Word: liz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already beginning to take over the record business, and soon teen-age fans deserted. Eddie's last big hit record was Oh! My Papa, and it was cut in 1954. Recently he has devoted himself fulltime to woman troubles (a divorce from Debbie Reynolds, a marriage to Liz Taylor), and he had not sung in public for a year and a half when he stepped up to the microphone last week...
...another part of the forest, Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) announced that his version of Cleopatra, which stars Elizabeth Taylor (naturally; who is Pharaohess of them all?), would be considerably different from Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. (Work had begun on the movie when Liz took sick last fall.) "Shaw's life," Mankiewicz explained, "is full of letters to naive young girls, instructing them in the ways of the world. He wrote Caesar and Cleopatra as if he'd come upon Cleopatra himself in that pile of rocks. The play is a Shavian dream...
Wickedness & Wheezes. Liz Taylor beautifully ghastly after her severe siege of pneumonia and in no mood to hide it capped the evening by staggering gracefully onstage, supported by Husband Eddie Fisher, to accept her Best Actress award (nominally for the margarinal Butterfield 8 but actually, wise guys said for the pneumonia and for such past successes as Suddenly, Last Summer). Upstaged, Burt Lancaster meekly mumbled off with his Best Actor award (for Elmer Gantry). Earlier, Peter Ustinov (Spartacus) had received the award for Best Supporting Actor and had made the evening's only parsable acceptance speech Shirley Jones (Elmer...
...difficult evening, but some time during the long, long night Hollywood passed its crisis. Within hours everyone was cocky. Director Billy Wilder, who won the Best Picture, Best Original Writing (with I.A.L. Diamond) and Best Directing awards for The Apartment wired wickedly to Nominee Shirley MacLaine, with Liz Taylor's tracheotomy in "You may not have a hole in your windpipe, but we love you anyway " And Actress Taylor, noticeably less shaky at a post-Oscar party than she had been earlier, thoughtfully assessed Butterfield 8: "I still think it's a piece of obscenity...
...from London and her near fatal battle with double pneumonia, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 29, headed west for "a few months in the sun." Her left leg-much punctured from intravenous feedings, blood transfusions and antibiotic injections-was swathed in bandages, her tracheotomy wound covered by a high collar. Stoicized Liz: "I'll have my necklaces redesigned a little higher to cover up the scar-sort of diamond and pearl Band-Aids...