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Elephant Walk and Giant

 

OK -- just to tell a story that makes me ancient -- when I was akid (maybe 8 or 9) we got a color television - almost no one had color television at that time.

 

The first thing I ever watched on it (in color of course) was Elephant Walk.

 

I also love Giant, National Velvet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Place in the Sun, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend, and pretty much anything when Elizabeth Taylor was young and gorgeous -- and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

 

And, I was old enough to be aware of all the hoopla when she and Richard Burton hooked up and trust me, Angelina Whatever the Heck her name is isn't even a contender. ;)

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OK -- just to tell a story that makes me ancient -- when I was akid (maybe 8 or 9) we got a color television - almost no one had color television at that time.

 

The first thing I ever watched on it (in color of course) was Elephant Walk.

 

I also love Giant, National Velvet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Place in the Sun, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend, and pretty much anything when Elizabeth Taylor was young and gorgeous -- and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

 

And, I was old enough to be aware of all the hoopla when she and Richard Burton hooked up and trust me, Angelina Whatever the Heck her name is isn't even a contender. ;)

We were one of the first families in our neighborhood to have color television back in December of 1969.

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And, I was old enough to be aware of all the hoopla when she and Richard Burton hooked up and trust me, Angelina Whatever the Heck her name is isn't even a contender. ;)

 

Ah! I was old enough too, *AND* they got married here! We heard about it for years and years... The suite where Elizabeth Taylor got married... You know, *THE* suite...

 

Even today, they still talk about the suite in the newspapers, and it doesn't even exist anymore. It's being transformed into condos.. A piece of history ?

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Ah! I was old enough too, *AND* they got married here! We heard about it for years and years... The suite where Elizabeth Taylor got married... You know, *THE* suite...

 

Even today, they still talk about the suite in the newspapers, and it doesn't even exist anymore. It's being transformed into condos.. A piece of history ?

 

That's HUGE!!!!! Really!!!!! Years after her husband Mike Todd was killed in that plane crash, I would listen to 'grown-ups' talk about how he was the love of her life and if he had lived, she would have remained married to him.

 

I do think, though, that with events playing out the way they did, Richard Burton ended up being the love of her life.

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I hadn't realized until yesterday that I've never seen an Elizabeth Taylor movie.

 

:leaving:

 

I've also never seen any Elizabeth Taylor movies. For me, she's famous for being famous, KWIM?

 

I've never seen any either - she was, as happi duck puts it, "famous for being famous" for me as well.

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Without spoiling it, it is about mental illness, and she does an incredible job of acting. Very tight script, all in PERfect black and white. Wow, what a movie.

 

Anyone who thinks Elizabeth Taylor was only "famous for being famous" and hasn't seen Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf is in for a surprise if they see this film.

 

Bill

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