Liz Taylor 'at death's door'

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.

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.

Yep. In her day she was a mega-mega-star. Nobody even comes close. She was a successful child star who became a succesful young woman star, (that doesn't happen too often), and she had a spectacular career (and scandal, which helped) in her middle years. But the party life took it's toll and she was a burn-out later in life, in terms of the movies. But she became a crusader, perfume mogul, and the successes continue. She was the first Hollywood actor to make a million bucks a pix. That's really something.

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Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor rejected tabloid media reports that she suffers from Alzheimer's disease and denied that she was seriously ill.

"Oh, come on, do I look like I'm dying? Do I look like or sound like I have Alzheimer's?" Taylor, who uses a wheelchair due to back problems, said when asked about the reports in an interview with CNN's "Larry King Live."

"If they want to hear I'm dead, I'm sorry folks, I'm not," the 74-year-old double-Oscar winner said.

American tabloid media recently reported that the star suffered from Alzheimer's, a degenerative brain disease that affects memory, thinking and behavior.

Taylor said she needs a wheelchair due to chronic back problems that she has had since she was a teenager. She added that she was born with scoliosis.

"I don't want to retire. I'm very busy, I love what I'm doing," said Taylor, who has not appeared on screen since 2001 and dedicates herself to jewelry design.

The star of films such as "Cleopatra," "Butterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" also renewed her defense of her friend Michael Jackson, who was acquitted on child sex abuse charges last year.

"I've never been so angry in my life" after the accusation surfaced against the "King of Pop," she said.

Taylor said she feels close to Jackson because "we both had horrible childhoods."

Taylor, who first soared to worldwide fame at the age of 12 in "National Velvet," has only rarely appeared in public in recent years.

She now devotes most of her time to her two-decade-old crusade against the scourge of AIDS and HIV.

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