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Elizabeth Taylor has allegedly been struck by two incurable brain disorders- and is becoming increasingly confused. Taylor, 72, who is suffering from Parkinson's disease and senile dementia, is spending hours at her Los Angeles home watching old movies starring former husband Richard Burton. The Source says, " "It is sadder than sad to see how Liz is wasting away like this. She is only a glimpse of her former self. "Sometimes, she'll go rambling on then stop in mid-sentence because she's forgotten what she was saying. "She talks about Richard all the time as if he is still alive." The Source adds that Taylor says, "Richard is waiting for me somewhere over the rainbow."
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Elizabeth is not in a nursing home. She is still living in Bel Air, but her health has certainly declined. Over the last few years, her behavior has been increasingly erratic, leading some to speculate that she is abusing drugs or alcohol again. But to me it?s clear that she has a degree of brain atrophy and the onset of dementia that is a result of years of substance abuse. I have some knowledge of this disease, and the symptoms are unmistakable ? the unsteadiness on her feet, the shuffling when she walks, the slurring of words, inappropriate and erratic cackling, disorientation, etc. People close to Taylor whisper that she also has the beginnings of Parkinson?s, a disease that often accompanies dementia. Elizabeth has chosen not to issue any public statement regarding her health and still occasionally makes limited public appearances, but even those have been greatly diminished.
Elizabeth is not in a nursing home. She is still living in Bel Air, but her health has certainly declined. Over the last few years, her behavior has been increasingly erratic, leading some to speculate that she is abusing drugs or alcohol again. But to me it?s clear that she has a degree of brain atrophy and the onset of dementia that is a result of years of substance abuse. I have some knowledge of this disease, and the symptoms are unmistakable ? the unsteadiness on her feet, the shuffling when she walks, the slurring of words, inappropriate and erratic cackling, disorientation, etc. People close to Taylor whisper that she also has the beginnings of Parkinson?s, a disease that often accompanies dementia. Elizabeth has chosen not to issue any public statement regarding her health and still occasionally makes limited public appearances, but even those have been greatly diminished.
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ART SPAT: Elizabeth Taylor sued over the ownership of a Van Gogh that she paid $257,600 for in 1963, but which the heirs of a woman who fled the Nazis in the 1930s claim is rightfully theirs. The lawsuit comes in response to court papers filed by Taylor in May, seeking a declaration that the work was rightfully hers.
ART SPAT: Elizabeth Taylor sued over the ownership of a Van Gogh that she paid $257,600 for in 1963, but which the heirs of a woman who fled the Nazis in the 1930s claim is rightfully theirs. The lawsuit comes in response to court papers filed by Taylor in May, seeking a declaration that the work was rightfully hers.
Liz Taylor Battling Congestive Heart Failure
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Movie veteran Elizabeth Taylor has revealed she's suffering from congestive heart failure - but feeling fine. The actress, who has been ailing for the past decade, was recently hospitalized as her conditioned worsened, but she informs fans in the upcoming issue of America's W magazine that she's feeling OK. The 72-year-old Oscar winner reveals her heart is failing to pump enough blood through her body, resulting in a number of breathing problems and fatigue. Taylor, who also suffers from spine disorder scoliosis, says, "My body's a real mess. If you look at it in the mirror, it's just completely convex and concave." But, despite her health problems, Taylor's publicist Sally Morrison is laughing off claims the actress is near death - even though the aging actress tells W she isn't afraid of death. Taylor adds, "Really I'm not, because I've been there."
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Movie veteran Elizabeth Taylor has revealed she's suffering from congestive heart failure - but feeling fine. The actress, who has been ailing for the past decade, was recently hospitalized as her conditioned worsened, but she informs fans in the upcoming issue of America's W magazine that she's feeling OK. The 72-year-old Oscar winner reveals her heart is failing to pump enough blood through her body, resulting in a number of breathing problems and fatigue. Taylor, who also suffers from spine disorder scoliosis, says, "My body's a real mess. If you look at it in the mirror, it's just completely convex and concave." But, despite her health problems, Taylor's publicist Sally Morrison is laughing off claims the actress is near death - even though the aging actress tells W she isn't afraid of death. Taylor adds, "Really I'm not, because I've been there."
Liz Taylor and Her "Bloody Body"
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by Joal Ryan
Nov 30, 2004, 3:15 PM PT
Elizabeth Taylor is afflicted with congestive heart failure, scoliosis, a recently broken back and a body that, generally speaking, is "a real mess." But, hey, at least she's not afraid of death.
"Really, I'm not," the 72-year-old screen legend tells the December issue of W magazine.
In the interview, largely conducted at Taylor's Bel-Air mansion last summer, the malady-prone actress details her maladies, and refutes some rumored ones.
Per Taylor, the congestive heart failure is new, if "a bore." The spinal-twisting condition known as scoliosis is congenital, although now aggravated. ("It has finally caught up with me," she tells the magazine. "I've become one of those poor little old women who's bent sideways.") The seven broken bones in her back have been repaired through surgery. (She feels okay--"all things considered.")
As for the body? Well, Taylor alternately refers to the collective bag of bones as "my bloody body," and the aforementioned "real mess."
"I feel so stupid and feeble, that I can't do the work I was meant to do," Taylor says in W, bemoaning her lack of recent activity on behalf of AIDS research.
On the upside, Taylor scoffs at recent stories that have her suffering from dementia and watching Richard Burton movies around the clock.
"I don't read that [expletive]," a spunky Taylor tells the magazine. "Excuse my language. It gives me a good excuse to laugh. If I couldn't laugh at it I'd be in serious trouble."
The latter quote was offered to W via telephone following the back surgery in October. In the wake of the procedure, Taylor's own camp described the actress as "bedridden," but in "good spirits." (On Tuesday, her press rep, Sally Morrison, said the star was up and about again, and, blurbable quotes from W aside, obsessing over life, not death. "She's not planning on anything happened to her anytime soon," Morrison said.)
But even prior to the back surgery, W describes Taylor as walking slowly and needing to catch her breath after a trip up the stairs of her home.
So as to not dwell entirely on health issues, the magazine notes Taylor's devotion to her 12-year-old Maltese ("I've never loved a dog like this in my life."), her love of Pepperidge Farm Orange Milano cookies ("Oh my God, I could eat a whole bag at one go."), and her favorite TV show (Law & Order ). In related reminisces, Taylor tells the magazine that Burton and producer Mike Todd were her two favorite husbands. (She's had seven--eight, if you count Burton, whom she wed and divorced and wed and divorced, twice. She is currently unattached--if you don't count Sugar, the Maltese.)
Taylor, whose classic credits include A Place in the Sun and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, announced her retirement from Hollywood last year, nearly a decade after her final big-screen appearance in 1994's The Flintstones. The two-time Oscar winner said she intended to devote her time to AIDS causes, but tells W poor health has prevented her from doing any such work for a year.
Since being thrown from a horse at age 12 while filming National Velvet, Taylor has endured assorted back troubles, a near-deadly bout of pneumonia, a brain tumor and skin cancer--this, a merely quick, not exhaustive, list.
"People must think, 'My God, she's still alive?," Taylor jokes in W. "But there's some resilience in me that makes me keep fighting. It's the damndest thing--I just keep coming back."
EONline.com
by Joal Ryan
Nov 30, 2004, 3:15 PM PT
Elizabeth Taylor is afflicted with congestive heart failure, scoliosis, a recently broken back and a body that, generally speaking, is "a real mess." But, hey, at least she's not afraid of death.
"Really, I'm not," the 72-year-old screen legend tells the December issue of W magazine.
In the interview, largely conducted at Taylor's Bel-Air mansion last summer, the malady-prone actress details her maladies, and refutes some rumored ones.
