Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress, businesswoman and humanitarian. She began as a child actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She continued her career successfully into the 1960s, and remained a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. The American Film Institute named her the seventh greatest female screen legend in 1999.
Born in London to American parents, Taylor and her family moved from England to Los Angeles in 1939. She was noted for her beauty already as a child, and was given a film contract by Universal Pictures in 1941. Her screen debut was in a minor role in There's One Born Every Minute (1942), but Universal terminated her contract after a year. Taylor was then signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and had her breakthrough role in National Velvet (1944), becoming one of the studio's most popular teenage stars. She made the transition to adult roles in the early 1950s, when she starred in the comedy Father of the Bride (1950) and received critical acclaim for her performance in the tragic drama A Place in the Sun (1951).
Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)
Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles; 3 July 1912 – 19 November 1975) was a British novelist and short story writer. Kingsley Amis described her as "one of the best English novelists born in this century," Antonia Fraser called her "one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century," and Hilary Mantel said she was "deft, accomplished and somewhat underrated."
Life and writings
Born in Reading, Berkshire, the daughter of Oliver Coles, an insurance inspector, and his wife, Elsie May Fewtrell, Elizabeth was educated at The Abbey School, Reading and then worked as a governess, tutor, and librarian. She married John Taylor, owner of a confectionery company, in 1936. They lived in Penn, Buckinghamshire for almost all their married life. She was briefly a member of the British Communist Party, then a lifelong Labour Party supporter.
Taylor's first novel, At Mrs. Lippincote's, was published in 1945 and was followed by eleven more. Her short stories were published in magazines and collected in four volumes. She also wrote a children's book. The British critic Philip Hensher called The Soul of Kindness a novel "so expert that it seems effortless. As it progresses, it seems as if the cast are so fully rounded that all the novelist had to do was place them, successively, in one setting after another and observe how they reacted to each other.... The plot... never feels as if it were organised in advance; it feels as if it arises from her characters' mutual responses."
Elizabeth Taylor (disambiguation)
Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) was an Anglo-American actress.
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Eye color
Eye color or eye colour is a polygenic phenotypic character determined by two distinct factors: the pigmentation of the eye's iris and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris.
In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from light brown to black, depending on the concentration of melanin in the iris pigment epithelium (located on the back of the iris), the melanin content within the iris stroma (located at the front of the iris), and the cellular density of the stroma. The appearance of blue and green, as well as hazel eyes, results from the Tyndall scattering of light in the stroma, a phenomenon similar to that which accounts for the blueness of the sky called Rayleigh scattering. Neither blue nor green pigments are ever present in the human iris or ocular fluid. Eye color is thus an instance of structural color and varies depending on the lighting conditions, especially for lighter-colored eyes.
The brightly colored eyes of many bird species result from the presence of other pigments, such as pteridines, purines, and carotenoids. Humans and other animals have many phenotypic variations in eye color. The genetics of eye color are complicated, and color is determined by multiple genes. So far, as many as 15 genes have been associated with eye color inheritance. Some of the eye-color genes include OCA2 and HERC2. The earlier belief that blue eye color is a simple recessive trait has been shown to be incorrect. The genetics of eye color are so complex that almost any parent-child combination of eye colors can occur. However, OCA2 gene polymorphism, close to proximal 5′ regulatory region, explains most human eye-color variation.
Blue eyes (disambiguation)
Blue eyes is a common eye color.
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Blue Eyes (film)
Blue Eyes (Portuguese: Olhos Azuis) is a 2009 Brazilian drama film directed by José Joffily.
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Not satisfied with the retirement and on his last day at the job, a U.S. immigration officer holds arbitrarily Latin passengers inside a room of a New York airport. There he conducts interrogations that takes a surprising and tragic course.
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Elizabeth Taylor (painter)
Elizabeth Taylor (January 8, 1856 - March, 1932) was an American artist, journalist, botanist and traveller. Her travel essays from Alaska, Canada, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway were published in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Atlantic Monthly, Forest and Stream and others. Some of her essays are published in The Far Islands and Other Cold Places (ISBN 1-880654-11-3).
