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"No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor's glamour and guts or her level of fame. She was the last major star to come out of the old Hollywood studio system and she is a legend known for her beauty and her magnetic screen presence in a career that spanned most of the twentieth century and nearly sixty films. But her private life was even more compelling than her Oscar-winning on-screen performances. During her seventy-nine years of rapid-fire love and...
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484 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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Despite all the gossip, the larger-than-life personality and influence of this very human woman has never been captured. Biographer Mann uses untapped sources and conversations to show how she ignited the sexual revolution with her on- and off-screen passions, helped kick down the studio system by taking control of her own career, and practically invented the big business of celebrity star-making. And he tells the full truth without losing Taylor's...
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391 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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A dual biography of entertainment legends Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson that explores their individual careers and personal lives leading up to and including their 25-year friendship.
Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson were an unlikely pair, yet their enduring friendship saw them through emotional upheavals, personal traumas and heartaches, unending health issues, and the often merciless public spotlight. Their intense emotional connection...
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147 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm
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Expanding her range of subjects further is Catherine Opie's ambitious recent series of photographs taken at the home of late movie star Elizabeth Taylor. Though glamour and celebrity are not common themes in her work, Opie was inspired by the possibilities this project offered, recalling William Eggleston's series on Elvis Presley's Graceland, or her own photographs of Obama's 2008 inauguration, both of which represent indirect portraits of their...
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xvii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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An award-winning author presents the history and impact of both the theatrical and cinematic versions of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and how it forced audiences to confront deeply-held concepts about relationships, sex and family.
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