Is Elizabeth Taylor the most influential female pop culture icon ever?

For overeating, maybe.

She's literally not responsible for any of those things, OP.

No, it's Marilyn Monroe.

In the 70s, Liz was a bloated alcoholic. All the influence she had was, "Don't eat everything in sight while consuming large quantities of alcohol. And don't hang out with Liza Minnelli."

No she is not but Madonna, THE whore, is. This woman has given birth to millions and millions of sluts and whores worldwide

It’s Helen Lawson.

What film was Liz her fattest in?

Parts of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC?

Elizabeth Taylor was no Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Taylor's first husband's onetime Zsa Zsa Gabor was the first person known to be famous (just) for being famous.

No, OP. She's going to be mostly forgotten.

Yes! She was ridiculously gorgeous. Plus she had Richard Burton, one of the yummiest most manly man actors ever.

Many years ago data was put in a computer and the result was that Elizabeth Taylor was the most famous woman to have ever lived. For what it's worth.

No pics of Elizabeth yet? And by the way, she hated being called Liz.

The famous violet eyes.

Another lovely portrait

R14 That was one of the things that helped her to maintain being famous. She pretty much went through it all and did it all.

She had a birth defect where she was born with double eyelashes. That's one of the reasons she always looked so good even without any make up.

She was born with a tail and webbed feet. She was covered all over in silky black hair. Elizabeth Taylor later invented tattooed eyebrows and VD clinics out of personal necessity.

She's also responsible for ending the Cold War.

It's also well known that she discovered Radium.

And that's when she was just 7.

It is universally known she talked Albert Einstein of the roof of a twenty story Pizza Hut.

That would be Marilyn Monroe.

Liz Taylor also wrote most of the songs on Madonna's first two albums.

Never asked for credit, or received a dime.

But that's the way she was, happy to see others succeed under her benevolent tutelage.

Elizabeth was the inspiration for and the voice of E.T. It can now be revealed. He was the world's largest emerald and she just had to be him.

Not many people know this (but should), Libby riding in on a white horse, naked, into Capote's Blue & Yellow Ball at the Palace of Versailles triggered World War II.

Liz taught Janet Jackson how to whisper coo in exchange for illicit photos of Bubbles the Chimp humping the Elephant Man's bones in an oxygen tent.

R21 Sorry, but I'm a historian, and it was definitely Elizabeth Taylor who talked Albert Einstein off the roof a twenty story Pizza Hut.

Ms Taylor was a virtuoso at playing chop sticks on the xylophone with her generously sized clitoris.

It was Elizabeth Taylor who decided the universe should start with a bang (and not a whimper).

Liz was also the real mother of three of our greatest American Presidents, and one Canadian Prime Minister.

In her typically modest fashion, she kept it under wraps as to which ones.

If it wasn't for HRH Elizabeth Taylor, punk rock would have consisted of complicated 23 chord songs and dancing around a Maypole.

She also invented soap.

And face washing.

It was the lovely Elizabeth who first persuaded Wacko Jacko to get his nose done and skin bleached,

While still a teen, she invented rear-entry...

If she did nothing else in her short life, this would elevate her to sainthood.

The Original Tay Tay convinced the Spice Girls that Mulatto Spice, Barely Legal Spice, Hymenly Challenged Spice, Money-Grabber Spice and Smelly Box Spice wasn't going to work from a branding perspective.

Thank God she had the courage to wheel in and show a bit of leg to get some sense into the Brits.

In later years, Liz patented a unique pessary that plugged the cervix, removable by a jeweled handle.

It is still used in Zaire.

It was Elizabeth in the bunker with Hitler in his final hours.

From her plentiful bosom, at the allotted hour, Elizabeth retrieved the cyanide pills (reminiscent of the novelty oversized Prozac capsule owned by Carrie Fischer, Ms Taylor grand niece).

It was with the motherly warmth of her breast milk, Eva and Adolf swallowed their bitter demise.

And SCENE!

Mish Elizabeth Taylor, or La Liz, ash I called her, wash the mosht influential eater of her day. She put avocado toasht on the map. Maybe I will have one more vodka collinsh.

Once upon a time, Elizabeth Taylor jumped down from a passing comet and made herself known to Abraham, the father of the Israelites.

Abraham, a rather hospitable man, provided The Glittering Lady From The School, fermented juniper berry juice.

In thanks, Elizabeth nibbled off Abraham's syphilitic foreskin, and so, gave birth to the notion of circumcision.

The Sky!!!!!!!

Without Elizabeth Taylor, the world would never have known the great pleasure that is licking and eating a microphone.

You know how firefighters light the fires that they go on to put out?

Well Lizzy was like that, but her fire was a thing called HIV.

