This week, Steve Hayes reviews "Suddenly, Last Summer," one of my two all-time favorite Elizabeth Taylor movies. Taylor, along with Katharine Hepburn and post-accident Montgomery Clift, starred in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's big-screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' bizarre one-act play, which shockingly -- given its subject matter that included homosexuality, murder, cannibalism, madness, lobotomies, greed and revenge with casual references to incest, nymphomania, suicide and various Oedipal complexes -- became one of highest-grossing pictures of the year:
The Tired Old Queen has LOTS of juicy behind-the-scenes gossip on this one. In fact, I got as many chills watching him review it as I did watching the film all those years ago ...
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