I don't know if this is true or not, but it is one great story. At least something good came out of the Benjamin Button movie. Yeah, yeah. Some of you loved it, but I bet many of you disliked it also. It certainly is not 13 Oscar nominations worthy. Anyway, in the movie, two of the actors were Jared Harris and Jason Flemyng. Jason's dad and Jared's dad who is the late Richard Harris were best friends and BIG drinkers. They even put me to shame.
Anyway, at one party at Elizabeth Taylor's house, her guests included Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Jason's dad, and Peter O'Toole. Well there was some drinking going on. In all honesty there was a lot of drinking going on. In fact there was so much drinking going on and things were getting so far out of hand that Elizabeth decided to kick everyone out of the house and send them home. When she went upstairs to her bedroom she found Richard Harris and Jason's dad chugging all of her Chanel No.5. They had decided that any alcohol would do and they were so far gone they didn't even care about the perfume after taste. They just wanted the alcohol in it. Well, Elizabeth screamed and yelled and the two men went running from the house, but not before they had scooped up the rest of her perfume as they ran for the door dodging everything she was throwing at them.
LOL! Ugh, that's nasty. I can barely stand to smell perfume, let alone taste it.
ReplyDeletewhat like everyone hasnt' drank aftershave......c'mon.....no one...really ...ummm well me either
ReplyDeleteat least her crappy perfume is good for something
ReplyDeleteLots of drinking went on at Ms. Taylor's house and Chanel probably isn't the worst of it.
ReplyDeletedamn thats just sad as shit.
ReplyDeletei mean everyone knows that Coco has a higher alcohol content than No.5
LOL, Jax!
ReplyDeleteSoo funny! This is bad as the Native Americans who I once saw in a documentary drinking Final Net because it had alcohol in it.
ReplyDeleteYou can lead a Harris to water but you can't make him drink.
ReplyDeleteHee-Hee Gladys!
ReplyDeleteNot on my dollar, was that comment meant to be racist or just ignorant?
ReplyDelete..and I'm done with the latte.
ReplyDeleteThat is some desperation, wow. I wish one of these parties would be secretly caught on film some day. I can't even imagine.
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ReplyDeleteRichard Harris tell this one about himself and Peter O'Toole in the stage production of The Long and the Short and the Tall, I believe on Conan O'Brien.
ReplyDeleteThey arrive late after drinking all day, Harris is the first one on stage and immediately trips over, outraged person in the front row smells booze and declares "He's drunk." To which the reply comes "If you think I'm drunk wait until you see O'Toole!"
Best story ever.
wait wait wait, I saw Dame Elizabeth Taylor in person a few months ago and she was in NO shape to be doing any yelling, or to be able to comprehend what, exactly the gentlemen were drinking and why.
ReplyDeleteElsie, that's hysterical!
ReplyDeletepersonally, i wouldn't be able to tell the difference between gin and chanel. they're both toxic as far as i'm concerned!
ReplyDeleteelsiefire, classic story!
i've seen some amazing drinking going on in parking lot parties, but i'll bet that crowd could out-do them all!
SFG, this story would have been from back in the day, so to speak, as Richard Harris is no longer living.
ReplyDeleteIt's still a priceless Old Hollywood story.
Buwahahahahahahaha....good story!
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