http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/2011/03/23/fait-diver-a-friend-of-vitos-passed-away/
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://fashionbride.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/19911021-750-01.jpg
― buzza, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/m/mzQd8XREHUluZ99TV15yfnw/140.jpg
― Peyton Flanders (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't forget: voice of Maggie Simpson.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I used to pretend she was my real mom growing up. She was a real gem.
― Call on me (Spinspin Sugah), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
whole lotta links:
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/3027
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"can't think of a single decent film she was in"
If you mean what you wrote in that sentence -- that she was often better than the movies in which she starred or costarred -- then I agree. I know the ILX Film Crew loves Suddenly Last Summer, and it's been 20 years, but it's unfunny camp to me. Hepburn is literally unwatchable.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway rest in peace big diamond bitch goddess icon drag queen violet eye rage machine. luv ya.
― scott seward, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:31 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
rip
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
well, yes and no - I don't think she's a terrible actress or anything (she could be VERY campy/overwrought, but this is not always bad in my book) but the sort of films she chose to be in just really bore me for the most part. melodramas, etc. not interested.
xp
― Hyper Rescue Troop (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
you're not gay enough
― corey, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
shakey no 'mo
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
guess I should see Virginia Woolf tho
Yes. Yes you should. RIP
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/4048021969/symbiotaxiplasm-r-i-p-l-i-z-elizabeth-taylor
― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope she dies very soon― Mike Hanley
laughed hard at this
RIP
― rockapads, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/23/elizabeth-taylor-obituary brilliant obit for those (like me) who didn't really know the crazy-remarkable story of her life.
― piscesx, Thursday, 24 March 2011 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Sort of the (an?) Angelina Jolie of her time.
http://media.bigoo.ws/content/gif/music/music_139.gif
― BIG GERTRUDE aka the steindriver (history mayne), Thursday, 24 March 2011 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
^ Ha, Snoop, always a pleasure! Anyway, I said that not as a particular fan of either party, but the parallels are undeniable. Jolie is even playing Cleopatra, FFS.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 March 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP Liz
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 March 2011 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
But the real joke is the comparison between Jolie and Taylor. Jolie's fame rests entirely on her personal life, which can be summed up as "married Rachel from Friends' husband, fond of adopting". As Jolie has amply proved, one doesn't need to be a good actor, or even appear in any good films, to be an A-list celebrity these days: one just needs to be thin and have a fondness for being photographed. Taylor had the life, the looks, the movies, the smarts and the talent, and she – unlike Jolie – looked as if she not only enjoyed the occasional plate of pasta but my God, to watch her eat it would have been an experience in itself.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/24/elizabeth-taylor-life-talent
― Madchen, Thursday, 24 March 2011 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yes.
Still I wish I could find the John Belushi and Catherine O'Hara impressions of Liz online to illustrate what a joke she was widely considered by the late '70s.
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2011 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Camile Paglia:
To me, Elizabeth Taylor's importance as an actress was that she represented a kind of womanliness that is now completely impossible to find on the U.S. or U.K. screen. It was rooted in hormonal reality -- the vitality of nature. She was single-handedly a living rebuke to postmodernism and post-structuralism, which maintain that gender is merely a social construct. Let me give you an example. Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right" is a truly wonderful film, but Julianne Moore and Annette Bening -- who is fabulous in it and should have won the Oscar for her portrayal of a prototypical contemporary American career woman -- were painfully scrawny to look at on the screen. This is the standard starvation look that is now projected by Hollywood women stars -- a skeletal, Pilates-honed, anorexic silhouette, which has nothing to do with females as most of the world understands them. There's something almost android about the depictions of women currently being projected by Hollywood.
I said as much in my own little obit: she was a broad. Not a classy plate in her chassis.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 March 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
But the 'broad' thing mostly got going full-bore w/ Virginia Woolf, which as David Edelstein points out stuck to her in all kinds of ways; her roles usually required her to fake class, except for some of the Tennessee Williams adaps.
