Television
Fans of actor LeVar Burton are vowing to boycott ‘Jeopardy!’ after executive producer Mike Richards and actor Mayim Bialik were named new hosts.
Aug. 12, 2021
Entertainment & Arts
It’s fair to say that the 1983 touring production of Noel Coward’s “Private Lives,” starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, wasn’t a high point in the couple’s catalog of professional collaborations.
Feb. 13, 2013
Revisiting ‘Private Lives’ with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
Movies
Philip Burton, the Welsh teacher who mentored the son of a coal miner and helped mold him into one of the world’s top actors, is dead at age 90.
Feb. 4, 1995
24 Frames
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June 2, 2011
Richard Burton died at only 58 in 1984 after a life and career that could be called meteoric in the truest sense that meteors both rise and fall, blaze across the sky and fade.
Nov. 30, 1989
Awards
Richard Burton’s native Wales is courting Hollywood
March 1, 2013
Books
Book review: ‘Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century’
July 28, 2010
CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON: THE SECRET AGENT WHO MADE THE PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA, DISCOVERED THE ‘KAMA SUTRA,’ AND BROUGHT THE ‘ARABIAN NIGHTS’ TO THE WEST by Edward Rice Scribner’s $35.00, 522 pages If you managed to catch “Mountains of the Moon” during its brief run in Southern California, you will already know that Richard Francis Burton was a superbly romantic figure of the Victorian era who explored the remote stretches of Africa in search of the headwaters of the Nile.
May 23, 1990
Authors Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger draw on sources that include some of the remarkable love letters that Burton sent to Taylor over the years.