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Rate What's On Tonight: - Roger Catlin | TV Eye

Original at Hartford Courant external link    Tue, Nov 25

The conclusion of a two week look at Hollywood's leading couples on Turner Classic Movies includes Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in the epic "Cleopatra" (8 p.m.), John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in "Rio Grande" (12:15 a.m.), ...

Rate Liz Smith : Married to Madge - all about Madonna

Original at all about Madonna external link    Tue, Nov 25

I couldn't help but think back on Richard Burton's "Doctor Faustus" film. The subject obsessed him: a man who sells his soul for riches and fame and the world's most beautiful woman. Burton cast his wife, Elizabeth Taylor, ...

Rate Colin’s Reviews » Blog Archive » 13 Celebrity Couples Too Perfect ...

Original at knemonic.com external link    Mon, Nov 24

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were equally volatile, egotistical, talented, and drunk. They got married, got divorced, and got married again, before getting divorced again (although Taylor believes they would have married a third ...

Rate New Providence Library shows 'National Velvet'

Original at nj.com external link    Mon, Nov 24

 NJ - In her star-making role, Elizabeth Taylor plays Velvet Brown, a wide-eyed adolescent who, assisted by her jockey pal played by Mickey Rooney, trains Pie, ...

Rate Elizabeth Hurley's Wardrobe: As Dead as Her Career

Original at The PETA Files external link    Mon, Nov 24

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harpersbazaar / CC Elizabeth Hurley is making headlines—and no, not because of her hot acting career (Ha ha ha! Right.). No, Liz's fame has had a renaissance because she is the only living "celebrity" apparently willing to front Blackglama's old "What Becomes a Legend Most" ad campaign. (W...

Rate Lord of the dance

Original at New Zealand Herald external link    Sun, Nov 23

 New Zealand - Nov 23, 2008 dancing in front of Hollywood stars Marlene Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; touring the United States and Europe with the RNZB in the 60s ...

Rate Cameron MacKintosh on Oliver! and his success with musicals

Original at Times Online external link    Sun, Nov 23

 UK - Nov 23, 2008 continual parties for the celebrities of the day - Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Muhammad Ali, members of the victorious 1966 World Cup soccer side. ...

Rate AMC - Blogs - Talk: Mad Men - November Movie Mad-ness Discussion

Original at blogs.amctv.com external link    Sun, Nov 23

The first film I saw Elizabeth Taylor in was "National Velvet" (1944) when she was 12 and I was an envious teenager. She was the most beautiful child imagineable! She was a gorgeous 28 when "Butterfield 8" was filmed in 1960. ...

Rate Rocks of ages

Original at Times Online external link    Sat, Nov 22

 UK - Richard Burton once said of Elizabeth Taylor, whom he twice made his wife: “The only word Elizabeth knows in Italian is Bulgari. ...

Rate Historical Diamond Auction

Original at abazias.com external link    Sat, Nov 22

Only six of these brooches were made, with one of them being given to Elizabeth Taylor by former husband Richard Burton at the premiere of Night of the Iguana. The piece was estimated to sell at $75000, but brought in an impressive ...

Rate Cleopatra (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Caesar's Will

Original at google.com external link    Thu, Nov 20

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After the burial of Caesar, Antony (Richard Burton) explains himself to the bereaved Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor), just before the intermission in ... www.tcm.com

Rate Shyla Marlin: From Page To Stage: The Theatrical Art Of Fundraising

Original at Huffington Post external link    Wed, Nov 19

By Shyla Marlin It was the day before my 30th birthday. I went out for an afternoon run with my dog. Two pit bulls attacked us and the events that subsequently occurred changed the course of my life forever. I remember the moment it happened, time stood still. A flash image of Elizabeth Taylor appeared in my mind...

Rate Fast Facts - Extra!

Original at Arizona Daily Wildcat external link    Wed, Nov 19

Richard Burton gave Elizabeth Taylor a 69.4 carat diamond engagement ring. More words start with "S" than with any other letter. Timber cutters have the deadliest job, with 117.8 deaths per 100000 workers. ...