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://theweddingtiara.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/elizabeth-taylor1.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 March 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Blimey
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 March 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.mimifroufrou.com/scentedsalamander/images/elizabeth-taylor-1957.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 March 2011 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.twolia.com/blogs/heres-looking-like-you-kid/files/2009/07/elizabeth-taylor-sunning-herself-on-the-set-of-giant-1955-photo-by-sid-avery.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 March 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
love all the pictures from the giant set:
http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/66470/photos/PHOTO_9417186_66470_20752879_main.jpg
http://vintagestardust.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/fwc_dean4.jpg
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01467/jamesdean_1467951i.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 March 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Guardian overlooks the fact the Jolie *can* act - she won an Oscar, FWIW - and to say her fame rests entirely on who she married is stupid. Her worst movies are no more shitty than many of Liz's, her love life no more the focus of tabloid attention than Liz's, her humanitarian work no less notable or laudable. Personally, I'm not a fan of either actor, but their parallels are manifest. To suggest, as the paper did, that Jolie is famous just for who she married is both a) terribly sexist and b) totally ignorant that she is a much bigger star than her husband.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Taylor had the life, the looks, the movies, the smarts and the talent, and she – unlike Jolie – looked as if she not only enjoyed the occasional plate of pasta but my God, to watch her eat it would have been an experience in itself.
Like, this last point is basically just "Liz Taylor was sexy and fat."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Impressed with CBS last night. They led with her death at 6:30 (as they should have), and gave her a full eight or nine minutes. And there was more coverage later in the broadcast more specifically about her AIDs work.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
OTM xposts
Angelina Jolie was famous before she met Brad Pitt (though I suspect fairly widely-known for tabloid tattle about her marriage to Billy Bob Thornton rather than her movies, Oscar or not). We were discussing Genuine Hollywood Stars last night following the news of Liz Taylor's death, and we reckoned Clooney and Jolie were the only contemporary stars who even come close (basing on talent, level of worldwide fame, and general indefinable Hollywoodness)
― ailsa, Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
tom cruise ? julia roberts ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Cruise is batshit insane and doesn't represent reasonable causes, just scientology. Roberts, maybe? idk
― sarcasdick (mh), Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
No way
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Also both not remotely sexy
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Rip Taylor is still alive
― buzza, Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
think the whole "they don't make them like they used to" thing has been talked about forever as far as hollywood goes. its a different place now. the people they prop up now are always gonna suffer by comparison. just cuzza the lighting.
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, is separate thread (that we've probably done before), just musing that the Jolie comparison isn't a bad one.
― ailsa, Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, in many ways today's stars lead, ironically, more private lives. Just think of all the A-listers who don't even bother going to the Oscars, which 50 years ago would have been heretical.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
doesn't represent reasonable causes
well, it wasn't one of the criteria
basing on talent, level of worldwide fame, and general indefinable Hollywoodness
also : di caprio ? will smith ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Stars don't sell movies anymore – franchises like games and comic books do.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
(Cruise discounted on batshittery, btw. Could make a case for diCaprio and Depp, would like to make a case for Blanchett on the glamour/star/interestingness front)
― ailsa, Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
xp: that is not really true, not unless there is for example a "Limitless" videogame I don't know about
― 'lol u stuck with me now watch this ass expand, joeks on u' (DJP), Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Shh! They'll hear you!
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
It's almost wholly true – the NYT published a story about Hollywood woes a couple of months ago in which studio execs made the same point. Of course a Sandra Bullock, Will Smith or DiCrapio film will draw their respective fans, but these films aren't automatic hits like they were even ten years ago.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
ha actually that would be kind of an interesting game mechanic; your character is completely hopeless and useless unless you use these pills, of which you have a finite supply
how do you stretch the resource that makes you capable of playing the game long enough to actually beat the game...?
― 'lol u stuck with me now watch this ass expand, joeks on u' (DJP), Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
jolie comparison isn't bad and i'm not sure she could pull off some of liz taylor's epic performances but i think she's vv good at what she does, probably stemming from utter confidence w/what she can do in her particular (albeit limited) acting skill set.
― omar little, Thursday, 24 March 2011 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
friend of mine has some huge pic from the giant set
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 24 March 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
this one, no liz
http://www.jamesdean.com/images/photos/giant/pics/jd5.jpg
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 24 March 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
also, just for shakey
http://chzdailywhat.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/80e40d51-01cf-4396-b3e8-56c211eaedb3.jpg
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 24 March 2011 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link