By Greg Hernandez
HollywoodNews.com: I flipped on the television this morning to MSNBC and heard anchor Thomas Roberts share the news that Elizabeth Taylor had died.
I felt suddenly so sad.
We knew she had been so ill but it still came as a shock much like when Lucille Ball died in 1989. Both women were in their late 70s and somehow we thought they would live forever.
And just as Lucy has, so will Elizabeth.
As a movie star crazy kid growing up in the 70s, I would devour every issue of ‘People Magazine’ and Rona Barrett’s various magazines and was particularly fascinated with Miss Taylor.
My mom had always been a big fan of the actress so whenever her movies were on television, I’d watch them with her. I didn’t really understand ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ ‘Suddenly Last Summer’ or ‘Butterfield 8′ when...
HollywoodNews.com: I flipped on the television this morning to MSNBC and heard anchor Thomas Roberts share the news that Elizabeth Taylor had died.
I felt suddenly so sad.
We knew she had been so ill but it still came as a shock much like when Lucille Ball died in 1989. Both women were in their late 70s and somehow we thought they would live forever.
And just as Lucy has, so will Elizabeth.
As a movie star crazy kid growing up in the 70s, I would devour every issue of ‘People Magazine’ and Rona Barrett’s various magazines and was particularly fascinated with Miss Taylor.
My mom had always been a big fan of the actress so whenever her movies were on television, I’d watch them with her. I didn’t really understand ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ ‘Suddenly Last Summer’ or ‘Butterfield 8′ when...
- 3/24/2011
- by Greg Hernandez
- Hollywoodnews.com
Oh sh*t! The violet-eyed MGM vixen who became the late Michael Jackson's bestie, Liz Taylor, has been hospitalized for congenital heart failure and rushed to a Los Angeles hospital. She's been there since last week and seems to be recovering.
The 78-year-old star and two-time Oscar winner is best known for her scene-chewing turns in National Velvet, Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Butterfield 8 and Sweet Bird of Youth (not to mention a killer impression by John Belushi on the first season of SNL in the '70s).
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The 78-year-old star and two-time Oscar winner is best known for her scene-chewing turns in National Velvet, Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Butterfield 8 and Sweet Bird of Youth (not to mention a killer impression by John Belushi on the first season of SNL in the '70s).
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- 2/14/2011
- by Anna Breslaw
- Filmology
Oh sh*t! The violet-eyed MGM vixen who became the late Michael Jackson's bestie, Liz Taylor, has been hospitalized for congenital heart failure and rushed to a Los Angeles hospital. She's been there since last week and seems to be recovering.
The 78-year-old star and two-time Oscar winner is best known for her scene-chewing turns in National Velvet, Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Butterfield 8 and Sweet Bird of Youth (not to mention a killer impression by John Belushi on the first season of SNL in the '70s).
read more...
The 78-year-old star and two-time Oscar winner is best known for her scene-chewing turns in National Velvet, Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Butterfield 8 and Sweet Bird of Youth (not to mention a killer impression by John Belushi on the first season of SNL in the '70s).
read more...
- 2/14/2011
- by Anna Breslaw
- Celebsology
LONDON -- U.K. video industry veterans Paul Levinson and Warren Goldberg have reteamed to launch distribution company Tango Entertainment for the North American market, the partners said Monday. The pair, who launched Braveworld, have formed Tango to release a wide range of product from super-budget up to full price. Tango's first acquisition are rights to the Kushner Locke library, which includes such films as Nic Roeg's Sweet Bird of Youth and the Dolly Parton comedy-drama Unlikely Angel; television series like Mike Hammer, with Stacy Keach; and Gun, a one-hour anthology series executive produced by Robert Altman and starring James Gandolfini, Rosanna Arquette, Kirsten Dunst and Daryl Hannah.
- 10/26/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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