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How to be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood By William J Mann Faber, 496pp, A 20 Review by FRANK BRUNI SHE demanded a different holder for each of the many cigarettes she smoked daily during the filming of Cleopatra, and the holder's colour couldn't clash with the cloth on any table at which she smoked.

Elizabeth Taylor once remarked that she couldn't remember a time when she wasn't famous.

And I'm Michele Norris. Elizabeth Taylor is, without a doubt, one of Hollywood's all-time leading ladies.

Robert Hinkle's career started in earnest in the spring of 1955, when the self-described "two-bit" actor from Brownfield, Texas, got a phone call from the Famous Artists Agency asking him to sit down with George Stevens, the director of Shane , A Place in the Sun , and Gunga Din .

Elizabeth Taylor once remarked that she couldn't remember a time when she wasn't famous.

Gay novelist and celebrity biographer William J. Mann. His new Elizabeth Taylor biography is being praised for offering fresh insights into Taylor's history.

She demanded a different holder for each of the many cigarettes she smoked daily during the filming of "Cleopatra," and the holder's color couldn't clash with the cloth on any table at which she smoked.

Nathaniel Rogers would live inside a movie theater but for the poor internet reception.

Shelley Winters was a film actress, noted for her roles in "The Diary of Anne Frank," and "A Place in the Sun." She won two Oscars for "The Diarly of Anne Frank," and "A Patch of Blue." She is probably most known for her role in "The Poseidon Adventure," the 1972 action/disaster flick.

No one has Montgomery Clift's eyes. Those haunted, sensitive eyes that gazed at the viewer with method modernity and timeless emotion -- pleading and gentle, but with the potential for reckless selfishness.

FOR one of Hollywood's last icons, long accustomed to ranks of publicists employed to manage her myth, micro-blogging appeared an incongruous, almost inelegant medium for Dame Elizabeth Taylor to speak to her faithful.

Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor took to Twitter to announce her intend to go to the hospital for a heart surgery.

Every week, we look ahead to a soon-to-be-published title that piques our interest.

The drama that played out 75 years ago inside the Luzerne County Courthouse had all the elements of a best-selling novel: a love triangle, a handsome leading man and a horrific crime.

Watching heroes perform, one of two things can happen: they can let you down horribly, racked with age and ambivalence, or they can rise like a Phoenix to deliver the kind of show you will remember for the rest of your life.

Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire in "Funny Face." We go to the movies hungry for the stories.

Nineteen23, a new monthly program dedicated to "films that were screened in schools instead of theaters, in small places instead of big ones, and for specialized audiences instead of general ones," begins tonight at the Maryland Art Place with a group of short works reflecting the theme "Cities and Towns." Highlights of the program include Shirley ...

Pulitzer-winning playwright David Mamet is scripting and directing a big-screen version of " The Diary of Anne Frank " for Disney.

Born Shirley Schrift in St Louis, Missouri, and raised in Brooklyn, she was the daughter of a clothes designer and a singer , a liberal Jewish couple.

Born Shirley Schrift in St Louis, Missouri, and raised in Brooklyn, she was the daughter of a clothes designer and a singer , a liberal Jewish couple.