Liz Taylor 'at death's door'

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[yankeedame]

Liz Taylor 'at death's door'

From: MX From correspondents in Los Angeles
April 28, 2006

Legend ... Taylor pictured at the 2005 BAFTA awards/file

HOLLYWOOD legend Elizabeth Taylor is reportedly on
the brink of death after her heart began to fail.

The Oscar winner, 74, is believed to be bedridden in her Bel Air, California, home. Taylor reportedly cancelled her annual Easter party to plan her funeral.

She is expected to be buried next to former husband Richard Burton in Switzerland.

"Liz is inching closer to death every day and she knows it," a friend said.

The actress was diagnosed with a disease known as congestive heart failure, a terminal condition where the heart weakens, pumping ever-decreasing amounts of blood through the body. Taylor has been confined to a wheelchair since 2004, having broken her back five times.

Advertisement: Taylor has been near death with pneumonia twice, endured a brain tumour removal, has had skin cancer and has been a recluse since her health started failing. "She's not leaving a lot of money to her children. She wants the bulk of her fortune to go to AIDS research."

The actress said she was at her happiest while with husbands Mike Todd and Richard Burton, and in recent months mourned the loss of her pet Maltese terrier, Sugar, of whom she said: "I've never loved a dog like this in my life. It's amazing. Sometimes I think there's a person in there."

Ms Taylor won her first Oscar in 1961 for the film Butterfield 8, following this up with another in 1967 for Mike Nichols' drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, often considered her best screen performance.

[Radix]

She certainly is/was a beautiful woman.

Well OK for that, but I promise you all here and my kids too, after I die, my money will not be going to AIDS research.

[TontoKowalski]

She was a beautiful young woman, and I enjoyed some of her movies... notably Giant.

The real reason I hate that she'll die is that we'll all be subjected to countless hours of TV treating this like it's the greatest tragedy of all time. While I don't think it will surpass the Princess Diana level of media-induced hysteria, it will certainly leave John-John's in the dust.

I think it's a toss up as to who was more beautiful in her prime. Either Liz Taylor or Audrey Hepburn. No doubt about who aged the most gracefully, however. Hepburn by a mile.

[potlatch]

Liz lived a pretty fast life

And you know that, huh?

[potlatch]

I never thought of Audrey Hepburn as beautiful, more cute to my way of thinking but I'm a woman, lol.

I hate the California car chases, on and on and on!!

[fatima]

I always like Liz mostly because she married every man she fell in love with:)

[hinckley buzzard]

She is probably the last class act in Hollywood...........

I wouldn't call her a "class act," with her eight(?) marriages, drug addiction etc, but she is a throwback to a bygone era. Someone recently observed how the stars in the old movies were adults, while the current crop are universally idiot children. Liz Taylor, like her contemporaries, was an adult. There are none like her, or them, today.

[Mjaye]

Does anyone know if she is a Christian?<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

She converted to Judaism when married to Eddie Fisher. Don't know if she continued observing it after Eddie.

[Smartass]

She's been married eight times to seven husbands:

1) Hotel heir Conrad Hilton, Jr (May 6, 1950 - January 29, 1951) (divorced)

2) Michael Wilding (February 21, 1952 - January 26, 1957) (divorced)

3) Producer Mike Todd (February 2, 1957 - March 22, 1958) (widowed)

4) Eddie Fisher (May 12, 1959 - March 6, 1964) (divorced)

5) Richard Burton (March 15, 1964 - June 26, 1974) (divorced)

6) Richard Burton (2nd marriage) (October 10, 1975 - July 29, 1976) (divorced)

7) Senator John Warner (December 4, 1976 - November 7, 1982) (divorced)

8) Teamster construction-equipment operator Larry Fortensky

(twenty years her junior) (October 6, 1991 - October 31, 1996) (divorced)

**SIGH**

 

[potlatch]

And the ones she always says she loved the most are the two who died years ago! Had they lived she might not be saying that, lol.

[Smartass]

We can't fault her for trying.
She appeared to never find happiness!

[BunnySlippers]

[BunnySlippers]

[Howlin]

since she's being buried next to him

How can that be? Doesn't his other wife hate Liz?

[I still care]

I've never been an Taylor fan- and I don't know if I would ever call her a class act.

You think Angelina and Brad are big in the tabloids? What Taylor is remembered for is stealing Eddie Fisher - who was Debbie Reynolds husband - her best friend. Debbie and Eddie went out of their way to comfort Liz after the death of her husband. She soon learned no good deed goes unpunished.

Debbie had two little kids and it devastated her and the family. Liz dumped him a year later. Carrie Fisher ended up with drug problems and mental illness. Bipolar has a strong correlation with losing your father at a young age.

Liz was once one of the most hated women in America. When she practically died of pneumonia, people felt sorry for her and forgot how they hated her. But she was a true homewrecker, and Eddie Fisher was a creep too.

[stylecouncilor]

after seeing how Eddie Fisher wound up, I think they both realized what a loser he was.
Lol!!!

[Wolfstar]

That's a beautiful photo of her. Judging by the hair and dress styles, it was probably snapped sometime in the early 1950's.

[Howlin]

[onyx]

She wants to be bured next to Richard Burton. I thought she claimed that Mike Todd was the love of her life, but admittedly, I quit following her career years ago.

[onyx]

BURIED.

[Howlin]