Elizabeth Taylor invented the internet and was the first one to break it. Her dog Sugar was actually a parasitic twin they discovered when they removed her liver. Taylor invented the word Gladiator and depleted the world's oceans of corral because it's opaqueness offended her.

R41 is going to Hell, that place where Donna Summers makes those methed-up Nazi dance all night.

Elizabeth Taylor feed Marilyn all those quotes now attributed to Ms Monroe on Facebook.

Before Elizabeth, women use to stay indoors and grow their underarm hair and wrap it around their bodies to keep themselves warm and less exposed.

Before Elizabeth, it was feared a woman using a razor may bring on halitosis and restless legs syndrome.

Before Elizabeth, women feared the Sun.

This is why the woman is a Saint, the most influential female pop culture icon ever.

On the islands of Tuvalu, the local women pray to The Saint Elizabeth, and give her offerings of underarm hair spritzed in White Diamond, in the hopes the archipelago will not succumb to the rising sea levels caused by the sinking of the Titanic and Exxon Valdez.

Monty refused to put his penis into her. But she put her fingers down his throat.

A thread on an icon never dies before 50 responses!

With the clap of her hands, Elizabeth Taylor (formerly Samantha Stephen's conniving mother), ended the Stone Age, and hailed the dawning of the Age of a Queery Arse.

Oh what have we done to poor OP's thread?

Shall we ever be able to sleep?

Will there ever be a morning after?

Elizabeth brought class and style to the "Here's Lucy" show. The producers were thinking about dumping Lucy and calling it "Here's Liz" but Gary talked them out of it.

lmao

Can you imagine having to wax that bush?

Most under 40s only have a vague idea of who she was, OP.

No. The title, one of many belongs to Grace Kelly.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, soon to be supplanter of the Throne of England

Judy, Barbra

Madonna is to be truthful. No one knows who Judy and Barbara are.

bump

Without Elizabeth Taylor, no one would have known about Rebirthing.

Elizabeth Taylor, the original Clumsy At Award Show Shtik Icon.

Before Elizabeth, no one was familiar with the concept of a woman marrying a man.

Barbara Bush, the high priestess of cuntery, who flew into New Orleans to gawk at thousands of black people being held in a stadium due to a devastating hurricane and remarked, "This has worked out well for them."

For a while, it was common for young women to partake in a 'Drive By', where one uses a powerful universal remote control, to unexpectedly change the TV station, of a randomly selected victim whose house the young women would 'Drive By' (usually chauffeured).

For a while, it was common for young women to partake in a 'Drive By', where one uses a powerful universal remote control, to unexpectedly change the TV station, of a randomly selected victim whose house the young women would 'Drive By' (usually chauffeured).

Pound for pound, she was a great punch line.

Elizabeth Taylor stands in front of her microwave and screams, "Hurry Up."

Elizabeth Taylor puts mayonnaise on her diet pills.

Richard Burton’s diary entries about how she was bitchy or weird keep getting longer somehow.

Dame Elizabeth Taylor got her Damehood for teaching David Bowie how to smoke thus relieving Princess Margaret of the chore. It was well known in certain circles that she could blow a double smoke ring from her nether regions at the drop of a lighter.

R69 You're a famous writer, aren't you?

Marylin monroe is the most famous person in history.

R70 I’m a nondescript business analyst.

R72 well you should write.

The old queen in the caftan probably regrets starting this thread lol.

What did Richard Burton see in Elizabeth Taylor? Sure, she was probably a good lay for a little while, but Burton could have had many women with less drama.

No, it's Marilyn, Marilyn, Marilyn!!!!

How many Broadway musicals were written about Elizabeth Traylor.

Didn't Prince Rainier consider her as his consort at some point?

Liz and Rainier would have been like Beauty and The Beast.

At least Grace and Rainier had equally fat faces.

No, it’s Madonna

R80 Virgin Mary Madonna or I Pushed Boundaries For A Little While And Then Never Grew Up Madonna?

It's a little known fact that Elizabeth Taylor started torture porn and was the original cumdump.

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R83 Who else would have inspired a new meme to take on the Star Wars Kid Homophobia memes?

Ms. Taylor loved to line dance with midgets and have them tell her how high her bum was. She once sank a yacht rather than turn her head. Liz was an early adopter of the slanket. Before Dick Burton Liz didn't know that you could drink out of a glass. She went on to champion this cause all over the world. "Eyebrows on fleek" were her last decipherable words.

Elizabeth Taylor was the original fag hag. She pal-ed around with Roddy McDowall, James Dean, and Montgomery Clift.

There was something unseemly about Elizabeth's relationships/friendships with men -- almost like she demanded them to be devoted to her. Straight, gay, and everything in between. Especially "damaged" men battling their own demons. Clift, Burton, MJ, etc.

R88 After everything Elizabeth Taylor has done, as outlined in this thread, you have to slander her?

Yes indeedie!

