Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor. This was before my time, believe it or not, but, I still remember mom and the aunties taking sides in heated debates. Debbie Reynolds was Americas sweetheart and in 1955 she married crooner Eddie in tinsel towns fairy tale of family perfection. Everyone ate it up, tons of magazines were sold and the love only increased when the couple produced two perfect children, Todd and Carrie. Yeah, THAT Carrie Fisher, Princess Leia, for you younguns.
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Then the trouble started. Eddie was cast in the film Butterfield 8 with "the most beautiful woman in the world", Liz Taylor. Taylor was a hot young widow having lost her 3rd husband Mike Todd in a plane crash in 1958. The plane was ironically dubbed The Lucky Liz. Not so much, hu?
Then the trouble started. Eddie was cast in the film Butterfield 8 with "the most beautiful woman in the world", Liz Taylor. Taylor was a hot young widow having lost her 3rd husband Mike Todd in a plane crash in 1958. The plane was ironically dubbed The Lucky Liz. Not so much, hu?
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Do I need to tell you what happened next? Think Jolie and Pitt in Mr. And Mrs. Smith. Yeah. So Eddie left perfect adorable Debbie and his kids for sexy hot foul mouthed Liz and her kids. They married in 1959. The world of gossip exploded, the entire planet chose sides and Liz pretty much lost. She was seen as a home wrecker and a slut, but, I doubt she gave a shit. She's Liz Taylor. Sooooo, did Liz break Eddies heart? Well, she was cast in Cleopatra which came out in 1963 and also starred Richard Burton. Burton became her fifth AND sixth husband. Eddie was history. Liz was gorgeous and her movies rocked so the public forgave her, but, no one forgot. Stealing darling Debbie's hubby is still the biggest celeb scandal in history.
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Debbie and Liz, who were friends before it all went down, eventually made up. But, they still can't stand Eddie, which is hilarious. The two gals even made a movie called These Old Broads where they mocked the ex husband they shared, his name was "Freddie". Doesn't it make you wonder if Jolie and Aniston will someday be cast in the same film? Man, that would be a huge box office hit. Anyhow, what I remember most as a kid looking at all these Taylor, Fisher, Reynolds magazine covers was..why would either one of those ladies want him?? But, I joined Liz's side because I thought she was glamorous and I heard she could cuss like a drunken sailor.
Debbie and Liz, who were friends before it all went down, eventually made up. But, they still can't stand Eddie, which is hilarious. The two gals even made a movie called These Old Broads where they mocked the ex husband they shared, his name was "Freddie". Doesn't it make you wonder if Jolie and Aniston will someday be cast in the same film? Man, that would be a huge box office hit. Anyhow, what I remember most as a kid looking at all these Taylor, Fisher, Reynolds magazine covers was..why would either one of those ladies want him?? But, I joined Liz's side because I thought she was glamorous and I heard she could cuss like a drunken sailor.
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Boy oh boy, body language sure tells a lot! 'cause in this picture, he'd of still been married to Debbie, but he's leaning closer to Liz, and he's got a sheepish "we've-already-done-it" look on his face.
Fisher and Pitt, both philanderers, differ greatly, in my estimation.
Fisher wasn't a philanthropist, though, was he?
He, rather, descended in every way, as I recall.
I see a very real tie-in, or correlation, between EF and BP, in that, each had a sweet, hot, pretty, successful, apparently loving wife, and each tossed her for a vampish, promiscuous, glamorous sex bomb.
I was always on Debbie Reynolds side...I was a kid, too...and, yet, I sure did dream of Liz.
Everybody hated Fisher after that.
AJ and AJ may do a movie, but you can bet that it will come when both of their careers are on the slippery slopes.
*sigh* it's that Jewish dick. I have joined the Dark Side, and sworn off of it. Everyone else can go enjoy it (and good luck with THAT), this MOT is marrying a shaygitz.
love the old gossip!
So who's side on you on the whole Aniston and Jolie debacle?
Regarding the AJ-BP-AJ drama, I, for one, am not taking sides.
...just in case I should, somehow, get lucky with one of the AJs.
I don't want to arm either AJ with something that she could use against me.
I don't really have a side in the Jolie/Aniston thing..but, the more Jolie talks the less I like her.
I was born after all that, but it seemed Liz could get anything she wanted. That's not nice, but she didn't seem to have the salacious nature that AJ has.
Angeline Jolie reminds me of a ex-friend of mine. This girl had been a heroin addict and prostitute at age 14. Sexually - swung both ways. Collected coupons out of the Sunday newspaper. Got a job as a manager of a law firm and married the name patner and became Sadie-Married-Lady. I used to think, "Geez! Pick a fucking personality!"
When I was in my early teens, we had a next-door neighbor who was the picture of Liz Taylor.
I've been told that she even won an Elizabeth Taylor Look-Alike Contest back in 1961.
She had a better resemblance to Liz than her stand-in for Cleopatra, Joan Collins.
My dad, I hear, was smitten.
Nothing ever transpired, I am told, but my mom, being on home hospice, didn't want her notified, for some reason.
There will always be a "thing" between Jolie and Anniston.
^Anonymous September 7, 2008 11:18:00 AM PDT, above, was me, if it matters.
...and, it was me if it don't matters 2.
(Too kweek on the radio button.)
(If I used LOL, I say LOL.)
...but, I don't.
...so I won't.
Coffee!
Coffee!
9:50 & 11:13 are the only posts on here that make any sense. The rest...I'm just scratching my head thinking WTF are they talking about?
Anyway, I always liked Debbie, Liz was fab. I was born a few years after this all came about. But I was old enough to see Liz & Richard Burton divorce & remarry & show up on Lucy's Show with THAT diamind ring! They were glamorous and fabulous. No doubt. Debbie just kinda disappeared. I read about Liz's home a few years ago. How when she was young her home was FILTHY. She had animals all over the house & shit everywhere. Not a clean dish in the house. & she was married to Eddie when this was taking place. It was a goood book! She was Nasty! well, Princess Lea is fat now. Liz is in a wheelchair. Richard is dead. Now we have Brad & Angie to discuss. I don't want to tho.
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