Past Month

 

Rate NPR: TCM Looks At 'Leading Couples'

Original at NPR external link    Tue, Nov 18

Next Tuesday: Cleopatra (starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton) at 8:00 p.m., Rio Grande (starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara) at 12:15 a.m., They Died With Their Boots On (starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland) at 2:15 ...

Rate The safari of a lifetime

Original at iAfrica.com external link    Sun, Nov 16

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 South Africa - Nov 16, 2008 The only hotel in the National Park, this is where — as every local will proudly tell you — Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor got married in 1975. ...

Rate Orlando Sentinel - Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn -- screen's ...

Original at Orlando Sentinel external link    Sun, Nov 16

25: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in "Cleopatra" at 8 p.m. John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in "Rio Grande" at 12:15 a.m. Flynn and de Havilland in "They Died With Their Boots On" at 2:15 a.m. Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret in "Viva ...

Rate Elizabeth Taylor mobbed by pigeons

Original at Times Online external link    Fri, Nov 14

 UK - Nov 14, 2008 Four years earlier Taylor had rocketed to international stardom as Velvet Brown in the film National Velvet. When these photographs were taken by Chris Ware ...

Rate The Fame Game: Do Stars' Personal Lives Affect Their Earning Power?

Original at Starpulse.com external link    Mon, Nov 10

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Back in the 1960s news broke of an affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher, which rocked Hollywood and split not only their home but a nation's opinion of America's sweetheart. Back in the 1960s news broke of an affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher, which rocked Holly...

Rate Water they thinking?

Original at London Free Press external link    Sat, Nov 8

 Canada - Cleopatra: Now an overblown favourite for its sumptuous visuals, and the romantic subtext involving Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, this 1963 costume ...

October of 2008

 

Rate It’s Hard To Be A Woman : Lone Star Times

Original at Lone Star Times external link    Thu, Oct 30

Elizabeth Taylor? That fat little tart? /I always liked that quote. Richard Burton was just too cool. Anyway… nope. but I did sleep at a Hotel 6 (aka no tell motel) several years ago. nz-texas on October 30th, 2008 at 3:00 pm ...

Rate The Horse Whisperer in Guatemala

Original at The Guatemala Times external link    Tue, Oct 28

 Guatemala - Hollywood hired him as a "stand in" rider and stunt double for stars such as Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet and many other films. ...

Rate TAYLOR'S 'FAREWELL' TO FAMILY - REPORT

Original at PR Inside (Pressemitteilung) external link    Sun, Oct 26

PR-inside.com) DAME ELIZABETH TAYLOR has travelled to Britain to 'say goodbye' to relatives, according to reports in America. The ailing Hollywood legend uses a wheelchair and is thought to be suffering from congestive heart failure. And reports claim she is in such poor health that she h...

Rate Zeta Jones sẽ thủ vai Cleopatra

Original at BBC Sport external link    Sat, Oct 25

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Rate Cleopatra musical by Steven Soderbergh with Catherine Zeta Jones ...

Original at Dancewithshadows ver 3 external link    Sat, Oct 25    5 related articles

The 1963 Cleopatra starred Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar and Richard Burton as Marc Antony. The movie won four Oscars, Best Picture at the Golden Globes and Best Actor for Rex Harrison. Related movie news ...

Rate Talkin' boxing at poolside in Beverly Hills, from Mosley to Margarito

Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com external link    Mon, Oct 6

 CA - So Arum, a frequent guest at the posh hotel, told Jones he'd set him up in a one-floor hotel villa where Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor had lived years ...

September of 2008

 

Rate Neighborhood Watch Ambassador Liz

Original at New Yorker external link    Sun, Sep 28

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 United States - me was travelling with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor at the height of their scandal”—while resisting the urge to long for a past that never was, ...

