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On the other hand
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 Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:43 am Post subject: Elizabeth Taylor is dead |
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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
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:00 am Post subject: |
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When I saw this news story, my first thought was: I wonder when OTOH is going to post this on Dave's. No joke. 
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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Space Bar
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:18 am Post subject: Re: Elizabeth Taylor is dead |
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| 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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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:44 am Post subject: |
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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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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:42 am Post subject: |
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| I recall she married a bunch of times (Richard Burton twice). |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:15 am Post subject: |
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| 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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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| 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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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| 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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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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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.
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hogwonguy1979
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| 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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Space Bar
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Elizabeth Taylor is dead |
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| 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. |
Elizabeth Taylor's unlikely bond with Michael Jackson
* AFP
* March 24, 2011 6:08AM
"I don't think anyone knew how much we loved each other," Elizabeth Taylor said after Michael Jackson's 2009 death, reflecting the intense - if perhaps unlikely - bond between the pair.
Taylor and Jackson shared a key formative experience in common: they were both child stars who arguably missed out on a proper childhood.
The pop icon and Hollywood legend were at times inseparable, with homes near each other in the plush Bel Air and Beverly Hills neighborhoods west of Hollywood.
After Taylor's death Wednesday at the age of 79, the blogosphere was alive with talk of them being reunited in heaven.
"She is probably up in heaven right now, going monkey shopping with Michael Jackson,'' said one blogger, referring to infamously eccentric stories from Jackson's life.
Taylor, who died of complications from congestive heart failure in the Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, was knocked sideways by Jackson's untimely death aged 50 in June 2009.
Tabloid reports suggested she was hospitalized with grief, apparently confirmed when she said via Twitter: "I'm home from the hospital sore, but intact. Of course I'm still grieving for Michael... I always will.''
"My heart... my mind... are broken," she said. "I loved Michael with all my soul and I can't imagine life without him. We had so much in common and we had such loving fun together.''
Their friendship began in the 1980s when Taylor abruptly walked out of a Jackson concert in Los Angeles complaining that she could not see the performance or hear the music, according to news reports of the time.
Jackson called Taylor afterwards in tears, reports said at the time, but once she explained the reason for her exit the pair got talking, and it developed from there.
"Then we met, and spent more and more time with each other, and just became really good friends. Told each other everything,'' Taylor said in a 2006 interview, cited by Fox News.
They were united notably by what Taylor called "horrible'' childhoods, blighted by having become celebrities at a young age.
Despite their 27-year age gap the pair were regularly pictured together, including at AIDS charity events which Taylor organized, and on red carpets in Hollywood and around the world.
The Oscar-winning actress, arguably the last great star of Hollywood's golden era, is even credited by some as having first called Jackson the ``King of Pop.''
Taylor later defended Jackson from child molestation charges, explaining that she too had spent nights with him at his Neverland ranch, without anything untoward happening.
"There was nothing abnormal about it. There was no touchy-feely going on. We laughed like children, and we watched a lot of Walt Disney. There was nothing odd about it," Taylor said, according to Fox News.
Some say the actress, long dogged by health woes, never properly recovered after Jackson's death two years ago.
"He will live in my heart forever but it's not enough. My life feels so empty,'' she said at the time, calling his friendship "the purest most giving love I've ever known." |
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