Listening-in Tonight: Richard Burton
Aug. 18th, 2010 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
callmemadamIf you ever switch on the radio you can hardly have missed the trailers for The Richard Burton Legacy on Radio 2 with Michael Sheen. Oh, that voice. If you were capable of being the greatest actor of the age, would you choose Hollywood, money and booze instead? Just wondering.
Googling around I found the Alt Film Guide and Four Angry Young Men. They are: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Richard Burton and Richard Harris. It’s not the actors who are angry but the characters they played in the black and white films of the period. I love those films and I’ve always admired Burton in Look Back in Anger.
Googling around I found the Alt Film Guide and Four Angry Young Men. They are: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Richard Burton and Richard Harris. It’s not the actors who are angry but the characters they played in the black and white films of the period. I love those films and I’ve always admired Burton in Look Back in Anger.
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Date: 2010-08-18 10:30 am (UTC)Goosebumps.
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Date: 2010-08-18 10:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-19 10:40 am (UTC)I'm enjoying Tom Courtney's autobiography at the moment. No self-destruction in sight, I'm glad to say!
Penny (svh2.wordpress.com)