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Remembering Liz Taylor
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.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/03/23/remembering-elizab...
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RIP LIZ
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... we had fun in pv!!... remember lizzi?...
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Liz Run out of Fizz
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 ?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MrBillM
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.
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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?
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by paul r
... we had fun in pv!!... remember lizzi?... |
Night of the Iguana... put Puerto Vallarta on the map (for U.S. vacationers).
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On-Topic with the Tramp
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.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MrBillM
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.
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Oh Bill... you done it now!  
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I think it's a record for a thread to go into the tank.
It was over before my popcorn was even salted....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by paul r
... 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!
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All hail the Dycon Goddess
San Francisco and Palm Springs are in deep mourning. 
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Liz Taylor had a house in Puerto Vallerta, off the creek. One could see it lite up at night. Good actress.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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RIP
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The Lizzie Act
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.
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Ava Gardner was WAY hotter!!!
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With Even BETTER........
...........Natural Mammaries.
Also touched by Hundreds.
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Ava Gardner had a face like a horse!
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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.
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I see Liz Taylor wont rest in peace here at the BN 
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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