Composed by John Barry, the 1963 TV film's soundtrack is a fitting tribute to Hollywood's first rock'n'roll starlet
There are many reasons why Elizabeth Taylor was amazing and none of them are anything whatsoever to do with Michael Jackson. She was, in essence, the first rock star movie queen. She was more beautiful, more talented and more capricious than, well, anyone really. She also drank more, took more pills and slept with more unsuitable men. But whatever Taylor did, up to and including getting progressively older and more ragged, she did with incredible style. This, after all, is a woman who famously once ate a steak and kidney pie with one hand while wearing a 39-carat sapphire on the other.
In the summer of 1963, north-west London girl Liz – she was born in Hampstead to American parents – made a film about her home city for a coast-to-coast American TV broadcast. Called Elizabeth Taylor in London,...
There are many reasons why Elizabeth Taylor was amazing and none of them are anything whatsoever to do with Michael Jackson. She was, in essence, the first rock star movie queen. She was more beautiful, more talented and more capricious than, well, anyone really. She also drank more, took more pills and slept with more unsuitable men. But whatever Taylor did, up to and including getting progressively older and more ragged, she did with incredible style. This, after all, is a woman who famously once ate a steak and kidney pie with one hand while wearing a 39-carat sapphire on the other.
In the summer of 1963, north-west London girl Liz – she was born in Hampstead to American parents – made a film about her home city for a coast-to-coast American TV broadcast. Called Elizabeth Taylor in London,...
- 3/25/2011
- by Rob Fitzpatrick
- The Guardian - Film News
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