Skip to content

Category: Northampton

Liz Taylor & Lobster

Virginia Woolf meets Jim Wolff’s waitress-   My favorite obituary headline ever:        HELEN LAVALLE, 94, ADVISED ELIZABETH TAYLOR “Amongst her many jobs, Helen was a waitress at the former Williams House, where she was the only waitress who could tell Elizabeth Taylor that one lobster was enough.”           -Daily Hampshire Gazette   Elizabeth Taylor was at Smith College in the 60’s filming “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”, with Richard Burton. Assume that’s when she may have tried to indulge in local lobster binge-ing and… Read more Liz Taylor & Lobster