{"id":35501,"date":"2011-03-23T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T13:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=35501"},"modified":"2011-03-23T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T18:30:05","slug":"im-sorry-folks-im-not-used-to-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=35501","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m Sorry, Folks. I\u2019m Not Used to Acting.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WABqYy--n3M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I remember very well Elizabeth Taylor&#8217;s stint on <i>General Hospital<\/i> (it was my show, back in the day), but I remember even better that she was featured on a Bloopers show.  Thanks to the magic of Youtube, I have found those Bloopers.  Her laugh is what strikes me.  Her big generous laugh. She didn&#8217;t get to utilize it all that often in her roles, but listen to it.  Her sense of humor about herself, and how she KEPT either getting the name wrong, or getting it right but THINKING she got it wrong.  Hilarious.  I love the first clip of Anthony Geary having a scene with her and going up on his lines.  He pauses, blanks, and then turns around and screams to the crew: &#8220;IT&#8217;S ELIZABETH TAYLOR!&#8221;  I love this because you can almost see that that is exactly why he blanked on his lines.  He was a huge star at that point, in the soap world. He OWNED <i>General Hospital<\/i>. But there he was, staring at Elizabeth Taylor, and you can almost see pinwheels in his eyes. Like: &#8220;I am acting with Elizabeth freakin&#8217; Taylor RIGHT NOW. I can&#8217;t believe this!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the best is Liz&#8217;s comment after the third or fourth take of one particular line.  <\/p>\n<p>What a classy dame.  <\/p>\n<p>One of a kind.  The end of an era. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember very well Elizabeth Taylor&#8217;s stint on General Hospital (it was my show, back in the day), but I remember even better that she was featured on a Bloopers show. Thanks to the magic of Youtube, I have found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=35501\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23],"tags":[2075],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35501"}],"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=35501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35571,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35501\/revisions\/35571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}