Liz Taylor has died.

[Riordans Boots]

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/03/23/obit.elizabeth.taylor/?hpt=T2

[Greentinted]

An icon amongst icons. From a time when you needed REAL star quality to be a star. :agree:

[heretoday]

Stunning looking person and a better actress than her career might suggest.

I think a certain Mr Burton and a liking for drink proved to be her downfall.

[easty]

An icon amongst icons. From a time when you needed REAL star quality to be a star. :agree:

I don't buy into all that at all. They weren't better actors/actresses back then than they are now. Why do people always pine for a greater imagined past that didn't really exist?

[Hillsidehibby]

Stunning looking person and a better actress than her career might suggest.

I think a certain Mr Burton and a liking for drink proved to be her downfall.

She could drink Richard Burton under the table and that was no mean feat.

[ArabHibee]

I don't buy into all that at all. They weren't better actors/actresses back then than they are now. Why do people always pine for a greater imagined past that didn't really exist?
Think you're reading the post wrong. No mention of her being a better actress, just that she was a star/celebrity because of it? Not like some of the muppets nowadays. Celebs for doing nothing more than appearing on a tv show or being someone's girlfriend.

[Greentinted]

I don't buy into all that at all. They weren't better actors/actresses back then than they are now. Why do people always pine for a greater imagined past that didn't really exist?

Star quality as opposed to the dross that clogs up our media guising as 'stars'. Jordan, Vicky Beckham, Paris Hilton, Dick and Dom, twats from Big Brother or the liberal splattering of Cowell***** dripping down our collective dumbed-down consciousness.
Not pining, just recalling.

[steakbake]

I don't buy into all that at all. They weren't better actors/actresses back then than they are now. Why do people always pine for a greater imagined past that didn't really exist?

Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be.

[ancient hibee]

Not a bad actress-2 Oscars-made my specs steam up in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" when I was but a lad.

[Betty Boop]

A woman who lived life to the full. She also did a lot to highlight the plight of HIV and AIDS sufferers, at a time when they were treated as social pariahs,she also set up several AIDS foundations.

[heretoday]

Think you're reading the post wrong. No mention of her being a better actress, just that she was a star/celebrity because of it? Not like some of the muppets nowadays. Celebs for doing nothing more than appearing on a tv show or being someone's girlfriend.


Nobody with any sense would claim actors were any better in former days. They just seemed to have more star quality because of the way the media treated them.

I would say actors were forced to take on a greater variety of roles though and more of them spent a deal of time on the theatre stage.

I think of Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, Midnight Cowboy and of course Tootsie as someone who took on challenging parts.

[easty]

Star quality as opposed to the dross that clogs up our media guising as 'stars'. Jordan, Vicky Beckham, Paris Hilton, Dick and Dom, twats from Big Brother or the liberal splattering of Cowell***** dripping down our collective dumbed-down consciousness.
Not pining, just recalling.

Fair point. :agree:

[Geo_1875]

I think the "media" was different in the past when there wasn't wall to wall coverage when a personality wen't for a dump. The stars of the day only appeared in public when they had a film to promote, or in Liz Taylor's case when she got married again.

[Betty Boop]

Nobody with any sense would claim actors were any better in former days. They just seemed to have more star quality because of the way the media treated them.

I would say actors were forced to take on a greater variety of roles though and more of them spent a deal of time on the theatre stage.

I think of Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, Midnight Cowboy and of course Tootsie as someone who took on challenging parts.

A fantastic performance alongside Jon Voight. One of my all time favourite films.

[JimBHibees]

Star quality as opposed to the dross that clogs up our media guising as 'stars'. Jordan, Vicky Beckham, Paris Hilton, Dick and Dom, twats from Big Brother or the liberal splattering of Cowell***** dripping down our collective dumbed-down consciousness.Not pining, just recalling.

Classic. :not worth:faf:

[Hibernia Na Eir]

Had her in a death sweep once

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How did they know she was dead?

[lyonhibs]

How did they know she was dead?

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One shouldn't laugh though - a star from a different era, when celebrity was for those we actually did something to earn it.

[greenlex]

Star quality as opposed to the dross that clogs up our media guising as 'stars'. Jordan, Vicky Beckham, Paris Hilton, Dick and Dom, twats from Big Brother or the liberal splattering of Cowell***** dripping down our collective dumbed-down consciousness.
Not pining, just recalling.

It's a fair point but lay off Dick and Dom. They are only surpassed by Trevor and Simon.

[ArabHibee]

It's a fair point but lay off Dick and Dom. They are only surpassed by Trevor and Simon.

Sorry but the Chuckle Brothers are king of that castle.:agree:

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One shouldn't laugh though - a star from a different era, when celebrity was for those we actually did something to earn it.


There was a photo of her on the web a while back with Michael Jackson, Minnelli and Minnelli's weird husband David Gest where the four of them looked like an undertaker's job-lot.

"Pre-Death Cadaver Preparation Offer - Four For The Price of Two!"

http://becksmithhollywood.com/?tag=liza-minnelli (Top of the page.)


This was before Minnelli and gest got to be REALLY WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!