TONIGHT! Wednesday March 23rd, 2011 from 9pm until 12-ish at Akbar it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: Color/Paint your very own Unicorn
$2 processing fee, please
It’s raining outside, and I’m not going to make it easy for you.
As in yes, get your butt out the door and to Akbar, with US!
As we paint and decorate our unicorns, we will screen Cleopatra, the film that almost broke 20th Century Fox’s back. Watch Elizabeth Taylor in one of the most glamorous roles of her career, an epic historical drama with astounding scope and grandeur! Outfits! Crazy Sets! Technicolor! Men in little skirts and robes! Outfits!
Elizabeth Taylor was the original “Hot Mess” who lived in the public eye practically all her life.
She was in her first film at the age of 9, and reached superstardom in National Velvet at age 12.
This woman found Montgomery Clift’s mangled body directly after a car crash down the hill from her (back then) Benedict Canyon house and PULLED HIS TEETH OUT OF HIS THROAT so that he could live.
By the time I was born, Elizabeth was on husband #5, and by the time I was three years old, she’d divorced #5 and married him AGAIN. She had health problems and man troubles and crazy hair… she was wild. We couldn’t get enough of her.
When Ronald Reagan was in office, and people were dying at a staggering rate, the President couldn’t utter the word “AIDS.” Elizabeth Taylor, with the same knowledge that all of us had, and twice the bravery, co-started the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR). After Rock Hudson died, she also created her own AIDS foundation, the Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation (ETAF). Liz Taylor’s efforts raised over $100 million fighting AIDS.
She’s like… a total badass.
On the day of her funeral, anti-gay protesters are going to picket her ceremony.
If you have a second, donate to the ETAF and tell those picketers to take a long walk off a short pier.
Elizabeth Taylor said ”There is no gay agenda, it’s a human agenda.”
Ms. Taylor, CraftNIght salutes you.
And no… we couldn’t find horses… just unicorns, but just think of it as Fantasy National Velvet, and we’ll be all right.
See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain
