'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
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The woman Richard Burton left to marry Elizabeth Taylor has died. Theater producer and nightclub founder Sybil Christopher was 83.

"Beautiful Ruins" is a colorful voyage through a village of the Italian Cinque Terre, the labyrinthian vicissitudes of Hollywood and the complicated lives of colorful characters, including the real-life Richard Burton. Jess Walter's new novel consists of three main stories, plus a first chapter of a novel by an American ex-GI, the beginning of a memoir by a failed Hollywood producer and a play.

The good news: If you thought “Liz & Dick” would be lame, you aren’t wrong. The bad news: It falls short of being laughably, irresistibly bad. What a missed opportunity!
Lindsay Lohan arrived an hour late to the red carpet to celebrate the premiere of "Liz & Dick" but basked in the media frenzy _ saying it felt good to have the focus on her work as an actress.

Lindsay Lohan arrived an hour late to the red carpet to celebrate the premiere of "Liz & Dick" but basked in the media frenzy — saying it felt good to have the focus on her work as an actress.

Lindsay Lohan arrived an hour late to the red carpet to celebrate the premiere of "Liz & Dick," but basked in the media frenzy — saying it felt good to have the focus on her work as an actress.
The good news: If you thought "Liz & Dick" would be lame, you aren't wrong.

On the night of Aug. 5, 1984, Richard Burton set aside a volume of William Blake's verse and closed his eyes for what would be the last time. On March 3, 2011, Elizabeth Taylor, the woman whom Burton deemed the love of his life, died. Now more than a year on, 670 pages of these quite remarkable diaries are available to the rest of the world.
Barbara Walters says she will interview Lindsay Lohan next month for ABC's "20/20" newsmagazine.

Barbara Walters said she will interview Lindsay Lohan next month for ABC's "20/20" newsmagazine.

Barbara Walters says she will interview Lindsay Lohan next month for ABC's "20/20" newsmagazine.

We pay tribute to Roger Moore, the debonair James Bond, with a look at his most memorable films.
Lindsay Lohan's campaign for a career comeback will take another step when her new film, "Liz & Dick," airs next month.

Previously unpublished extracts from the diary of iconic Welsh actor Richard Burton have revealed his "aching" love for screen siren Elizabeth Taylor, whom he married twice.
Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a longtime married couple who've fallen into a rut in the surprisingly honest and effective "Hope Springs." She hopes intensive couples' therapy will restore their romance; he's content to fall asleep in front of the television every night watching The Golf Channel.
He doesn't know that Richard Burton is his father, but believes it to be Alvis Bender, the GI who wrote the first and only chapter of his novel in Pasquale's hotel, who later finds and marries Dee.
"She has turned me into a model man but not a prig, she is a wildly exciting lover-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody's fool," he said of Taylor in extracts published on Tuesday.
Taking Names: Diary excerpts show Burton’s love for Elizabeth Taylor →