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I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart. | |
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If they keep on with this bullshit, they're going to wind up making it an HONOR to be protested by their ignorant asses! Every funeral they protest is of someone who died (...and lived) with COURAGE, DIGNITY, and INTEGRITY.  | |
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That woman was a true goddess. Hollywood actresses today can only wish to be HALF as naturally beautiful and glamourous as Liz was without plastic surgery and fad diets. [Edited 3/24/11 4:47am] I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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Or Life With Father. That wasn't "her" movie, but she was adorable in it. A great transitional role for her. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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See. What the hell were they thinking? Suddenly Last Summer is one of the best movies! Maybe old Hepburn stole the show, but Liz did a hell of a job, too.Damn those bastards at E! News for referring to Liz as, "the Angelina Jolie of her day". | |
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To paraphase one admirer, Liz was a star when being a movie star meant something.
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Who in the fuck said that ludicrious bullshit? Even though the statement is pure blasphemy (since when was Angelina EVER on Liz's level??? 
), I don't consider Angelina "the greatest actress, screen legend/goddess" of this era. No ma'am. 
I just realized that I've never really seen a Liz Taylor movie!!!
I've seen bits & pieces of "Giant" and "Cleopatra" but never seen an entire movie all the way through (I'm not even counting The Flintstones).
Maybe it's time to rent "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" or "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf"? By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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"Last Time I Saw Paris" ?
If TCM going to do 24 hrs. April the 10th, they should start at the stroke of midnight and end their tribute for Elizabeth Taylor flims the following midnight hour. Anyone seen the TCM tribute yet? Very nice, touching. | |
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Whoever said that is a straight up asshole.
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:nod;
Please do and comeback and tell us whatcha think. | |
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Looooooove that one. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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"Cat" is a good choice. I wouldn't start with Virginia Woolf, though. You need to work up to that. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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. . TWO GREATS TOGETHER HERE IN A RATHER STRANGE MOVIE..PROBABLY AHEAD OF ITS TIME...MARLON BRANDO AND LIZ TAYLOR...GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN... | |
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By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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OK
Work up to it - and be in the right frame of mind when you see it. It's a difficult film, emotionally. Really, really, really not happy. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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It is more apt to compare Angelina to Ava Gardner-who I also adore. "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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Camille Paglia discussed Angelina Jolie in the context of Elizabeth Taylor. I think she's dead on with this...
Is there really no one else who has made that sort of splash? I'm having a hard time coming up with one. Angelina Jolie, perhaps?
For me, Jolie's greatest performance was in "Gia," where she played the bisexual fashion model Gia Carangi, who died of AIDS. Jolie is amazing in that. She had the sensuality and animal energy of Ava Gardner, which virtually no one has been able to duplicate. But after she got huge around the world, Jolie decided to become the big humanitarian. Elizabeth Taylor did that, but it was later in her career. So suddenly Angelina Jolie thinks she's a U.N. ambassador for all human misery in the world. Everything turns high concept, and soon she's collecting a multiracial menagerie of children. The result is a total flattening out of her artistic image. In a way, she suffers from the problem of being a star in the age of paparazzi, where you're much more hounded than even Elizabeth Taylor ever was. Marilyn Monroe was certainly harassed by the press and hated it, but not like today, where there's hardly a place on earth to have your own thoughts. So Angelina Jolie became defensive and covert, and now there's something too calculated and manipulative about her public persona, so she's less interesting than she was. Of course, there are no great roles being written for her. She gets action adventure scripts, like Lara Croft, where a contemporary woman has to show she's tough and can duke it out with the guys. But I'm not sure Jolie would have been able to handle some of the roles Elizabeth Taylor did so well like "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." There's a relaxation at the heart of Elizabeth Taylor's acting style -- and also in Elizabeth Taylor the woman -- whereas you always feel a wariness or tension in Jolie.
We're in a period now where everything has to be taut -- in mind and body. And part of it is that we're in the post-studio era. Elizabeth Taylor was a creation of the old Hollywood studio system -- she was one of the last great studio products. And in the studio, you were very protected as you grew up. It was a family environment, which some people -- like Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis -- found claustrophobic. But it was very nurturing for someone like Elizabeth Taylor. Angelina Jolie, however, had a kind of hard, unsettled, up-and-down life. She's tough, she's a survivor, she's a little bit cynical. But you never feel cynicism in Elizabeth Taylor -- never! She does it when she has to play it, as in "Virginia Woolf," but it isn't her. There was never an ounce of cynicism in her. To all reports, she was a warm and maternal woman.
And that's another thing -- all these stars today, accumulating children with an army of nannies. Despite all her children, no one would ever call Angelina Jolie maternal. But Elizabeth Taylor's maternal quality is central to her heterosexual power. Elizabeth Taylor could control men. She liked men. And men liked her. There was a chemistry between her and men, coming from her own maternal instincts. I've been writing about this for years, and it was partly inspired by watching Taylor operate on-screen and off. The happy and successful heterosexual woman feels tender and maternal toward men -- but this has been completely lost in our feminist era. Now women tell men, you have to be my companion and be just like a woman; be my best friend, and listen to me chatter. In other words, women don't really like men anymore -- they want men to be like women. But Elizabeth Taylor liked men, and men loved to be around her because they sensed that.
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I'm in the mood for love...simply because your near me. | |
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I like Jolie but come on the comparisons are real ridiculous. Liz was a lot of things Jolie isn't.
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I think maybe they are just trying to communicate to a demographic that cannot understand things unless they are expressed in terms of "brangelina" or "glee" or "oprah" My Legacy
http://prince.org/msg/8/192731 | |
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I've seen this movie. I agree that it's strange and ahead of his time. A different kind of movie but enjoyable. Elizabeth puts on another great performance. MJ L.O.V.E: https://www.facebook.com/...689&type=2 / YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/us...nderSilent | |
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Very well said! RIP Elizabeth Taylor. You will be greatly missed! | |
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My Legacy
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previews have certainly come a long way!
I just had to make a tribute video for the late Elizabeth Taylor, who was glam in its finest essence. Elizabeth Taylor is class in its finest, she is a white diamond herself within her own collection, and she will continue to have a profound impact on the world. Her legacy will continue to live in many people's hearts!
http://tinyurl.com/64yk43m (link to my video tribute)
Much more levels of L.O.V.E!
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