A pedestrian walks by today's newspaper front pages with the late Elizabeth Taylor obituary on display in front of the Newseum in Washington, March 24, 2011.(Agencies) |
Broadway's lights will darken on Friday in tribute to actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died in Los Angeles aged 79 on Wednesday. "The Broadway community mourns the loss of Elizabeth Taylor, legendary stage and screen star," The Broadway League said in a statement. In Taylor's honor, Broadway's theater marquees will be dimmed at exactly 8 p.m., the traditional curtain time for shows, for one minute. The actress, best known for her starring roles in Hollywood and Europe during the 1950s and 1960s, appeared on Broadway in a revival of Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes," for which she won rave reviews and a Tony award nomination. Taylor returned in 1983 as producer and star of Noel Coward's "Private Lives" opposite her former husband, Richard Burton, and produced "The Corn is Green" that year as well. "With her remarkable talent and extraordinary beauty, Elizabeth Taylor lit up the Broadway stage the same way she lit up the silver screen," League chairman Paul Libin said. "Off stage, her tireless commitment to fighting AIDS as a co-founder of amfAR and founder of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation added yet another meaningful role to the story of her life. Our thoughts go out to her friends, family, and fans." (Read by Lee Hannon. Lee Hannon is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)
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Vocabulary: legendary: very famous and talked about a lot by people, especially in a way that shows admiration(非常著名的;享有盛名的) marquee: a tall rooflike projection above a theater entrance, usually containing the name of a currently featured play or film and its stars.(戲院、酒店等入口處,通常帶有標(biāo)記的)遮檐 curtain time: 開(kāi)幕時(shí)間,開(kāi)演時(shí)間 revival: a new production of an old play(戲劇的重演) |