Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Elizabeth Taylor has died aged 79


I have loved the tributes to the incomparable Elizabeth Taylor this week and wanted to share some of the best. My friend Margo Howard has a priceless recollection of having Elizabeth Taylor as her babysitter. Dan Zak in the Washington Post asked movie critics and people who knew Miss Taylor to contribute their favorite memories and performances, and I was honored to be included. Adam Bernstein’s obituary in the Washington Post captured her beautifully. He described her as ” a voluptuous violet-eyed actress who lived a life of luster and anguish and spent more than six decades as one of the world’s most visible women for her two Academy Awards, eight marriages, ravaging illnesses and work in AIDS philanthropy.”

By her mid-20s, she had been a screen goddess, teenage bride, mother, divorcee and widow. She endured near-death traumas, and many declared her a symbol of survival — with which she agreed. “I’ve been through it all, baby,” she once said. “I’m Mother Courage.” News about her love affairs, jewelry collection, weight fluctuations and socializing in rich and royal circles were followed by millions of people. More than for any film role, she became famous for being famous, setting a media template for later generations of entertainers, models and all variety of semi-somebodies. She was the “archetypal star goddess,” biographer Diana Maddox once wrote.


Slate’s brilliant movie critic, Dana Stevens, wrote a perceptive appreciation of Miss Taylor as personality, actress, star, and woman: “She was at her best playing characters who inhabited their own bodies with a confident, careless pleasure…Even in her lowest moments onscreen and off, Elizabeth Taylor was always bursting to excess with life.” She also includes a link to Roger Ebert’s marvelous 1969 interview with Miss Taylor and Richard Burton. Ebert’s poignant Elizabeth Taylor tribute in the Wall Street Journal

Turner Classic Movies will have an all-day tribute on April 10. They’re all worth watching but be sure to set your DVR for the ones I’ve put in bold.

6 a.m. – Lassie Come Home (1943), with Roddy McDowall and Edmund Gwenn; directed by Fred M. Wilcox.

7:30 a.m. – National Velvet (1944), with Mickey Rooney, Anne Revere and Angela Lansbury; directed by Clarence Brown.

10 a.m. – Conspirator (1952), with Robert Taylor and Robert Flemyng; directed by Victor Saville.

11:30 a.m. – Father of the Bride (1950), with Spencer Tracy, Billie Burke, Joan Bennett and Don Taylor; directed by Vincente Minnelli.

1:15 a.m. – Father’s Little Dividend (1951), with Spencer Tracy, Billie Burke, Joan Bennett and Don Taylor; directed by Vincente Minnelli.

2:45 p.m. – Raintree County (1957), with Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor and Agnes Moorehead; directed by Edward Dmytryk.

6 p.m. – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), with Paul Newman and Burl Ives; directed by Richard Brooks.

8 p.m. – Butterfield 8 (1960), with Laurence Harvey and Eddie Fisher; directed by Daniel Mann.

10 p.m. – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), with Richard Burton, George Segal and Sandy Dennis; directed by Mike Nichols.

12:30 a.m. – Giant (1956), with James Dean and Rock Hudson; directed by George Stevens.

4 a.m. – Ivanhoe (1952), with Robert Taylor and Joan Fontaine; directed by Richard Thorpe.


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CNN:

Elizabeth Taylor, the legendary actress famed for her beauty, her jet-set lifestyle, her charitable endeavors and her many marriages, has died, her publicist told CNN Wednesday. She was 79.

Taylor died "peacefully today in Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles," said a statement from her publicist. She was hospitalized six weeks ago with congestive heart failure, "a condition with which she had struggled for many years. Though she had recently suffered a number of complications, her condition had stabilized and it was hoped that she would be able to return home. Sadly, this was not to be."

Divas Brasileiras - Cibele Dorsa

A atriz Cibele Dorsa, de 34 anos, morreu ao cair da janela do sétimo andar de um prédio no Morumbi, na zona sul de São Paulo, na madrugada deste sábado (26). A polícia não descarta a hipótese de suicídio. Cibele deixou mensagens no twitter antes de ser encontrada morta. O texto, publicado com erros de digitação, dizia “lmento, eu não consegui suportae a mortenos meus braços mas, lurei...ate onde eu pude”. No twitter, a atriz colocou vários posts sobre a morte do noivo, Gilberto Scarpa (sobrinho do empresário Chiquinho Scarpa), que se suicidou em janeiro deste ano caindo da janela do sétimo andar .






Cibele Dorsa

quarta-feira, 23 de março de 2011

Divas Do Cinema - Elizabeth Taylor

A atriz Elizabeth Taylor morreu nesta quarta-feira, 23/03, em Los Angeles, Estados Unidos, aos 79 anos. Ela nasceu dia 27 de fevereiro de 1932, em Londres, Inglaterra, filha de um casal de norte-americanos que resolveu voltar aos Estados Unidos quando a filha completava sete anos.
A carreira cinematográfica de Elizabeth Taylor iniciou quando ela era criança, por meio dos estúdios MGM. A vida amorosa da atriz foi marcada por intensas e numerosas paixões. Ela casou-se com Conrad Hilton, Michael Wilding, Michael Todd, Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton, John Warner e Larry Fortensky.
O estado de saúde de Elizabeth Taylor começou a ser preocupante desde 1997, quando a atriz retirou um tumor do cérebro. Nos anos seguintes outros problemas vieram. Em 2002 ela teve câncer de pele e em 2004 insuficiência cardíaca congestiva, motivo de sua morte.
Entre os maiores sucessos de sua carreira estão 'Um Lugar ao Sol' (1951), 'Assim Caminha a Humanidade' (1956) e 'Cleópatra' (1963). Ela venceu o Oscar de melhor atriz duas vezes por 'Disque Butterfield 8', em 1961, e por 'Quem Tem Medo de Virginia Woolf?', em 1967.




Bobby Solo Chante En Français (EP 1964)

Este compacto duplo lançado originalmente na França em 1964 apresenta o cantor Bobby Solo o eterno Elvis italiano cantando em francês. Destaque para a faixa Sur Ton Visage Une Larme (Una Lacrima Sul Viso) que foi tremendo sucesso no Brasil em italiano.