Elizabeth Taylor Articles

BAFTA Fellowship: Few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood, Steven Spielberg Before Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder [Photo: Laurence Olivier] 1971 Alfred Hitchcock 1972 Freddie Young 1973 Grace Wyndham Goldie 1974 David Lean 1975 Jacques Cousteau 1976 Charles Chaplin, Laurence Olivier 1977 Denis Forman 1978 Fred Zinnemann 1979 Lew Grade, Huw Wheldon 1980 David Attenborough, John Huston 1981 Abel Gance, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1982 Andrzej [...]

Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho set The first recipient of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Fellowship, "awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image," was director Alfred Hitchcock in 1971. Dozens of film, television, and assorted media personalities have become BAFTA Fellows since then, though the pattern here — as most elsewhere — is that achievements by men [...]

Elizabeth Taylor, who died of congestive heart failure at the age of 79 last March 23 in Los Angeles, was known for wearing diamonds the size of icebergs. Well, Taylor's jewelry collection has been auctioned for a record-setting $115 million on Tuesday night at Christie's in New York. A 33.19-carat diamond ring given her by two-time husband Richard Burton (Taylor and Burton were married and [...]

"TCM Remembers 2011" is out. Remembered by Turner Classic Movies are many of those in the film world who left us this past year. As always, this latest "TCM Remembers" entry is a classy, immensely moving compilation. The haunting background song is "Before You Go," by OK Sweetheart. Among those featured in "TCM Remembers 2011" are Farley Granger, the star of Luchino Visconti's Senso and [...]