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Number of times Jawaharlal Nehru was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize: 11. Number of times he won the Nobel Peace Prize: zero.

IT PROBABLY wasn't quite the type of script he's accustomed to. But Matthew Rhys has lent his velvety tones to a new campaign to promote Welsh beef.

Criterion Collection Cast: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack Criterion's bonus-packed reissue of Martin Ritt's 1965 Cold War thriller "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold," based on John le ...

Reviewed by Scott Tobias November 26th, 2008 By 1965, when Martin Ritt's adaptation of John le Carre's breakthrough novel The Spy Who Came In From The Cold was released to theaters, Sean Connery was already ...

Judge Clark Douglas seeks to demonstrate that reviewing DVDs is neither glamorous nor fun.

The Criterion Collection, $39.95 In the early Sixties, at the peak of the Cold War, only space travel might have been considered hotter than the mysterious world of spies.

Richard Jenkins was born on November 10, 1925 to a coal miner in South Wales. After winning a scholarship to Oxford, he changed his surname to that of his music teacher's. A few years later, the world began to ...

Turner Classic Movies will feature an onscreen toast to classic film couples on November 18th and the 25th, and they've paired up with Chronicle to do a handsome book on the same subject: Leading Couples: The ...

The latest James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace," debuts this weekend. Daniel Craig's rougher, more intense take on the character, first seen in "Casino Royale," has left fans divided.

Good morning. Today is the 315th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of Welsh-born actor Richard Burton, best-known for co-starring with Elizabeth Taylor in "Cleopatra" and his off-again, on-again ...

5, 1984, Geneva, Switz. Main British stage and motion-picture actor noted for his portrayals of highly intelligent and articulate men who are world-weary, cynical, or self-destructive. He was the 12th of 13 ...

Netflix re-sent The Sandpiper, so I watched it again. Dalton Trumbo co-wrote the screenplay and did a remarkable job of giving voice to a female character who defies conventional mores of the California ...

BOOTLEG FILES 258 'Brief Encounter' . LAST SEEN: We cannot confirm the film's last public exhibition.

From a sleepy backwater of 2,000 souls, Cuixmala has been transformed into one of the country's most lively and sophisticated resorts Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton talk to Ava Gardner during filming for ...

SHE has the same piercing blue eyes as her father and now, like her father, Kate Burton is starting to become a star.

Just a stone's throw from King's College but hidden away in a narrow backstreet behind a picturesquely overgrown graveyard, G David is everything a university town bookshop ought to be.

With all the hype surrounding the two Hamlets currently on their way to the West End, I was cruelly reminded by the film version of Jean Anouilh's Becket what great actors Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton are ...

IT WAS the role that Elizabeth Taylor a global icon - and the best paid female movie star in history.

Steven Soderbergh's is planning a 3D live-action musical about Cleopatra starring Catherine Zeta Jones, reports claim.

Catherine Zeta Jones Catherine Zeta-Jones is going back to the boards. Zeta-Jones, who won an Oscar for her turn as the scheming Velma Kelly in Rob Marshall's "Chicago," is set to star in "Cleo," a period ...