1995 showbiz biography by c. david heymann

It was Max Lerner, the political columnist who looked like Albert Einstein and caroused in Hollywood like Hugh Hefner, who once wrote an article calling Elizabeth Taylor a legend and Marilyn Monroe a myth. That legend thing Taylor projects — the ability, still, to command attention even though she’s now a lacquered, hypochondriacal 63-year-old grandma corseted into the kind of sequined shmattes Fran Drescher’s on-screen mother might covet — is evidently the reason there’s room on the shelf for Liz. C. David Heymann’s biography arrives hard on the heels of Donald Spoto’s analysis-prone Taylor study, A Passion for Life; and the question you’re probably asking is, Do I really need one more accounting of the star’s illnesses, addictions, lovers, and husbands, not to mention problems with excessive body hair? The answer is, you need Heymann’s bio (billed in the subtitle as ”intimate,” which explains the stuff about the body hair), if only to understan 1995 showbiz biography by c. david heymann movie.