Elizabeth Taylor - RIP

RIP

My favourite real life Liz moment: at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert where she told a heckler to STFU

her and newman were about the hottest screen couple ever got imo

magma hot

RIP beautiful crazy lady
i always loved your teeth

her and newman were about the hottest screen couple ever got imo

― the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 14:56 (17 minutes ago)

otm

Mmmmmmmmmmmontgomery Clift?

so great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp1uMe4vdBg

(whose face she held together after a car wreck, btw)

xp

montgomery cleft

too soon...

My family claims we saw her picnicking with John Warner at a horse race in Virginia, but I have no memory of it whatsoever.

R.I.P.

Love this interview about A Place in the Sun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZv8HVkT3TY

from twitter

Slate Mel Gussow, author of the NYT's Taylor obit, died in 2005. http://bit.ly/ePzTdv

written by a ghost!

well, she won her Oscar for Butterfield 8 for almost dying. She also survived her career by about 35 years.

Until three weeks I had NO idea she was once Mrs. John Warner.

see, that's not film.

― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius)

Neither is The Flintstones.

― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.)

No argument, but you know it was the F'stones '90s movie starring John Goodman she was in, right?

Farewell Liz. Damn she was a beautiful vibrant thing in her day. Grew up watching all of her films...National Velvet was a recurring favorite for a long long time.
Always loved her turn as Kate in Taming of the Shrew.

http://www.thefancarpet.com/uploaded_assets/images/gallery/829/The_Flintstones_9688_Medium.jpg

End of an era, this is. RIP

Holy shit! RIP.

can't think of a single decent film she was in

guess I should see Virginia Woolf tho

Virginia Woolf is awesome. RIP

No argument, but you know it was the F'stones '90s movie starring John Goodman she was in, right?

I know, joeks, etc. (e.g., "That's not writing, it's typing.")

"can't think of a single decent film she was in"

national velvet
little women
father of the bride
a place in the sun
giant
raintree county
cat on a hot tin roof
butterfield 8
who's afraid of virginia woolf?
the taming of the shrew
reflections in a golden eye
secret ceremony
night watch
the driver's seat
winter kills

yeah well of those I've seen on that list (which is, I dunno, half of them?) can't say I liked any of 'em

Trying to give my grade 6s an idea of the scope of her celebrity this morning...best I could come up with was that it exceeded Lady Gaga's. That seems woefully short of the mark.

found Cat on a Hot Tin Roof really painful to sit through, altho Burl Ives was entertaining

when you say grade 6 you make me think about trailer park boys and i love trailer park boys!

x-post

so, thanks.

Can't believe anyone could dislike Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Such a good movie.

Sort of the (an?) Angelina Jolie of her time. Her stardom transcended the quality of her films.

ugh, no

Movies actually mattered when Taylor became a star. They stopped being central to the culture at least 55 years ago.

Actually, I think it's pretty apt. Just as (Oscar winner!) Jolie has been great in some films, she's also been in a bunch of dreck, and the reason most know here is not for her acting but for her tabloid stuff. Same with Taylor. Sure, once movies "mattered" more, but Taylor was a tabloid fixture for reasons beyond her roles.

uh uh Suddenly Last Summer should be on the good films list there.

Never change, Shakey.

A friend noted on Facebook that he asked the editor of the National Enquirer 14 or so years ago what their biggest stories tended to be, and he cited "deaths" and "Elizabeth Taylor." So by my friend's measure, this is the biggest tabloid story of all time!

at least we don't have to hear what michael jackson thinks about the whole thing. cuz that would have been a whole thing right there.

And by never change I mean please take it to the Rachel Ray thread. xp

It is strange how she outlived Michael.

It is strange how Keith Richards outlived them both.

I think all her co-stars are dead except Mickey Rooney.

Anyway, she did herself credit with her AIDS activism, and seemed to have a sense of humor about herself.

And by never change I mean please take it to the Rachel Ray thread. xp

RIP quality joeks

she had to live with richard burton! she paid for any sins she might have committed.

http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/2011/03/23/fait-diver-a-friend-of-vitos-passed-away/

http://fashionbride.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/19911021-750-01.jpg

http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/m/mzQd8XREHUluZ99TV15yfnw/140.jpg

Don't forget: voice of Maggie Simpson.

I used to pretend she was my real mom growing up. She was a real gem.

whole lotta links:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/3027