Why Benedict Cumberbatch is luckier than Richard Burton
After Sherlock and Star Trek, Cumberbatch is now about to play Hamlet. It was all so different for a previous generation of actors, for whom stardom on the screen meant the end of a career on the classical stageIn 1974, Richard Burton appeared on the chatshow Parkinson. He was not long out of a six-week spell in hospital, having virtually drunk himself to oblivion, caught in a self-destructive spiral after the d…