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Elizabeth Taylor is dead

 
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On the other hand



Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:43 am    Post subject: Elizabeth Taylor is dead Reply with quote
Definitely the passing of an icon. But I never found her quite as memorable as a lot of other people seemed to. I think maybe I was just a shade too young to have appreciated her in her heyday. I don't think I've seen more than a handful of her films, and only National Velvet and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof are coming to mind right now.

I found it a little odd that she became so closely associated with Michael Jackson, since they were really from two different eras. Jackson was definitely 80s, whereas Liz was slightly older than my mother.

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bucheon bum



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
When I saw this news story, my first thought was: I wonder when OTOH is going to post this on Dave's. No joke. Smile

Yeah, I never understood the hype. I don't recall her being in any movies during my lifetime. Don't think I've seen any of her movies either, although it sounds like she was in a number of good ones.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:18 am    Post subject: Re: Elizabeth Taylor is dead Reply with quote
On the other hand wrote:
I found it a little odd that she became so cloesly associated with Michael Jackson, since they were really from two different eras. Jackson was definitely 80s, whereas Liz waa slightly older than my mother.

Like MJ, she also began as a child star. She was still a kid when she made National Velvet, which first garnered her attention, and that was not even her first film.

I'll always remember her as Cleopatra (and MJ's friend).
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NovaKart



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wasn't she kind of notorious for awhile for stealing Debbie Reynold's husband? Kind of like the Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston controversy from our time.

I mostly remember her for Cleopatra too. Later she was mocked for her weight gain and alcoholism.
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caniff



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I recall she married a bunch of times (Richard Burton twice).
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On the other hand



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
caniff wrote:
I recall she married a bunch of times (Richard Burton twice).


Also, the Hilton hotel guy, a movie producer, some senator, and a blue-collar guy who came to her house to do repairs. I might be missing one or two.

And I can't believe I knew all that off the top of my head, but have only seen three of her films(one of which I have no memory of her being in). She really was as famous for the life she lived as she was for her work.
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Hyeon Een



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
On the other hand wrote:
caniff wrote:
I recall she married a bunch of times (Richard Burton twice).


Also, the Hilton hotel guy,


Connie, in Mad Men!
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On the other hand



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've never seen that show, but yeah, the guy's name was Conrad Hilton.
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sigh.

Her movies that I've seen, 'Father of the Bride' (really Spencer Tracey's movie), 'A Place in the Sun', 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and 'Virginia Woolf' are worth seeing. The others I've seen were dogs. But she really was hot in her day. Wouldn't you push Shelley Winters out of a canoe if you could bed Liz?
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travel zen



Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Location: Good old Toronto, Canada
PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
She was Queen-like in Cleopatra. Not just in beauty and buxomness..they knew how to grow real women in those days.

She played the part intelligently and with pose. A real beauty in her day.

In this world, even beauty fades and dies Crying or Very sad
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hogwonguy1979



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
funny thing (yeah I know) about her death is her obit in the ny times was written by a guy who died 6 years ago
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Joined: 20 Oct 2010
PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:22 am    Post subject: Re: Elizabeth Taylor is dead Reply with quote
On the other hand wrote:
I found it a little odd that she became so closely associated with Michael Jackson, since they were really from two different eras. Jackson was definitely 80s, whereas Liz was slightly older than my mother.