Richard Burton Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

Kim Kardashian walked the red carpet at the Met Gala, no one could stop talking about her crystal-embellished Marilyn Monroe dress. The old-school glamour look – famously worn by the ’50s actress when she sang Happy Birthday to US President John F Kennedy – has not only inspired headlines for the reality star, it’s also inspired an idea for her next wedding.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThe trick of stage acting comes in playing the same thing every night as if it were happening for the first time, right there in front of the audience’s eyes. But once-controversial American classic “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” calls for something different.

Sasha Urban editorRon Galella, the paparazzi photographer who pioneered the controversial art of candid celebrity imagery, died Saturday at his home in Montville, N.J. He was 91.The New York Times said he died of congestive heart failure.Galella was best-known for his years-long pursuit of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, whom he photographed relentlessly throughout the ’70s. One of his photos of Onassis, with windswept hair outside her Manhattan apartment, is widely regarded as one of the most famous paparazzi images of all time.

JUST IN: Elizabeth Taylor: Furious husband almost shot star over torrid affair"I remember knocking on the door and this lady came and I said 'Hello, can I have Richard Burton's autograph?' 'Oh, you're Dick Hopkins son aren't you?'"So I went down the passageway and heard this 'bzz' and there was Richard Burton, shaving with an electric razor, and he had a T-shirt on and blazing blue eyes. "Hopkins recalled Burton asking him if he spoke Welsh, to which he replied no, leaving the legend to declare: "Then you're not a true Welshman.

Aaron Sorkin has found his Broadway follow-up to To Kill A Mockingbird: The West Wing creator will pen a new book for the classic Lerner & Loewe musical Camelot.

Liam Payne have to say about all of this?” Coincidentally, that very question was asked yesterday, not long after Will Smith had slapped Chris Rock in front of everyone at the Oscars for making a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. We were waiting for a statement from the Academy. We wondered how Smith would justify it, if Rock would issue a response, or if Jada Pinkett Smith would make any comment.

Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem’s fashion is already one of Sunday night's biggest wins at the 94th Academy Awards. The pair, who have been married since 2010, took their date-night style to another level on the red carpet.Cruz, looked stunning in a custom black dress by Chanel.

Iliad, in 762 BC; and fragments of pearl jewellery were discovered in the sarcophagus of Persian princess from 420BC, which now resides in the Louvre. European royals eventually followed suit and adopted their own power pearls. Catherine de Medici carried six ropes "of the largest pearls ever seen" when she travelled to France to be married in 1533; one was later given to her future daughter-in-law, Mary Queen of Scots, and ended up in the collection of Queen Elizabeth I (after she had her cousin executed).

(CNN)Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz are in good company.One Tuesday, the duo became the sixth married couple to be nominated in acting categories in the same year at the Oscars.Bardem was nominated for best actor for his role as Desi Arnaz in "Being the Ricardos," while Cruz snagged a nomination for her role as Janis in "Parallel Mothers."Past married nominees include Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt; Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner; Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton; Rex Harrison and Rachel Roberts and Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.Other couples who were not married but also nominated for acting awards in the same year include Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier (who would later marry) and longtime partners Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston. This year Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons fall into that category.

Valentine's Day is upon us and you need look no further than Coronation Street for inspiration.

2022 Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday — and it was a big day for Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz!The two were nominated for top acting awards, with Bardem earning his third career Best Actor nod for his performance as Dezi Arnaz in and Cruz garnering her second Best Actress nomination for her role in Pedro Almodóvar's The pair, who married in 2010 and share a son, Leo, and a daughter, Luna, are the first married couple to both be nominated for the Academy's top acting awards since Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were nominated together in 1967 for (Taylor won, Burton didn't, and they would divorce a few years later.)However, they're not the only acting couple to be nominated together this year. Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst, who announced their engagement in 2017 and share two children together, both scored supporting nods for Bardem and Cruz are each one-time Oscar winners; Bardem won Best Supporting Actor in 2008 for his role as assassin Anton Chigurh in  and Cruz won Best Supporting Actress the following year for in which Bardem was her co-star.Following his nomination, Bardem released a statement to ET, which reads, «To embody Desi Arnaz’s spirit was a privilege and an honor and to be connected to his energy and legacy is something I will never forget.

Clayton Davis Penélope Cruz is luxuriously refined in “Parallel Mothers,” a performance that has picked up critical acclaim and notable accolades since debuting at Venice. The voting bloc of the international community is a key demographic that pushed last year’s “The Father” from Florian Zeller, another Sony Pictures Classics feature, to perform exceptionally well with the Academy despite significant misses from key guild groups leading to nominations.

German actor Hardy Kruger, known for his roles in films including Barry Lyndon and A Bridge Too Far, has died at the age of 93.

Segal sparred with Richard Burton in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? - which won him an Oscar nomination - romanced Glenda Jackson in A Touch Of Class and won laughs in nostalgic TV sitcom The Goldbergs. Announcing his death, his wife Sonia said: "The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - George Segal, the Oscar-nominated actor who sparred with Richard Burton in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," romanced Glenda Jackson in "A Touch of Class" and won laughs in the TV sitcom "The Goldbergs," has died at the age of 87, his wife Sonia said on Tuesday.

George Segal, the Oscar-nominated actor who sparred with Richard Burton in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” romanced Glenda Jackson in “A Touch of Class” and won laughs in the TV sitcom “The Goldbergs,” has died at the age of 87, his wife Sonia said on Tuesday.

drunk thug dubbed Scotland's skint answer to Richard Burton has been caged for a savage attack which left his gun woman girlfriend with a triple ankle fracture. Gary Kinnon and Deborah Milligan have been described as a budget version of Burton and Elizabeth Taylor due to their drinking habits and tempestuous relationship - and lack of diamonds.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla On Jan. 28, Emmy Award-winner Matthew Rhys (“The Americans,” “Perry Mason”), will bring “Playing Burton” to life on Audible Theater.

National Museum Cardiff on Saturday.Becoming Richard Burton tells the remarkable story of how a boy from modest beginnings in south Wales developed into an international star of stage and screen.It seeks to dig into the man behind the headlines.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton may have had one of Hollywood's most iconic romances, but as it turns out, Princess Margaret played a minor part in their story. In an interview with The Times, Burton's longtime friend and lawyer Brian Eagles revealed that Margaret, Burton and Taylor once partied together 51 years ago.

Scorsese might be the godfather of gangster movies, but the British film industry has delivered a slew of crime dramas that rival Hollywood’s best.

The latest addition to Studiocanal’s prestigious Vintage Classics Collection is the 1971 gangster drama VILLAIN – fully restored and available on Blu-ray for the first time. With a script by acclaimed British writing duo Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, VILLAIN is an intricate and graphically violent British counterpart to Get Carter and The French Connection which foreshadowed seminal 1970s television police dramas such as ‘The Sweeney’.

Stuart Whitman, the Oscar-nominated star of "The Mark," has died. He was 92.

We are hearing that the classic crime movie Villain starring Richard Burton is set to get a big home release later next month. The movie is set to be made on DVD and Blu-ray for the very first time from 30th March.

Jack Sheldon, the extraordinary West Coast jazz trumpeter and singer who played "The Shadow of Your Smile" for the big screen, served as Merv Griffin's sidekick and voiced characters on Schoolhouse Rock!, died Friday (Dec. 27), his longtime manager, Dianne Jimenez, reported.