Rate Alec Baldwin: A Great Actor

Original at Huffington Post external link    Sun, Sep 28

By Alec Baldwin You can think about him hobbling on a crutch, feigning indifference, while Elizabeth Taylor urged him on in her lingerie. The two most beautiful actors in all of film, and they just argued. You knew how alcoholic and sick Brick was if he wasn't dying for Elizabeth Taylor.

Rate Arts, Briefly

Original at New York Times external link    Wed, Sep 24

By COMPILED BY PETER EDIDIN US appeals court rules that Elizabeth Taylor can keep her van Gogh painting, which she bought at auction in London in 1963; says that descendants of Margarete Mauthner, who sued Taylor saying that painting had been confiscated by Nazis and should be returned to family, waited too long to...

Rate Have You Seen His Childhood?Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at stillsearching (WordPress) external link    Mon, Sep 15

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By Brett On August 29, Michael Jackson celebrated his 50th birthday. It was a low key affair, with the King of Pop hanging out with his three kids, eating candy, giggling, “watching cartoons” and “just relaxing.” No Macaulay Culkin, no Elizabeth Taylor, no Chris Tucker. Just Michael and his kids (Pr...

Rate A Trove of Golden Broadway Images, Stuck in a Tangled History

Original at New York Times external link    Fri, Sep 12

 United States - and glimpses of the backstage romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton during “Hamlet.” In 1954, he and Mr. Abeles, a portrait photographer, ...

Rate Melvyn Bragg celebrates The South Bank Show

Original at Times Online external link    Tue, Sep 9

 UK - Elizabeth Taylor, who had “been galloping in one's dreams” since he saw her in National Velvet, was “a little plump at that stage” and changed all the ...

Rate Hollywood legends will tell all this fall

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Sat, Sep 6

 PA - Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor? Forget it. Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher? Not a chance." Curtis says he didn't get the respect he deserved for his ...

Rate Elizabeth Taylor to Keep Van Gogh

Original at NYT > Elizabeth Taylor external link    Sat, Sep 6

By By LINDA GREENHOUSE An effort by heirs of a German Jewish art collector to recover a van Gogh painting once owned by their great-grandmother and now owned by Elizabeth Taylor ended yesterday.

Rate Hollywood veterans kiss and sell

Original at The Observer external link    Sat, Aug 30

 UK - Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor? Forget it. Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher? Not a chance.' Turning to his use of drugs in the Eighties, ...

Rate National Velvet **** U

Original at Glasgow Daily Record external link    Thu, Aug 28

 UK - DEBUTING on DVD for the first time this classic family film stars Elizabeth Taylor, then 11 years old. It tells the story of Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor) ...

Rate Elizabeth Taylor On Life Support After Heart Failure

Original at www.gabbybabble.celebuzz.com external link    Thu, Jul 31

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By gdaysunshine July 31st, 2008 Elizabeth Taylor On Life Support After Heart Failure Elizabeth Taylor was reportedly put on a life support machine the other night after suffering congestive heart failure, according to the National Enquirer via Daily Mail. The Hollywood legend was said to have had pneu...

Year 2008

 

Rate Liz Taylor was on life support after complications from pneumonia

Original at Cele external link    Thu, Jul 31

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By MSat Elizabeth Taylor was put on a life support machine after suffering congestive heart failure, it was reported this evening. The actress, a mother of three who adopted a fourth child with Richard Burton, was taken to hospital on July 15 when flu turned into pneumonia.

Rate Obituary: Evelyn Keyes

Original at IndieLondon external link    Sat, Jul 12

By Rob Blessed with glowing blonde hair and an alluring figure, she danced in nightclubs and at 17 set out for Hollywood where she was soon discovered by producer Cecil B DeMille, who cast her in his 1938 pirate picture The Buccaneer. After a brief liaison with producer Mike Todd (who left her for E...

Rate DVD Talk Review: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton: The Film ...

Original at DVD Talk external link    Tue, Apr 22

Warner Home Video gathers together four fascinating films from the Burtons' glory years in the Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton: The Film Collection. This five-disc box set traces their evolution as a screen couple from the first blush ...

Rate Liz Taylor Overdoses???

