TAYLOR The Last True Hollywood Diva

Elizabeth Taylor was a "diva" when that word still had meaning, before itwas applied to every female celebrity with slightest bit of attitude andstyle. She was also one of the first actors to be raised to celebritystatus by the media for the dramatic conflicts of her personal life asmuch as for any thespian achievements on the screen. In a time whenstudios controlled the news that was fed to the media about their valuable"properties," Taylor's expansive personality and roller coaster personallife was way too extravagant and exciting to be contained by the spindoctors of Hollywood.In the "Movie Icon Series", people talk aboutHollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are inheaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talkabout these things, "Taschen" shows you. "Movie Icons" is a series ofphoto books that feature the most famous personalities in the history ofcinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. Foreach title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selectedapproximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorfulposters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublishedcandid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images areaccompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; eachbook also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and ispeppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.More bang foryour buck! "...a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand." - "TheNew York Times Book Review".