Elizabeth Taylor taught the world to only touch your pink bits with a long silk glove.

Libby showed us a good leis and a robust prenuptial was all a girl really needed to be happy.

Elizabeth Taylor created the quote 'less is more', when being the last one to speak to Isadora Duncan on the dancer's last day on earth.

"Issy, that scarf is just too much. Less is more! There is more than one way to stop traffic, darling!"

It wasn't so much the grizzly-death-by-dingo of her only daughter, that pained poor Elizabeth, it was the damn blisters she got when she forget to put on her sandals before leaving the tent.

It was Elizabeth Taylor's complete dedication to the role of Bukkake that led to Vidal Sassoon developing the protein enriched shampoo.

The world's first amputation was performed by Elizabeth Taylor.

Elizabeth Taylor was the inventor and only proficient player of the unusual instrument that is the Brass Bedframe.

It was under her tutelage that Ms Taylor suggested that Joanna Newsom, whilst competent on the difficult instrument, should stick to the harp.

Elizabeth liked to share her favorite food ideas with other celebrities.

It was Elizabeth that shared the delight that Head of a Bat with Ozzy Osbourne.

Elizabeth Taylor, the first television commercial director to use the blue dye for feminine hygiene product adverts.

Elizabeth Taylor: World's Biggest Producer & Distributor of Anal Beads.

Further proof.

Elizabeth Taylor was a great proponent of and popularised the Kegel Exercise.

A day at the beach, and the clenching of her pelvic floor, could cause a recession of water reminiscent of a tsunami about to hit.

It was Elizabeth who inspired the Surrealist to splice up some eyeballs.

Bump?

Every time I hear or read about Liz's world class beauty and sex appeal, I am reminded Richard Burton's diary entries about her bloody piles.

And body covered with down-like black hair. Yuk.

When Charles Manson’s mother tried to sell him for a pitcher of beer, Elizabeth bought him, then sold him back for a couple of pickled eggs. She also hired the Hell’s Angels to do security at Altamont. She hated hippies.

No, OP: in if you mean "movies" with pop culture, it's a tie between Marilyn and Audrey. For general pop culture, i'd say Madonna.

haha. continue

Liz invented the diamond as we know it by accidentally sitting on a piece of coal at a BBQ once.

And thus an industry was born.

[quote]Donna Summers

Gay Card.....NOW!

R110 Yes, she accidentally sat on a piece of coal with her famously-hemorrhoidal anus.

Elizabeth Taylor invented dancing and singing whilst wearing a mask.

Elizabeth Taylor popularized doing copious amounts of cocaine.

She invented sign-language!

In 1964 she opened on Broadway in Funny Girl.

Here she is backstage with Richard on opening night and her understudy, who turned out to be a regular Eve Harrington.

[quote]Barbra Streisand went from understudy to star — and it wasn't by accident. Streisand was the understudy five decades ago for Elizabeth Taylor in her well-known Broadway role as Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl." Though she had a part in the musical as a Ziegfeld showgirl, Streisand waited 18 months to play the lead. "Liz didn't want me to go on," Streisand recalled. "I can't blame her. It was her part, her everything."

While she was waiting for her opportunity, Streisand collected names and phone numbers of press and other people of "import." So when Taylor was felled by strep throat, Streisand's mother called everyone on the list to come see the show.......

Without Elizabeth Taylor, there would be no vagina cap.

Or CAPE?

Elizabeth showed the world how to handle a pussy with finesse.

The world was a buzz when Elizabeth made her pet albino monkey wear a toupee two sizes too big.

Because of Dame Elizabeth Taylor, it is now customary to collect and carry your buggy road kill.

Humankind would have remained in the sea, if it were not for Elizabeth.

Mankind would have remained in the sea, if it were not for Elizabeth.

Chaos reigned at early Oscars before Elizabeth shared her patented seat allocation system to the Academy.

Part of the reason for the global popularity of Taylor’s eyes today is due to “Elizabeth Taylor Violet Eyes” — a perfume named after her, which launched in 2010, and that many Internet users are actually looking for in search, as opposed to general information about her eyes or eye color. The second reason for Taylor’s eye popularity lies within their unusual purple color, which many adoring fans and journalists have eulogised for over half a century.

But what color were Elizabeth Taylor's eyes in reality? The answer is, they were not purple at all but dark blue, and merely appeared to be purple when exposed to lighting, make-up, particular hues of clothing or the photographic re-touching of her images. True purple eyes are extremely rare, and almost always occur in people with albinism — the condition in which a person is born with little or no pigment in their eyes, skin or hair. Albinos possess low levels of melanin, the natural substance that determines pigment. It is this deficiency that creates purple eyes.

