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Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, James Earl Jones, and Paul Henreid.
Col. Faulkner... Richard Burton Sean Flynn... Roger Moore Janders... Richard Harris President Limbani... Winston Ntshona Peter Coetzee... Hardy Kruger Sir Matherson... Stewart Granger Young... Jack Watson Allied Artists presents a film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and produced by Euan Lloyd.
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American playwright Edward Albee speaks with Kerry O'Brien, Albee is in Australia to conduct script development workshops and as a guest of the United States Studies Centre.
Black comedy would have made a better nasty drama
MEET THE DARLINGS By Amadeo Astorino, La Mama, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton, until June 28 www.lamama.com.au Reviewer Cameron Woodhead AMADEO Astorino's Meet the Darlings is a black comedy inspired by that most tempestuous of Hollywood romances, the marriage of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
Whidbey Island: No Richard Burton, but "Under Milk Wood" cast is tops
A staged reading of Under Milk Wood , a play for voices by Dylan Thomas, is at the Martha Murphy Mainstage in Langley's Porter Building this weekend.
Men in Tights - What this country needs is a good Caesar.
No, I don't mean Mel Brooks's Robin Hood and his very merry band of merry men in tight! tights, some of whom are now major studio executives.
Anthony Head plays an Uther in NBC's Merlin'
They say the crown sits uneasily on the head, but for actor Anthony Head it fits like a sunburn.
Renowned playwright Edward Albee is in Bulgaria to assist a new Bulgarian-language of his play "The Goat or Who Is Sylvia". Albee, a two-time Tony Award winner and Pulitzer prize-winning playwright recently met Bulgaria's Minister of Culture Stefan Danailov.
Martians will send you into orbit
WHEN H.G. Wells published his epic science fiction yarn in 1898, the concept of Martians wielding tripod fighting machines and invading Victorian England must have been a terrifying one.
Can Catherine Hardwicke and Emile Hirsch make a Hamlet for our times?
The Twilight director and her Lords of Dogtown star are reuniting on a new film of Shakespeare's Dane.
Marriage scene: Ingmar Bergman's 'Scenes From A Marriage'
Happy marriages rarely make for good cinema. The real drama comes when we see spouses tearing strips off one another, using their intimate knowledge of each others' lives for a blitzkrieg of taunting and humiliating insults about weight, personal hygiene and sexual inadequacy.
Muma s the word for Bloom in Doctor Who
SHE has been romanced by Hollywood greats Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier, rejected advances from Elvis Presley, and enjoyed a life packed with glamour in a glittering 57-year career.
Claire Bloom to star in 'Doctor Who?'
Claire Bloom is said to be filming a part for the upcoming Doctor Who specials. The 78-year-old actress, who starred alongside Richard Burton in Hamlet , Look Back In Anger and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold , will appear in the final episodes of David Tennant's time on the show, the Daily Mail claims.
Review: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Sky Arts - Review: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Home > Theatre & Drama > Review: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Theatre & Drama Who needs reality TV... Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee.
The Nepenthe cabin where it all began 60 years ago
For 60 years at Big Sur's famed Nepenthe restaurant, cameras have been clicking away on the obvious - the cliffside view of the dramatic Pacific coastline, the iconic, midcentury restaurant of glass and wood, the grand terrace where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton starred in the 1965 classic "The Sandpiper." But just above the terrace is a ...
It's a Sur Thing : Nepenthe still swinging as it turns 60.
It's a request rarely heard at restaurants: "Can I bury my mom's ashes here?" At Nepenthe, though, it keeps with a theme: The personalities, parties and natural perspective it proffers are similarly unheard of.
Virginia Woolf still sounds new after all these years
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966. Okay, so for those of you who are looking for a night of fun and games, big acting and an American theater classic at the same time, get your tickets to spend an evening with George and Martha.
Egyptologists dig into mystery of possible tomb
The unearthing of evidence pointing to the lost tomb of Mark Antony and Cleopatra at a 2,000-year-old temple in the Mediterranean has raised skepticism among some Egyptologists even before the first remains are raised.
Cleopatra - Does digging for the "truth" diminish us?
Times Online She'll just be a skull, for God's sake. We won't be able to speculate on the length of her nose from that.
Dustin Hoffman looks at the stockinged leg of actress Anne Bancroft, his seductress in this scene from the 1967 film "The Graduate." Stick around this evening for "The Graduate," which brought Nichols his only Academy Award .