Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Smoke


The classic 50s brunette. R.I.P.

Yet, what has she left us? With the exception of Minnelli in the two Father of the Bride movies (and doing very well for him), she never worked with a great director. There is that magnificent game room scene with Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (1951), but that's more Clift than Taylor. And she is an angel adolescent in her child movies of the middle-1940s.

Not much.

Still, try as they may, who else in the world looks like this?



And speaking of cigarettes, the great Lewis Lapham on the evil of banning them.