I came across this on YouTube and had to share…
Dame Judi Dench as Sally Bowles in “Cabaret” in London 1968…
A totally different side of Dame Judi!
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Elizabeth Taylor had amassed $600 million fortune in properties, jewels and stocks
From the NY Post:
Screen queen Elizabeth Taylor has left behind a fortune worth at least $600 million, much of which is expected to go to the AIDS charities she championed for decades.
Her famous jewelry collection, valued at an eye-popping $150 million in 2002, is likely to be auctioned off with the bulk of the proceeds going to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation and amfAR, the AIDS charity she helped found in 1985, according to WFLD/Fox TV Chicago.
“From what I understand, she seems to have been very wise about her investments,” said a financial planner who has worked with other Hollywood A-listers.
At the time of her 1994 divorce from her last husband, Larry Fortensky, Taylor’s net worth was estimated at $608.4 million. That figure could now be well in excess of $1 billion.
During the 1990s, Taylor reportedly earned about $2 per second, or about $63 million per year.
Her famed perfume, White Diamonds, earned more than $70 million last year, according to reports.
via Elizabeth Taylor had amassed $600 million fortune in properties, jewels and stocks – NYPOST.com.
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Elizabeth Taylor, Al Jazeera and the Raid on Entebbe | The Nation
A little known bit of history that even I had forgotten…
When Elizabeth Taylor died, Al Jazeera English reported that her greatest role was Cleopatra.
They didn’t report that she had offered herself as a hostage at Entebbe in exchange for the 100 hijack victims held by terrorists at that airport in Uganda in 1976. The terrorists turned down the deal, and then Israeli commandos freed the hostages.
“The Jewish people will always remember” Taylor’s offer—that’s what the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Simcha Dinitz said in 1977, according to CNN.
Taylor had converted to Judaism in 1959, when she was 27 years old—Time magazine reported that she had taken the Jewish name “Elisheba Rachel Taylor.” Raised as a Christian Scientist, Taylor converted in part under the influence of her third husband, producer Mike Todd—“born Avrom Goldbogen,” as Time explained, “grandson of a Polish rabbi.”
The year after her Entebbe hostage trade offer, 1977, she married John Warner, who then ran for the Senate from Virginia as a Republican—she campaigned for him actively, and her star power was credited with his narrow victory. Warner reportedly resented being called “Mr. Elizabeth Taylor.”
But life as a Republican political wife in Washington made her “a drunk and a junkie,” she later said, and in 1983 she checked into the Betty Ford clinic. The rest is history.
via Elizabeth Taylor, Al Jazeera and the Raid on Entebbe | The Nation.
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Tom Ford | On Being a Gentleman
I love Tom Ford…
Mainly because we think so much alike about style and manners…
I just wish I could afford his Italian Cypress cologne…
Tom Ford – fashion powerhouse, film mogul and old school romantic – is the cover star of the spring/summer 2011 issue of Another Man. Alongside web exclusive images from Jeff Burton’s shoot, AnOther presents Tom Ford’s five easy lessons in how to be a modern gentleman, taken from Jefferson Hack’s intimate conversation which appears in full in the issue.
1. You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
2. A gentleman today has to work. People who do not work are so boring and are usually bored. You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
3. Manners are very important and actually knowing when things are appropriate. I always open doors for women, I carry their coat, I make sure that they’re walking on the inside of the street. Stand up when people arrive at and leave the dinner table.
4. Don’t be pretentious or racist or sexist or judge people by their background.
5. A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
via Tom Ford | AnOther.
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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor: How to Handle a Woman
I found this lovely video on YouTube and wanted to share it…
Wonderful pictures of the all-time great celebrity couple.
Song is from “Camelot” and sung by Richard Burton.
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John Davidson: Murderous Drag Queen
Don’t even ask how I came across this…
It’s titled: John Davidson: Schizophrenic Diva…
It’s apparently from an episode of “The Streets of San Francisco”…
It’s just too weird not to post!
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ThinkProgress » CNN Foreign Corespondent Calls Out Fox News: ‘Outrageous’ ‘Lies And Deceit’
I don’t know why anyone surprised….
