The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice (21 page)

140    “I’m sure Taylor did support the Equal Rights Amendment …”: Liz Smith to M. G. Lord, e-mail, March 31, 2009.

141    “a hoot”: Interview with Kate Burton, New York City, May 14, 2010. (All Kate Burton quotations are from this interview.)

141    “Eating became one …”: Taylor,
Elizabeth Takes Off
, 44.

142    “John went his way …”: Ibid., 45.

142    “the wife of some dim dilettante …”: Garry Trudeau,
A Tad Overweight, but Violet Eyes to Die For
(New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1979), 8.

142    “domestic Siberia”: Taylor,
Elizabeth Takes Off
, 42.

142    Meeting with Zev Buffman: Mann,
How to Be a Movie Star
, 404.

17.   
The Little Foxes
, 1981

143    “I’m going to be alive …”: Lillian Hellman,
Six Plays by Lillian Hellman
(New York: Vintage Books, 179), 198.

143    “What if this woman …”: Interview with Austin Pendleton, New York City, August 13, 2008. (All Pendleton quotations are from this interview.)

146    “Miss Taylor is no cardboard harridan …”: Frank Rich, “Stage: The Missus Taylor and Stapleton in ‘Foxes,’ ”
New York Times
, May 8, 1981, http://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/08/theater/stage-the-misses-taylor-and-stapleton-in-foxes.html?scp=5&sq=rich%20little%20foxes%20review&st=cse.

146    “I’m really Alexandra …”: Conversation between Lillian Hellman and Elizabeth Taylor as recalled by Pendleton.

18.   1982–1984

149    “Richard Burton looked at me …”: Pendleton interview.

149    “I have to talk to you …”: Ibid.

150    “He had an eye”: McWhorter interview.

150    “I never touched a drop …”: Taylor,
Elizabeth Takes Off
, 98.

151    “all the vitality …” Frank Rich, “Theater: ‘Private Lives’ Burton and Miss Taylor,”
New York Times
, May 9, 1983, http://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/09/theater/theater-private-lives-burton-and-miss-taylor.html?scp=2&sq=%22private%20lives%22%20frank%20rich&st=cse.

151    “family intervention”: Taylor,
Elizabeth Takes Off
, 99.

151    “The entire process …”: Ibid., 100.

153    Taylor cooled to Colacello: Conversation with Bob Colacello, Los Angeles, November 9, 2008.

153    “Debauched Mary”: Bob Colacello,
Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up
(New York: HarperCollins, 1990), 154.

153    The leaf plucking is detailed in ibid., 156–57.

153    “big fat joints of Brazilian marijuana …”: Ibid., 346.

153    “No movie …”: Liz Smith to M. G. Lord, e-mail, March 31, 2009.

154    “Its three roots …”: Taylor,
Elizabeth Takes Off
, 105.

154    “She has been surrounded …”: Smith to Lord, e-mail, March 31, 2009.

155    “It was her greatest conscious gift”: Burton interview.

19.   Her Greatest Conscious Gift, 1984–2011

157    “A woman who advertised …”: Woolf,
Three Guineas
, 30.

157    “ “the judgment of God …”: Falwell’s
Old Time Gospel Hour
, August 7, 1983.

158    “We were young doctors …”: Interview with Michael Gottlieb, Los Angeles, May 18, 2011. (All Gottlieb quotations are from this interview.)

159    “Why did they bring him …”: Interview with Francine Hanberg, Los Angeles, October 6, 2010.

162    “lame-dog causes …”: Frank Sinatra, quoted in Taraborelli,
Elizabeth
, 397.

162    “When I saw that my fame …”: Elizabeth Taylor, quoted in Liz Smith, “Elizabeth Taylor, Close Up,”
Architectural Digest
, July 2011, 64.

162    “At a time when disgust …”: Sean Strub’s remembrance in Kevin Sessums, Elizabeth Taylor Interview About Her AIDS Advocacy,
Daily Beast
, March 23, 2011, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/03/23/elizabeth-taylor-interview-about-her-aids-advocacy-plus-stars-remember.html.

164    “On a personal level …”: Telephone interview with Dr. David Ho, November 18, 2010.

164    “love of the work itself”: Woolf,
Three Guineas
, 171.

164    “wildly exaggerated”: Interview with Sally Morrison, Los Angeles, October 20, 2011.

165    “Working at the age of nine …”: Elizabeth Taylor, interview by Larry King, May 30, 2006.

165    “I really was concerned …”: Burton interview.

165    “I don’t see her …”: Ibid.

166    “No RIP Elizabeth Taylor …”: Margie Phelps, quoted in
Huffington Post
, “Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Elizabeth Taylor Funeral: March 24, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/24/westboro=baptist=church=elizabeth=taylor_n_839979.html.

166    “Feminism is …”: Pollitt in “Rebecca Traister, Hanna Rosin, and Others.”

166    “her greatest conscious gift”: Burton interview.

167    “all of us who were HIV positive …”: Sessums, Elizabeth Taylor Interview.

Footnotes

*
His real title.

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