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ANOTHER classic film comes to Hailsham Pavilion next Tuesday. The 1968 movie Where Eagles Dare, which stars Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, is being shown from 7.30pm, with doors opening at 7pm.

Adapted by Tennessee Williams from his allegorical, symbol-laden play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore , this was the first of two somewhat hermetic movies in which Joseph Losey directed Elizabeth Taylor.

ACTOR Matthew Rhys is following in the footsteps of Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas to narrate the poet's much-loved festive tale.

I was plowing through boxes of archive material the other day, when I came across a box of tapes from near the very start of my career in theatre.

Christian McKay has been teased about his uncanny resemblance to Orson Welles, a comparison he did not like.

Calling "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" a work comparable to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," director Phil Shafer said Edward Albee's intensely emotional drama stunned audiences when it first opened on Broadway back in 1962.

Robert Sellers's "Hellraisers" is completely unapologetic about its party-hearty premise.

IT WASN'T until he heard Richard Burton reading Under Milk Wood that Roger McGough realised the poem's quality, he recounted during his Playhouse show.

I posted recently about two exceptional women - Hannah Arendt and Amy Wallace - who slept with gurus - Martin Heidegger and Carlos Castaneda - who despised and mistreated them, and yet the women remained in love until the day their gurus died.

Good morning. Today is the 314th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of British actor Richard Burton, best known for his 1963 version of Cleopatra and his two marriages to co-star Elizabeth Taylor.

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Today's Cinematic Birthdays 11/13 1312 Edward III , not the gay one who gets more cinematic treatment , but his son.

GUY Masterson brings Dylan Thomas' most famous and enduring work Under Milk Wood to the Acorn Arts Centre tomorrow at 8pm.

THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX a ' Matthew Broderick supplies the words of the title character, a mouse who goes against the edicts of his rodent-oriented homeland.

WELSH choirs may sing of a welcome in the hillside, but visitors encounter an old-fashioned nation where people are "rude", according to major new research.

Taylor: The last great movie star? It's true that back in the 1960s Montreal was a pretty glamorous city and celebrities and regular folks from the world over still came here to let the good times roll.

ZULU, the film created by Rhondda-born actor Stanley Baker is widely credited with kick-starting the career of screen legend Sir Michael Caine.

Review: Soulpepper's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' Nancy Palk and Diego Matamoros in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' Running until October 24 The Young Centre - 55 Mill Street UPDATE: Three shows added - November 6 - 7:30, November 7 - 1:30, and November 7 - 7:30. Edward Albee 's seminal play about the degradation of American marriage and ...

She demanded a different holder for each of the many cigarettes she smoked daily during the filming of "Cleopatra," and the holder's color couldn't clash with the cloth on any table at which she smoked.

In an exclusive excerpt from a new biography of Elizabeth Taylor, William J. Mann on her vodka-fueled battles with Richard Burton and the role she was born to play.