RIP, Elizabeth Taylor
By the time I heard the sad news yesterday, I was getting ready for work and didn’t have time to post. But others did, and here are some beautiful tributes from around my corner of the blogosphere:
Big Little Wolf’s Daily Plate of Crazy
Was there ever an actress as photogenic? My favorite of Elizabeth Taylor’s movies are “National Velvet,” “A Place in the Sun” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” I’ll confess that I’ve never seen “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” all the way through, but am adding to my Netflix queue now.
Fox Movie Channel will be airing the movie Cleopatra back-to-back all day this Sunday, March 27.
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What a beautiful actress she was. We cant forget her for a long time.
What a beautiful picture of her! I and my friends here in Belgium and Holland feel the same way as you do.
I remember the big billboards for Cleopatra when I was 9 years old. It made such an impression on me. That’s how I wanted to be when I was grown up!
Never saw the movie. And my life never turned out that way. In Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? she is abolutely great!
Love that photo, Pseu. She was known for her big hair, but that pixie accentuates her lush beauty in an entirely different way.
Thanks for linking to me!I have a version of that post on The Huffington Post too: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wendy-brandes/elizabeth-taylor-obituary_b_839847.html
Hollywood will never be the same because she was the last of the great Hollywood Icons, and a wonderful philanthropic woman as well.
As Camille Paglia said, she had a lush ripe beauty, which isn’t in style anymore. How sad.
It seems so unreal, now that she is dead, but somehow she will live on forever. *sigh*
My favorite was National Velvet as well..I loved it as a girl! All of the tributes have me wanting to see Cleopatra…I do not remember ever watching the whole thing. She was gorgeous!
She was over the top and completely fabulous. I knew her end was near, but it still shocked me anyway.
She’s really the last one of the Golden Hollywood. She’s was soooo Everything in The cat on the tin roof
Like you, I was already hard at work when the news came yesterday. I’ve posted my tribute this morning with some of my favorite costumes that she wore through the years. Netflix has “Cleopatra” in their Instant Watch section. The movie really is dreadful, but the costumes are incredible! I think Elizabeth Taylor was at her most beautiful in “Elephant Walk”. I need to see that one again.
I stopped in a Starbucks yesterday, to pick up my weekly coffee beans. I said to my (Poet) Barista, whom I’ve known for years – a man of 40 or so – “Did you hear that Liz Taylor died?”
He was surprised, and expressed sadness. The 20-something cashier next to him said “Who was she?”
My Barista shook his head. I shook my head. It seems unthinkable that anyone wouldn’t know who this powerhouse of a gorgeous, sexual, talented, big-hearted, bigger-than-life woman was.
Whatever we truly thought of her multiple marriages and substance abuse, it was impossible not to admire her. This truly feels like the end of an era.
And merci, infiniment, for including my few words on Liz Taylor among your list of links.
And I realize, now, that your blog background has just been waiting, patiently, to frame those violet eyes.
I’ve never seen that first photograph. She was some beauty. I love her eyes. Sometimes they look blue, sometimes green.
Thank for the tribute and the tribute links!
omg… Miss J rented Cleopatra recently. Its just awful! They couldn’t have done something a little better as a tribute???
She will be missed for her beauty and glamour, but also for her activism. She will be missed!
Thank you for the mention.. She will be truly missed.
xoxo, B
It seems that as we lean toward a leaner, more androgynous beauty,with slim hips and razor sharp muscle tone these days, Elizabeth’s deeply feminine, archetypal beauty shines out more brightly.I’llmiss her, but I think her passing doesn’t carry the bitterness that some Hollywood stars’ who outlive their careers do..she had a wonderful life,due to her humour, resilience and ability to make really big mistakes of the heart several times over.she had four children,a flock of grandchildren,loving ex’s, dear friends and the respect of her peers.Even her rival Debbie Reynolds was ultimately good friends with her which says lot for Ms. Reynolds, but also for her. What a great life she had! How fortunate we are that she let the public share so much of it with her.
I think “Virginia Woolf” is her crowning achievement. WHat courage it took for her to play such an unsympathetic character, to actually gain 30 pounds to play her? Such dedication to her craft.
I was watching snippets of it on YouTube the other day. Simply amazing, both Liz and Richard.