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Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes review – they don’t make stars like this any more

This absolute treat of a documentary uses a treasure trove of newly discovered audio interviews to paint an intimate, captivating picture of the actor

The Guardian - UK

11 wild stories behind Hollywood kissing scenes: ‘Would you two mind if I say cut?’

THE COUNTDOWN: From Tobey Maguire almost suffocating on the set of ‘Spider-Man’ to the actors who wouldn’t stop smooching when the director called ‘cut!’, Ellie Harrison looks back on some of the most intriguing backstories to onscreen kisses

The Independent UK

“It’s like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. We can’t live with each other and we can’t live without each other”: the tangled history of Rick Wakeman and Yes

Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman’s history with Yes goes back to the early 70s – but there have been plenty of bumps along the way

Louder

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‘I lied to get the part’: Melvyn Hayes on his ‘angry young man’ beginnings – and It Ain’t Half Hot Mum

He was tipped to be the next Richard Burton – but ended up as crossdressing Gunner Gloria in the now controversial sitcom. As his breakthrough classic returns to the screen, Hayes looks back

The Guardian - UK

A weekend of deranged hope, dread and stockpiling flares – it’s the Euro 2024 final

Gareth Southgate’s side have made the hardest possible work of this – such is the only script our national psychodrama permits, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Chris Williams obituary

Other lives: Historian who specialised in research on Welsh radical traditions and edited Richard Burton’s diaries

The Guardian - UK

Ian McShane: ‘When I was about to get it on with Richard Burton, he said I reminded him of Elizabeth’

The actor on the fate of Lovejoy’s leather jacket, appearing nude on the cover of Cosmo and how to make a perfect cup of tea

The Guardian - UK

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Andrew Scott And Sophie Okonedo Win Top Honors At Awards

Discover the winners of the 33rd U.K. Critics' Circle Theatre Awards celebrating excellence in the U.K. theater scene.

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Callum Scott Howells on BBC drama The Way, coming to the West End, and how he wants to 'do a Ryan Reynolds'

The beloved Welsh actor is following up It’s a Sin with a triumvirate of must-watches, but all he really wants is his own football club

Evening Standard

Dylan Thomas: The BBC Radio Collection audiobook review – a spellbinding homage

Richard Burton’s reading of Under Milk Wood is the centrepiece of a collection of works written about and by the ‘rock star author’

The Guardian - UK

Usher, lost and found in Vegas: Tim Cook gives wonderfully wooden YouTube performance in Super Bowl teasers

Wacky “Where is Usher” teasers for upcoming Super Bowl LVIII

iMore

Going going gone! From Frozen to Backstairs Billy, the shows now closing in the West End

Frozen shocked theatreland this month by announcing its September 2024 closure. These are the other shows not to miss before it's too late

Evening Standard

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in December

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they read last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best films about drinking

Be your January dry or anything but, here’s to boozing in the movies, from The Lost Weekend to Sideways, Whisky Galore! and Harvey

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Evening Standard

The big fat Christmas quiz 2023

AI breakthroughs to royal breakdowns — what do you remember, asks Nick Curtis

Marie Claire

32 Best Red Carpet Moments of the 1960s

Celebrity drama was just as intense!

The Conversation

Erotic Vagrancy: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor biography revels in scandal and excess of Hollywood glamour couple

Roger Lewis’s biographies are always rich, wayward, engrossing, idiosyncratic and above all obsessive, which seems entirely fitting for evoking the particular qualities of his latest subject – the celebrity couple to end them all, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

The Guardian - UK

The best memoirs and biographies of 2023

The rise of Madonna, Barbra Streisand in her own words, plus the stormy relationship of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are among this year’s highlights

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Cinemablend

32 Celebrities Who Have Been Married To Multiple Famous People

Hollywood stars sometimes marry each other. Sometimes they marry each other over and over. All of the stars on this list have been married to multiple famous people.

Evening Standard

The 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards: a glittering night with the brightest stars of London theatre

Nicole Scherzinger, Sam Mendes, Ian McKellen... the glamour quotient was off the scale

The Guardian - US

‘Genuinely disturbing’: readers on their scariest movie moments

After a Halloween feature in which Guardian writers shared their biggest movie nightmares, it’s readers’ turn

The Guardian - UK

Letter: bullets and bombs won’t bring stability to the Middle East

Unimaginable suffering has already been inflicted on both sides in the Israel-Hamas war

The Guardian - UK

RSC to put on work by poet who wrote Stratford theatre’s first words

John Masefield wrote poem for 1932 opening of Shakespeare Memorial theatre, which is now staging The Box of Delights

The Guardian - UK

Erotic Vagrancy: Everything About Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor review – an epic hymn to a ‘joyously vulgar’ pair

Drink-fuelled fights, tantrums, fratricide… Roger Lewis’s exhaustive but exhausting study of the Burton-Taylor partnership is as extravagant and uncompromising as its badly behaved stars

Evening Standard

OPINION - The 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards: celebrating the astonishing talent on London's stages

From classic West End musicals to exciting new work by emerging voices, London's theatre scene is stronger than ever

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