Hollywood’s favorite Hot Topic model, Helena Bonham Carter, could have any role in Hollywood that she wants — so why does she want to sully herself with a role that Lindsay Lohan made famous? (Or, should I say, infamous?) Our lady of the mismatched shoes is taking on the role of Elizabeth Taylor in a new made-for-TV movie about the star’s volatile relationship with her on-again-off-again husband Richard Burton. Um, didn’t we watch that on Lifetime this fall and it was called Liz & Dick?
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HBC and Dominic West (always great on The Wire) will star as Burton and Taylor in the creatively titled Burton and Taylor on BBC America, the channel announced in a press release today. See, this is much more grown up and serious because they use the stars’ last names. Get it? The 90-minute movie will focus on their relationship during a doomed 1983 revival of Noel Coward’s play Private Lives. There will, assuredly, be no more mentions of LiLo in regards to this movie.
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