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fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

He's One of Our Greatest Actors. He Thought His Career Was Over-Until He Got One Delicious Role.

The Welsh-born actor had spent much of the decade living in the United States, where he split his time between the stage and the screen, building an utterly respectable career. He had played a compassionate doctor in David Lynch's The Elephant Man, a murderous ventriloquist in the cult thriller Magic, and the real-life convicted child murderer Bruno Hauptmann in the TV movie The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, for which he had won his first Emmy.
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fromIndieWire
7 months ago

Beyond 'Erotic Vagrancy': TCM Reframes Legacy of 'Cleopatra,' Elizabeth Taylor, and the Director Who Went Down with the Sphinx

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's affair during the filming of Cleopatra sparked massive media attention and controversy, dubbed 'Le Scandale'.
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