Oh, that's an interesting tidbit I didn't know. Elizabeth Taylor was exactly one day younger than Johnny Cash so every year she'd send him a telegram on his birthday saying, "I'm still younger than you!"

This is pretty funny.

Elizabeth Taylor may have been "the most beautiful woman in the world" but the great thing is that she didn't always look it. During the filming of Giant, my duty as a Hollywood agent was to hang around Warner Brothers to pick off dissatisfied clients from rival agents and keep an ear open for money-making gossip. In the picture's lunch break for studio workers, who were setting up interiors and closeups, I got my taco and beans from the on-lot catering coach and at a plank table sat opposite a quite ordinarily attractive, freckle-faced woman, her hair in a bandanna, who I assumed was a makeup person or "script girl". She smiled pleasantly and seemed friendly enough. One thing led to another, and I asked for a date.

She placed her hand across the table on mine and, I swear with regret, said, "Dear heart, I'm already taken." Oh, I said, I don't mind, and she gave this huge vulgar bellylaugh, really raucous, and that's when I recognised Elizabeth Taylor, not madeup for her role as Rock Hudson's wife and James Dean's love object in this epic movie about Texas. - Clancy Sigal

HOOKERS AND BLOW

(just because it still amuses me, and it certainly beats staring at the rain.)

This is also pretty funny and gloriously bitchy.

Elizabeth Taylor died on Joan Crawford's birthday: a wholly fitting date. The two leading ladies met on the set of Torch Song in the early 50s, a movie Crawford was filming with Taylor's second husband, Michael Wilding. And they did not hit it off; Crawford could see the future, and it was Taylor. When the younger actor declined to treat Crawford as the movie queen she was, the star branded her "a little bitch" and threatened to teach her some manners. Taylor rebuffed her with typical nonchalance, saying how lucky Wilding was to play a blind man in the movie and therefore be spared the horror of looking at Crawford.

A famous photoshoot with Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor in '75.

A lovely picture of her with Montgomery Clift.

Dan Goor project (Dan Goor, Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun). A young doctor joins his parents’ medical practice and spends as much time tending to his family as to his patients. Stars Jean Smart, Andrew West, Brad Morris (comedy).

So H50's governor doesn't get re-elected? She's not on very much but I love her when she is. They are small scenes, and infrequent. They can fly her in to do her scenes.

WTF? Where do these people live? Maybe it's partly living in the Midwest, but this is not the world I know.

I think they live in the world where anything other than "Father Knows Best" is threatening. One woman beats out one man for a job, one wife wins an argument with her husband, and the traditional male is gone forever!

Even though the world around him has declared the traditional male an ‘endangered species,’ Tim Fitzgerald (Allen) is fighting for his manhood in a world that is being increasingly dominated by women (comedy).

Haha! See, it's funny because it's incredibly sexist.

I think they live in TV Land, which is mostly inhabited by helpless schlubby man-children (played by standup comics) and their hot yet shrewish wives.

Ah ha ha ha ha!

Matt is brilliant.

Not that anybody hangs out there any more, but is LJ down for anybody else?