Original at perezhilton.com external link    Mon, Apr 14

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By Perez Hilton Image via WENN.] Don't mix alcohol and meds, y'all! The National Enquirer is reporting that legendary actress and AIDS philanthropist Elizabeth Taylor was rushed to the hospital after mixing booze and prescription pills! The 8-times married Liz must have an army of care givers. Why didn...

Rate Elizabeth Taylor overdose claims - Monsters and Critics.com

Original at Monsters and Critics.com external link    Mon, Apr 14

Elizabeth Taylor overdose claims  - Her ex-husbands include screen legend Richard Burton, who she wed twice, Eddie Fisher and Larry Fortensky, who she met during her second stint in rehab.

Rate Demi Moore Is Flawless, But I'm More Concerned With General Hospital's 45th Anniversary

Original at A Socialite's Life external link    Tue, Mar 25

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The cast and crew celebrated the April 1st anniversary with a small party on their set. Yeah, people don't watch soaps nowadays so they probably have to tone it down due to finances. Elizabeth Taylor isn't making guest appearances anymore. She was the first Helena Cassadine! I'll stop.

Rate Elizabeth Taylor Out In West Hollywood

Original at A Socialite's Life external link    Thu, Mar 20

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The 75-year-old actress and long-time AIDS activist suffers from osteoporosis and has battled a long list of health problems, including a benign brain tumor, congestive heart failure and in the past, she has relied on a combination of steroids and pain killers to fight her back pain.

Rate Heart-to-Heart - New York Magazine

Original at New York Magazine external link    Sun, Jan 27

Heart-to-Heart   USA - I actually think, after doing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and then Virginia Woolf, that part of my mission in life is to correct Elizabeth Taylor’s performances.

Rate Richard Burton Had A Secret Affair With Marilyn Monroe

Original at Starpulse.com external link    Sun, Jan 13

A new biography of the late Richard Burton has revealed the Hollywood actor had an affair with Marilyn Monroe. Burton's affair with Elizabeth Taylor - who he went on to marry - has been well documented but it is now claimed the star ...

Rate Podcast: Episode Six: THE BALLAD OF FRANTIC AND PARANOID

Original at FOOD IS NOT LOVE external link    Sun, Nov 4

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By FOOD IS NOT LOVE! In this extra long episode, our cast all turn on each other as a result of Disco’s Elizabeth Taylor-like bad mood. His rank disposition is the result of his YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS audition turning bust. Disco then speaks to 9/11 conspiracy debunker, and good friend of the show, PAT CURLEY. Rob...

Rate Burton was desperate to win back Taylor for a third time

Original at Malaysia Sun external link    Thu, Oct 11

Washington, Oct 11 : Acting legend Richard Burton was desperate to reconcile with Dame Elizabeth Taylor for the third time, but the actress refused to give him another chance, a BBC reporter reveals.

Rate Taylor Sparkles At AIDS Fundraiser

Original at CBS 11 external link    Fri, Sep 28

Elizabeth Taylor, wearing a coffee-colored, gold-sequined Naeem Khan gown accented with diamond jewelry, put some superstar sparkle into an HIV/AIDS fundraiser. I have done this every year for years," Taylor told The Associated Press in an interview. "It's tradition and it's part of m...

Rate The Other Elizabeth Taylor - Atlantic Online

Original at Atlantic Online external link    Tue, Aug 14

The Other Elizabeth Taylor  - National Velvet came out in 1944, the year before Taylor’s first novel, At Mrs. Lippincote’s, was published. For her entire career, living and posthumous, ...

Year 2006

 

Rate Elizabeth Taylor Publicist Denies Death Rumors

Original at Blogcritics external link    Thu, Apr 27

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By Natalie Davis I was right to be skeptical.Earlier today, London tabloid the Daily Mail reported that legendary film star Dame Elizabeth Taylor was suffering from heart failure and on the brink of death. The Mail claimed the 74-year-old Oscar-winning actor - often noted more for her many marriages than...


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