Per Taylor, the congestive heart failure is new, if "a bore." The spinal-twisting condition known as scoliosis is congenital, although now aggravated. ("It has finally caught up with me," she tells the magazine. "I've become one of those poor little old women who's bent sideways.") The seven broken bones in her back have been repaired through surgery. (She feels okay--"all things considered.")
As for the body? Well, Taylor alternately refers to the collective bag of bones as "my bloody body," and the aforementioned "real mess."
"I feel so stupid and feeble, that I can't do the work I was meant to do," Taylor says in W, bemoaning her lack of recent activity on behalf of AIDS research.
On the upside, Taylor scoffs at recent stories that have her suffering from dementia and watching Richard Burton movies around the clock.
"I don't read that [expletive]," a spunky Taylor tells the magazine. "Excuse my language. It gives me a good excuse to laugh. If I couldn't laugh at it I'd be in serious trouble."
The latter quote was offered to W via telephone following the back surgery in October. In the wake of the procedure, Taylor's own camp described the actress as "bedridden," but in "good spirits." (On Tuesday, her press rep, Sally Morrison, said the star was up and about again, and, blurbable quotes from W aside, obsessing over life, not death. "She's not planning on anything happened to her anytime soon," Morrison said.)
But even prior to the back surgery, W describes Taylor as walking slowly and needing to catch her breath after a trip up the stairs of her home.
So as to not dwell entirely on health issues, the magazine notes Taylor's devotion to her 12-year-old Maltese ("I've never loved a dog like this in my life."), her love of Pepperidge Farm Orange Milano cookies ("Oh my God, I could eat a whole bag at one go."), and her favorite TV show (Law & Order ). In related reminisces, Taylor tells the magazine that Burton and producer Mike Todd were her two favorite husbands. (She's had seven--eight, if you count Burton, whom she wed and divorced and wed and divorced, twice. She is currently unattached--if you don't count Sugar, the Maltese.)
Taylor, whose classic credits include A Place in the Sun and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, announced her retirement from Hollywood last year, nearly a decade after her final big-screen appearance in 1994's The Flintstones. The two-time Oscar winner said she intended to devote her time to AIDS causes, but tells W poor health has prevented her from doing any such work for a year.
Since being thrown from a horse at age 12 while filming National Velvet, Taylor has endured assorted back troubles, a near-deadly bout of pneumonia, a brain tumor and skin cancer--this, a merely quick, not exhaustive, list.
"People must think, 'My God, she's still alive?," Taylor jokes in W. "But there's some resilience in me that makes me keep fighting. It's the damndest thing--I just keep coming back."
Liz Taylor's Van Gogh Is Forever
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by Sarah Hall
Feb 8, 2005, 10:30 AM PT
Thanks to a court ruling, Elizabeth Taylor is still the girl who has everything, including her Van Gogh.
The ownership of said Van Gogh, a 1889 work titled View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy, became the subject of dispute when Taylor was sued last October by several individuals who claimed the Nazis took it from their ascendant, Margarete Mauthner, after she fled Germany for South Africa in 1939.
Taylor filed court documents of her own last May, seeking a declaration that she was the work's rightful owner. She claimed she came into possession of the painting in 1963, after her father bought it for her at a Sotheby's auction in London for the bargain price of $257,600.
According to Taylor's court filing, the catalogue at the 1963 auction did indeed list Mauthner in the painting's pedigree, but stated that it passed to two reputable art galleries before it was sold to Alfred Wolf, a German Jew who fled the Nazis for Buenos Aires in 1933.
When Taylor eventually purchased the painting, it was part of Wolf's collection, her suit stated. She denied seeing any evidence that it had ever fallen into Nazi hands.
The Van Gogh currently hangs in her Bel-Air mansion.
However, in the collective opinion of Mauthner's descendants: Andrew Orkin, F. Mark Orkin, Sarah-Rose Josepha Adler and A. Heinrich Zille, the painting, now valued at around $15 million, should rightfully belong to them.
The heirs based their belief on a federal law that entitles Holocaust victims to reclaim property taken from them by the Nazis and Soviets before and after World War II.
"We are asserting that Ms. Taylor was negligent and careless when she bought the painting," Andrew Orkin, Mauthner's great-grandson, said in a statement in October. Had she or her father read the catalogue carefully, they "could not have missed the painting's Nazi taint."
But a federal judge sided with Taylor, ruling that Mauthner's descendents failed to state a valid claim under federal law. According to U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner, the California state law that applies in the case allows individuals to sue for only three years after their property was taken.
A newer California state law that puts the statute of limitations on hold until plaintiffs can determine the property's whereabouts did not apply in this case, Klausner determined.
According to Taylor, she's had the famous painting in her possession long enough that just about anyone should have been able to determine its location with ease.
EOnline.com
by Sarah Hall
Feb 8, 2005, 10:30 AM PT
Thanks to a court ruling, Elizabeth Taylor is still the girl who has everything, including her Van Gogh.
The ownership of said Van Gogh, a 1889 work titled View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy, became the subject of dispute when Taylor was sued last October by several individuals who claimed the Nazis took it from their ascendant, Margarete Mauthner, after she fled Germany for South Africa in 1939.
Taylor filed court documents of her own last May, seeking a declaration that she was the work's rightful owner. She claimed she came into possession of the painting in 1963, after her father bought it for her at a Sotheby's auction in London for the bargain price of $257,600.
According to Taylor's court filing, the catalogue at the 1963 auction did indeed list Mauthner in the painting's pedigree, but stated that it passed to two reputable art galleries before it was sold to Alfred Wolf, a German Jew who fled the Nazis for Buenos Aires in 1933.
When Taylor eventually purchased the painting, it was part of Wolf's collection, her suit stated. She denied seeing any evidence that it had ever fallen into Nazi hands.
The Van Gogh currently hangs in her Bel-Air mansion.
However, in the collective opinion of Mauthner's descendants: Andrew Orkin, F. Mark Orkin, Sarah-Rose Josepha Adler and A. Heinrich Zille, the painting, now valued at around $15 million, should rightfully belong to them.
The heirs based their belief on a federal law that entitles Holocaust victims to reclaim property taken from them by the Nazis and Soviets before and after World War II.
"We are asserting that Ms. Taylor was negligent and careless when she bought the painting," Andrew Orkin, Mauthner's great-grandson, said in a statement in October. Had she or her father read the catalogue carefully, they "could not have missed the painting's Nazi taint."
But a federal judge sided with Taylor, ruling that Mauthner's descendents failed to state a valid claim under federal law. According to U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner, the California state law that applies in the case allows individuals to sue for only three years after their property was taken.
A newer California state law that puts the statute of limitations on hold until plaintiffs can determine the property's whereabouts did not apply in this case, Klausner determined.
According to Taylor, she's had the famous painting in her possession long enough that just about anyone should have been able to determine its location with ease.
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LAUNCHED: Health woes may have kept Elizabeth Taylor, 72, out of the public's eye recently, but she will bring her legendary love of jewelry to the public via an exclusive partnership with Jack and Monty Abramov of the L.A.-based Mirabelle Luxury Concepts, the company has announced. The House of Taylor Jewelry will offer pieces ranging in price from $3,000 to more than $1 million. Says Taylor in a statement: "I knew that I wanted to share my passion for jewelry with others so that they could truly enjoy the thrills and pure happiness that jewelry has brought to my life. Something wonderful is about to happen."
LAUNCHED: Health woes may have kept Elizabeth Taylor, 72, out of the public's eye recently, but she will bring her legendary love of jewelry to the public via an exclusive partnership with Jack and Monty Abramov of the L.A.-based Mirabelle Luxury Concepts, the company has announced. The House of Taylor Jewelry will offer pieces ranging in price from $3,000 to more than $1 million. Says Taylor in a statement: "I knew that I wanted to share my passion for jewelry with others so that they could truly enjoy the thrills and pure happiness that jewelry has brought to my life. Something wonderful is about to happen."
