Elizabeth Taylor, 'Cleopatra' Star and Oscar Winner, Was a Pioneering AIDS Activist
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Elizabeth Taylor, who would have turned 89 on Feb. 27, lived multiple lives. She was a movie mega-star, a tabloid mega-celebrity (which are not always the same thing), an innovator in creating herself as a brand — and a tireless and effective philanthropist and activist.
She was adored, admired, denounced, scandal-ridden and unpredictable, and the public couldn’t get enough of her.
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On screen, she was at her most breathtakingly beautiful in such 1950s and ‘60s films as “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Suddenly, Last Summer,” “Cleopatra” and “The Taming of the Shrew.” And in the 1966 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” at age 34, she frumped herself up and gave a great performance, winning the second of two Oscars (after the 1960 “Butterfield 8”).
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All critical dates are in bold. Oscar nominations will be announced on March 15, 2021, with voting set to take place for six days beginning on March 5. The 93rd annual Academy Awards (The Oscars) are scheduled to air live on ABC on Sunday, April 25, from multiple locations, including the Dolby Theatre.
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without wondering how much of this is true, how much of this is them not acting and just working out, you know, the angst of their notoriously tumultuous relationship. >> there's enough as it is. >> stick around. >> for mike nichols on his first film to take like two of the biggest movie stars in the world and shoot them in this black and white, raw, savage way, i think it was kind of a stroke of genius. >> he's snapped, and i'm going to howl it out, and i'm not going to give a damn what i do, and i'm going to make the biggest goddamn explosion you've ever heard. >> who's afraid of virginia woolf used language that had never been heard in a movie, seven words that were never there. "life" magazine at the time did this huge story about how daring virginia woolf was. that was 1966. right around that time, you began to see more of these kinds
so anyway, i married the s.o.b. i had it all planned out. first he'd take over the history department, and when daddy retired, he'd take over the whole college, you know. that was the way it was supposed to be. that was the way it was supposed to be. >> elizabeth taylor won her second best actress oscar for that role in "who's afraid of virginia woolf?" actress morgan fairchild worked with her on a television miniseries "north and south." nick clooney met her when he was a teenager, and dick cavett got to know her very well over the years, and all three are with me now. dick, what's your favorite memory of elizabeth taylor? >> my favorite memory is totally unlikely. i was doing my magic act some years ago at a big party, and i thought i saw someone in the audience that looked like elizabeth taylor, and as i was cutting my rope trick, doing my rope -- i said, i've had this dream that elizabeth taylor would come up and help me, and this beautiful figure came up, and elizabeth taylor was standing there, and i didn't know what to do. i got off a dreadful joke. she had to cut the rope seven or eight times and had trouble. i said "just think of it as the
so anyway, i married the s.o.b. i had it all planned out. first he'd take over the history department, and when daddy retired, he'd take over the whole college, you know. that was the way it was supposed to be. that was the way it was supposed to be. >> elizabeth taylor won her second best actress oscar for that role in "who's afraid of virginia woolf?" actress morgan fairchild worked with her on a television miniseries "north and south." nick clooney met her when he was a teenager, and dick cavett got to know her very well over the years, and all three are with me now. dick, what's your favorite memory of elizabeth taylor? >> my favorite memory is totally unlikely. i was doing my magic act some years ago at a big party, and i thought i saw someone in the audience that looked like elizabeth taylor, and as i was cutting my rope trick, doing my rope -- i said, i've had this dream that elizabeth taylor would come up and help me, and this beautiful figure came up, and elizabeth taylor was
so anyway, i married the s.o.b. i had it all planned out. first he'd take over the history department, and when daddy retired, he'd take over the whole college, you know. that was the way it was supposed to be. that was the way it was supposed to be. >> elizabeth taylor won her second best actress oscar for that role in "who's afraid of virginia woolf?" actress morgan fairchild worked with her on a television miniseries "north and south." nick clooney met her when he was a teenager, and dick cavett got to know her very well over the years, and all three are with me now. dick, what's your favorite memory of elizabeth taylor? >> my favorite memory is totally unlikely. i was doing my magic act some years ago at a big party, and i thought i saw someone in the audience that looked like elizabeth taylor, and as i was cutting my rope trick, doing my rope -- i said, i've had this dream that elizabeth taylor would come up and help me, and this beautiful figure came up, and elizabeth taylor was standing there, and i didn't know what to do. i got off a dreadful joke.