they have a lot of money. they have the lives that most people want or think they want to live. and so, if you feel bad about that, shut up about it. you know? just stop whining. don t think about that. you have entered the lifestyle. as dick just pointed out, the last big light just wept out in hollywood. that bridge to what they call the golden era. that is now gone. everything grew from television thereafter. and this is this is a moment that will not come again. nick, nick? yes. thank you very much, indeed. i commend you for getting seven minutes out of the three of us so deftly. thank you. when we come back, a final thought on elizabeth taylor. [ sneezes ] allergies?
as an actress? well, i mean she glowed. if she was on screen, you didn t look at anyone else perhaps with the exception of montgomery clift. in a way they sort of looked alike, and they had become very close friends, and she he had gotten in a terrible accident leaving her house, and she actually saved is his life. she pulled his teeth from his throat. so she just and she loved her she loved acting. she actually i wrote something, this bizarre cheesy movie called these old broads, and it starred my mother and elizabeth and joan collins and shirley, and my mother and liz elizabeth had this scene where they basically were talking about my father referring to him as freddie, i believe, something subtle like that. she obviously had many
feeling well, miss taylor. how do you feel now? and she said as good as you can with diarrhea. everybody nick clooney, let me turn to you because you know a thing or two about good-looking people in hollywood. what was your memory of meeting elizabeth taylor? it s apparently stayed with you ever since. it sounds pretty good. the problem is you run into when you start, it s all cliches. you know, they just keep pouring out talk about the eyes, talk about the face. i was 19 years old visiting my sister rosemary on the paramount lot, and, of course, elizabeth worked for mgm, but she was working at paramount doing a doing elephant walk and the producer was a friend of mine and asked if i should meet elizabeth taylor. i fell over all the furniture getting out the door, of course. got there as quickly as i could and you are mesmerized. you look at that face at that moment in time and it was
a million they didn t offer her, she said she would do it for a million dollars. she was the first million dollar actress. this was i think 1962. she did it, and i didn t get the part. but about a year later, i m lying in bed, my agent calls me and said, stand by to get on the next plane to london. i said why, what s happening? he said, elizabeth is very, very sick. they think she s going to die, she s in the hospital in london, and they want you to take over as cleopatra. i said, i can t do that. she s a friend of mine, i would feel absolutely dreadful to do that if she s going to die, that i m going to go over and take over as cleopatra? he said, this is showbiz kid, you wait by the phone. i sat by the phone all day biting my nails, hoping she would get better, and, of course, she did get better as we all know, and i didn t get
with diarrhea. everybody nick clooney, let me turn to you because you know a thing or two about good-looking people in hollywood. what was your memory of meeting elizabeth taylor? it s apparently stayed with you ever since. it sounds pretty good. the problem is you run into when you start, it s all cliches. you know, they just keep pouring out talk about the eyes, talk about the face. i was 19 years old visiting my sister rosemary on the paramount lot, and, of course, elizabeth worked for mgm, but she was working at paramount doing a film called elephant walk and the producer was a close friend of mine and asked if i d like to go over to a closed set and meet elizabeth taylor? i fell over all the furniture getting out the door, of course, got there as quickly as i could. and you are mesmerized, but you look at that face at that moment in time, and it was paralyzing. and i was paralyzed. i was introduced, stumbled over everything. eventually they took us over to