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How many esteemed American movies satisfy the following conditions? Derived from a novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author; Made within a year of the book's publication; Shot with evocative distinction in and around the author's hometown; Recruited the author's favorite riding horse for a conspicuous role; Pleased the author but failed at the ...

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.

Out on DVD are four great new collections courtesy of Turner Classic Movies and Warner Brothers.

"How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood" by William J. Mann Reviewed by Larry Cox There's a remarkable story in William J. Mann's new biography of Elizabeth Taylor.

How To Be A Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood lifts the lid off scandalous times in Hollywood history.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR has hailed her late pal MICHAEL JACKSON as a "modern-day prophet". The Hollywood legend also praised his new This Is It flick, calling it the best movie ever made.

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.

One of the most respected and versatile actresses of the 20th century, Angela Lansbury was a star in three mediums - " film, television, and stage - " and maintained her status over the course of a 60-year-career. Her film.... One of the most respected and versatile actresses of the 20th century, Angela Lansbury was a star in three mediums - " ...

IMAGES Angela Lansbury, 1989.[Credits : Alan Light] Main American actress born October 16, 1925, London, Eng.

Contributor: "Dr. J" Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness.

If, as film historian Jeanine Basinger has it, movie stardom is an inexplicable--but immediately recognizable--quality, then William J. Mann's new Elizabeth Taylor biography, is the first and last word on its chosen subjects--namely, movie stardom and Elizabeth Taylor herself, an epitome of the mysterious quality that makes the screen come alive.

In the airy living room of her brick-and-shingle house tucked into a hillside in Los Angeles's Bel Air enclave, Elizabeth Taylor settles into an armchair, adjusting the shoulders of a lime-green sweater worn casually over black slacks and black high-heeled boots.

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.

British-born actress Elizabeth Taylor said in a Twitter posting Thursday night that this week's heart procedure went well.

From the time she first appeared on screen in 1941, Elizabeth Taylor has revelled in her ability to stand apart I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife." So said Elizabeth Taylor, she of the violet eyes and pear-shaped diamonds, the yachts off Corsica and marriages numbering eight; the same who, after a tracheotomy, required three nurses to ...

Elizabeth Taylor speaks at the Macy's Passport Fashion Show gala on Sept. 24, 2009, in Santa Monica, Calif.

Her beauty was the stuff of legend - but Elizabeth Taylor cut a frail figure at Macy's fundraiser fashion show in Santa Monica last night.

Film and stage legend Mickey Rooney and his wife, singer/actress Jan Rooney, perform at the Orillia Opera House on Sept.

Helen Nottingham of Batavia and Charlotte Stephens of Aurora came to The Arcada Theatre for a Sunday show -- something they did as young girls.

A balmy breeze, night skies and the ever youthful images of Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney will welcome movie enthusiasts who come out for the Recreation Commission's last outdoor movie evening.