Richard Burton

Boom! movie with Elizabeth Taylor: Critically panned box office disaster featuring memorable headwear and situations. ‘Boom!’ movie: Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton critical & box office bomb reappraised as ‘cult classic’ fare If you’ve never seen Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s 1968 vanity production Boom!,…

Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor in the Lifetime movie Liz & Dick. Lohan, 26 next July 2, plays Elizabeth Taylor (apparently) at about the time she met Richard Burton in the early 1960s. (Though the Lohan/Taylor picture above looks like something out Richard Brooks’ Cat…

Elizabeth Taylor diamond ring & jewelry collection fetch exorbitant amounts; Richard Burton was a long-ago “benefactor.” In addition to being wife and husband a couple of times, Taylor and Burton were also co-stars in ten big-screen features + one TV movie. On the big screen:…

Earthquake 1974. A major seismic burp destroys Los Angeles in Mark Robson’s 1974 mix of cheesy melodrama and special-effects fest: Earthquake, in which an all-star cast – from Moses and Ava Gardner to Victoria Principal and former Evangelical Christian preacher Marjoe Gortner – is shaken,…

Elizabeth Taylor: Oscar winner ca. 1950s. Elizabeth Taylor: Oscar winner hospitalized with congestive heart failure Two-time Best Actress Oscar winner Elizabeth Taylor has been hospitalized for treatment of congestive heart failure. Taylor has suffered from this condition for several years. The 78-year-old Who’s Afraid of…

Angry Young Man Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Image: Bryanston Films Ltd./Photofest. “Four Angry Young Men” is the title of a four-film series to take place on two consecutive Saturdays, Nov. 14 and 21, at the Getty Center’s Harold M. Williams Auditorium.…

Image: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Press Release: The 1967 Best Picture nominees Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Bonnie and Clyde will be screened as the next features in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series. Both films received…

Doctor Zhivago theme: Lara & the Russian Revolution When bigger isn’t exactly better: Doctor Zhivago – despite its classic music theme – is no masterpiece. Bloated and overlong, it fails as both historical epic and love story. And this is a film directed by the…

Was Alexander the Great gay? Opinions vary about the compulsive Macedonian conqueror’s sexual orientation – not to mention the very concept of “sexual orientation” in the Hellenic world of the late 4th century BCE. Was Alexander the Great gay? And what does that haunting question…