''Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton Film Collection'' DVD Giftset Available from Warner Home Video December 5

Business Wire, August 21, 2006

BURBANK, Calif. -- After Bogie and Bacall but before Brad and Angelina ... there was Liz and Dick, the '60s most famous on- and off-screen couple. Warner Home Video will honor these two legends on December 5 with the debut of the "Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Film Collection." Featured will be the 5-time Oscar(R)-winning, landmark film, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in a new 2-Disc Special Edition, along with the DVD debuts of "The Sandpiper," "The V.I.P.s" and "The Comedians." The five-disc giftset will sell for $49.92 SRP. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 2-Disc Special Edition" can also be purchased as a single title at $26.99 SRP.

Highlights of the collection's new special features include, for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 2-Disc Special Edition," commentary by directors Mike Nichols and Steven Sodenbergh, three new featurettes about the movie and a 1966 interview with Mike Nichols.

In 1962, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton met on the set of "Cleopatra," fell in love and eventually married in 1964. They enjoyed the lifestyle of the rich and famous - expensive furs, luxurious yachts, incredible cars, lavish houses and spectacular jewelry - and became very public symbols of jet-set glamour. They remained married for 10 years, before divorcing in 1974. Miserable apart, they remarried in 1975, but the marriage again broke up shortly after.

Taylor and Burton appeared together in nearly a dozen films and in 1983 also co-starred on Broadway in Noel Coward's "Private Lives." Ms. Taylor was nominated five times for Best Actress Academy Awards and won for "Butterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Burton never received any Oscars although he was nominated seven times - for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "My Cousin Rachel," "The Robe," "Becket," "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," "Anne of the Thousand Days" and "Equus."

Richard Burton died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1984, and friends say Taylor calls Burton "one of the two great loves of my life." (The other was Hollywood producer Mike Todd, who died tragically in a plane crash just after their first anniversary.)

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