Strike Update: Elizabeth Taylor Halts Strike For A Good Cause

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Access Hollywood

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (November 21, 2007) – Elizabeth Taylor can still command an audience. She has asked striking film and television writers to stop the strike for one day, and they have obliged.

On December 1, World AIDS Day, the Writers Guild has agreed not to picket in front of the Paramount lot, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter.

Elizabeth Taylor and James Earl Jones are scheduled to give a benefit performance of A.R. Gurney’s play “Love Letters,” to benefit Taylor’s AIDS Foundation.

The screen legend said she was not willing to cross the ongoing picket lines if the writers were still striking on December 1. She reportedly asked the WGA for a “one night dispensation.”

Read more: http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah7534.shtml

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[JohnnyLib2]

1. Still the queen...

:applause:

[lumpy]

21. Liz is one genuinely good person.

Bless her heart.

[bonito]

2. Diplomacy with class no less for the good of everyone

is still alive, glad to hear it!

[joeybee12]

3. I didn't think she could walk these days...

...wonder how she'll hold up to the rigors of the the-a-ter?

[Lucinda]

4. Love Letters is often staged with the two actors seated

if I remember correctly...

[Omaha Steve]

11. Correct

Marta and I saw it with Tony Randall and Kitty Carlisle. It was about six months before Mr Randall passes away.

[Lucinda]

12. I've read the play but have never seen it staged.

Very kewl that you saw it with Randall and Carslile. :)

[Orsino]

20. That's exactly how I saw it.

Neat play. Liz is doing a good thing.

[ooglymoogly]

5. more power to this wonderful woman.

[frazzled]

6. Liz speaks, Hollywood listens ...

nt/

[ldf]

7. this just shows the love and respect

that the entertainment community has for ms. taylor.

i don't believe anyone else could have gotten that kind of cooperation.

forget the trivialized, commercial repackaging of the definition of diva. if there is list of TRUE divas, la liz is listed first.

one face comes to the mind when you say "liz".

much love to the reigning first lady of hollywood...

:grouphug:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. A reasonable request, a gracious response.

The world could use a few more stories like this.

:toast:

[Canuckistanian]

9. Glad to see that Liz has the pull to do this

Her dedication to the AIDS cause has been amazing.

[Ian David]

10. That's great! But I bet the "9/11 truthers" will show-up to disrupt it.

I mean, they swoop in to shit all over everything.

I was at a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese last weekend, and as my kid was climbing around inside the tubes, some collapsetard came running in and said, "Hey! Put down the pizza, kids! Why won't Bill Maher tell the truth about Tower Seven!"

I had never seen a guy in a mouse suit hit someone before.

And let's hope I never do again.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. The 9/11 Truth people are disrupting Chuck E. Cheese?

Seems like that would be kind of hard to do. Gotta give em an A for effort on that. :)

[Ian David]

15. Well, they're running out of places to make assholes of themselves.

Soon, they'll surround your vehicle in the middle of the car wash during the hot wax cycle.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. And I was wondering if they would be stuffed in any turkeys tomorrow

[madeline_con]

18. Chuck E. hit the guy?

Do you have video? :rofl:

[complain jane]

14. Liz is awesome

As are all the creatives among us.

[David Zephyr]

17. I worship this woman. Liz, you are the greatest.

Elizabeth, you tower and will always will.

What respect and love Hollywood has for this woman because she deserves it.

[donsu]

19. love that Elizabeth! one of our greatest actors

can never forget her doing Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf

and I watched her do Cleopatra a few hours before I delivered my first child.

her work for AIDs is unstinting