Elizabeth Taylor Passes Away at 79.

[scotrace]

She gets her own thread.

Obituary at CNN here.

A magnificently beautiful woman. And a life lived all the way up.

Hours before he died, Richard Burton wrote her a letter. Though he had remarried, he again expressed his undying love for her, and his hope that they might somehow be together again.
She received it after his death, and kept it by her bedside for her remaining days.

 

[Tifa]

So sad about this, she has been such an inspiration to me. My heart is broken

 

[Snowdrop]

Scotrace - That story about Richard Burton and the letter he wrote made me cry, how incredibly sad. It was always a tragedy that they could never make it work together, when they were clearly so in love with each other. The sappy romantic in me likes to think that they're together now.

Elizabeth was always one of my favourite actresses, so talented and of course, beautiful.

They just don't make them like her anymore.

 

[AmateisGal]

What a beautiful, sophisticated woman. So sad, but I hope she is now resting in peace. Her health just wasn't very good these last few years.

I love the romance between Liz and Richard Burton - and the letter...oh my. Makes the tears well. There is a new book out about their romance - I think it's called Furious Love.

 

[Fletch]

The solemnity of the moment is interrupted by my internal photo editor, who says we need some leg for after the jump.

TAYLOR, Please turn to page 2

Sigh.

 

[Zemke Fan]

I saw her in person once eating dinner at Dominique's. Must have been about 1980-85. Most incredible VIOLET eyes. Can see them to this day.

 

[Doctor Strange]

She was an awesome beauty, a better actress than is often recognized, a unique, bigger-than-life individualist, and nearly the last of the old-school movie stars.

I'm really sorry to hear she's gone - I always felt some kind of kinship with her because we shared the same birthday (2/27)...

 

[Dan'l]

I'm at work and having trouble focussing. She is one celeb that I had always hoped to meet someday... perhaps someday...

Death is a part of life but knowing that doesn't make it any easier.

 

[shopgirl61]

Elizabeth Taylor RIP 3/23/11

sorry if I didn't attach this to the other thread on passings but a woman like this deserves a thread all her own.

I am speechless.

 

[Miss Golightly]

I just saw it on the news - I'm pretty shocked even though I knew she was in poor health - RIP Liz.

 

[PADDY]

Rest in Peace, DAME ELIZABETH, for you will be sorely missed.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Terrible shame to lose a great.

 

[Miss Golightly]

Just heard the news - so sad. I thought she was a great actress - I don't think her abilities were that recognised. I watched her a few weeks ago in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - her performance just blew me away.

And what a beauty.....

 

[Lady Day]

She had been hospitalized for heart failure about two weeks ago. I had been steadily checking the headlines since then.

LD

 

[sheeplady]

Just heard the news - so sad. I thought she was a great actress - I don't think her abilities were that recognised. I watched her a few weeks ago in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - her performance just blew me away.

And what a beauty.....

I always found that movie amazing, because she let herself be "aged" by makeup in the movie. It takes a really confident person to go up on the big screen and have makeup artists put 30 years on you- especially when you are the beauty of the day. And that movie is powerful.

She really was "bigger than life" in many ways. I think one of her biggest contributions is that she helped to redefine "old age" for women in future decades.

 

[W-D Forties]

Terribly sad, but blimey - what a life she had! It is said that it is better to regret something you have done than something you haven't. Liz can't have had many regrets.

 

[randooch]

RIP Liz! At least the tabloids'll leave her alone now.

 

[rue]

She gets her own thread.


Hours before he died, Richard Burton wrote her a letter. Though he had remarried, he again expressed his undying love for her, and his hope that they might somehow be together again.
She received it after his death, and kept it by her bedside for her remaining days.

Thank you Scott. I think she deserves it too.

It's so sad, but at least now they can finally be together again.

 

[HadleyH]

Good bye sweet Elizabeth, you'll be remembered...

 

[John in Covina]

A life full of tragedy and triumph.