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Liz Taylor 'at death's door'
News.Com. AU ^ | April 28, 2006 | staff writer

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elizabethtaylor; hollywood; liz
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1 posted on 04/28/2006 5:54:50 AM PDT by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame; Tijeras_Slim

It was all that chicken.

2 posted on 04/28/2006 5:56:43 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: yankeedame

Life will end for all of us, live with that in mind.


3 posted on 04/28/2006 5:58:55 AM PDT by stevio (Red-Blooded Crunchy Con, American Male (NRA))
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To: yankeedame
Taylor reportedly cancelled her annual Easter party to plan her funeral.

Sounds like a person with too much time left. Maybe a farewell fragrance tour will be part of the pre-funeral.

4 posted on 04/28/2006 6:00:57 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: martin_fierro

She was a babe once. Me, they'll say "That boy was 24/7 fugly!"

5 posted on 04/28/2006 6:01:02 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: yankeedame

She sure was hot in “Cat on a hot tin roof.”


6 posted on 04/28/2006 6:01:14 AM PDT by ElTianti
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To: yankeedame

It seems she's been at "death's door" for about three decades now...her various maladies seem to pop up a couple of times a year.


7 posted on 04/28/2006 6:03:19 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Meep Meep)
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To: yankeedame
Like Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, John Wayne, and Paul Newman, to name a few, Liz Taylor is one-of-a-kind, an icon. I don't think we have many stars of her caliber today. Her passing will be very sad. Certainly no actress has ever been a bigger movie star.


8 posted on 04/28/2006 6:09:00 AM PDT by veronica ("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
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To: Tijeras_Slim

She was still pretty awesome in "Cleopatra." No one had Liz's eyes. What a rotten judge of husbands, though.


9 posted on 04/28/2006 6:09:07 AM PDT by LS
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To: yankeedame
Ms Taylor won her first Oscar in 1961 for the film Butterfield 8 ...

Her Oscar for 'Butterfield 8' was considered more of a sympathy vote ... Taylor had just recovered from her first life threatening malady and was still convalescing at the time of the Academy Award.

10 posted on 04/28/2006 6:09:36 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: LS

You got it! Those violet eyes were captivating.


11 posted on 04/28/2006 6:11:09 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: ElTianti
She sure was hot in “Cat on a hot tin roof.”

She was "hot" in lots of movies, if you like her type (I do).

But she was also a really good actresss when she had the right material.  Cat was one such role.  The material doesn't stand up 100% by today's standards, but she did an amazing job wiith it.  And the stuff she did in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" was remarkable.  Disturbing, but remarkable.

She also had quite a career as a child actress.

12 posted on 04/28/2006 6:11:42 AM PDT by Phsstpok (There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
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To: All

It was once said "it's all about the eyes". This first began when she was a child in National Velvet, a horseracing film.


13 posted on 04/28/2006 6:12:00 AM PDT by Owen
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To: veronica

She was a star at a young age and hanging around Hollywood perverted her values. Hanging around with all those queer movie stars I believe she became a fag hag. Perhaps the fruit men she hung around with were easier for her to talk with and she didnt have to compete with them as she did the slut wannabee star women.

She didnt have much of a family life. She lived in a fantasy world .

Definitely one of the worlds most beautiful women at one time.


14 posted on 04/28/2006 6:17:11 AM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: yankeedame

Congestive heart failure at her age is literally a death sentence. She'll be gone by the end of the year, for sure.


15 posted on 04/28/2006 6:17:30 AM PDT by D-Chivas
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To: yankeedame

But with all that plastic surgery her body will never decompose. Maybe they can stuff her and put her in Madame Tussaud's


16 posted on 04/28/2006 6:17:33 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Phsstpok
"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. "

I think it's sort of wierd Liz Taylor, (who converted to Judaism when she married Mike Todd), has annual Easter parties.

17 posted on 04/28/2006 6:18:33 AM PDT by YaYa123
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To: veronica
"I don't think we have many stars of her caliber today."

You are right. The Hollyweird crowd today stinks to high heaven, and have zero class with their leftist political grandstanding.
18 posted on 04/28/2006 6:19:28 AM PDT by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia)
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To: yankeedame

She's broken her back about as often as she's been married.

Wondering if there's a correlation?


19 posted on 04/28/2006 6:23:01 AM PDT by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: yankeedame
"Liz is inching closer to death every day and she knows it," a friend said.

So are you and I. But I do wish her well...she's an amazing actress.
20 posted on 04/28/2006 6:23:59 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (So long Danny)
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