Elizabeth Taylor Being Fabulous
How fabulous? More fabulous than you, according to Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century, but also in a way that suggests that if you were her friend, you would totally write into Lucinda Rosenfeld to complain about her:
Besides being prone to sickness and accidents, she contractually demanded time off from filming during her menstrual periods. She was chronically, famously late, and she suffered flus, infections, bronchitis, and injuries the way other people caught colds. She once stepped on a wire while dancing at a wrap party, injuring herself and starting a fire.
Right? You know she was the sort of person who would make expansive hand gestures while drinking red wine on your white carpet. But, when the chips were down, bitch had your back:
Elizabeth had virtually saved [Montgomery] Clift’s life that night in 1956, crawling into the crushed vehicle and pulling out two teeth that had lodged in his throat, cradling his head before the ambulance arrived.