Larry King interviewing Liz Taylor - it's painful to watch

[eleny]

She's designing jewelry, now. So he looks at one of her necklaces on display and ask her if it's a tiara. Oy.

Btw, I've always admired her. Her work in films and tireless dedication for an aids cure. But this interview is painful to watch.

[joemurphy]

1. Larry's not very sharp anymore, I'm afraid.

He was interviewing Peter Lawford's kid and he seemed to be getting him mixed up with his father -- mentioning that the kid "had married into the Kennedy clan". The kid had to correct him.

Confusing a necklace with a tiara is pretty bad.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

4. Larry King was never a good interviewer

He was a great schmoozer, but, if you wanted an interview, to get information, naw, he just gabs and dishes and doesn't really go anywhere.

But, he and Liz Taylor? Oh, man, between them, they maybe could figure out what year it is, but I wouldn't bet on it.

This IS entertainment.

And Michael Jackson got a raw deal. Liz said so.

[CottonBear]

9. Many tiaras convert to necklaces or brooches and jewels can be changed.

Because tiaras are so expensive, multiple uses are desirable. There can be a tiara frame to which the tiara necklace or detachable brooch components are mounted. (Please note that not all tiaras are convertible.) Tiaras of this sort are stored in special molded, velvet lined cases which hold all of the tiara parts. Many tiaras can have some components added to make them more fancy or different. For example, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark's wedding tiara is also a necklace. However, her ruby and diamond tiara (1700s Napoleonic in origin), which actually belongs to her husband, Crown Prince Frederick, is not convertible and is part of a parure (a set including earrings, brooches, a necklace and bracelets plus the tiara.) QEII of England has a favorite tiara which can have the special hanging pearls (really big ones!) replaced by emerald pendants.

See the Glittering Royal Events message board for links to royal jewels message boards to see many tiaras.

[joemurphy]

12. LOL Perhaps I'm too hard on Larry. You definitely seem to

know your tiaras.

[CottonBear]

29. I love looking at glittering jewels and tiaras!

I learned a lot about them by reading up. The history of many historical pieces of royal provenance is very interesting. Some of the royal jewels date back to the 1700s and are very old and valuable.

Of course, I can't afford (or need) a tiara. :(

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. They're both senile

It's like spending time with Granny at The Home just when her meds are wearing off.

I'm loving it.

[joemurphy]

3. Eleny, switch over to Frontline on PBS. The AIDS program is

really good. Larry King's a lost cause.

[bdamomma]

20. I am watching PBS Frontline

Reagan did not do shit for AIDS, hmmm.....another stinking republican.

[saltpoint]

5. eleny, rush out and rent WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? It's

Elizabeth Taylor at her very best, and her average was outstanding, in Edward Albee's very sharp play.

Sharp as in razorblades at people's throats sharp.

She's on to later decades now and the fire is not there. But I assure you it's there in this film. If you have never seen her in this, treat yourself.

____

on edit: eleny, joemurphy's got a great bet there with Frontline. Watch that. Then later this weekend, rent the film.

[eleny]

13. I saw that movie when it first came out

Yes, it's Liz at about her best. But I always thought she was great in so many, among them Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. she's always been one of my favorites.

[saltpoint]

16. ah, you've seen it, then. Good for you. I count that pretty high on

her list of accomplishments, and you're right -- she was no slouch in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF either.

[blogslut]

15. Butterfield 8

That bit at the beginning with the mink coat...damn.

[saltpoint]

18. Butterfield 8 is one I haven't seen, Blogslut. And all it takes is a

recommendation like yours to move me to rent it and watch it.

I'll say thanks in advance for the recommendation.

[ruggerson]

21. It's a bit of a melodrama, OC

If you like Susan Hayward/Joan Crawford flicks you'll love Butterfield 8.

[saltpoint]

22. Hey there, ruggerson. Well, I'll give it a try. On visits to the Bay

Area in California, I was told by some in-the-know people in the medical community and the AIDS-prevention community that Elizabeth Taylor volunteered a pile of money annually to AIDS treatment centers, with the bulk of the donations going to the most deperate cases -- people without any family or friends left, with no health insurance, and so forth.