At the BAFTA Awards, Cruise and Holmes get chummy with the evening's top honoree, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who made a rare public appearance to accept the Britannia award for artistic excellence in international entertainment.
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Elizabeth Taylor will mark her 74th birthday on Monday by donating a mobile medical unit worth several hundred thousand dollars to the New Orleans AIDS Task Force....
Elizabeth Taylor will mark her 74th birthday on Monday by donating a mobile medical unit worth several hundred thousand dollars to the New Orleans AIDS Task Force....
She's a classy broad.
On their 74th B-days J-lo & the like will probably be buying themselves diamonds the size of a mobile medical unit.
On their 74th B-days J-lo & the like will probably be buying themselves diamonds the size of a mobile medical unit.
NY Daily News
… Liz Taylor's people are denying a story in the National Enquirer that her heart is failing. The supermarket tabloid claims she spent Easter bedridden. …
… Liz Taylor's people are denying a story in the National Enquirer that her heart is failing. The supermarket tabloid claims she spent Easter bedridden. …
From Liz Smith's Column 5/1:
EVERY SIX months the supermarket tabloids dust off the same "Liz Taylor Dying" stories. As the star does not appear more than once a year in public, this is the only thing the media can concoct to write about Elizabeth. Truth is - her reps say she's as fine as she can be. She had a big Easter party at her Bel Air manse, designed her own extravagant bonnet, mixed with her guests. One of her grandsons played trumpet with a jazz band ET brought in. This great movie queen and greater AIDS activist is wheelchair-bound and may never be mobile as she once was. But she is not at death's door.
EVERY SIX months the supermarket tabloids dust off the same "Liz Taylor Dying" stories. As the star does not appear more than once a year in public, this is the only thing the media can concoct to write about Elizabeth. Truth is - her reps say she's as fine as she can be. She had a big Easter party at her Bel Air manse, designed her own extravagant bonnet, mixed with her guests. One of her grandsons played trumpet with a jazz band ET brought in. This great movie queen and greater AIDS activist is wheelchair-bound and may never be mobile as she once was. But she is not at death's door.
From Liz Smith, May 2, 2006
A LITTLE P.S. to our "Liz Taylor is not dead" story. The star is so alive she just bought herself a present to celebrate the 15th spectacular year of her evergreen White Diamonds fragrance. A deluxe Mercedes Maybach with two rear seats that recline into a bed.
A LITTLE P.S. to our "Liz Taylor is not dead" story. The star is so alive she just bought herself a present to celebrate the 15th spectacular year of her evergreen White Diamonds fragrance. A deluxe Mercedes Maybach with two rear seats that recline into a bed.
QUOTE (k80cat @ May 2 2006, 06:22 AM)
From Liz Smith, May 2, 2006
A LITTLE P.S. to our "Liz Taylor is not dead" story. The star is so alive she just bought herself a present to celebrate the 15th spectacular year of her evergreen White Diamonds fragrance. A deluxe Mercedes Maybach with two rear seats that recline into a bed.
A LITTLE P.S. to our "Liz Taylor is not dead" story. The star is so alive she just bought herself a present to celebrate the 15th spectacular year of her evergreen White Diamonds fragrance. A deluxe Mercedes Maybach with two rear seats that recline into a bed.
God I hope she ain't the one who's driving it!!!!
QUOTE (k80cat @ May 2 2006, 06:22 AM)
From Liz Smith, May 2, 2006
A LITTLE P.S. to our "Liz Taylor is not dead" story. The star is so alive she just bought herself a present to celebrate the 15th spectacular year of her evergreen White Diamonds fragrance. A deluxe Mercedes Maybach with two rear seats that recline into a bed.
A LITTLE P.S. to our "Liz Taylor is not dead" story. The star is so alive she just bought herself a present to celebrate the 15th spectacular year of her evergreen White Diamonds fragrance. A deluxe Mercedes Maybach with two rear seats that recline into a bed.
Oh yuck!! I just had visions of Liz getting a little backseat action!!!
Where's the vomit smilie when you need it!!
Liz Taylor Refutes Alzheimer's Reports
Wednesday May 31, 2006 8:00am EST
By Stephen M. Silverman
people.com
Elizabeth Taylor at the set of Larry King Live
CREDIT: PHOTOPRO / LANDOV
In her first TV interview in three years, Elizabeth Taylor – no stranger to tabloid gossip about her health – has denied recent reports that she has Alzheimer's and is at death's door.
Speaking to Larry King on CNN Tuesday night, the 74-year-old screen legend – who at one point jokingly offered King her hand so he could put a wedding ring on it – said, "Oh come on, do I look like I'm dying? Do I look like or sound like I have Alzheimer's?"
Attempting to explain the stories, Taylor said they're written "because they have nothing else dirty to write about anybody else. Some audience out there ... they like scandal. They like filth. And if they want to hear that I'm dead, sorry folks. I'm not. And I don't plan on it."
Still, Taylor, on the show to promote her upcoming precious-jewelry line, was in a wheelchair. When King asked why, she blamed "my back, which has been chronically bad since I was a teenager." She added that she was born with scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, and has osteoporosis.
Is she in constant pain? King asked. She is, she said. Will she ever marry again? (Taylor has famously been married eight times.) "Are you asking?" she replied with a laugh.
Taylor, a longtime AIDS activist, also told King that she doesn't think a cure will be found, but there will be major advancements in treatment.
Wednesday May 31, 2006 8:00am EST
By Stephen M. Silverman
people.com
Elizabeth Taylor at the set of Larry King Live
CREDIT: PHOTOPRO / LANDOV
In her first TV interview in three years, Elizabeth Taylor – no stranger to tabloid gossip about her health – has denied recent reports that she has Alzheimer's and is at death's door.
Speaking to Larry King on CNN Tuesday night, the 74-year-old screen legend – who at one point jokingly offered King her hand so he could put a wedding ring on it – said, "Oh come on, do I look like I'm dying? Do I look like or sound like I have Alzheimer's?"
Attempting to explain the stories, Taylor said they're written "because they have nothing else dirty to write about anybody else. Some audience out there ... they like scandal. They like filth. And if they want to hear that I'm dead, sorry folks. I'm not. And I don't plan on it."
Still, Taylor, on the show to promote her upcoming precious-jewelry line, was in a wheelchair. When King asked why, she blamed "my back, which has been chronically bad since I was a teenager." She added that she was born with scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, and has osteoporosis.
Is she in constant pain? King asked. She is, she said. Will she ever marry again? (Taylor has famously been married eight times.) "Are you asking?" she replied with a laugh.
Taylor, a longtime AIDS activist, also told King that she doesn't think a cure will be found, but there will be major advancements in treatment.
From what I've seen in tv biography-type shows, she's always had health problems. I read somewhere that she's been in the hospital over 100 times!
Liz Taylor 'Too Hedonistic' to Diet
TUESDAY JULY 11, 2006 10:20AM EST
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By Stephen M. Silverman
Elizabeth Taylor acknowledges that thin is in, but it's just not for her anymore.
"I wish I could be that size, but I can't be," Taylor tells Bazaar in its August issue, the Associated Press reports. "I enjoy food too much. In the end, I'm too hedonistic. I enjoy pleasures."
Asked by designer Michael Kors, who interviews the 74-year-old screen icon, on whether she dresses for men, women or herself, Taylor says, "Men first. Myself. Then other women. 'Cause you can't please women. They are horribly critical of each other. And more so if you're famous. Meow."
Saying she's a romantic – "I'm afraid so," she admits – the eight-times-married Taylor recalls that, when she was wed to Sen. John Warner (R.-Va.) she was instructed not to dress ostentatiously during his 1978 campaign.
"I ended up in a tweed suit," she says. "Me. Little tweed suits. What I won't do for love."
