Elizabeth Taylor

We lost great woman & actress..R.I.P.

 

I didn't say they did...
I swear, 90% of forum arguments are the second person treating a specific statement as a generalization.

I didn't know about the drugs (or the charity). As I stated, all I know of her is that she helped to nearly sink Fox, and that she was a washed up over-made-up celebrity my whole life.

Then perhaps you think you're a god for judging me for judging others.

I have no problem with people admiring her, I never stated I did. I have a problem with people celebrating celebrities simply for dying. It could be that no one in the thread has done so. I wasn't even the one to bring it up.

Now, how exactly is my insinuation that people make celebrities into gods unfair? Who is it unfair to, even?

 

Everyone will remember the deceased in their own way. However I don't think we need to look at those gone through rose-coloured glasses just because they're dead.

If someone was a drug addict and some remember them for this after they've died, so be it. The truth shouldn't be ignored just because it seems impolite to remember these facts about the deceased.

Edit: I also don't think people should be judged for addictive behaviour. Unfortunately it's sometimes just a part of the human experience.

 

The Westboro Baptist church is going to picket her funeral, claiming that, "she deserves to burn in hell."

They picketed Mr. Rogers' funeral, they picket the funerals of homosexuals and war vets.

 

I have no interest into arguing over the subject, as I will find myself becoming a judge of those who judge.
I speak only as an admirer of a very recently dead person. Civility and decorum say to us - Do not speak ill of the recently departed. We did not know her heart, but she was admired by many. Time and history will might "judge her" harshly. Her eulogy should not.

 

Ooh, I wonder if she'll stir up a good counter-protest.

 

I'm a Christian and I'm sorry, but I hate those bastards. Careful we do not become them.

 

Yes, I actually wrote something much more terrible about them but decided it was pointless. Their terrible actions speak for themselves.

 

As one who came along during the "golden age" of movies,late 30s-40-50s, I remember Gregory Peck, Bogart, Stewart, Cagney,Fonda,Turner,,Davis,Tierney and most of the other famous and not so famous ,but wonderful character actors ,that brought their craft to the fledgeling moving picture scene and helped improve and perfect that scene in those days. Along with those that became great directors.It may be difficult to understand how it was before Television,computers and all the rest of the modern gimmicks that people use today. To sit in a little movie theater for a few cents and watch the great old black and whites (and some colored ones)with actors who were often times the ones that came from vaudeville or the theater(stage)not long before ,when the good ones were separated from the one's that couldn't make the transition from silent movies,was a real treat and was just the thing people needed what with the depression and the war starting. There wasn't much of anything else except picnics ,street dances,touring big bands for grown-ups and bikes and BB guns for kids. Hence the larger than life personas(ae) these actors had throughout the world. They were up there bigger than life on the silver screen in a world that was coming out of hard times and into war--and we loved 'em . Liz Taylor was part of that scene and that is why some of us remember those days and those huge stars as something special. Differant world. Extremely differant.

 

I rather resent some young pup implying a man of my years to be a "bandwagon fan" to famous strangers.

True I did not personally know Ms Taylor, same as most ppl who saw her on screen and saw the reports of happenings in her life - events that did not actually impact them.

But, I grew up with her image; an image that defined feminine beauty in my generation. Yes, perhaps some of us did emotionally attach ourselves to that image. She was hot when I was your age.

And, she did impact many lives with her AIDS advocacy at a time when the ignorance of this disease and discrimination were rampant. As pointed out, she was just another person, with faults like anyone. But she was bigger than life on the big screen and she used that fame for the betterment of others.

I do not think it unrealistic to look back at her beauty, which was always a part of the scenery in my life.

 

I didn't.

 

Interesting note I heard this morning - Before her death Elizabeth Taylor had asked that her funeral begin at least 15 minutes late. As was her habit in life - she wanted to be late for her own funeral. RIP

 

Liz Taylor was something else. She may be more well known or more widely written about for her physical beauty (which she had in abundance) and off-screen relationships, but she could definitely "bring it" as an actress. If you don't believe me, check out 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.'

Let's all have a "bergen and water" for Liz Taylor. RIP