It’s not like Fox News cares about journalism or facts…
All the other networks seem to be getting more and more frustrated with the laziness, lies and propaganda that really defines Fox News….
Thing is, the Fox News viewers don’t care…
This afternoon, Fox News reported that the Qadaffi regime used foreign journalists, including teams from CNN and Reuters, as a “human shield” to thwart an attack on Qadaffi’s compound last night. The compound had already been hit by allied missiles, but in its exclusive report — which is FoxNews.com’s most read and commented story — Fox alleges that “British sources” told them that allied forces were planning a second attack, which was called off due to the journalists’ presence.
But on the Situation Room tonight, a visibly frustrated CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson, who was on the CNN team that visited the compound, called the report untruthful and “outrageous.” Moreover, Robertson acccused Fox of “lies and deceit” for claiming none of their staffers went on the same trip when one in fact did:
WOLF BLITZER: I want you to explain what you know about this suggestion Fox news reporting that you, a Reuters crew, some other journalists were effectively used by Gadhafi as a human shield to prevent allied fighter planes from coming in and attacking a certain position. Explain what you know about this.
ROBERTSON: Wolf, this allegation is outrageous and it’s absolutely hypocritical. When you come to somewhere like Libya, you expect lies and deceit from a dictatorship here. You don’t expect it from the other journalists. […]
They sent a member of their team. He was not editorial. He was nontechnical, not normally a cameraman.
I see [Fox’s corespondent] more times at breakfast than out on trips with government officials here. So for them to say and call this — to say they didn’t go and for them to call this and say this was government propaganda to hold us there as human shields when they didn’t even leave the hotel, it’s ridiculous.
via ThinkProgress » CNN Foreign Corespondent Calls Out Fox News: ‘Outrageous’ ‘Lies And Deceit’.
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Pole Dancing for Jesus
This is not a joke…
It’s a real news report from Houston…
Texas, of course….
I’m kind of speechless….
Thanks to Mrs Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian’s Facebook Post for making me aware of this….
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Crazy Right Wing Woman of the Day: Victoria Jackson’s Homophobic Comments About “Glee”
Former Saturday Night Live actress Victorian Jackson went off the deep end a long time ago…
She blames Hollywood liberals for the fact that her career went nowhere after SNL…
I think the real reason is that, without good writers and directors, she’s just not funny…
She’s a mean, homophobic, racist harpy…
What is it with all these Republican “Mean Girls”?
Sarah Palin, Victoria Jackson, Phyllis Schlafly, Ann Coulter, Michelle Backmann, Lindsey Graham…
Bitter, bitter women…
From The Huffington Post:
Victoria Jackson may have earned her fame as a comedian, but her recent comments on “Glee” are no laughing matter.
The former “Saturday Night Live” star, now an outspoken political conservative, hit out at the high school choir dramedy in a homophobic rant in her new column for the conservative WorldNetDaily.com. Jackson wrote:
“Did you see “Glee” this week? Sickening! And, besides shoving the gay thing down our throats, they made a mockery of Christians – again! I wonder what their agenda is? Hey, producers of “Glee” – what’s your agenda? One-way tolerance?”
In the most recent episode of the show, there was a long awaited kiss between two gay characters, Kurt (played by Golden Globe winner Chris Colfer) and Blaine, and Kathy Griffin played a religious, tea party political candidate, modeled after Sarah Palin.
Jackson’s comments came after a string of anti-Muslim and Arab diatribe, and immediately following her saying:
“This new al-Qaida magazine for women has beauty tips and suicide-bomber tips! Gimme a break! That is as ridiculous as two men kissing on the mouth! And I don’t care what is politically correct. Everyone knows that two men on a wedding cake is a comedy skit, not an “alternate lifestyle”! There I said it! Ridiculous!”
via Victoria Jackson On ‘Glee’: Former ‘SNL’ Star’s Homophobic Comments.
Here she is in “action”:
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Lost in the 21st Century 
Fran Lebowitz: Public Speaking
Fran Lebowitz is one of my literary and cultural idols. I’ve loved her since I discovered Metropolitan Life in College.
If you missed this great documentary about her by Martin Scorsese when it ran on HBO, it’s coming out on DVD in May.
I’ve already pre-ordered my copy for my archives…
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