{"id":185540,"date":"2026-02-27T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=185540"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:50:15","slug":"substack-on-elizabeth-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=185540","title":{"rendered":"“I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.” — Elizabeth Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt’s her birthday today. <\/p>\n

I wrote a big piece on my Substack about National Velvet\/A Place in the Sun\/Suddenly Last Summer\/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\/Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf<\/em> and General Hospital<\/em>. Naturally there is more to discuss – her career lasted a lifetime – but these cover what I am trying to express about her skill and powers of imagination. Natural talent takes you only so far. Beauty takes you only so far. Her imagination is connected to her skill. <\/p>\n

Elizabeth Taylor: Voluptuary and Imaginary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s her birthday today. I wrote a big piece on my Substack about National Velvet\/A Place in the Sun\/Suddenly Last Summer\/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\/Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and General Hospital. Naturally there is more to discuss – … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4,39],"tags":[1456,1593,2075,2009],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190656,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185540\/revisions\/190656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}