TUESDAY JULY 11, 2006 10:20AM EST
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By Stephen M. Silverman
Elizabeth Taylor acknowledges that thin is in, but it's just not for her anymore.
"I wish I could be that size, but I can't be," Taylor tells Bazaar in its August issue, the Associated Press reports. "I enjoy food too much. In the end, I'm too hedonistic. I enjoy pleasures."
Asked by designer Michael Kors, who interviews the 74-year-old screen icon, on whether she dresses for men, women or herself, Taylor says, "Men first. Myself. Then other women. 'Cause you can't please women. They are horribly critical of each other. And more so if you're famous. Meow."
Saying she's a romantic – "I'm afraid so," she admits – the eight-times-married Taylor recalls that, when she was wed to Sen. John Warner (R.-Va.) she was instructed not to dress ostentatiously during his 1978 campaign.
"I ended up in a tweed suit," she says. "Me. Little tweed suits. What I won't do for love."
She was and is still a beauty, regardless of her size.
From imdb.com today...
Taylor Reveals First Husband Hilton Was a "Cruel" Drunk
Movie icon Elizabeth Taylor has exposed her first husband, Conrad Hilton Jr., as a "cruel" drunk in a new magazine interview. The actress was a teenager when she exchanged vows with the hotel heir in 1950 and was so smitten with the handsome socialite she studied Catholicism to be his wife. But she admits she never took the union seriously enough and divorced Hilton, who is the uncle of Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton's father, nine months later - after discovering he had a drinking problem. Revealing all in a candid new expose with Interview editor Ingrid Sischy, the actress recalls, "When I got a divorce... I never told the court why, but he was cruel. When he drank it all came out, and I hadn't seen that before because he was on the wagon the eight months we were engaged. I didn't have a clue. But I thought, 'This isn't why God put me on earth.'" Taylor, who wed another seven times, had an inkling her first marriage wouldn't work out as she stood before the archbishop on her big day. She adds, "When I had to swear in front of the archbishop to be a good wife and all that stuff, I had my fingers crossed behind my back because I didn't know if I could be a good wife."
Taylor Reveals First Husband Hilton Was a "Cruel" Drunk
Movie icon Elizabeth Taylor has exposed her first husband, Conrad Hilton Jr., as a "cruel" drunk in a new magazine interview. The actress was a teenager when she exchanged vows with the hotel heir in 1950 and was so smitten with the handsome socialite she studied Catholicism to be his wife. But she admits she never took the union seriously enough and divorced Hilton, who is the uncle of Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton's father, nine months later - after discovering he had a drinking problem. Revealing all in a candid new expose with Interview editor Ingrid Sischy, the actress recalls, "When I got a divorce... I never told the court why, but he was cruel. When he drank it all came out, and I hadn't seen that before because he was on the wagon the eight months we were engaged. I didn't have a clue. But I thought, 'This isn't why God put me on earth.'" Taylor, who wed another seven times, had an inkling her first marriage wouldn't work out as she stood before the archbishop on her big day. She adds, "When I had to swear in front of the archbishop to be a good wife and all that stuff, I had my fingers crossed behind my back because I didn't know if I could be a good wife."
Liz Taylor Celebrates Her 75th Birthday
By KEN RITTER
Associated Press Writer
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) -- Elizabeth Taylor, decked out in diamonds and fur, arrived fashionably late to her 75th birthday party.
The Hollywood icon was in a wheelchair when she came down the red carpet Tuesday at a Las Vegas-area resort. She was escorted by her 52-year-old son, Christopher Wilding, who shares the same birthday.
Some guests had been at her party more than two hours when Taylor arrived, smiling and batting her trademark violet eyes as photographers sang "Happy Birthday." Aides said her plane was delayed arriving from the Los Angeles area.
When asked about the secret to her longevity, she quipped: "Hangin' in."
Some 75 people were expected for a Mardi Gras-themed dinner of jambalaya, prime rib, collard greens, sweet potatoes and cake.
Guests including Debbie Reynolds and her daughter, Carrie Fisher; magicians Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn; and model Kathy Ireland turned out for the private party at the Medici Cafe and Terrace at the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas.
Among Taylor's closest friends are pop star Michael Jackson, whose spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday in a news release that he is now living in Las Vegas.
Taylor said she spoke with Jackson earlier in the day but didn't expect him to attend her party. Besides Christopher, her children Michael Wilding, 54; Elizabeth "Liza" Todd, 49; and Maria Burton, 45 were at the fete.
The Academy Award-winning actress, who uses a wheelchair because of back problems, has dismissed tabloid reports that she was being treated for early Alzheimer's disease or was gravely ill.
Taylor has won two Oscars for best actress and starred in more than 55 films, including "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Butterfield 8," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Cleopatra."
She has been named by the American Film Institute as among the greatest female movie stars of all time.
© 2007 The Associated Press.
By KEN RITTER
Associated Press Writer
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) -- Elizabeth Taylor, decked out in diamonds and fur, arrived fashionably late to her 75th birthday party.
The Hollywood icon was in a wheelchair when she came down the red carpet Tuesday at a Las Vegas-area resort. She was escorted by her 52-year-old son, Christopher Wilding, who shares the same birthday.
Some guests had been at her party more than two hours when Taylor arrived, smiling and batting her trademark violet eyes as photographers sang "Happy Birthday." Aides said her plane was delayed arriving from the Los Angeles area.
When asked about the secret to her longevity, she quipped: "Hangin' in."
Some 75 people were expected for a Mardi Gras-themed dinner of jambalaya, prime rib, collard greens, sweet potatoes and cake.
Guests including Debbie Reynolds and her daughter, Carrie Fisher; magicians Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn; and model Kathy Ireland turned out for the private party at the Medici Cafe and Terrace at the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas.
Among Taylor's closest friends are pop star Michael Jackson, whose spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday in a news release that he is now living in Las Vegas.
Taylor said she spoke with Jackson earlier in the day but didn't expect him to attend her party. Besides Christopher, her children Michael Wilding, 54; Elizabeth "Liza" Todd, 49; and Maria Burton, 45 were at the fete.
The Academy Award-winning actress, who uses a wheelchair because of back problems, has dismissed tabloid reports that she was being treated for early Alzheimer's disease or was gravely ill.
Taylor has won two Oscars for best actress and starred in more than 55 films, including "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Butterfield 8," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Cleopatra."
She has been named by the American Film Institute as among the greatest female movie stars of all time.
© 2007 The Associated Press.
Yay, Liz! I was worried this would be another, more somber type of post.
"Guests including Debbie Reynolds and her daughter, Carrie Fisher; magicians Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn; and model Kathy Ireland turned out for the private party at the Medici Cafe and Terrace at the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas."
Wow - Liz and Debbie Reynolds are friends?! Do you think Aniston will turn up at Angelina's 75th birthday party all smiles?
Wow - Liz and Debbie Reynolds are friends?! Do you think Aniston will turn up at Angelina's 75th birthday party all smiles?
QUOTE (strawberryshortcake @ Feb 28 2007, 03:13 PM) 
"Guests including Debbie Reynolds and her daughter, Carrie Fisher; magicians Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn; and model Kathy Ireland turned out for the private party at the Medici Cafe and Terrace at the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas."
Wow - Liz and Debbie Reynolds are friends?! Do you think Aniston will turn up at Angelina's 75th birthday party all smiles?
Wow - Liz and Debbie Reynolds are friends?! Do you think Aniston will turn up at Angelina's 75th birthday party all smiles?
HAHA!
Go LIZ!! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...ticle_id=484476
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Husband number 9? Elizabeth Taylor declares her love for new man
Eight-times married Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor could be heading for yet another trip down the aisle as she declared her love for a wealthy businessman she met last year in Hawaii.
The veteran actress, 75, has ended months of speculation about her relationship with African-American businessman Jason Winters, who she described as "one of the most wonderful men I've ever known".
