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| 23 MAR 2011 at 11:33pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Elizabeth Taylor was my mother's idol. I think I loved her too because I have photos of her in my computer and I definitely had to wipe my eyes at this news. They don't make film stars like that anymore.
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| 24 MAR 2011 at 12:18pm |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | They sure dont. :'( She was not only a beauty but a smart and classy lady I always thought.
May she rest in peace.
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| 24 MAR 2011 at 12:31pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | She was indeed an icon. I'm sure she'll still be remembered for a long time.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 24 MAR 2011 at 10:20pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | On the TV they said when Richard Burton died, she sold that big ring he'd given her and used the money to build a hospital in Botswana - the place they married for the 2nd time.
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| 25 MAR 2011 at 2:03am |
anthonyJourneyman
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Status : Offline | I remember thinking Liz and Richard were like royalty, both elegant and attractive.
And then I saw them each for the first time in a movie: Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff.
They play two loathesome individuals married to each other who are cruel, despicable and disgusting.
It was so out of character, they were amazing performances.
Great movie.
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| 28 MAR 2011 at 12:22pm |
vagabondIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By adisarro (25 MAR 2011 2:03am)
I remember thinking Liz and Richard were like royalty, both elegant and attractive.
And then I saw them each for the first time in a movie: Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff.
They play two loathesome individuals married to each other who are cruel, despicable and disgusting.
It was so out of character, they were amazing performances.
Great movie.
Well, I am not sure if that performance was absolutely out of character. After all, they both loved themselves a lot. They could neither handle being with, nor being without each other.
However, it seems that they really started a revolution concerning what was going to be viewed as an 'appropriate' relationship later on. (They marketed it quite well, too.)
Liz was a true fashion and lifestyle icon, always wearing elegant dresses. I think she had a thing for fur, though, which is not very likeable about her... In any case, she had a lot of backbone and I think it was a great move to retreat from the film business once she'd had enough of it. Her concentrating on charity work related to AIDS was noble and outstanding.
Great loss, indeed.
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| 30 MAR 2011 at 1:47am |
anthonyJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Yes, I suppose I should have made clear that I meant that they acted out of character to other roles they usually played. The roles they played in Virginia Wolfe were probably closer to their real personalities than their other roles.
When I think of Liz Taylor, I think of her role in Giant, Place in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: beautiful, classy, desirable. Richard Burton was elegant and regal.
In Virginia Wolfe, they were sleazy and nasty.
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| 30 MAR 2011 at 5:59am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | When Liz Taylor was very young she hired an Australian nanny to help with the children. That nanny is now dead but her grand niece has just been on our TV telling us her the nanny's recollections of what Liz Taylor was really like in her own home.
She said she was warm and informal and incredibly generous and affectionate and loved her children very much. That's good enough for me. She seems to have been a passionate woman whose emotions led her on a roller coaster but at least she never lost herself to drugs and booze so I shall choose to believe that she was a pretty classy but normal woman.
I think if she'd been a monster we'd have been reading about it before now just like Zsa Zsa Gabor - but so far, no one has anything nasty to say about her.
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| 30 MAR 2011 at 8:26am |
vagabondIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By adisarro (30 MAR 2011 1:46am)
Yes, I suppose I should have made clear that I meant that they acted out of character to other roles they usually played. The roles they played in Virginia Wolfe were probably closer to their real personalities than their other roles.
When I think of Liz Taylor, I think of her role in Giant, Place in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: beautiful, classy, desirable. Richard Burton was elegant and regal.
In Virginia Wolfe, they were sleazy and nasty.
Now I see what you mean. Yes, I agree with that.
As for Zsa Zsa Gabor, Caroline are you saying that she, unlike Liz, is portrayed as being a monster? I just think it is funny that she had seven divorces but so far she has stayed with that pig Frederic of Anhalt :.
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| 1 APR 2011 at 3:58am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | I was reading about Zsa Zsa a few weeks ago. Her staff loathe her she is such a bitch. But she's almost dead. People don't get divorced in their 90s.
Liz on the other hand, doesn't appear to have any disgruntled ex-staff who hated her but there are plenty of people who attest to her down-to-earth nature and her generous friendship.
Of the two, I think Liz wins.
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