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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 289274" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>Not every role or every performance works, to be sure. And her fishwife elocution, something she was well aware of, didn't help. And while she's goodish in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, her delivery of the film's title sounds as scripted as it is (she needs to hesitate on an adjective or something, and she doesn't). She once said: "I don't like the way I look, I don't like the way I speak, I don't like the way I move, I don't like the way I act..."</p><p></p><p>But nobody does determined soliloquy heartbreak like Elizabeth Taylor.</p><p></p><p>Even Katharine Hepburn told her biographer that she felt Taylor was "more interested in being a movie star than an actress," and added, "but make no mistake -- Elizabeth Taylor is a <em><strong>brilliant </strong></em>actress." Joan Crawford admitted in a 1966 interview that she shouldn't have previously made some of the public assessments she had about how Taylor conducted her personal life, confessing that it was "none of my business" and conceding that she herself "wasn't Goldilocks," adding that Taylor had recently given some of the finest performances she'd ever seen... But then Kate may have felt generously towards an actress from whom she felt no threat, just as Hepburn praised Julia Roberts while dismissing the talents of Meryl Streep and Glenn Close. And Crawford, of course, would simply have been mesmerized by the fame and notoriety and crazed success and sheer melodrama of The Liz Taylor Train as it barreled out of control, swallowing up and spitting out everything in its path.</p><p></p><p>She was, in THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS, the most beautiful 20-year old I ever saw. She's great in GIANT, decent in SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER, better than she thought as the hooker who accepts no money in BUTTERFIELD 8, better than I'd like to admit in CLEOPATRA, positively terrific doing Shakespeare with hubby in TAMING OF THE SHREW, and flawless as the obsessive neurotic in her most underrated film, NIGHT WATCH... And, as a child actress, luminous in several films... Although I'd always prefer to see the Bette Davis/James Mason version of VIRGINIA WOOLF that Edward Albee envisioned, one that would have been "deeper and less showy" than the Taylor/Burton film.</p><p></p><p>As a celebrity -- arguably the greatest star Hollywood ever produced, she knew how to do the right things, and when to do the wrong things.</p><p></p><p>At the very least, she was a clever, intelligent woman. And she instinctively knew exactly the right blend of good taste and bad taste that makes an icon -- vulnerable and brassy, regal yet accessible, polished but vulgar, generous and egoistic, an "erotic vagrant" yet unpromiscuous, preternaturally gorgeous and sometimes even downright haggish.</p><p></p><p>Some people loved her, and the people who hated her loved to hate her. (My mother used to rail on about Taylor, her "ticky-tacky prettiness" and, in comparing Taylor to her pal Natalie Wood, Mom angrily said that Wood "had no idea what class is -- I think Elizabeth Taylor knows what class is, but she <em>just doesn't give a damn!"</em>)</p><p></p><p>At the very least, you couldn't really ignore Elizabeth Taylor, on-screen or off.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>During her attempts to rally the business during her AIDS campaign, her old buddy Roddy McDowall said that "she can be very, very hard on people" regarding her reactions to all the celebrity fear regarding the stigma surrounding the disease. Perhaps proving his point, she apparently never quite forgave him for the comment.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AzcADfCMdAE/T8XqGphKZJI/AAAAAAAAFVs/J7X_FCcllJs/s1600/elizabeth+taylor.+024.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 289274, member: 57984"] Not every role or every performance works, to be sure. And her fishwife elocution, something she was well aware of, didn't help. And while she's goodish in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, her delivery of the film's title sounds as scripted as it is (she needs to hesitate on an adjective or something, and she doesn't). She once said: "I don't like the way I look, I don't like the way I speak, I don't like the way I move, I don't like the way I act..." But nobody does determined soliloquy heartbreak like Elizabeth Taylor. Even Katharine Hepburn told her biographer that she felt Taylor was "more interested in being a movie star than an actress," and added, "but make no mistake -- Elizabeth Taylor is a [I][B]brilliant [/B][/I]actress." Joan Crawford admitted in a 1966 interview that she shouldn't have previously made some of the public assessments she had about how Taylor conducted her personal life, confessing that it was "none of my business" and conceding that she herself "wasn't Goldilocks," adding that Taylor had recently given some of the finest performances she'd ever seen... But then Kate may have felt generously towards an actress from whom she felt no threat, just as Hepburn praised Julia Roberts while dismissing the talents of Meryl Streep and Glenn Close. And Crawford, of course, would simply have been mesmerized by the fame and notoriety and crazed success and sheer melodrama of The Liz Taylor Train as it barreled out of control, swallowing up and spitting out everything in its path. She was, in THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS, the most beautiful 20-year old I ever saw. She's great in GIANT, decent in SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER, better than she thought as the hooker who accepts no money in BUTTERFIELD 8, better than I'd like to admit in CLEOPATRA, positively terrific doing Shakespeare with hubby in TAMING OF THE SHREW, and flawless as the obsessive neurotic in her most underrated film, NIGHT WATCH... And, as a child actress, luminous in several films... Although I'd always prefer to see the Bette Davis/James Mason version of VIRGINIA WOOLF that Edward Albee envisioned, one that would have been "deeper and less showy" than the Taylor/Burton film. As a celebrity -- arguably the greatest star Hollywood ever produced, she knew how to do the right things, and when to do the wrong things. At the very least, she was a clever, intelligent woman. And she instinctively knew exactly the right blend of good taste and bad taste that makes an icon -- vulnerable and brassy, regal yet accessible, polished but vulgar, generous and egoistic, an "erotic vagrant" yet unpromiscuous, preternaturally gorgeous and sometimes even downright haggish. Some people loved her, and the people who hated her loved to hate her. (My mother used to rail on about Taylor, her "ticky-tacky prettiness" and, in comparing Taylor to her pal Natalie Wood, Mom angrily said that Wood "had no idea what class is -- I think Elizabeth Taylor knows what class is, but she [I]just doesn't give a damn!"[/I]) At the very least, you couldn't really ignore Elizabeth Taylor, on-screen or off. During her attempts to rally the business during her AIDS campaign, her old buddy Roddy McDowall said that "she can be very, very hard on people" regarding her reactions to all the celebrity fear regarding the stigma surrounding the disease. Perhaps proving his point, she apparently never quite forgave him for the comment. [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AzcADfCMdAE/T8XqGphKZJI/AAAAAAAAFVs/J7X_FCcllJs/s1600/elizabeth+taylor.+024.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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