Some kind of wonderful: Eight-times wed Dame Elizabeth Taylor declared her love for wealthy businessman beau Jason Winters. The couple attended an AIDs fundraiser together last night
Winters, who met Taylor while promoting her jewellery line, accompanied the actress to the Macy's Passport 2007 AIDS event in Los Angeles last night.
She told showbiz bible Variety: "Jason Winters is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known and that's why I love him.
"He bought us the most beautiful house in Hawaii and we visit it as often as possible."
Falling in love again: Dame Elizabeth declared Winters 'one of the most wonderful men' she has ever met
Despite years of crippling ill-health - she has been confined to a wheelchair for the past decade - Taylor was pictured swimming with sharks off Hawaii last year.
She plans to return to her new Hawaiian adopted home next week with Winters.
Dame Elizabeth, has been married eight times to seven men - twice to actor Richard Burton. Her last marriage, to construction worker Larry Fortensky ended in 1996 after five years.
Earlier this year, she celebrated her 75th birthday in Las Vegas in March with a star-studded party.
Go Liz!!! 
Go Liz!! She is the ultimate survivor.
She is the ultimate survivor.
QUOTE (Bette Davis @ Sep 28 2007, 11:04 AM)
Go Liz!! She is the ultimate survivor.
She is the ultimate survivor.An amazing & gracious woman as well as a full fledged MOVIE STAR
Liz was never afraid to be associated with gays & never feared the impact her work for aids awareness & fundraising could have had on her career back when it was a taboo subject.
I adore this woman so much & wish she could stay around forever.
I Liz!
I wish her all the best.
Liz!I wish her all the best.
Yay, etc. and by the way did everybody get that he's one of the most wonderful men ever!!! - sheesh, I wanted to clock that stupid writer. 
ITA that Liz is great for aligning herself with the AIDS cause WAY before it was popular and raising it to the awareness it now has today.
Couldn't help thinking though how lucky she is that fanchitchat and the internet didn't exist back in her day! Shoo-ee! She's like the original version of JLo's f'd-up love life and all the hullabaloo that is Brad and Angelina plus with even more star wattage overall! She woulda been tearin' up this board!!
ITA that Liz is great for aligning herself with the AIDS cause WAY before it was popular and raising it to the awareness it now has today.
Couldn't help thinking though how lucky she is that fanchitchat and the internet didn't exist back in her day! Shoo-ee! She's like the original version of JLo's f'd-up love life and all the hullabaloo that is Brad and Angelina plus with even more star wattage overall! She woulda been tearin' up this board!!
QUOTE (poofball @ Sep 30 2007, 12:43 AM)
Couldn't help thinking though how lucky she is that fanchitchat and the internet didn't exist back in her day! Shoo-ee! She's like the original version of JLo's f'd-up love life and all the hullabaloo that is Brad and Angelina plus with even more star wattage overall! She woulda been tearin' up this board!!
LOL, poofball. I was thinking the same thing.
Liz loves her some chocolate...oh, yeah!
The Duped Hollywood Screen Legend
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Underground Buzz: This Hollywood Screen Legend is telling everyone around her that she is ready for another husband. This would be her ninth husband. The man she has her eyes on is a businessman. Close friends of the Hollywood legend are shocked by her choice because she has never dated outside of her race. The screen legend may have to rethink her choice. The businessman is gay, and is only dealing with her to further his own business career.
Methinks: Elizabeth Taylor's 'beau' Jason Winters
See this article: Particularly this quote: "Martin Delaney, the founder of a San Francisco Aids charity of which Jason Winters (Liz's new beau) has been a patron for more than 15 years, told the Daily Mail: "I don't know how a marriage between them (Jason and Elizabeth) could take place. That's not the kind of relationship they've got. I find it all pretty amusing. "Elizabeth is friends with Jason and his long-term friend, Erik Sterling. Jason and Erik are both on the board of the charity and they have a house in Hawaii."
Wanna bet that 'long term friend' is his long term boyfriend?
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Underground Buzz: This Hollywood Screen Legend is telling everyone around her that she is ready for another husband. This would be her ninth husband. The man she has her eyes on is a businessman. Close friends of the Hollywood legend are shocked by her choice because she has never dated outside of her race. The screen legend may have to rethink her choice. The businessman is gay, and is only dealing with her to further his own business career.
Methinks: Elizabeth Taylor's 'beau' Jason Winters
See this article: Particularly this quote: "Martin Delaney, the founder of a San Francisco Aids charity of which Jason Winters (Liz's new beau) has been a patron for more than 15 years, told the Daily Mail: "I don't know how a marriage between them (Jason and Elizabeth) could take place. That's not the kind of relationship they've got. I find it all pretty amusing. "Elizabeth is friends with Jason and his long-term friend, Erik Sterling. Jason and Erik are both on the board of the charity and they have a house in Hawaii."
Wanna bet that 'long term friend' is his long term boyfriend?
Rock Hudson bedded Dean to win bet with Liz Taylor
A former Hollywood starlet has revealed that actress Elizabeth Taylor made a bet with closeted gay actor Rock Hudson about which one of them could seduce James Dean.
The much-married Ms Taylor lost out, according to Noreen Nash.
Dean starred in the movie Giant with Taylor and Hudson, but he died before the film was released.
"Elizabeth and Rock took bets on who could get James Dean into bed first.
"I had an idea Rock would win but Elizabeth wasn't so sure. James was troubled but gorgeous," said Ms Nash, according to the Daily Express.
She reports that Ms Taylor lost her bet just days into the filming of Giant in 1955.
Dean was killed in a road accident on September 30th 1955.
The true nature of his sexuality has been endlessly argued over in the five decades since his death.
Some friends claim he only engaged in gay sex for "trade," others that he was bisexual.
Rock Hudson's death from AIDS in October 1985 brought the disease into the consciousness of many Americans for the first time.
His worldwide search for a cure drew international attention.
Elizabeth Taylor eventually married eight times, twice to Richard Burton, and won two Academy Awards.
A former Hollywood starlet has revealed that actress Elizabeth Taylor made a bet with closeted gay actor Rock Hudson about which one of them could seduce James Dean.
The much-married Ms Taylor lost out, according to Noreen Nash.
Dean starred in the movie Giant with Taylor and Hudson, but he died before the film was released.
"Elizabeth and Rock took bets on who could get James Dean into bed first.
"I had an idea Rock would win but Elizabeth wasn't so sure. James was troubled but gorgeous," said Ms Nash, according to the Daily Express.
She reports that Ms Taylor lost her bet just days into the filming of Giant in 1955.
Dean was killed in a road accident on September 30th 1955.
The true nature of his sexuality has been endlessly argued over in the five decades since his death.
Some friends claim he only engaged in gay sex for "trade," others that he was bisexual.
Rock Hudson's death from AIDS in October 1985 brought the disease into the consciousness of many Americans for the first time.
His worldwide search for a cure drew international attention.
Elizabeth Taylor eventually married eight times, twice to Richard Burton, and won two Academy Awards.
Where is that story from? There's no link. 
Internet people are just jealous losers who make up these rumors!
QUOTE (NYCat @ Oct 31 2007, 08:37 AM)
Thank you, NYCat.
Liz Taylor In New Health Scare
Silver screen legend Elizabeth Taylor is reportedly battling a new health complaint that is shutting her internal organs down. The ailing 76-year-old actress' latest medical crisis was brought on by the painkillers she has taken for years to combat chronic back and hip pain.
Sources tell the National Enquirer the drugs have caused irreversible damage to her liver and kidneys - but Taylor is refusing to go on dialysis that will prolong her life.
An insider tells the publication, "Her body is starting to shut down, and she's adamant about not resorting to life support. Liz does not want to continue living if it means being connected to machines. Liz said she has no intention of going on dialysis - let alone consider organ transplants."
Silver screen legend Elizabeth Taylor is reportedly battling a new health complaint that is shutting her internal organs down. The ailing 76-year-old actress' latest medical crisis was brought on by the painkillers she has taken for years to combat chronic back and hip pain.
Sources tell the National Enquirer the drugs have caused irreversible damage to her liver and kidneys - but Taylor is refusing to go on dialysis that will prolong her life.
An insider tells the publication, "Her body is starting to shut down, and she's adamant about not resorting to life support. Liz does not want to continue living if it means being connected to machines. Liz said she has no intention of going on dialysis - let alone consider organ transplants."
Elizabeth Taylor: The Life of a West Hollywood Party
PEOPLE
By Bryan Alexander
She's played the Queen of Egypt and Maggie the Cat, but Thursday night Dame Elizabeth Taylor played to one of her most appreciative audiences yet – as the happily imbibing guest for a benefit at the Abbey, West Hollywood's premiere gay bar.
"This just doesn’t happen every day," Abbey owner David Cooley tells PEOPLE. "It was not only Elizabeth Taylor, but she was the life of the party."
Though wheelchair-bound, the 76-year-old superstar's appearance saw her blinged to the max ("There were massive stones on every finger," says one partygoer. "It was amazing") and ready to have a good time – all for a good cause: the Trevor Fund, which runs a national suicide prevention hotline for gay youths.
Holding court in the back of the bar for a solid two hours, Taylor started off asking for the house-special apple martini, says Cooley. But when she caught sight of his watermelon martini, she wanted to try one for herself.
"She said that looks fun, so then she had a watermelon martini," he says. "She managed to drink these with a straw in a very lady-like manner."
Patrons in the club elbowed their way to the bar to get a good look at her. What they saw: Taylor, now sipping tequila shots.
"My friend texted me that Elizabeth Taylor was here, so I had to come see for myself," one wide-eyed guest told PEOPLE.
He wasn't alone. Cooley says that 200 people made their way to the exit to watch Taylor when she finally left the club.
"She waved as she drove off and said she'd be back," says Cooley. “In my 17 years here I have seen a lot of celebs, but how do you top that?
PEOPLE
By Bryan Alexander
She's played the Queen of Egypt and Maggie the Cat, but Thursday night Dame Elizabeth Taylor played to one of her most appreciative audiences yet – as the happily imbibing guest for a benefit at the Abbey, West Hollywood's premiere gay bar.
"This just doesn’t happen every day," Abbey owner David Cooley tells PEOPLE. "It was not only Elizabeth Taylor, but she was the life of the party."
Though wheelchair-bound, the 76-year-old superstar's appearance saw her blinged to the max ("There were massive stones on every finger," says one partygoer. "It was amazing") and ready to have a good time – all for a good cause: the Trevor Fund, which runs a national suicide prevention hotline for gay youths.
Holding court in the back of the bar for a solid two hours, Taylor started off asking for the house-special apple martini, says Cooley. But when she caught sight of his watermelon martini, she wanted to try one for herself.
"She said that looks fun, so then she had a watermelon martini," he says. "She managed to drink these with a straw in a very lady-like manner."
Patrons in the club elbowed their way to the bar to get a good look at her. What they saw: Taylor, now sipping tequila shots.
"My friend texted me that Elizabeth Taylor was here, so I had to come see for myself," one wide-eyed guest told PEOPLE.
He wasn't alone. Cooley says that 200 people made their way to the exit to watch Taylor when she finally left the club.
"She waved as she drove off and said she'd be back," says Cooley. “In my 17 years here I have seen a lot of celebs, but how do you top that?
*sigh* Lots of love to La Liz but my god, that woman has always, ALWAYS, had the taste of a troll on acid. Even in her heyday she had the worst taste imaginable and all those rocks couldn't do a damn thing to hide it. Well, actually, they sort of did. Being mesmerized by the bling covers a multitude of sins.
Anyway, I'm sad that I missed her knocking 'em back at the Abbey. I would have LOVED to catch a glimpse of her, even looking like absolute hell. She's still Elizabeth Fucking Taylor and she puts these starlet-come-latelys to shame.
Anyway, I'm sad that I missed her knocking 'em back at the Abbey. I would have LOVED to catch a glimpse of her, even looking like absolute hell. She's still Elizabeth Fucking Taylor and she puts these starlet-come-latelys to shame.
I can't believe she is only 76 - she looks older than that!
Brain freeze - Of course she is older than - it is Hollywood....
Carry on!
Brain freeze - Of course she is older than - it is Hollywood....
Carry on!
10/06/09
Elizabeth Taylor to Undergo Heart Operation
Elizabeth Taylor is letting her friends and fans know that she is about to go to the hospital for heart surgery.
"Any prayers you happen to have lying around I would dearly appreciate. I'll let you know when it's all over. Love you, Elizabeth," the 77-year-old star wrote on her Twitter page Tuesday afternoon.
That message was preceded by two others:
• "Dear Friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart."
• "It's very new and involves repairing my leaky valve using a clip device, without open heart surgery, so that my heart will function better"
A call to her rep was not immediately returned.
Source People
Elizabeth Taylor to Undergo Heart Operation
Elizabeth Taylor is letting her friends and fans know that she is about to go to the hospital for heart surgery.
"Any prayers you happen to have lying around I would dearly appreciate. I'll let you know when it's all over. Love you, Elizabeth," the 77-year-old star wrote on her Twitter page Tuesday afternoon.
That message was preceded by two others:
• "Dear Friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart."
• "It's very new and involves repairing my leaky valve using a clip device, without open heart surgery, so that my heart will function better"
A call to her rep was not immediately returned.
Source People
10/09/09
Elizabeth Taylor's 'Perfect' Procedure
Elizabeth Taylor's heart operation went "perfectly".
The Oscar-winning actress underwent surgery to repair a leaky heart valve earlier this week, and has taken to her Twitter page to reassure fans she is recovering well.
She wrote: "Dear Friends, My heart procedure went off perfectly. It's like having a brand new ticker. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes... I know they all helped. Love you, Elizabeth (sic)."
Elizabeth had the operation in Los Angeles, but the exact medical centre is unknown.
The 77-year-old star announced she was checking into hospital on Twitter, asking her fans to pray for her quick recovery.
She wrote: "Dear friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart.
"It's very new and involves repairing my leaky valve using a clip device, without open heart surgery, so that my heart will function better.
"Any prayers you happen to have lying around I would dearly appreciate. I'll let you know when it's all over. Love you, Elizabeth."
The Hollywood legend battles several health problems, and regularly appears in a wheelchair when she is in public.
Source monstersandcritics.com
Elizabeth Taylor's 'Perfect' Procedure
Elizabeth Taylor's heart operation went "perfectly".
The Oscar-winning actress underwent surgery to repair a leaky heart valve earlier this week, and has taken to her Twitter page to reassure fans she is recovering well.
She wrote: "Dear Friends, My heart procedure went off perfectly. It's like having a brand new ticker. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes... I know they all helped. Love you, Elizabeth (sic)."
Elizabeth had the operation in Los Angeles, but the exact medical centre is unknown.
The 77-year-old star announced she was checking into hospital on Twitter, asking her fans to pray for her quick recovery.
She wrote: "Dear friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart.
"It's very new and involves repairing my leaky valve using a clip device, without open heart surgery, so that my heart will function better.
"Any prayers you happen to have lying around I would dearly appreciate. I'll let you know when it's all over. Love you, Elizabeth."
The Hollywood legend battles several health problems, and regularly appears in a wheelchair when she is in public.
Source monstersandcritics.com
Elizabeth Taylor: 'I Love Twitter'
Dame Elizabeth Taylor has insisted that she is a big fan of Twitter.
The 77-year-old actress signed up to the social networking site earlier this year and regularly updates fans with thoughts and messages. In October, she tweeted that she was shortly due to undergo heart surgery.
