Elizabeth Taylor’s Lonely Campaign Against AIDS

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

News

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On this week’s episode of Inside The Hive, author Kate Anderson Brower joins Emily Jane Fox to discuss her new authorized biography, Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon [https://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Taylor-Grit-Glamour-Icon-ebook/dp/B09V2ZZ7KK]. Andersen Brower takes us inside the lesser known sides of one of the most famous women of all time. Brower, who interviewed 250 people for the book and combed through thousands of never-before-seen personal effects, paints a vivid portrait of Taylor as a mother, humanitarian [https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/elizabeth-taylor-aids-book], and friend—and the toll that fame exacts on even those who are destined for it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome back to Inside the Hive.
0:07.1	This is Emily Jane Fox.
0:08.4	My co-host, Joe Hagen, is on a reporting trip this week, so you just have me, but we have
0:14.0	a fantastic interview this week.
0:16.0	We have the author Kate Anderson Brower, who has a new book out called Elizabeth Taylor,
0:21.1	The Grit and Glamour of an icon, and it is a fantastic portrait of someone who we all
0:27.4	know.
0:28.8	Actually know at all.
0:30.2	And this is the first authorized biography of Elizabeth Taylor, which is a little hard
0:35.0	to believe considering how many pieces of information we know about her, how many magazine
0:41.4	covers had her picture on it, how many movies had documented her in her love life and her
0:48.4	affairs, and all of the work that she has done.
0:51.7	But this book really is such a three-dimensional portrait of an icon.
0:56.4	We have a fantastic excerpt of the book on vanleyfair.com, all about her advocacy work, about
1:03.5	her visiting AIDS hospices in the 80s and 90s, and it was so illuminating for me to read
1:07.9	and to talk to Kate.
1:09.6	So I hope you will have a listen.
1:11.0	You will learn so much about what it actually means to be famous, particularly if famous
1:15.8	woman, about her famous friends, yes, about her love life, and about all of the advocacy
1:20.6	work, and maybe why she was someone who was more drawn to help hurt people and broken
1:27.6	people, and all of the tumult that she went through in her life, and it really helped
1:34.0	bring someone to life for me, and I know this book will too, so have a listen, and we will
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vanity Fair, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Vanity Fair and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.