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Actress Elizabeth Taylor dies at age 79
Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor has died in Los Angeles, according to the Associated Press.
She was 79.
Publicist Sally Morrison says the actress died Wednesday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from congestive heart failure.
Morrison says her children were at her side. She’d been hospitalized for about six weeks.
Taylor first gained stardom as a child and appeared in more than 50 films. She won Oscars for her performances in “Butterfield 8” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
She was equally famous for extraordinary beauty and her stormy personal life, including eight marriages and a series of physical ailments.
In later years, she was a spokeswoman for humanitarian causes, notably AIDS research. That work gained her a special Oscar in 1993.
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By Fantasy
March 23, 2011 12:31 PM | Link to this
An actress…although I would’ve paid more attention to her if she hadn’t embraced Michael Jackson…I heard through the grapevine that she paid more attention to Bubbles the Chimp when visiting with Michael….than Michael. I would have, also. She went through men as efficiently as a Dyson vacuum cleaner robs your carpet of pet hair and dust mites. Well, “bread & circus” lovers…there are many more for all of you to fawn over coming out of Hollywood. Hey? Lets use the positive influence of Charley Sheen (spawn of Daytonian Martin Sheen) to follow and commiserate over. Shallow is just that. You’ll forget her tomorrow, shallow… being the basis of your lives. O.K. Let the “get a life” comments about these comments begin.
By victim of fame
March 24, 2011 7:38 AM | Link to this
Troubled,Talented,Child actress syndrome,Probably depressed,no doubt a substance abuse victim,and whatever else hollywood seems to offer so many great actors and actresses. I wonder how many of these stars actually enjoy any kind of normalcy in their lives? Big price tag on fame and fortune!
By LA
March 25, 2011 1:48 PM | Link to this
I enjoyed Elizabeth Taylor’s wonderful early movie performances in “A Place In The Sun” and “Giant”, and later in her life I admired her couragous activism in bringing attention to and raising money for the fight against Aids. She was a great actress and great humanitarian who used her fame to do an enormous amount of good.