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Remembering Liz Taylor

sanquintinsince73 - 3-23-2011 at 08:32 AM

Remembering Elizabeth Taylor -- A Star, Not a Celebrity

By Cal Thomas

Published March 23, 2011

| FoxNews.com

I met her only once, at a gala at Wolf Trap Farm Park in Vienna, Virginia. She was married to Senator John Warner at the time. Everything people said about her eyes was true. They pulled at me like a strong magnet. The jaw literally drops when confronted with such beauty.

But beauty has a price, and not only in maintaining it with cosmetics and special lenses to erase age lines. In Taylor's case, her beauty was also her curse, attracting men of questionable character and purpose. She was married eight times, twice to her co-star Richard Burton, and probably had flings with others.

She was a tireless campaigner against AIDS and compiled body of work that will survive as long as film lives.

Her breakout film, "National Velvet" (co-starring Mickey Rooney) was a gem that remains as good today as it was when released six decades ago. Her role as the b-tchy "Martha" in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (with Richard Burton, whose presence added to the film's attraction) traded her beauty for gray hair and wrinkles and caused audiences to focus on her considerable acting skills. "Night of the Iguana" paired Taylor and Burton as did "Cleopatra," the film that launched their affair and led to one of their two marriages.

Elizabeth Taylor was not a celebrity. She was a star. There is a difference. Anyone who had the pleasure of looking into those eyes knows what I mean.

Cal Thomas is America's most widely syndicated newspaper columnist and a Fox News contributor.

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krafty - 3-23-2011 at 08:34 AM

RIP LIZ

paul r - 3-23-2011 at 09:07 AM

... we had fun in pv!!... remember lizzi?...

Liz Run out of Fizz

MrBillM - 3-23-2011 at 09:35 AM

Mi Esposa asked what she died of and I told her "Congestive Heart Failure" which, in her case, could have been described as "Congestive Tart Failure".

I wonder if it's any solace to Debbie that she outlived both Eddie and Liz ?

sanquintinsince73 - 3-23-2011 at 09:45 AM

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Mi Esposa asked what she died of and I told her "Congestive Heart Failure" which, in her case, could have been described as "Congestive Tart Failure".

I wonder if it's any solace to Debbie that she outlived both Eddie and Liz ?

You are a class act, MrBill. "off-Topic" is waiting for you.

Pompano - 3-23-2011 at 10:10 AM

Rest in Peace, Cleopatra.

What was Elizabeth Taylor's first movie...? I know it was about a black horse or maybe a dog.....American Flannel?

David K - 3-23-2011 at 10:12 AM

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... we had fun in pv!!... remember lizzi?...

Night of the Iguana... put Puerto Vallarta on the map (for U.S. vacationers).

On-Topic with the Tramp

MrBillM - 3-23-2011 at 10:18 AM

Yeah, I "Thought" her first movie was the Dog (Lassie come Home), but it was something else. "One Born every minute" or something like that according to the News.

The Horse came later and the Stud after that.

Good Actress but, as a youth, I never forgave her for doing Tammy dirty.

And, according to Carrie Fisher, neither did Debbie.

I always thought that she likely found out that Rock Hudson was Queer when she tried to do him while married to whoever of the Seven.

David K - 3-23-2011 at 10:28 AM

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Yeah, I "Thought" her first movie was the Dog (Lassie come Home), but it was something else. "One Born every minute" or something like that according to the News.

The Horse came later and the Stud after that.

Good Actress but, as a youth, I never forgave her for doing Tammy dirty.

And, according to Carrie Fisher, neither did Debbie.

I always thought that she likely found out that Rock Hudson was Queer when she tried to do him while married to whoever of the Seven.

Oh Bill... you done it now! :lol:

Pompano - 3-23-2011 at 10:31 AM

I think it's a record for a thread to go into the tank.

It was over before my popcorn was even salted....

toneart - 3-23-2011 at 10:39 AM

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... we had fun in pv!!... remember lizzi?...

Night of the Iguana... put Puerto Vallarta on the map (for U.S. vacationers).

I saw Taylor and Burton during the filming of Night of The Iguana. You had to take a boat over to Mismaloya (where they were filming) and Ylapa. The highway didn't extend there from P.V.

Years later the two of them had a house in the Gringo Gulch section of P.V., up on the hill. While I was walking down the sidewalk in the main shopping district, they pulled up right in front of me in a V.W. "Thing". She was driving. She jumped out and ran into a boutique. Richard Burton was too drunk to get out of the vehicle. The top was down and the sun was beating down on him. His face and forehead were beat red. He was asleep.

I stared at him and he must have felt my gaze. He opened one eye and looked at me. His eye then slammed shut again and his head lolled over to his left shoulder. Liz was still beautiful, at the time.

Later, as she put on weight and aged, Joan Rivers quipped, "Liz Taylor has more chins than a Chinese Phonebook."

Her work for Aids will certainly earn her a place in the Good Karma farm.

RIP, Liz!

