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RIP Liz Taylor

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by KJIM, Mar 23, 2011.

  1. ifilus

    ifilus Well-Known Member

    Remind us Nick: How many Academy Awards has Raquel won?
     
  2. ifilus

    ifilus Well-Known Member

    Westboro Baptist Church are preparing to spread their evil message at Elizabeth Taylor's funeral...Margie Phelps -- daughter of WBC Pastor Fred Phelps -- took to Twitter today to announce the church is going to picket non-lesbian Liz's funeral ... all because Liz was apparently some sort of gay "enabler" and (God forbid) an AIDS activist.

    http://www.tmz.com/2011/03/23/elizabeth-taylor-funeral-westboro-baptist-church-protest-picket-margie-phelps/
     
  3. SoCalScribe

    SoCalScribe Member

    TigerVols, that was one of the more entertaining posts I've read on this board lately. What an experience that all must have been.

    I sat next to Vanilla Ice on a coach flight from LA to SF a couple years back. It was funny to think that someone who's fairly famous (albeit for being a joke) could fly coach and no one actually approached him before, during or after the flight.

    Sorry for relating such a dumb story, but the contrast of following a Liz Taylor story with a Vanilla Ice story was too much for me to resist. No matter what, she was always a star.
     
  4. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Pretty sure he wasn't comparing acting resumes.
     
  5. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Raquel Welch dominated the Spank-ademy Awards over Liz in the generation prior to mine.

    Liz was cute and all, but I'm sure seeing her on a horse at the age of 12 caused a bit of tube droop among the Pops crowd.
     
  6. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Fake Robert Evans remembers Liz...

    http://deadspin.com/#!5785018/elizabeth-taylor-as-remembered-by-fake-robert-evans
     
  7. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    For those who know more than me: Does anyone know why a two-time Academy Award-winning actress pretty much just stopped acting in middle age? I bet it's been decades since she was in a movie.
     
  8. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Why bother when you're already a legend, and wear more money in the form of jewelry each day than you could spend in 12 lifetimes? In truth, it seems once she got into AIDS activism, she really lost interest in acting.
    Above the fold page one obit in the dead tree Times this a.m. Our society doesn't have many honors larger than that.
     
  9. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    It's too bad she won't be reunited with Michael Jackson.
     
  10. One reason - a big reason- was her health... She's had a ton of health problems and major surgeries.
    I think I read her last film was The Flintstones (ugh).
    She also did some voice over work and a TV stuff, I think as late as 1997.

    She was an amazing actress and a stunning beauty. Unlike many stars, she really seemed comfortable in her own skin.
     
  11. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I seem to remember that they paid her some sick amount of money to do Flintstones. It might have been something like $10 mil for a very small part, almost like what they paid Brando for Superman. It might have been they paid her $5 mil and then donated $5 mil to her charity or something like that.

    I remember reading an interview with Goodman where he said she made more money on the film than he did.
     
  12. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    She wasn't an actress, she was a movie star. Movie stars never have to work. They just have to be.
     
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