oh no not another celebrity death
[quote]Dame Elizabeth Taylor, one of the 20th Century's biggest movie stars, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 79.
The double Oscar-winning actress had a long history of ill health and was being treated for symptoms of congestive heart failure.
Dame Elizabeth's most famous films included National Velvet, Cleopatra and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
She was equally well-known for her glamour and film partnership with Richard Burton, one of seven husbands.
In her prime, she was arguably one of the world's greatest actresses and most beautiful women.
Her colourful private life, screen success and Aids charity work ensured she was never far from the spotlight since finding fame at the age of 12.
The peak of her film career came in the 1950s and 1960s, with four Oscar nominations in a row from 1958 to 1961.
She lost out in her first three attempts - for Raintree County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly, Last Summer - but triumphed at her fourth attempt with Butterfield 8.
Her second Oscar came in 1967 for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, one of 12 films with Burton.
She met the actor while filming 1963's Cleopatra - which became notorious as one of the most expensive films of all time, but which also sparked one of Hollywood's greatest romances.
She won two Academy Awards over the course of her career
Taylor had already been married four times - to Conrad Hilton, Michael Wilding, Michael Todd and Eddie Fisher - before she wed Burton in 1964.
Their tempestuous relationship saw them divorce and remarry in 1975 before she moved on to further marriages with John W Warner and Larry Fortensky.
Her health problems began with a fall while filming her first hit film, National Velvet, which led to a lifetime of back problems.
A rare strain of pneumonia almost killed her in 1961 and she also battled addictions to alcohol and painkillers.
In the 1990s, she endured two hip replacement operations and another near-fatal bout of pneumonia and survived surgery for a benign brain tumour in 1997.
In 2004, it was revealed that she was suffering from congestive heart failure, with symptoms including fatigue and shortness of breath, and scoliosis, which twisted her spine.
But she continued to campaign for her Aids charity, which she set up in 1991 after the death of her friend and co-star Rock Hudson.[/quote]
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12833100]source[/url]
RIP :smith:
Who?
She was one good actor :smith:
Good actor in her days, too bad she went cuckoo since then.
Rest in peace, for you have shaped the world enough, 'tis time for you to move on, and watch as others continue.
[QUOTE=Saza;28763821]Who?[/QUOTE]
Don't be a lazy idiot.
RIP.
Hey! That was Wilma's mother in the Flintstones.
[img]http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/7/75/ElizabethTaylorFlintstones.jpeg[/img]
Damn shame.
She was pretty hot in her heyday.
[img]http://celebrity-pics.movieeye.com/celebrity_pictures/Elizabeth_Taylor_402355.jpeg[/img]
RIP madam.
[QUOTE=Joppari;28763853]She was one good actor :smith:[/QUOTE]
No, she was a bad actor, but she was a great actress.
Good riddance.
Damn, there goes one of the last remaining icons of that generation.
I know who she is, but I haven't heard of any of the titles they mentioned in the article
Saw this on the news this morning. :smith:
[QUOTE=Rygar69;28764000]Hey! That was Wilma's mother in the Flintstones.
[img_thumb]http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/7/75/ElizabethTaylorFlintstones.jpeg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
the highlight of her career
Now she can finally stop being in the tabloids
[QUOTE=CjienX;28765392]I know who she is, but I haven't heard of any of the titles they mentioned in the article[/QUOTE]
You've never heard of Cleopatra?
Anyway, that's a shame.
I heard a snake bit her on her tit.
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And it gave her heart failure
[QUOTE=Joppari;28763853]She was one good actor :smith:[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=shanzo;28763928]Good actor in her days, too bad she went cuckoo since then.[/QUOTE]
Just god damn it.
Botox got into her brain.
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