She'll never marry again!The wedding chapel folks will be bitterly disappointed!
I understand Eva Peron's real ambition in life was to be like Elizabeth Taylor. I'm sure Michael Jackson wanted to be Elizabeth Taylor too. Heck, everyone wanted to be Elizabeth Taylor. But there was only one Elizabeth Taylor. So the pretenders had to satisfy themselves wrecking South American economies, and setting their hair on fire, and who knows what else.
The folks in Puerto Vallarta will be unhappy too – Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton basically put the seaside town on the map, with “Night of the Iguana”. From what I understand, their Mismaloya haunt is a tourist attraction to this day.
I remember when I was a kid, and “Night of the Iguana” came out. I was hoping it was going to be huge science-fiction smash, maybe along the lines of Godzilla, but it was basically a lot of tempestuous romantic crap – BORING! – and it had hardly any iguanas in it at all.
And I guess Elizabeth Taylor wasn’t even in “Night of the Iguana”. I confused her with Ava Gardner. Shows you how much attention seven-year-olds pay. I guess she was the lurid eye candy just off-camera. No Liz Taylor; hardly any iguanas – what kind of movie could it be?
Wikipedia features this ditty:
By March 1964, months before the film's release, gossip about the film's production became the subject of a public parody when Huston received an Writers' Guild of America award for advancing "the literature of the motion picture through the years"; at a dinner where the award was presented, Allan Sherman performed a song, to the tune of "Streets of Laredo", with lyrics that included "They were down there to film The Night of the Iguana / With a star-studded cast and a technical crew. / They did things at night midst the flora and fauna / That no self-respecting iguana would do."We will miss Liz Taylor....
You get a brief look at the iguanas here. I'm wondering if that's the Rio Ameca, or Rio Mascota - by the tequila distillery perhaps?
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