Taylor has now told USA Today that age should never be a barrier when it comes to embracing new technology.
She said: "A girlfriend of mine suggested Twitter as a way to stay in touch and shoot down tabloid silliness. I must admit I love being able to talk with people directly without having anyone censor me. The warm love that comes back from people is an embrace. I'm always looking forward, never back."
However, Taylor added that she sometimes needs assistance with her iPod, saying: "We're just starting to load it now. I ask my secretary to help me with those things."
Source digitalspy.co.uk
Dame Elizabeth Taylor has insisted that she is a big fan of Twitter.
The 77-year-old actress signed up to the social networking site earlier this year and regularly updates fans with thoughts and messages. In October, she tweeted that she was shortly due to undergo heart surgery.
Taylor has now told USA Today that age should never be a barrier when it comes to embracing new technology.
She said: "A girlfriend of mine suggested Twitter as a way to stay in touch and shoot down tabloid silliness. I must admit I love being able to talk with people directly without having anyone censor me. The warm love that comes back from people is an embrace. I'm always looking forward, never back."
However, Taylor added that she sometimes needs assistance with her iPod, saying: "We're just starting to load it now. I ask my secretary to help me with those things."
Source digitalspy.co.uk
Elizabeth Taylor Says No To Surgery
Dame Elizabeth Taylor is refusing to undergo any more surgery.
The 78-year-old screen legend - who has had numerous operations in the past 25 years for several health problems - has decided she doesn't want to go under the knife to receive treatment for Scoliosis, a painful curvature of the spine.
The condition has left her wheelchair-bound and with crippling neck pain, but after three visits to a Los Angeles hospital this year she has decided enough is enough.
A source close to the star is quoted as saying: "I won't go so far as to say she has given up but she is adamant she can't face another operation. Some mornings her neck is in such acute pain she is barely able to lift her head.
"She spends most of the day sitting in a chair with her head slumped on her shoulder. It's the only position in which she feels anything like comfortable."
Over the years Taylor has had both her hips replaced, several operations on her back, beaten a brain tumour, undergone surgery to treat congestive heart failure, had a stroke and has suffered from diabetes, pneumonia, osteoporosis and skin cancer.
The 'Cleopatra' star - who has been married eight times - took to her twitter page last year to tell her fans how her open heart surgery went.
She wrote at the time: "Dear Friends, My heart procedure went off perfectly. It's like having a brand new ticker. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes... I know they all helped. Love you, Elizabeth (sic)."
Source femalefirst
Dame Elizabeth Taylor is refusing to undergo any more surgery.
The 78-year-old screen legend - who has had numerous operations in the past 25 years for several health problems - has decided she doesn't want to go under the knife to receive treatment for Scoliosis, a painful curvature of the spine.
The condition has left her wheelchair-bound and with crippling neck pain, but after three visits to a Los Angeles hospital this year she has decided enough is enough.
A source close to the star is quoted as saying: "I won't go so far as to say she has given up but she is adamant she can't face another operation. Some mornings her neck is in such acute pain she is barely able to lift her head.
"She spends most of the day sitting in a chair with her head slumped on her shoulder. It's the only position in which she feels anything like comfortable."
Over the years Taylor has had both her hips replaced, several operations on her back, beaten a brain tumour, undergone surgery to treat congestive heart failure, had a stroke and has suffered from diabetes, pneumonia, osteoporosis and skin cancer.
The 'Cleopatra' star - who has been married eight times - took to her twitter page last year to tell her fans how her open heart surgery went.
She wrote at the time: "Dear Friends, My heart procedure went off perfectly. It's like having a brand new ticker. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes... I know they all helped. Love you, Elizabeth (sic)."
Source femalefirst
Going the whole 9! La Liz to wed again
Elizabeth Taylor, 78, is planning to tie the knot yet again -- this time with a longtime companion 29 years her junior.
Taylor recently became secretly engaged to showbiz manager Jason Winters, 49, according to Usmagazine.com.
The violet-eyed one has been single for 14 years -- her longest hubbyless stretch -- since she divorced her last spouse, construction worker Larry Fortensky, after five years of on-and-off wedded bliss.
Her relationship with Winters, who recently took on Janet Jackson as a client, became publicly known in 2007, when they were spotted on a romantic vacation in Hawaii.
LIZ TAYLOR Engaged to "boy toy," 49.The happy couple also celebrated the Fourth of July in 2008 aboard a yacht in Santa Monica and have been photographed together at various charity events.
"She didn't think she'd fall in love again, but since Jason came into her life, that has all changed," a source close to Taylor said at the time.
The Hollywood legend's husbands have included hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton (1950-51), actor Michael Wilding ('52-'57), impresario Mike Todd ('57 until his death in a plane crash in '58), singer Eddie Fisher ('59-'64), actor Richard Burton ('64-'74 and '75-'76), Sen. John Warner ('76-'82) and Fortensky ('91-'96).
source: http://www.nypost.com
Elizabeth Taylor, 78, is planning to tie the knot yet again -- this time with a longtime companion 29 years her junior.
Taylor recently became secretly engaged to showbiz manager Jason Winters, 49, according to Usmagazine.com.
The violet-eyed one has been single for 14 years -- her longest hubbyless stretch -- since she divorced her last spouse, construction worker Larry Fortensky, after five years of on-and-off wedded bliss.
Her relationship with Winters, who recently took on Janet Jackson as a client, became publicly known in 2007, when they were spotted on a romantic vacation in Hawaii.
LIZ TAYLOR Engaged to "boy toy," 49.The happy couple also celebrated the Fourth of July in 2008 aboard a yacht in Santa Monica and have been photographed together at various charity events.
"She didn't think she'd fall in love again, but since Jason came into her life, that has all changed," a source close to Taylor said at the time.
The Hollywood legend's husbands have included hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton (1950-51), actor Michael Wilding ('52-'57), impresario Mike Todd ('57 until his death in a plane crash in '58), singer Eddie Fisher ('59-'64), actor Richard Burton ('64-'74 and '75-'76), Sen. John Warner ('76-'82) and Fortensky ('91-'96).
source: http://www.nypost.com
Elizabeth Taylor Denies She's Getting Married for 9th Time
Eight marriages are enough right now for Elizabeth Taylor.
"The rumors regarding my engagement simply aren't true," the legendary Hollywood actress Tweeted in response to online reports she planned to tie the knot for ninth time with Jason Winters. "Jason is my manager and dearest friend. I love him with all my heart."
Taylor, 78, has been married eight times to seven different men: Conrad Hilton Jr., Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton (twice), John Warner and Larry Fortensky. She has been single since her divorce from Fortensky in 1996.
Winters, 49, is a principal in Sterling Winters Management. In 2007, Taylor told columnist Liz Smith: "Jason Winters is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known and that's why I love him. He bought us the most beautiful house in Hawaii and we visit it as often as possible."
Source People
Eight marriages are enough right now for Elizabeth Taylor.
"The rumors regarding my engagement simply aren't true," the legendary Hollywood actress Tweeted in response to online reports she planned to tie the knot for ninth time with Jason Winters. "Jason is my manager and dearest friend. I love him with all my heart."
Taylor, 78, has been married eight times to seven different men: Conrad Hilton Jr., Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton (twice), John Warner and Larry Fortensky. She has been single since her divorce from Fortensky in 1996.
Winters, 49, is a principal in Sterling Winters Management. In 2007, Taylor told columnist Liz Smith: "Jason Winters is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known and that's why I love him. He bought us the most beautiful house in Hawaii and we visit it as often as possible."
Source People
I was really shocked by her death. She had been sick for so long (something, most of her life, really) I read Furious Love last year and just loved it- I was joking with a friend yesterday that she's hopefully reunited with Richard Burton now and she responded - yes - there will probably be thunderstorms tonight. And THERE WERE (and we live in different states!!!)
Ted C has nice remembrances on his site today: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_...seduced_me.html
Read more: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_...l#ixzz1HWgj7TDP
Ted C has nice remembrances on his site today: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_...seduced_me.html
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The Day Elizabeth Taylor Seduced MeToday 4:21 AM PDT by Ted Casablanca
UPPA/ZUMAPress.com
I had seen Elizabeth Taylor several times since our first meeting in 1992, and she was always as she was that first day: breathtakingly captivating.
I worked for Premiere magazine at the time, and I was doing a piece on her absurdly successful second career as a businesswoman hawking perfume. Her first, Elizabeth Taylor's Passion, was such hideous stuff I would use it to freshen up the litter box.
But then, she launched White Diamonds, which was a genius scent that catapulted Elizabeth (never Liz) into mega-businesswoman stardom. Taylor made zillions off the stuff. And so with more faxes, phone calls, letters and rearranged appointments than I would imagine it would take to interview the president of the Unites States of America, I finally drove through the gates of Taylor's Bel-Air estate:
She was incredibly late. I sat in that living room just down from Nancy Regan's pad for a couple of hours.
But I was grateful for the chance to calm down. I had always admired Taylor greatly for being an outspoken Hollywood broad, not to mention a talented film actress and exceptional beauty. As a rule, I don't get gushy or nervous with celebs, but I was anxious.
I also got a chance to really study her décor. The pad was loaded with priceless paintings (her father was an art dealer) grouped very warmly around over the sofa. Nothing grand about it. Those Van Goghs were there for the enjoyment, right up front, nothing was austere, hands-off or coldly at a distant. Brass deer were lying at the fireplace. Dogs were running in and out of the patio doors, which opened onto the small green lawn. It was all kind of kitschy, warm and cool.
This was not a stuffy star's overly decorated home, made up for a magazine spread: this was Taylor's family ranch-style pad, meant to be enjoyed.
I smelled her before I saw her.
Suddenly, Taylor bolted in wearing high-heel boots and a purple blouse, nothing fussy. She was luminous and looked to be wearing what appeared to be little-boy's blue jeans, she was so tiny—the last period in her life she was truly a curvy little thing. Masses of amethysts were around her neck and wrists. No diamonds, I was hugely disappointed.
But that changed as soon as Elizabeth opened her mouth:
She talked about how pissed she was that she still had to work so hard at bringing people around to help with AIDS. Resting under one of her masterpieces, Taylor mentioned in particular a businessman she met at a recent fundraiser. The man had asked her if it was true you could only get AIDS through the rectum.
Taylor's heavily made-up violet eyes squinted as she repeated what she told the man: "No, dear, through the vaginal juices, too."
That's what Elizabeth did best: shock and talk sense at the same time.
She told me how much she loved taking a break from Hollywood, which she found "childish." The business world better suited her, she said, as it was more "grown up."
Taylor also intimated her life with Sen. John Warner (husband No. 7) was boring as crap, and, she said that Richard Burton was the love of her life. This is no secret.
She said she loved playing Cleopatra because she was such a "smart" woman, and she got a particular kick out of the fact Egypt's ruler was such an "incredibly homely woman," and how ironic it all was.
But Taylor was hardly conceited. She told me she hated her short legs, envied tall, svelte women like no one else's business. She also said "no woman ever gets tired of being told she's beautiful." She smiled and invited me to a taping of a talk show she was doing that night. I was so enchanted I'd have done anything she asked at that point.
Even though Elizabeth became frail and sometimes hard to understand, you couldn't stop looking at her. The last time I saw her was at the Macy's Passport AIDS/HIV fundraiser in 2009. She could barely read the prompter in front of her onstage and some nasty people near me were taking pictures and snickering.
I thought it was particularly mean treatment of the movie legend—who was the first to rally against AIDS in Hollywood when her good friend Rock Hudson succumbed to the disease. That salty legend took a stand when nobody else had to the guts to do anything. She deserved much more. Especially for still continuing her AIDS work, even when her health really wasn't up to it.
And for that, I say Elizabeth was as beautiful when she died as she was—-always.
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I had seen Elizabeth Taylor several times since our first meeting in 1992, and she was always as she was that first day: breathtakingly captivating.
I worked for Premiere magazine at the time, and I was doing a piece on her absurdly successful second career as a businesswoman hawking perfume. Her first, Elizabeth Taylor's Passion, was such hideous stuff I would use it to freshen up the litter box.
But then, she launched White Diamonds, which was a genius scent that catapulted Elizabeth (never Liz) into mega-businesswoman stardom. Taylor made zillions off the stuff. And so with more faxes, phone calls, letters and rearranged appointments than I would imagine it would take to interview the president of the Unites States of America, I finally drove through the gates of Taylor's Bel-Air estate:
She was incredibly late. I sat in that living room just down from Nancy Regan's pad for a couple of hours.
But I was grateful for the chance to calm down. I had always admired Taylor greatly for being an outspoken Hollywood broad, not to mention a talented film actress and exceptional beauty. As a rule, I don't get gushy or nervous with celebs, but I was anxious.
I also got a chance to really study her décor. The pad was loaded with priceless paintings (her father was an art dealer) grouped very warmly around over the sofa. Nothing grand about it. Those Van Goghs were there for the enjoyment, right up front, nothing was austere, hands-off or coldly at a distant. Brass deer were lying at the fireplace. Dogs were running in and out of the patio doors, which opened onto the small green lawn. It was all kind of kitschy, warm and cool.
This was not a stuffy star's overly decorated home, made up for a magazine spread: this was Taylor's family ranch-style pad, meant to be enjoyed.
I smelled her before I saw her.
Suddenly, Taylor bolted in wearing high-heel boots and a purple blouse, nothing fussy. She was luminous and looked to be wearing what appeared to be little-boy's blue jeans, she was so tiny—the last period in her life she was truly a curvy little thing. Masses of amethysts were around her neck and wrists. No diamonds, I was hugely disappointed.
But that changed as soon as Elizabeth opened her mouth:
She talked about how pissed she was that she still had to work so hard at bringing people around to help with AIDS. Resting under one of her masterpieces, Taylor mentioned in particular a businessman she met at a recent fundraiser. The man had asked her if it was true you could only get AIDS through the rectum.
Taylor's heavily made-up violet eyes squinted as she repeated what she told the man: "No, dear, through the vaginal juices, too."
That's what Elizabeth did best: shock and talk sense at the same time.
She told me how much she loved taking a break from Hollywood, which she found "childish." The business world better suited her, she said, as it was more "grown up."
Taylor also intimated her life with Sen. John Warner (husband No. 7) was boring as crap, and, she said that Richard Burton was the love of her life. This is no secret.
She said she loved playing Cleopatra because she was such a "smart" woman, and she got a particular kick out of the fact Egypt's ruler was such an "incredibly homely woman," and how ironic it all was.
But Taylor was hardly conceited. She told me she hated her short legs, envied tall, svelte women like no one else's business. She also said "no woman ever gets tired of being told she's beautiful." She smiled and invited me to a taping of a talk show she was doing that night. I was so enchanted I'd have done anything she asked at that point.
Even though Elizabeth became frail and sometimes hard to understand, you couldn't stop looking at her. The last time I saw her was at the Macy's Passport AIDS/HIV fundraiser in 2009. She could barely read the prompter in front of her onstage and some nasty people near me were taking pictures and snickering.
I thought it was particularly mean treatment of the movie legend—who was the first to rally against AIDS in Hollywood when her good friend Rock Hudson succumbed to the disease. That salty legend took a stand when nobody else had to the guts to do anything. She deserved much more. Especially for still continuing her AIDS work, even when her health really wasn't up to it.
And for that, I say Elizabeth was as beautiful when she died as she was—-always.
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