she was a beautiful woman, i'll have to go watch CLEOPATRA again. i sneaked off to the movies to see it as a girl. i also remember the big horrible scandal when she "stole" that loser eddie fisher from his all-American-sweetheart wife, Debbie Reynolds.
CNN
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Elizabeth Taylor, the legendary actress famed for her beauty, her jet-set lifestyle, her charitable endeavors and her many marriages, has died, her publicist told CNN Wednesday. She was 79.
Taylor died "peacefully today in Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles," said a statement from her publicist. She was hospitalized six weeks ago with congestive heart failure, "a condition with which she had struggled for many years. Though she had recently suffered a number of complications, her condition had stabilized and it was hoped that she would be able to return home. Sadly, this was not to be."
Though a two-time Oscar winner -- for "Butterfield 8" (1960) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1966) -- Taylor was more celebrated for simply being Elizabeth Taylor: sexy, glamorous, tempestuous, fragile, always trailing courtiers, media and fans. She wasn't above playing to that image -- she had a fragrance called "White Diamonds" -- or mocking it.
"I am a very committed wife," she once said. "And I should be committed too -- for being married so many times."
She was hailed, in her prime, as the world's most beautiful and desirable woman. Her affair with actor Richard Burton, which began on the set of the film "Cleopatra," fueled a paparazzi rush unrivaled in its time. The two later married -- twice -- providing gossip columns and movie magazines with a wealth of material.
If anyone hasn't seen this, I'm gonna guess that Turner Classic Movies will do an Elizabeth Taylor marathon. I highly recommend this and think it was her most amazing performance. The entire cast was brilliant.
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Update, 4:17 p.m.: According to Sgt. Thomas Lorenz, PIO for Glendale, California, a "small service" will take place today for family and friends of Elizabeth Taylor, who died Wednesday at the age of 79, at Forest Lawn Cemetery at 2 p.m. PT.
Lorenz told CNN that there will be no procession, no hearse and no motorcade. Attendees will drive into Forest Lawn in their own vehicles, and "just a few dozen" people are expected.
There were earlier reports that Taylor would be buried in the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles next to her mother and father and near other stars like Marilyn Monroe, but a rep told CNN earlier that details of her funeral were to stay private.
Fans will still get their chance to pay respects to Taylor, however, as details of a memorial service will be announced at a later date. The family did ask that instead of flowers, contributions be made to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS foundation.
He was Liz Taylor’s eighth and final husband – a man she affectionately called ‘Larry the lion’ whose rugged looks and working-class roots could not have been in greater contrast to her glamorous movie- star lifestyle.
And when Larry Fortensky divorced Taylor in 1996, taking £1 million from her estimated £200 million fortune, he slipped happily back into obscurity, shunning all requests for interviews despite being offered a small fortune to ‘kiss and tell’.
Fortensky, now 59, in ill-health and a virtual recluse, continued his self-imposed vow of silence even after Taylor’s death last month from congestive heart failure, aged 79.
Yeh I think thats nice too. I think some things should be kept private. But you know, 79 is not that old really. With today's technology she could have lived longer. Maybe she was just fragile.
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