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'The Driver's Seat' (1974)

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Marc Myers
Dec 28, 2019
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By 1973, Elizabeth Taylor's personal life and career were a mess. Hollywood had ushered in a new wave of young directors and emotionally accessible actors that prized naturalism, rendering the aging and puffy Taylor an uptight has-been. What's more, her private life lived largely in headlines had become a throwback bore to a younger generation of movieg…

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