BLUE IS THE COLOUR

By contrast, Taylor’s blue eyes will have formed with more melanin than is present in purple colored eyes. In fact, new research published in 2008 in the journal Human Genetics suggested that people like Taylor with blue eyes all descended from a single common ancestor who lived in the North Western part of the Black Sea region during the Neolithic period, 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.

Is Elizabeth Taylor the most influential lesbian and professional beard ever?

A federal bill is now waiting to be passed by Congress.

If successful, it will be lawful to taxidermy your child and keep them at the end of your bed and stare at them.....

This bill has been dubbed 'Taylor's Law'.

How dare you criticize and mock Elizabeth Taylor. She was a champion of AIDS causes. She was a humanitarian who donated her time and money to help those suffering from AIDS, to make their lives better, to help find a cure. She co-founded AmFar and was a vocal supporter of gay rights. All gay men should honor and thank her. She bequeathed $300 million dollars to AIDS organizations, in her will. Elizabeth Taylor was a brave, loving, compassionate woman who used her celebrity to make this world a better place for all of us.

We know!

...and bow!

The above picture is of course from the very first- and most watched- Super Bowl halftime show ever!

The Berlin Wall was torn down by mistakenly-empowered citizens after Dame Elizabeth Taylor misspoke at a press conference and mentioned immediate border crossing privileges for every citizen.

Her grandkids are fine as fuck (as in, they're hot & entirely devoted to continuing Liz's philanthropic efforts).

I would say marilyn monroe was probably more influential to pop culture.

R128 The gal had a sense of humour, I'm sure she would loving this and loving that she is still spoken about and not taken too seriously.

Elizabeth Taylor invented Mexico. Later she invented Flagyl.

Lizzy once met patient zero and later suggested they call him a big fat nothing.

[quote]R116 While she was waiting for her opportunity, Streisand collected names and phone numbers of press and other people of "import." So when Taylor was felled by strep throat, Streisand's mother called everyone on the list to come see the show.......

Liz had converted to Judaism in preparation for the role of Fannie Brice. Her artistic commitment ran [italic]that deeep.[/italic] Babs saw that, and respected it.

She would later say, "Liz taught me more about directing for film, stage and water ballet than anyone else in Hollywood. I owe my career to her."

There's another new Elizabeth Taylor documentary in the works.

Elizabeth Taylor TV documentary in the works @VOGUE Paris (press release)-Jun. 4, 2018

oh please god no

R137 I can't believe Liz wanted play Fannie Brice.

Brice was a schmucky-looking comedienne who had a not particularly dramatic life as a gangster's wife.

Marilyn Monroe will be remembered as the 20th century's greatest pop icon. Her legendary status will be remembered long after Liz Taylor fame has been forgotten .

Liz made tabloid celebrity a norm. She is well known for the jewels and millions she made as a “yacht girl.” Even in her old age, she would only meet people for large gifts to her. She actually helped usher in the Kardashian’s type crap as a business.

R140

...her take on "Don´t rain on my parade"WAS glas shattering.

Her legacy is one of glamor financial success and humanitarian work. As long as though things don't go out of style, neither will she.

Elizabeth wasn't going to let that pesky Ms Frank go undiscovered in the attic.

No, Queen Bey is.

In this illustration, Ms Taylor demonstrates how easily telephone earwax transfer can be avoided. Her groundbreaking discovery, alas, was not to be rewarded, and it is often said that it was Ms Taylor, and not Earth Kitt, that helped discover the Higgs-Boson.

Elizabeth never liked sea turtles. In popularising the use of a new plastic straw for each sip, it is estimated that Elizabeth Taylor has contributed to the deaths and or disfigurement of nearly 900 million turtles, within her lifetime. Surprisingly, Elizabeth was only known to have clubbed one baby seal, and this may have actually been done by her son, in an attempt to win the affection of his mother.

Libby was an early advocate in integrating the retarded into the community and workplace. At 11.11am each morning, in MacDonald's around the world, retarded table cleaners but down their dishrags, and salute their Saint Libby of Gollywood.

She was so beautiful in these pics.

R149 How dare you......

She pioneered human cloning,

Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Elizabeth Taylor advocated cloning and genetic engineering in an article in The American Naturalist in 1966 and again, the following year, in The Washington Post.

Some of her thougts about Ethics of cloning In bioethics, the ethics of cloning refers to a variety of ethical positions regarding the practice and possibilities of cloning, especially human cloning. While many of these views are religious in origin, the questions raised by cloning are faced by secular perspectives as well. Opponents of cloning have concerns that technology is not yet developed enough to be safe, that it could be prone to abuse (Leading Lady-clones reduced to TV-Star status), and have concerns about how cloned individuals could integrate with families, fan clubs, Members of the Acadamy and with society at large.

Well she did marry one of those trashy Hiltons.

Well she started the 60s trend where A-List actresses can out-earn their male counterparts so I'd say she's pretty influential.

Hitch said no.

I don´t do stairs