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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (February 25, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1628920696
  • ISBN-13: 978-1628920697
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.2 x 8.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsHollywood and celebrity gossip at its finest! I just soaked this book up! More than just about Ms. Taylor!!!
By deb on February 25, 2016
Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 Stars Wow, this just wasn't a book about Elizabeth Taylor. The author also went into the lives of people who were part of, included in or about Ms. Taylor's life. Princess Diana, Michael Jackson, Rock Hudson, and Montgomery Clift just to name a few.

Not only that, the book looked at the history of the paparazzi and the way America thought from the 1960's to today. Like someone going into rehab in the 1960's was total taboo, but today you see it all the time.

While it was more than I signed up for, it turned out to be a very interesting book. The author did a lot of research and you could tell. I really liked reading about the old days of Hollywood. And, I had no idea (of course, it's still not proven) that James Dean was gay, nor Montgomery Clift. There are lots of little tidbits in here that are great for you little trivia nuts (like me).

While there were a few pages I skipped over, I read most of the book and was highly entertained and learned a lot of things that I did not know. If this is the kind of stuff you like, this is right up your alley!

Thanks Bloomsbury Academic for approving my request and Net Galley for providing me a free e-galley in exchange for an honest review. My mind just soaked it up!
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4.0 out of 5 starsET: A Femme Fatale for the Ages
By Suzinne Barrett VINE VOICE on March 11, 2016
Format: Paperback
Have always admired Elizabeth Taylor for some of her movie roles, but more than anything I admired her because of WHO she was. Ballsy, cultivated yet coarse when the situation called for it, her partnerships with Richard Burton and her groundbreaking work to spread AIDS awareness. Even still, this book opened my eyes WIDE about Ms. Taylor's handling of the media during her many, many years in the public eye. How she managed to be so sexually aggressive, while her personal life was being served up on the public's platter, is even today pretty stunning. Case in point. When the newly widowed Taylor hooked up with the nearest male at hand - the hapless crooner, Eddie Fisher - she was questioned or more likely CHASTISED by gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. Elizabeth who had no intention of feeling guilty about it, retorted with this gem: "What was I supposed to do? Sleep ALONE?" How about simply not sleeping with someone else's HUSBAND?

Highly recommended for Liz fans or those interested in ultimate media power moves. My own caveat would be that the author does go off on tangents. However, overall this book is very well written, and the author's analysis is SPOT ON. Read it, and you will never look at Elizabeth Taylor in quite the same way ever again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars"Knowing" celebrities!
By Lala Lady on March 17, 2016
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This book gave one a totally different slant on ET's life - not a glossy book, but one that explains that we project onto celebrities a close knowledge of them where there really is no relationship, just what we read about them or how w see them as if we actually know that person. Everything in the book is extensively annotated - the only mistake that stood out was the author giving the year of Sybil Burton's death as being 1996, when in fact she didn't die until 2013! A very minor glitch in an otherwise fascinating sociologically expert work.
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4.0 out of 5 starsLiz Unedited
By G.I Gurdjieff TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on March 31, 2016
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This book puts Elizabeth Taylor's private life under the microscope and provides a large amount of information out there for fans and/or the curious. The end result is a sizzling mix of some very public fact tempered by the intimate details of the star's personal relationships. While her many marriages are discussed, the real gems are the facts that drove her friendships with celebrities like the short lived James Dean, her lengthy friendship with Montgomery Clift, and her later in life kinship with Michael Jackson that left a lot of folks scratching their heads. Woven into this mosaic was her long association with the studio system as well as her ability to remain current, relevant, and commercially viable as the good roles for a woman 'of a certain age' began to dry up. I particularly liked the image of old Hollywood and the good times when film was. It made for a heady mix and would definitely have huge appeal to Taylor fans.
The irony in all of this was initially I didn't love this book, but I did like it. In afterthought, this is a very good book that showed a lot of thought. It didn't rely exclusively on tabloid reports to present its subject and took the more difficult task of providing realistic and truthful information about one of the last superstars that came out of the studio system.
Since I ate up anything I read about Taylor since I was a kid, there was much that I was aware of. For me there were not a lot of new revelations. But this book was fun and provided a nice window to the not too far back past. Taylor passed five years ago. The anniversary of her death was celebrated a week ago. In considering this book, I got the sense that her passing was yet another sign that an era is skipping away and that Taylor was unique because she was mythical but also quite real.
This is a great book if you have an interest in Tayor or an interest in Hollywood fed by the old gossip rags I read this book compliments of Netgalley and liked it for its approach.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Biography Of Elizabeth Taylor !
By Amazon Customer on February 28, 2016
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Elizabeth Taylor:A Private Life For Public Consumption by Ellis Cashmore was released in 2016. Proof that interest in Elizabeth Taylor never wanes. A fine book with many sources tells the story of Elizabeth Taylor,as an actress, mother, and movie star.Lots of fine photographs also. Fans of Elizabeth Taylor will like this the most.
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