Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79
 

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Terrible.

Just saw this today ... :( It was time for her to get some rest. She's suffered so much physically. Now, she can go be with Michael. RIP, Elizabeth.

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:( National Velvet is one of my favorites.

R.I.P. :( 79 is so young.

When I wake up, the first thing that I tend to do is turn on the morning news. I was shocked and was not expecting to see that on the morning news. :(

Yep - Michael Todd. :) And Richard Burton. Oh well, I'm sure she'll work that out.

This has me completely bummed out. You don't have many people around today who are beautiful, awesome actresses, AND caring and giving besides.

Old Hollywood is just about gone at this point. :(

Of course, they talked about this on The View. Both Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Walters was friends of Elizabeth Taylor.

They showed Walters' interviews from 1977 and 1987. In the 1977 interview, Taylor talked about being happy and not caring that she's gotten fat. That interview always rubbed me the wrong way and, of course, I saw the interview years later because it was done the year that I was born.

Then The View talked about issues with Taylor's weight and overall healthy and how comedians (i.e. SNL) and others became very mean about it.

:( RIP Elizabeth Taylor

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RIP

dang, I didn't really remember Liz T holdin' it down all like that back in the day. :)

Like Lena Horne, (swoon) who still had "major foiness" later in her life, although you felt lightweight squimish about it knowing she was older, LT aged nicely.

THIS.
Exactly what I thought.

Help me out, please:o. This isn't even in the Urban Dictionary.

She surely was a beautiful woman. It's hard to believe that she was younger than Shirley Temple.

I tried to post a picture, but it wouldn't paste. Try this: from Suddenly Last Summer


ETA: Am I the only one who thought that Zsa Zsa would have gone first?

I truly thought she'd somehow survive this time. So sad, but here's hoping she rests in the peace she deserves.

Maybe it's a typo or slang meaning "fine-ness" or something like that.

Oh goodness gracious people, "foiness" is just "fineness" said a certain way. You all have never heard someone say "AND SHE IS FOINE!!!" ??

Because I also liked Paul Newman.

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A..._eezqCLiL74YRwhttp://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...WdnPaUpRNguySj

Other good photos on wonderwall/msn: http://wonderwall.msn.com/movies/in-...hotoId%3D49142

What a beautiful woman. I have always wondered what her background was. Most of what I've found has said she's Caucasian only, but she has an extremely exotic look.

LOL @ caucasian only. Does that prevent exotic looks?

All accounts just say she was born in Hampstead and her parents were Americans so I assume her parents were white. Since North American whiteness (race) consists of different ethnicities, I would be interested to know her parents' ethnic backgrounds. Her mother had a Switzerland background on her paternal side and I don't know what her father's ethnic background is. His background is probably also European.

I guess that was a poor choice of words on my part, but I meant "not caucasian and ____"

What does that mean?

Being caucasian and having ethnic backgrounds that are considered white do not preclude exotic looks.

Many of the people I've seen with similar features identify as "Greek/Spanish/Portuguese/Black/whatever and white," so it made me wonder if she had a very prominent "other" in her background.

I think I just did a poor job of explaining what I was thinking. I realize that being white doesn't mean you won't look a certain way.

Sorry but this explanation is even stranger than the first post. LOL.

Greek, Spanish, and Portuguese are "white" ethnicities. Are these ethnicities the "other" that you are talking about? Why would they be an "other?" Someone who racially identifies as white is not void of an ethnic background regardless of whether they know or divulge their ethnic background.

So, are you really just wondering what her specific ethnic background is without assuming that it is a "nonwhite" ethnicity?

Basically. More of an "I wonder" thing than a "She must be mixed because she looks like that"

*sigh of relief*

ETA: I read that her father has an Italian background and read somewhere else that Elizabeth Taylor's ethnic background is "Welsh, Irish, English, Swiss, and Dutch." I don't know how accurate that is but it may explain the "dark features" (including dark hair) that some consider exotic. Makeup can explain the rest. :p

I hate to say it, but celebrity deaths always seem to happen in 3's. Nate Dogg, Liz T.... one more.

FYP

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Loleatta Holloway.

Thanks k_s, brain fart. I was singing "Regulators" in my head again.

My exact thought. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/...f13a96c_mj.jpg

R.I.P. Ms. Taylor.http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/r...lor-235322.jpg

Of course they will. But I would wager they're going to get beat up at this one.

DrPhil -

One of my friends is friends with a Houston-based model, and her FB page shows what I was trying to explain.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stepha...42776545755216

(note -- she is a bikini model, so don't click if you don't want to see the 4 pictures of her showcasing that)

/random bump

Completely off topic but funny nevertheless, most of y'all know that I have cousins who are mixed black and white. Most of them are light skinned, as their black side was very light to begin with. My first cousin named her children AA names, as she identified with being black more than white, and didn't want her kids going through the same struggle she did.

At my mother's viewing, I introduced my now-husband to my cousin, Ebony. She is very beautiful, with black hair and grey eyes. When we got back to my house, DH said, "I don't think I've ever met a white woman named Ebony." I replied, "You still haven't."

I still don't know who had the funniest reaction, DH's, or Ebony & her mother!

It's the Welsh probably as much as the Italian.