your highness

when one thinks of the word "icon," this is the face they instantly think of. those smoldering eyes, that luscious hair, that knowing expression of classicism and world-weariness. the queen of cinema for six decades, who defined what it meant to be a movie star and fully lived the extravagant lifestyle attached to such a title. this was a woman who grew up during the golden age of mgm, who became a teenage rebel trapped by studio restrictions, who won an oscar for a movie she hated and then one she adored, who was the first actor to get over $1 million a picture. with her many husbands, even more diamonds, iconic acting style and fierce attachment to activist organizations, elizabeth taylor was a true goddess and human being, using her immense power for greatness. when i found out she died, i was in an intense funk and i have been all day. it's like i never expected her to die; i always imagined her to live forever. but then again, she will live forever. permanently captured until the end of time, she lives on through film in each frame, each shot, each movement, and each utterance of dialogue. long live the queen, the original bad bitch.