last hours in despair and confusion.

Actor CHARLES DAVIS has died at the age of 84. The Irish-born star passed away on 12 December following a suspected heart attack in Thousand Oaks, California.

He started out in the British film industry in the late 1940s as a juvenile lead, before going to Hollywood to co-star with Olivia DeHavilland in My Cousin Rachel , for which he received his first of seven Oscar nominations.

"WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?" has been hailed by some critics as a daring adventure for Jack Warner a dazzling vindication of Elizabeth Taylor and still another directorial coup for Mike Nichols.

SOME affairs are little more than a figment of the imagination, a flirtation that belongs - and remains - solely in the mind.

'Those bastards, they're taunting us," said Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead . "No, no.

ANOTHER classic film comes to Hailsham Pavilion next Tuesday. The 1968 movie Where Eagles Dare, which stars Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, is being shown from 7.30pm, with doors opening at 7pm.

Adapted by Tennessee Williams from his allegorical, symbol-laden play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore , this was the first of two somewhat hermetic movies in which Joseph Losey directed Elizabeth Taylor.

ACTOR Matthew Rhys is following in the footsteps of Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas to narrate the poet's much-loved festive tale.

I was plowing through boxes of archive material the other day, when I came across a box of tapes from near the very start of my career in theatre.