I was told she volunteered personally to assist and played the role of nurse and friend to many of the patients in a particular clinic on the express condition that the clinic not leak to the press that she was doing it.

This was confirmed to me more than once, and by some way-up-the-hierarchy people, too.

I'm a fan of the woman's films, but over the last many years, I grew to like her as a human being even more.

[ruggerson]

26. No doubt about it

she's absolutely terrific.

She singlehandedly shamed the Reagan administration into acknowledging there WAS an AIDS crisis.

Hard to believe now, but Reagan's health and domestic policy was run by people like Pat Buchanan, Gary Bauer and Phyllis Schlafly. They were DETERMINED that the government do nothing about AIDS, and they insisted that Reagan never mention it. This is all documented in C Everett Koop's autobiography, as he was appalled that a health crisis of that magnitude was being ignored by radicals bent on pursuing a political agenda and he tried his best as Surgeon General to fight them.

I still don't understand why there wasn't a Congressional hearing into what happened in the Reagan administration during those early years. Buchanan, Schafly, Bauer and others should be in jail, as far as I'm concerned.

[saltpoint]

27. Yep. She's unafraid of anything. She seems especially unafraid of

Republicans like the ones you mention. Gary Bauer is a a fearful little demon. And Phyllis Schlafly should be signed on to host the Leni Reifenstahl Awards, if there ever were such a thing. (All the nominees would probably be from FOX News!)

I did know that Dr. Koop was frustrated in trying to get the administration to own up to reality in the AIDS crisis. ACTUp New York (and other cities, I'm sure) pointed out that Reagan refused to even SPEAK the word AIDS for years and years in his presidency. And of course all the while there is the (unconfirmed) rumor of Ron Reagan, Jr.'s sexual identity. Schlafly also has a gay grandson, or son, or something... not sure the exact relationship.

The GOP has been a pile of steaming hypocrisy on AIDs from the word go.

I guess in Reagan's case it just is too much to ask that he address an urgent emergency-level health crisis like AIDS when he was so awfully busy presiding over death squads in Central America.

[troubleinwinter]

19. That is ONE HELL of a movie!!!

[saltpoint]

23. Hi, troubleinwinter. It was recommended to me long ago and

I didn't have a very good sense of it going into the experience.

Going out of the experience, I can say it re-ordered my central nervous system. Holy god is that sharp-tongued speech in that script. Devastating material in the hands of some really talented actors.

[kenny blankenship]

6. You stole my Jello! No YOU stole MY Jello

No I peed in your Jello, because your Jello was in my pants and I peed my pants. You STOLE my Jello, that's why you have Jello now, and I want it back.
What were we arguing about?
Marry me Larry!
Give me some jello and I will.

[Junkdrawer]

11. LOL

:rofl:

[Kahuna]

7. I'll pass on that one.

:scared:

[Generic Brad]

8. My favorite Larry King moment

Last year his show was interrupted with live footage of a jet that was landing without landing gear. The moment the plane hit the tarmac sparks started flying and large flames began trailing behind it, to which Larry King asked, "Is that fire?" No shit, Sherlock! Larry King, the master of the obvious is publicly transforming into the master of the oblivious.

[smokey nj]

10. I remember that!

He also asked if there could be a category 6 hurricane. Larry proves that, yes, there are in fact stupid questions.

[hlthe2b]

14. Wow... from a simple glance at the checkout counter...

the past couple of years, they've had Liz checking out on us at least a dozen times. :eyes: Glad to hear she is back among us, even if she is losing it a bit. She's been a godsend to the AIDs movement.

[ruggerson]

17. Whattsa matter? You don't remember the great flu pandemic of 1928? n/t

[Arkham House]

24. Night of the Living Dead

[joemurphy]

25. LOL n/t

[RB TexLa]

28. Is this Drudge Underground now?

What? An actor has spoken, we must comment on what the actor has said. What actors say is important?