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TV Weekend: Liz and Dick
Liz and Dick is possibly the worst TV movie of the year, and therefore probably the most successful.
Elizabeth Taylor’s $115 Million Jewels Break Auction Records
Diamonds are an auction house’s best friend – at least when they belonged to Elizabeth Taylor. The iconic actress’ legendary pearls and diamonds sold for nearly...
Elizabeth Taylor, 1932-2011: Hollywood's Star of Stars
"Men!" The gorgeous teenager shrugs her shoulders and ponders the inanities of the lesser gender. "The minute we're alone, he just wants to kiss me. And he says...
Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011
"Men!" The gorgeous teenager shrugs her shoulders and ponders the inanities of the lesser gender. "The minute we're alone, he just wants to kiss me. And he says...
Ageless Passion: Burton's Love Letters to Liz Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Hollywood's original It couple, had a romance more tumultuous than that of any big-screen drama. They married each other...
Lives of the Unsinkable Liz
W.C. Fields described Mae West as "a plumber's dream of Cleopatra." It was Elizabeth Taylor, though, who became the most famous, and the silliest, Cleopatra,...
Show Business: The Mellifluous Prince of Disorder
Richard Burton: 1925-1984 The magnificent baritone was not merely a voice. It was an orchestra of enormous range and power, and when it was silenced last week,...
Books: The Saga of Ruffian Dick
THE DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON by Fawn M. Brodie. 390 pages. Norton. $6.95. The Victorian age can now be seen as an outburst of bourgeois...
Show Business: A Hurricane and Two Survivors
Three new books tell all about Liz, Dick and Eddie Where would gossip be without Elizabeth Taylor? Barely breathing, obviously. Probably no one in the past 30...
Books: What Daring Did & Didn't
BURTON by Byron Farwell. 431 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $5.95. When Richard Burton was eight years old, his mother paraded him up to a pastry shop...
Theater: One Brief Tarnished Hour
CAMELOT Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; Music by Frederick Loewe Richard Burton's voice is one of the great wind instruments of the English-speaking stage...
Theater: King Midas Calls the Tune
PRIVATE LIVES by Noel Coward Noël Coward once went backstage and tartly informed the two leading players in one of his shows that their performance was "a...
Show Business: Burton, Burton, Smith's Got the Burtons
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not high-minded Smith College. Despite the unflattering references to the fictional school in Edward Albee's hit play ("Musical...
People: Mar. 15, 1982
"Rwy'n dy gam di" (I love you, in Welsh) proclaimed Elizabeth Taylor, 50, arms outstretched, as she swept across the stage of London's Duke of York's Theater...
A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 26, 1963
WHEN TIME'S John McPhee telephoned London to notify Richard Burton that he would be on our cover, Burton agreed on the condition that McPhee do all the...
People: Oct. 4, 1982
They were like "two violent acids bubbling about in a nasty little matrimonial bottle." Divorced and remarried, they meet and fall passionately in love all over...
Theater: Prince of Thought
Hamlet. Richard Burton plays Hamlet as Hamlet would like to have been. He may be self-critical, but he is never self-doubting. He is whole of soul, single of...
People: Jan. 4, 1982
Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner, 49, did it again last week. Or rather, she undid it again. Confirming rumors that her seventh...
New Movies: Doctor Faustus
NEW MOVIES Doctor Faustus Lots of grads bring their wives back to the old school and ham it up for home movies but this is ridiculous. Richard Burton is...
People: May 4, 1981
It was a California wedding all right, but there was nothing barefoot-on-the-beach about it. Indeed, last weekend's marriage of First Daughter Maureen Reagan,...
