Legend ... Taylor pictured at the 2005 BAFTA awards/file
Posted on 04/28/2006 5:54:50 AM PDT by 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.
Back in her day??
I'd take a desert island with her TODAY.
She has had bad health her entire life. She was a true beauty in her younger years and a good actress. I am not surprised that she plans on being placed next to Richard Burton. They were madly in love.
It must be a double-door.
I remember when she married Eddie Fisher, I was so stunned because I thought that he and Debbie Reynolds were going to be married forever. (well, that was the thinking of a 13 year old). Then I remember hearing that she converted to Judiasm and thought that was so cool...but still, I was angry that she split up that "perfect couple!" So, this is all from my memory....nothing else.
She truly was, and she managed to age with grace. It is very hard for a woman with beauty like that to grow old!
At least she didn't go the way of plastic surgery until you no longer recognized her.
Amen and her beauty is unmatched. Her passing will be a great loss.
I liked that one too. Especially the polo game. The ending reminded me of "Rebecca" just a bit.
Sorry! Maybe you're one of those guys who likes Broadway shows. Or maybe you just like Helen Thomas types... I didn't mean to offend you. My apologies...
Old women need to grow old gracefully. Giggling for billyblytheclinton isn't graceful. She looks pathetic and foolish with that boy.
I'm waiting. :-)
She's had a long and complicated life, most recently it seems as if she has undergone much suffering....
Is that a bit odd or what?
Lovely Liz. I've loved so many of her movies - "Suddenly, Last Summer," "The Sandpipers", "Father of the Bride", "Ash Wednesday", "The V.I.P.s" ...
But I'm irresistibly reminded of that joke that was going around when she started looking, well, less-than-Cleopatra-like: "We always wanted to look like Elizabeth Taylor, and now we do."
God bless her.
LOL ........ you need not apologize, there was no offense at all taken. The girl just isn't that great.
Oh, no! LOLOLOL -- look what happened to your pic of beautiful, voluptuous Liz in the bathing suit back in the 1950s ... the one I captioned for you "these have always brought me luck" .... ummmm ... somebody didn't like that!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623095/posts?q=1&&page=151#151
Poor girl lost her left hand.
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Certainly no actress has ever been a bigger movie star.
Really????????
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