Elizabeth Taylor RIP

Alas, I seem to be the chronic messenger of death on this board...

Anyway, RIP Dame Elizabeth Taylor. The last of the Hollywood greats?

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-elizabeth-taylorlong-20110324,0,6948132.story

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_O%27Toole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Fontaine

Those are four people off the top of my head who I know are still alive. You could almost do the six degrees of Kevin Bacon with Olivia.

But yeah, Elizabeth was great back in her day. I think in the mid 80's she went a bit bonkers. :/ She is still my favorite actress to play the lead in Taming of the Shrew.

In the mid-80s she started doing something more important than any of her film work, and that's AIDS activism.

SenorSwanky wrote:In the mid-80s she started doing something more important than any of her film work, and that's AIDS activism.

Yeah, I know about that. I just think it has to do with the death of Roddy McDowell. She just got weird after that. But, I think I would be too if my best friend died.

You mean Rock Hudson.

RIP, I did not know that she died, how sad

SenorSwanky wrote:You mean Rock Hudson.

Yes and no. She was friends with both of them, but her friendship was give or say more tight with Roddy McDowell. Probably because he lived until early 90's.