Me and Liz Taylor

There’s a bench near the top of my hill on a promontory with a splendid view.

When I walk the dogs sometimes we stop and sit and I just look out at the vista.  Today I was thinking about Elizabeth Taylor.  She was here in 1959 making a movie of the Tennessee Williams’ play “Suddenly Last Summer” with Montgomery Clift and Katherine Hepburn.  It is probably the most exciting, news-making thing that has ever happened here.  Shortly after I arrived in 2018,  when I was at Begur’s City Hall finalizing my resident’s visa, I was told I wasn’t the only American to come to Begur.  No, they had Elizabeth Taylor!  I don’t know how long the filming lasted, but it made a big impression on the town.  In the camera shop in town, there are photos on display that the owner (I think deceased now) took of Liz and the crew while they were here.

I was thinking of her and how it must have looked to her then – the view she had was the same as I have everyday.  So we have that in common!  Plus I also loved Richard Burton!  I wish she were still alive.  I’d write to her.