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National Velvet (194)
Film Review August 9, 2001
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: This time-tested family film is deservedly a classic. Twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor is in top form here as young Velvet Brown, a girl who is determined to enter the Grand National...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Clarence Brown. Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Angela Lansbury and Anne Revere..."
Father of the Bride
Film Review June 17, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: If you were young Elizabeth Taylor's movie dad and she were getting married, you know life wouldn't be easy. Spencer Tracy is at his best here....
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Vincente Minnelli. Starring: Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Billie Burke, Leo G..."
Suddenly, Last Summer
Film Review May 18, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Tennessee Williams here uses homosexuality, lobotomies, and cannibalism as plot points in this sanitized version penned for the screen by Gore Vidal. Still, the battles between the imperious Hepburn and...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Mankiewicz. Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Mercedes McCambridge and Albert Dekker..."
Cleopatra
Film Review July 8, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Taylor, Burton, and Harrison are sublime in this sweeping epic of love and nations, a film that also earned Oscars for its cinematography, art direction, special effects, and costumes....
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Mankiewicz. Starring: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Hume Cronyn, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowell and Rex Harrison..."
Beautiful Girls
Film Review February 9, 1996
by Steve Davis
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... 
by Steve Davis
"...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
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
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
by Josh Rosenblatt
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
by Andy Campbell
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
by Kate X Messer
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
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
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
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
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
by Robert Faires
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
by Gerald E. McLeod
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
by Josh Rosenblatt
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
by Toddy Burton
Description: Joan Plowright stars in this bittersweet yet predictable story about an aging widow's new friendships. 
by Toddy Burton
"...imparts wisdom about a life well lived, Ludo’s artistic inspiration flourishes. The film is an adaptation of British writer Elizabeth Taylor’s novel..."
After a Fashion
Columns January 20, 2006
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
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)..."
Match Point
Film Review January 20, 2006
by Marjorie Baumgarten
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.
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...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..."
In Print
Screens Story December 10, 2004
by Marjorie Baumgarten
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
by Steve Birmingham
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
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
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..."
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