Bright Lights Film Journal

Liz Taylor: An Angel Makes Good

 

Can it be true? Has the living legend Elizabeth Taylor finally merged back into the heaven from which she came? I guess it is. I guess we’ll be seeing a lot of her in the next few days, but we don’t really need to be reminded how awesome she was. She never left her throne on Hollywood’s Mount Olympus, and its doubtful she ever will. Burton’s probably ecstatic right now, showing her all around the spacious grounds of her new mansion on the hill.

Look at the above picture – have you ever seen a woman’s eyes so aware of her sexiness yet not at all like a kitten? How is she able to project so much knowing intellect alongside so much hotness and not have ‘conflict of interest’? Her brain wattage doesn’t spook us away like it might with some other actresses, neither is she being egotistical, nor condescending to the man who drools at her from behind time and space. She accepts not only her own sexuality, but ours. She was the most generous, in that and many other senses, of icons.

(read more at Acidemic, here)

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