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Dame Elizabeth Taylor is not at all thrilled with anyone portraying her and Richard Burton in a film
Elizabeth Taylor has had an extraordinary life.
There have been eight marriages, four children, grandchildren, two acting Oscars, 50-plus movies, a wildly successful perfume business, recipient of the US Congressional Medal of Freedom, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Academy Award for humanitarian work, the Kennedy Center Honors and being named a Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
But this movie star and AIDS activist wants you to know that she’s not through yet and doesn’t want anyone playing her in a biopic of her extraordinary life with the late Richard Burton which is the focus of a new book and a recent Vanity Fair cover.
“Hold your horses world,” Miss Taylor tweeted recently. “I’ve been hearing all kinds of rumours about someone being cast to play me in a film about Richard and myself. … No one is going to play Elizabeth Taylor, but Elizabeth Taylor herself. … Not at least until I’m dead, and at the moment I’m having too much fun being alive…and I plan on staying that way. Happiness to all.”
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Palm Springs Reader says:
Wow. Some starlet impersonating Elizabeth Taylor?!?!? Have we become so obsessed with talentless “personalities” and reality “stars” that people have forgotten REAL Hollywood Royalty? There is only one Liz Taylor; no one else can begin to match her cinematic talents, charisma and calibre off-screen as well (she was doing ground-breaking work providing AIDS philanthropy long before it was popular to do so).
Maybe today’s twenty-somethings should rent a copy of “Butterfield 8″ or “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf” if they’re interested in watching something on the silver screen that isn’t mind-numbing. THEN think about trying to emulate this legend.
2201 East says:
Don’t make any comments calling her Liz, please. Her name is Elizabeth and anyone who knows her wouldn’t make that mistake.
Mike says:
Good for Dame Taylor for telling it like it is, the way Hollywood works, they would have Lindsay Lohan playing her from her first movie until her last one.