Richard Burton

Cleopatra Returns In All Its Fabled Glory

Only in Hollywood could the year's highest-grossing feature also be the biggest flop, but that's what happened with Cleopatra, the 1963 Joseph Mankiewicz-directed epic of Egyptian headdresses, cleavage, and makeup, all done with a distinctly 1960s American slant. The main attractions were Richard B ... More >>

Bad Reviews For Sitcom About Two British Queens! Check It Out

This might be your only chance to get a glimpse at Vicious, the Britcom with Sir Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi as squabbling old lovers with arms flailing and pinkies up. The critics hated these old biddies, but they should revisit the old movie Staircase--with Richard Burton and Rex Harrison as sq ... More >>

Albee Reveals What He Thinks About The Virginia Woolf? Movie

Edward Albee loves the blisteringly good current Broadway revival of his landmark play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but I had always heard he didn't care for the 1966 movie version starring Richard Burton and Liz Taylor as the bickering campus marrieds George and Martha. You know, the flick tha ... More >>

'Show Boat' and a Boatload of Shows from Sony

The company amasses 25 Broadway musicals in one CD box set

Richard Burton Eviscerates His Costars From Beyond

Late, great Richard Burton's diary is coming out, and it's filled with lots of admiration for Liz and a whole bunch of scorn for a lot of other people. About Lucille Ball: "She is a monster of staggering charmlessness and monumental lack of humour... "She is a tired old woman... "Nineteen solid ... More >>

Lloyd Kaufman: The Toxic Director

The filmmaker gets his close-up after 40 years of Troma (more or less)

Michael Kors Made Liz Taylor Cry--And Other Fascinating Stories

Last night, mega designer Michael Kors spilled some fully baked beans to fashion biggie Fern Mallis at the 92nd Street Y. Christian Freedom was at the event and jotted down every terribly chic word:

Kate Bornstein's Amazing Voyage

America's gender outlaw takes us on a wild tour of trans-formation

Alpha in Motion: Liam Neeson's Return to Form

Elizabeth Taylor at Christie's: Showcasing the 1% of the 1%

Window outside Christie's​An auction of all of Elizabeth Taylor's clothing, art, personal movie memorabilia, and most importantly, her jewelry, appropriately titled "The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor, is going on at Christie's through December 16th. A corresponding exhibition is up through th ... More >>

Fall Arts: Book Picks

Summer Movie Guide 2011

Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.

Liz Taylor: "I'm No Easy Lay!"

​A lot of people assumed Elizabeth Taylor was an easy catch seeing as she tended to marry everything that wasn't nailed down, sometimes twice. But Elizabeth had to set boundaries sometimes, like when she was hanging at Andy Warhol's rented European villa in the 1970s and went off to the libra ... More >>

Best Films of 1972: Eight 10-Best Lists (And 'The Godfather' Only Makes One of Them!)

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor's Husbands Ranked In Order of Fabulousness

​Elizabeth Taylor married eight times to a total of seven people, but some were more memorable than others. Here are my rankings of the men she said "I do" to, in ascending order of merit. (7) Larry Fortensky (1991-1996). A lowly construction worker! So out of her league! He must have though ... More >>

R.I.P. Liz Taylor: We Remember the Actress with a Bacchanalian Clip from Cleopatra

Leading lady, Elizabeth Taylor​Elizabeth Taylor, one of the last leading ladies from Hollywood's Golden Age of cinema, died yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital of congestive heart failure at age 79. We remember her with a clip from Cleopatra in which the actress and her co-star (and eventual h ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor, RIP (Photos Inside)

​I thought it would never happen. I wrote several times that if it did happen, it would mean the end to old-time Hollywood glamour as we know it. Elizabeth Taylor has died at 79. A great movie star and a fabulous personality, Liz had radioactive charisma centered by those violet eyes which, ... More >>

In Praise of Andrew V. McLaglen and His Washed-Up A-List Casts

Angelina Will Play Cleopatra!

​Claudette Colbert was divine as Cleopatra in 1934, but nothing can top Liz Taylor wearing '60s style togas and makeup, croaking "Caesar, what's boinin'?" Seriously, La Liz was amazing--and well worth lifting--even if all the on-set gossip and hoopla surrounding her and Richard Burton tended ... More >>

Rip Torn's Daughter, Friends Line Up To Give Temperance Lectures

​We were surprised and pleased to see New York Post theater reporter Michael Reidel get a prime slot in this morning's rotation. We should have known something was up. Reidel gets Angelica Page, daughter of Rip Torn, to talk smack about her dad. "He's pissed away so much -- so much of his tim ... More >>

Clip Job: Who's Afraid of Andrew Sarris? (Maybe Mike Nichols Should Be)

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 28, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 41 Films By Andrew Sarris "WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?" (at the Criterion and Loew's Tower East) has been hailed by some critics as a daring adventure for Jack Warner a dazzling vindication of Elizabe ... More >>

Allen Barra Remembers Soupy Sales

​As Roy Edroso pointed out the other day, most children's programming in the New York area during the early and mid-1960s was dreck. There were exceptions: Chuck McCann, who read the funnies to us on Sunday morning, and Sandy Becker of Sandy's Hour, who died in 1996, are fondly remembered. But ... More >>

Bitter Victory

La Didone, Wooster's Irreverent Tribute to Classical Form

Philip José Farmer: 1918-2009

The wildly inventive and passionately polemical science-fiction writer Philip José Farmer quietly expired at home, Ash Wednesday morning, at the ripe age of 91. I and many others first became aware of Farmer's work in the 1970s, shortly after the first volume of his legendary Riverworld series, T ... More >>

The Fifth Column: The Pain in Spain

Hemingway's 1937 play gets a Mint Theater revival

The Wooster Group plays someone else's Hamlet

. . . and both teams lose

Jason Grote adapts The Arabian Nights—His Own Way

Eastern unstandard

Back to The Brig

The Living Theatre turns 60, plus Warhol, Woodfall, and Brazil in N.Y.

100 Years of Barbara

Plus 007 and oh, Canada

The Goulden Age

Only in the early '70s could Elliott Gould have been a matinee idol. Since then? The Brooklyn schlemiel's long goodbye.

'Becket'

Reluctant Hero

A legend, yes, but Clint Eastwood's not done yet

Highballs and Some Tight-Fitting British Tweeds, Circa 1968

Hello Stranger

Alienated Dreamers and Lusty Rebels

History's Mysteries