Elizabeth Taylor, Cleopatra Star and Oscar Winner, Was a Pioneering AIDS Activist
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Elizabeth Taylor, who would have turned 89 on Feb. 27, lived multiple lives. She was a movie mega-star, a tabloid mega-celebrity (which are not always the same thing), an innovator in creating herself as a brand and a tireless and effective philanthropist and activist.
She was adored, admired, denounced, scandal-ridden and unpredictable, and the public couldn’t get enough of her.
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On screen, she was at her most breathtakingly beautiful in such 1950s and ‘60s films as “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Suddenly, Last Summer,” “Cleopatra” and “The Taming of the Shrew.” And in the 1966 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” at age 34, she frumped herself up and gave a great performance, winning the second of two Oscars (after the 1960 “Butterfield 8”).
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Book World: Why is The Push so popular? Perhaps because it plays into a mother s worst fears.
Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
Jan. 21, 2021
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The new year s first blockbuster novel is The Push, by Ashley Audrain, a psychological suspense tale about a mother s fears that her preschool-age daughter may be a psycho killer. If this premise sounds familiar, you may be recalling The Mother of All Evil Spawn Stories, the 1956 film The Bad Seed. (When I was growing up in New York, occasional reruns of The Bad Seed would play on The Million Dollar Movie, which featured the same classic film every afternoon for a week, thus imprinting it on malleable viewers brains.) The Bad Seed, which was inspired by a 1954 novel of the same name by William March, also was a psychological suspense tale about a mother who suspects her young daughter is a budding Ted Bundy in pigtails. In The Bad Se