Elderism #10

October 21st, 2008

A blinged-up Elizabeth Taylor has been sighted recently in her wheelchair at the West Hollywood gay bar, the Abbey. The screen legend has presented the Abbey with a gold-framed portrait of herself, which, according to one regular, has become “quite a shrine.”

When Taylor showed up one night for a benefit for the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention hotline for gay youth, she ordered an apple martini. But on seeing a fellow drinker’s watermelon martini, she changed her mind, commenting,

That looks fun.

(New York Post, People, Janet Charlton’s Hollywood, Tabloid Wreck)