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Eddie Murphy Hosting 84th Academy Awards Show

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Time Piece: The Story of Everyman’s Torment

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Rick Perry: PORN MOGUL!

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Remembering Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea

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China Becomes Hollywood’s New Best Frenemy

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Top 10 Dustin Hoffman Performances

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Harvey Milk Day 2011: You’ve Got to Give Them Hope

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Warhol’s Iconic Liz Taylor Portrait Gets $27 Million at Auction

Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen put his iconic 1963 Andy Warhol silkscreen portrait of Elizabeth Taylor on the block at Phillips de Pury’s Manhattan auction house on May 12, 2011, and it sold for $26,962,500 Million.

“Liz #5” (1963) has been described as is a rare and exquisite example of the world renowned images of feminine grace that catapulted Warhol to prominence nearly 50 years ago. This glamorous portrait of the legendary actress, Elizabeth Taylor, embodies the most important themes of Warhol’s body of work, including his fascination with celebrity, real-life drama and the fleeting nature of beauty. One of the artist’s most instantly recognized images, “Liz #5” is said to be a testament to Warhol’s unique and unrivaled contribution to the visual arts. “Liz #5” was created at the height of the Taylor’s fame, which also coincided with the most significant and creative period of Warhol’s career. The epitome of old-world Hollywood style and glamor, Elizabeth Taylor, who died on March 23rd, was one of Warhol’s most famous inspirations, along with Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy.

Taylor captured Warhol’s attention early on with her life’s high-profile romances and tragedy, a vibrancy and pathos that so attracted Warhol to her and ensured she was a formidable influence on his work throughout his career. It has been said that the power of her attraction has never been as evident as it is in this Warhol painting, which is a dazzling tribute to Elizabeth Taylor. This striking portrait is a testament to the legend and beauty of one of the world’s most beloved and iconic actresses, both capturing her very essence and transcending the limits of time.

Warhol’s 1962 Elizabeth Taylor work, “Men in Her Life,” went for $63.3 Million, the highest auction price paid in 2010 for a contemporary artwork and the second-highest auction price ever paid for a Warhol painting, behind the $71.7 Million paid in 2007 for his “1963 Green Car Crash, Green Burning Car I.” In 2009, Andy Warhol’s 1962 silk-screen painting “200 One Dollar Bills” sold for $43.8 Million at Sotheby’s, more than four times its estimated selling price. Unfortunately, Warhol wasn’t around to enjoy the fabulous joke of his pictures of money grabbing so much money. The seven-and-a-half-foot-wide canvas, one of Warhol’s first silk-screen paintings, looks like just what you’d think: 200 one-dollar bills. Yes, if you just take a wide look at today’s contemporary art world, that confection of bucks, puff and street smarts, you realize anew that Andy Warhol was the big daddy of it all!!

This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a photo-gallery and three documentary short films.

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Warhol’s Iconic Liz Taylor Portrait Could Draw $30M at May Auction

The iconic 1963 Andy Warhol silkscreen portrait of legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor will be auctioned on May 12, 2011, and is expected to sell for $20 Million to $30 Million. “Liz #5” was created at the height of the Taylor’s fame, which also coincided with the most significant and creative period of Warhol’s career. The glamorous portrait embodies the most important themes of Warhol’s body of work, which include celebrity, wealth, scandal, sex, death and Hollywood.

Elizabeth Taylor, the queen of American motion picture stardom, who enthralled generations of moviegoers with her stunning beauty and whose name was synonymous with Hollywood glamour, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles at the age of 79.

During a theatrical career that spanned six decades and more than 50 films, the legendary beauty won two Academy Awards as best actress, for her performances as a call girl in “BUtterfield 8” (1960) and as the acid-tongued Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966). Long after she faded from the motion picture screen, Taylor remained a mesmerizing figure. She was a child star who bloomed gracefully into an ingenue; a femme fatale both on the screen and in real life; a shrewd entrepreneur of high-priced perfume; and a pioneering activist in the fight against AIDS.

Taylor had many gay friends and, as the AIDS epidemic mushroomed, some of them were dying. In 1985, she became the most prominent celebrity to back what was then a most unfashionable cause. She agreed to chair the first major AIDS benefit, a fundraising dinner for the nonprofit AIDS Project Los Angeles. Taylor began calling her A-list friends to enlist their support, but many of Hollywood’s biggest stars turned her down. Undaunted, Taylor redoubled her efforts, aided along the way by the stunning announcement that Rock Hudson, the handsome matinee idol and her co-star in “Giant,” had the dreaded disease. She stood by Hudson, just as years later she would stand by pop-idol Michael Jackson during the latter’s struggle to defend himself against child abuse allegations.

Taylor went on to co-found the first national organization devoted to backing AIDS research, the American Foundation for AIDS Research, or AmFAR. In 1991, she formed the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, which directly supports AIDS education and patient care. Taylor’s AIDS work brought her the Legion of Honor in 1987, France’s highest civilian award, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ awarded her The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993. In 2000, Queen Elizabeth made her a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, an honor on the level of knighthood. Through her various efforts she would eventually raise more than $270 Million for AIDS research, prevention and care.

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Gandhi Said To Have Been Bisexual?

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Riccardo Tisci Replacing John Galliano At Dior

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Charlie Sheen Is More Entertaining Than The Oscars : Podcast

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Roy Teeluck's Oscar Looks

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Earano: Oscar Winner Luke Matheny Turns “Cyrano de Bergerac” on Its Ear

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The 2011 83rd Oscar Awards Red Carpet Report

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"You can tell that we're both Sheening pretty hard right there"

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The Oscar Debacle

This is Hollywood.

I’m reading the mixed reviews of last nights Oscars telecast and wondering how on Earth anyone would have said one good thing about the show. The pairing of young Hollywood’s sweethearts was such a mistake to where it reached epic proportions. I cringed through most of broadcast. Anne Hathaway has no gravitas whatsoever while James Franco was smug to the point of irritating. Sure, when Billy Crystal entered the room the audience stood to an ovation, the message being, “Help, please host this show again.” Anne Hathaway‘s song was ill-conceived, James Franco as Marilyn Monroe was a sad attempt at humor, ending with a sort of dick joke, “I got a text from Charlie Sheen.” Badum bum.

I went to one of the after parties and most people there shared my sentiments. I dare not name names, but the general consensus was that there were “no real movie stars involved in the telecast”. This, by the way, was from a couple of major movie stars. Except of course the one old timer, Kirk Douglas, who went on and on. At that point, the cringing kicked into high gear. His appearance was so catastrophic, that it made me scream from embarrassment for him. To his credit, it was not his fault, they should not have allowed for that to happen. It’s nice for old timers to participate, but please next time with dignity. And how about the ill-fitting white tuxedos for Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin? Where were these guy’s publicists. That should not have happened and heads should roll. Sorry, celebrity publicists are so good at putting the cabosh on things, that shame on you for letting that happen. I could go on and on but rather than bore you to tears, like last night’s Oscar telecast, let me leave you with this: What were those kids from Staten Island doing closing the show? It was cute, but such an after thought, and seemed like the producers would do anything to capture the young viewers who watch Glee.

Read more: http://imeanwhat.com/canyoubelieve/the-oscar-debacle#ixzz1FIXCCPdwThis is Hollywood. I’m reading the mixed reviews of last nights Oscars... more

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83rd Academy Awards WINNERS LIST – 2011 Oscars

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God of Love: The Amorous Misadventures of a Lounge-Singing Darts Champion

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Stats of the day: Oscar acceptance speech lengths

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