During World War I she was marooned at Eiði in the Faroe Islands, where she was a probable influence on Faroese painting pioneer Niels Kruse. She died at her cottage Wake Robin in Vermont, in 1932.
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Elizabeth Taylor
ALBUMS
- Greatest Hits 1970–2002 released: 2003
- One Night Only released: 2000
- All Singing - All Talking - All Rocking released: 1973
Greatest Hits 1970–2002
Released 2003- Blue Eyes
- I'm Still Standing
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
- Sad Songs (Say So Much)
- Nikita
- Sacrifice
- The One
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
- Circle of Life
- Believe
- Made in England
- Something About the Way You Look Tonight
- Written in the Stars
- I Want Love
- This Train Don't Stop There Anymore
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- Are You Ready for Love
One Night Only
Released 2000- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- Rocket Man
- Crocodile Rock
- Sacrifice
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight
- Bennie and the Jets
- Your Song
- Sad Songs (Say So Much)
- Candle in the Wind
- Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
- I'm Still Standing
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
All Singing - All Talking - All Rocking
Released 1973- Excerpt from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- (I Want) The Real Thing
- On My Life
- Don’t You Feel My Leg (Don’t You Make Me High)
- Higher and Higher
- Let Me In
- Excerpt from Treasure of the Sierra Madre (feat. & Alfonso Bedoya)
- Ramblin’ Man
- Cuckoo
- Take a Look at the Light
- Inside
- Excerpt from Rebel Without a Cause
- Plantaganet
- I’m the Slime
- Bullet Train
Born: 1932-02-27
Died: 2011-03-23
Elizabeth Taylor
ALBUMS
- The Great American Composers: Leonard Bernstein released: 1990
The Great American Composers: Leonard Bernstein
Released 1990- On the Town: Overture
- On the Town: New York, New York
- On the Town: Lonely Town
- On the Town: Dance of the Great Lover
- On the Town: Lucky to Be Me
- On the Town: Times Square
- On the Town: Some Other Time
- Trouble in Tahiti: I Was Standing in a Garden
- Trouble in Tahiti: What a Movie!
- Wonderful Town: Overture
- Wonderful Town: Ohio
- Wonderful Town: A Little Bit in Love
- Wonderful Town: It's Love
- Wonderful Town: A Quiet Girl
- Wonderful Town: Swing!
- Wonderful Town: Ballet at the Village Vortex
- Wonderful Town: Wrong Note Rag
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by Steve Miller Band
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by Middle Brother
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by King Diamond
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by Blue Eyes
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by Jill Andrews
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by Bzn
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by Mika
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by Wedding Present
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by Destroyer
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by Uncle Tupelo
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by The Wedding Present
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by Buzzcocks
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by Driving East
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by July For Kings
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by Elton John
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by Halestorm
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by Good Shoes
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by Steve Miller
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by Ladyhawke
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by The Slaughter Rule Soundtrack
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by Paul Baribeau
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by Coffee Creek
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by Cya
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by Timmy Curran
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by Admiral Freebee
Blue Eyes
by: Michael TomlinsonWhen I'm not ready, I disappear
Sunlight falls down on empty air
No raindrops fell, to drown your sparks
Blue eyes have me run through the heart
This morning sky, and those gulls in flight
Your breah and mine synchronized
Hot sun on skin, oh the world so far
Blue eyes that show me something more
True eyes that show me something more
Blue eyes there, in my sleep
They can soar so damn deep
Calm me down tenderly
Things like this don't happen to me
I've been around, my mind's made up
I chose to seek the loner's cup
So what are you doing in my dreams
Blue eyed lover, blue eyed friend
I hope this wonder never ends
Some things I've learned, at least I thought
But on this earh who knows what?
Red fire at night, oh on a shadowed floor
Your touch was light your eyes said more, more, more
And I said more, more, more
We both said more, more, more
Your eyes said more, more, more
I said more, more, more
We all need more, more, more
More real love and more real dreams
I'll teach you and you teach me
More about people and more about friend
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