Crash (Ballard novel)
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Crash is a novel by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973 with a cover designed by Bill Botten. It follows a group of car-crash fetishists who, inspired by the famous crashes of celebrities, become s
Cover of first edition (hardcover) by Bill Botten
Elizabeth Taylor
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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the
Crash (Ballard novel)
…what the narrator calls "a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology". Vaughan's ultimate fantasy is to die in a head-on collision with movie star Elizabeth Taylor. The Papers of J. G. Ballard at the British Library include two revised drafts of Crash (Add MS 88938/3/8). Scanned extracts from Ballard's drafts are…
Taylor c. 1955
Taylor (left) at age two with her mother Sara Sothern (center) and brother Howard (right) in 1934
Taylor in a studio publicity photo in 1942
Mickey Rooney and Taylor in National Velvet (1944), her first major film role