Memorable Quotations:

• "It's inelegant for conquerors to be late." --as Thomas Becket in BECKET (1964).

Multimedia Clips:

• "Main Title" (clip) from THE ROBE (1953) by Alfred Newman (a .MP3 file).
• "March" (clip) from THE LONGEST DAY (1962) by Maurice Jarre (a .MP3 file).
• "The Longest Day March" (clip) from THE LONGEST DAY (1962) sung by the Mitch Miller Chorus (a .MP3 file).
• "Main Title" (clip) from CLEOPATRA (1963) by Alex North (a .MP3 file).
• "Main Title" (clip) from WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (1966) by Alex North (a .MP3 file).
• "An idea" from BECKET (1964) with Peter O'Toole (a .AVI file courtesy MPI Home Video).

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Further Reading:

• Richard Burton: a bio-bibliography by Tyrone Steverson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, c1992).
• Rich: the life of Richard Burton by Melvyn Bragg (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988).
• Richard Burton, my brother by Graham Jenkins with Barry Turner (New York: Harper & Row, c1988).
• Burton: the man behind the myth by Penny Junor (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985).
• Richard Burton by Paul Ferris (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981).
• Richard & Elizabeth by Lester David & Jhan Robbins (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, c1977).
• Richard Burton: a biography by John Cottrell and Fergus Cashin (London: Barker, 1971).
• Lovers: great romances of our time through the eyes of legendary writers by John Miller and Aaron Kenedi (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1999).

More Burton Links:

• The Official Richard Burton Website
• The Richard Burton Online Shrine
• Yahoo! Groups: Richard Burton - Last Prince of Wales
• Richard Burton- superstar of the 1960s
• TVNow's monthly Richard Burton schedule -when his films will be on TV.
• A review of BECKET by Walter Frith
• Trivette's CLEOPATRA Page
• Boxoffice Online: CLEOPATRA
• History in Film: CLEOPATRA
• Boxoffice Online: THE ROBE
• Greatest Films: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

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