Giant Breakdown
Liz Taylor lasted only a few minutes at arriving for a screening of her 1956 film “Giant” at the Cannes Film Festival before she broke down crying and had to be escorted away. In related news, many filmgoers broke down crying only a few minutes into a screening of Vincent Gallo’s “The Brown Bunny.”
I find Liz’s struggles quite disheartening, as she was film’s biggest star a few decades back, and she has done some great work for AIDS research–even before it was accepted to do so. Sad as it is, if she had died and Marilyn Monroe had lived, their places in our pantheon of pop culture icons would be reversed.