Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dazzle of diamonds winked and twinkled in all directions, from hair, hands, necks and bosoms. The Duchess of Windsor's were canary. Signora Gianni Agnelli's stones coruscated white, pink and green. But Elizabeth Taylor outshone everyone at the costume ball with the 69.4-carat, million-dollar "Burton Diamond" at her throat, and her black hair caught up in a net studded with 1,000 small diamonds and edged with 25 larger ones. Perhaps to relieve the monotony, her feather spray was held in place by a 20-carat emerald. Estimated total worth of Liz's jewelry...
...about cornered the market on dissident Communists," says Actor Richard Burton. Having just finished playing Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito (TIME, Oct. 18), he is now Stalin's mortal enemy, Leon Trotsky, in The Assassination of Trotsky, being filmed in Rome by U.S. Director Joseph Losey. Elizabeth Taylor anxiously monitored the scene in which the murderer, played by French Actor Alain Delon, sneaks up behind Trotsky with an Alpine ice ax hidden under his coat. Delon claimed to be so wrapped up in his role that he was afraid he might actually kill Burton. "There are plenty of French...
Marlowe's Dr. Faustus turned up on television this past summer with Richard Burton in the title role and Elizabeth Taylor as Helen of Troy. No play so great has ever failed so abysmally. Not even Marlowe's poetry could save the film from its stylistic pretensions--no important line was let past without the screen quivering in peculiar effects of light and color; no setting lacked a quality of manufactured gloom. At its climactic worst--as Faustus prepares for damnation--red blotches swirl round his head, and music builds to a crescendo. Burton grimaces in the best Burton fashion...
...LARRY BURTON Rockford...
NORMAN R. BURTON...