All hail the Dycon Goddess

Dave - 3-23-2011 at 10:42 AM

San Francisco and Palm Springs are in deep mourning. :rolleyes:

mcfez - 3-23-2011 at 11:28 AM

Liz Taylor had a house in Puerto Vallerta, off the creek. One could see it lite up at night. Good actress.

RIP

tripledigitken - 3-23-2011 at 11:47 AM

The Lizzie Act

MrBillM - 3-23-2011 at 01:15 PM

She was the First Actress I paid Regular Admission to see.

At the time, I was still successfully getting into the theaters in Inglewood for the "under 12" (25 cent) admission, mostly because the gals in the ticket booth said "to heck with it" rather than argue.

Going to the Ritz to see "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", I ran into one who wasn't buying and wasn't budging. She finally said "Look, you're NOT getting in unless you can produce some ID or pay the Adult (50 cent) price".

For Liz, I did. Great Acting and GREAT (Natural ?)T-ts, I think. Would have liked to be one of the Hundreds who knew by touch.

I've liked her in EVERY Movie I ever saw her in, including "Virginia Woof", though THAT got boring after awhile.

That doesn't, however, change what she was. If she'd not been an actress and well-off, she'd have been called the same things that you call those gals that troll the Cowboy and Biker Bars.

capt. mike - 3-23-2011 at 02:08 PM

Ava Gardner was WAY hotter!!!

With Even BETTER........

MrBillM - 3-23-2011 at 04:22 PM

...........Natural Mammaries.

Also touched by Hundreds.

Bajahowodd - 3-23-2011 at 04:27 PM

Ava Gardner had a face like a horse!

liz taylor

capt. mike - 3-24-2011 at 06:37 AM

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Ava Gardner had a face like a horse!

was a hose bag who went thru 7 husbands and in the process wore out 2 hips bed bouncing them.

she befriended and excused the behavior of a sick pedophile. :mad:

mcfez - 3-24-2011 at 06:42 AM

I see Liz Taylor wont rest in peace here at the BN

Marc - 3-24-2011 at 06:57 AM

Way hotter!!

hahaha

capt. mike - 3-24-2011 at 09:50 AM

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I see Liz Taylor wont rest in peace here at the BN

who cares?? this should have been moved to off topic as soon as it "reared" :lol:

mcfez - 3-24-2011 at 09:55 AM

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I see Liz Taylor wont rest in peace here at the BN

who cares?? this should have been moved to off topic as soon as it "reared" :lol:

I agree. I was surprised to see this still in GBN this a.m.

Nyuk,nyuk,nyuk....

sanquintinsince73 - 3-24-2011 at 11:57 AM

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I see Liz Taylor wont rest in peace here at the BN

who cares?? this should have been moved to off topic as soon as it "reared" :lol:

I agree. I was surprised to see this still in GBN this a.m.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJD-gVBbkf0

mcfez - 3-24-2011 at 01:32 PM

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I see Liz Taylor wont rest in peace here at the BN

who cares?? this should have been moved to off topic as soon as it "reared" :lol:

I agree. I was surprised to see this still in GBN this a.m.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJD-gVBbkf0

Oh Gods! Funny sanquintinsince! BTW...them three are the best!

MARILYN In a DIFFERENT League

MrBillM - 3-24-2011 at 07:56 PM

OR, at least, in a different sub-category, since her Looks (and, Beauties) were enhanced by modern medical artistry.

Having seen quite a few horses, I've yet to see one who looked like Ava, but it's possible, I guess. One of those "Eye of the Beholder" things, I suppose.

Lizzie was a Beauty AND a Tramp who only became a Saint (to some) for ONE reason.

Her obsession with the AIDS Dieoffs after she lost her beloved Rock Rump-Rider.

sanquintinsince73 - 3-25-2011 at 07:13 AM

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I see Liz Taylor wont rest in peace here at the BN

who cares?? this should have been moved to off topic as soon as it "reared" :lol:

I agree. I was surprised to see this still in GBN this a.m.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJD-gVBbkf0

Oh Gods! Funny sanquintinsince! BTW...them three are the best!

Post still here, eh? This is Baja related because her next door neighbor's house keeper's mechanic came thru San Felipe on his way North. So there.

DENNIS - 3-25-2011 at 07:43 AM

Word on this AM's news says she was late to her own funeral....by design. She must have been Mexican.

sanquintinsince73 - 3-25-2011 at 07:46 AM

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Word on this AM's news says she was late to her own funeral....by design. She must have been Mexican.

She had a little Mexican in her....but only for one night a few years ago.

DENNIS - 3-25-2011 at 07:50 AM

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She had a little Mexican in her....but only for one night a few years ago.

Must have been that pesky Eddie Pescadero. :lol:

sanquintinsince73 - 3-25-2011 at 07:57 AM

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She had a little Mexican in her....but only for one night a few years ago.

Must have been that pesky Eddie Pescadero. :lol:

Eddie Pescadero, Carrie Pescadero...I like it, I like it. :lol: