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Giant
Film Review  October 4, 1996
Description: There is no better way to while away a Sunday afternoon than with this sprawling saga about the growth of Texas and the families that matured along with the state....

"...Directed by: George Stevens. Starring: Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Mercedes McCambridge, Jane Withers, Dennis Hopper and Sal Mineo..."

Beautiful Girls
Film Review  February 9, 1996
Description: Although its title suggests otherwise, Beautiful Girls is firmly attuned to the twentysomething male perspective, a point of view that is focused on the mystery of the opposite sex. An...

"...Shades of Nabokov, it's no wonder that Hutton's character gets a schoolboy crush on her. With beauty and talent to spare, Portman is something to behold: It's as if Elizabeth Taylor and Jodie Foster were somehow genetically melded at an early age..."

After a Fashion
Columns  July 31, 2009
Description: Stephen softens with age ... at least for this column.

"...She just didn't happen to get enough credit for it. He dressed the most stylish scenesters of the day and a number of movie and rock stars such as the Beatles, Marianne Faithfull, Elizabeth Taylor, Mick and Bianca Jagger, Cecil Beaton, Jimi Hendrix, and Liza Minnelli..."

Reclaiming Texas History, One Home Movie at a Time
Screens Story  February 27, 2009
Description: The missionary zeal of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image

"...Well, how about "Small Boy Runs Dog Circus"? Filmed in a back yard in Dallas and screened as part of a Universal Newsreel in 1935, this 37-second, black-and-white silent movie has no fistfights, no drunkenness, no Dimitri Tiomkin soundtrack (no soundtrack at all), and no Elizabeth Taylor. But it does have a 9-year-old kid in a cowboy costume coaxing a dog across a tightrope while six of his friends look on in sombreros...."

Clink Clink, Swampy!
The Gay Place Blog  December 5, 2008
Description: Hey. Homo. This one's for you.

"...For those of you who haven't seen this gem, it's basically a fictional version of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's real-life marriage. Hilarious and horrifying, this film will wear your shit out! It's a slogfest..."

Queen for a Day
The Gay Place Blog  August 13, 2008
Description: Mingling with royalty has gone to your humble Gay Place's head.

"...The theme of the evening was to be Night of the Living Dolls: A Celebration at Studio 54. Elizabeth Taylor in one of her patented wild headdresses – or was it a floral turban? – appeared in my dreams, so I bolted up out of bed and began in earnest my Google quest for visual inspiration to carry out an experiment in femininity...."

After a Fashion
Columns  December 14, 2007
Description: Stephen is hitting the holiday-party circuit with a vengeance and a few hotties on his arm

"...He is the quintessential curly-hair expert with dazzling editorial and runway work in New York with his friend Ted Gibson, a hairdresser from Killeen with a line of amazing hair products (available at Bô), who now owns one of the swankest salons in New York. But all that aside, I walked outta there feeling as glamorous as the love child of Jayne Mansfield and Elizabeth Taylor..."

After a Fashion
Columns  August 10, 2007
Description: Our social butterfly, your Style Avatar, keeps it indoors and parks it in front of the tube for a bit

"...We loved Divine long before we had our disastrous opportunity to dress her. With Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor at their peaks of beauty, the two-disc special edition of 1956's Giant is a buffet of treats for fans, of which we count ourself..."

The Playing of the Shrew
Arts Story  April 6, 2007
Description: Ballerina Allysin Paino reveals more about taming Kate for Ballet Austin's 'Shrew'

"...With the CliffsNotes next to me to make sure I understood everything that was going on. I saw the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton movie..."

Day Trips
Columns  January 12, 2007
Description: Add these destinations to your checklist of must-do day trips

"...Although there isn't anything left of the set from the movie Giant, a stay in El Paisano Hotel lets you wander the halls where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed. The Thunderbird Motel is another place that has been remodeled for modern visitors..."

Surviving the Blacklist: Joseph Losey in Europe
Screens Story  September 1, 2006
Description: Sept. 5-Oct. 10

"...3 screening of Boom!, Tennessee Williams' adaptation of his own stage play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. Released to resounding critical and commercial antipathy in 1968, Boom!, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton at their drunkest, is now considered a camp classic and a must-see for those who like their movies like they like their train wrecks...."

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Film Review  June 2, 2006
Description: Joan Plowright stars in this bittersweet yet predictable story about an aging widow's new friendships.

"...imparts wisdom about a life well lived, Ludo’s artistic inspiration flourishes. The film is an adaptation of British writer Elizabeth Taylor’s novel..."

Match Point
Film Review  January 20, 2006
Description: Unoriginal but pleasantly prosaic, Woody Allen's latest is a diverting story of crime, love, and luck that conducts itself with a refreshing absence of moral judgment and omniscience.

"...The storyline bears obvious reminders of Allen’s magnificent Crimes and Misdemeanors (a copy of the novel Crime and Punishment even comes into view). Yet the more obvious model for Match Point is Theodore Dreiser’s classic novel An American Tragedy, which was made into A Place in the Sun with stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters..."

After a Fashion
Columns  January 20, 2006
Description: Stephen remembers the bawdy Shelley Winters and goes to an all-girl affair!

"...GOODBYE, SHELLEY Not many could utter the line "Manny, if I get stuck, push!" with the conviction that Shelley Winters did, and the character of Belle Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure is one of many that rendered Shelley immortal. Skittering across the Forties in studio-issue starlet roles, she met the brilliant George Stevens in 1951, who turned Shelley into an actress and turned her career around by casting her opposite Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (Elizabeth Taylor plays her first adult role in the film as well)..."

In Print
Screens Story  December 10, 2004
Description: 'Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties'

"...But the real juice comes from the party photos that record the intersection of public and private lives: George Hamilton and Lynda Bird Johnson dancing together, Gen. Tommy Franks and Harvey Keitel in a pose, Elizabeth Taylor showing off her baubles, and oodles of past and present stars basking in the glow of their Oscar statuettes...."

Requiem for a Sane Man
Arts Story  March 12, 2004
Description: Exalting comic maverick Bill Hicks on the 10th anniversary of his passing

"...He would call a couple of times a day, or I would call him. Every couple of months he'd call me up to go, "Shug, look I know, as a country we all love Elizabeth Taylor, but I forget why..."

After a Fashion
Columns  February 6, 2004
Description: The passing of two style icons is observed

"...He discovered Brooke Shields when she was 11 years old. He shot Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, Gloria Vanderbilt, and the entire Warhol cortege – indelible images that deftly captured the eras in which they were shot, and raising the standards of photographic beauty forever – not unlike his contemporary Helmut Newton..."

Hopelessly Devoted to 'Grease'
Screens Story  July 25, 2003
Description: "I was born to Hand Jive, baby, and that's not even a euphemism," says Sarah Hepola, explaining the continuing appeal of camp classic, Grease. Project Transitions and the Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival will host a sing-along performance of Grease this weekend at the Paramount.

"...Fictitious though they were, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John were like our own Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, our J.Lo and Ben. "Olivia Newton-John was the embodiment of perfect ideal beauty," wrote Jodi Egerton..."

"In a New Light" Programs
Arts Story  May 16, 2003

"...Hill & Robert Adamson" Examination of two pioneers of 19th-century photography, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, presented by David Coleman, associate curator of photography. 3:15pm.Tuesday-Wednesday, June 10-11"In a New Light at the Paramount: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" Screenings of the films Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Mike Nichols' landmark film version of the Edward Albee drama, featuring Oscar-winning performances by Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis, and Butterfield 8, Daniel Mann's soapy saga of a high-class prostitute, desperately looking to get out of the biz and find the right man, featuring Liz Taylor's first Oscar-winning performance..."

Let There Be Light
Arts Story  May 16, 2003
Description: After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...The new front corners of the Ransom Center exterior are impressive enough for what they are. Rising 30 feet high, like giant bookends, are panels covered with images from literature, theatre, photography, and film: a life-size Alice, straight from the pages of Lewis Carroll's book; a sequence of Eadweard Muybridge photographs depicting the second-by-second motion of a horse at full gallop; Pablo Picasso's eyes, staring with a mesmerist's intensity, as photographed by David Douglas Duncan; a shot of Elizabeth Taylor; a sleek car of the future imagined by designer Norman Bel Geddes; a Depression-era woman of constant sorrow, photographed by Walker Evans -- dozens of images, all representing cultural treasures that dwell inside this building, the vast archive that is the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center...."

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