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Current Events Wednesday: Elizabeth Taylor

If you just use her initials then she’s ET… but honestly…  she’s much more beautiful than ET.  Although I guess that’s all relative.  I mean to Mrs. ET He’s more beautiful.  Hey does ET have a misses?  I wonder if ET ever got married.  Then there were little E’s and T’s running around.  Sorry, you know me and my ADD esk thoughts… ok anywho… back to the late great Lizzy…

This weeks clipping is titled:

Elizabeth Taylor: The biggest star ever?

Link here:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/2011-03-24-1Ataylor24_CV_N.htm

 

Wow, I’m on week 3 of this!  OK, actually I didn’t read the article yet, let me go do that…

Reading…

Ok so the article ends with “what a dame”.  What a dame indeed.  Dame, I haven’t thought about that word in FOREVER.   We should bring that back.  While we’re at it we should bring back sexy… and also chivalry.  Back in December I posted a tweeter status about how I think all men should take a class on how to be a gentleman.  I still stand by that.  I think that we’ve sorta lost touch with some core values as far as gents.  I don’t know, call me old fashioned but I sometimes like to watch those old school black and white movies and see how the guys are always dressed up and always being proper to their ladies (or dames).

I mean…. This says it all…

and then there’s this one from “Cat On a Hot Tin Roof”

Sexy.

But yes it’s sad.  Today we lost an icon.  Biggest star ever as the article states?  I’m not an expert on movie stars… but who doesn’t know her?  And her career is FULL of huge accomplishments.  Not just movies, but fashion and style and I think jewelry, and perfume right?

“Her last important movie was in 1966, and still her star power endured.”

She really did endure!  It’s interesting because this is just one of those names that has been around ever since I can remember… she’s always just been one of those people who you’ve known since you can even remember… so to hear the news was pretty weird actually.  I don’t know it’s always bizarre when a super famous celebrity leaves us.

Hmmm… I don’t know… what am I trying to say here?

I think part of being a star isn’t simply staying in the art that made you big.  There’s something about people who we become enamored with that’s more than just raw talent.  They have something about their personality that we just love.  We just want to KNOW more about them all the time.  We just need them in our lives because they just give us warm fuzzy feelings whenever we see them or hear their voice.  I mean I think this happens with everyday friends and such, but it also happens with famous peoples too.

“There are actresses who aren't stars, and stars who aren't actresses — "and she was both," says Howard Bragman, longtime Hollywood publicist and author of Where's My Fifteen Minutes?”

Maybe that quote from the article kinda supports that?  It’s late and I’m rushing on this post.  So I’m lacking quality… I apologize… but I’m just kinda laying down my raw emotional reaction to this story.

 

Hmmm… I’m just reading through this article again here’s some of the quotes that are just sticking out to me:

 

“She had great lust for life — when she fell in love, she fell in love hard”

She loved "fiercely, blithely and sometimes rashly — but we should all be lucky enough to come to the end of our lives knowing that when love was offered, we leapt at it,"

“She showed a deep love of humanity even at its most fragile.”

 

Sounds like my kinda dame.

Well… I’m off to bed… so there you have tonights post…

fare-thee-well to Mrs. Taylor I only hope I’m as lucky as she to live a life as full and zestful as hers.