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She was a figure who was larger than life!!
For more than six decades, Dame Elizabeth Taylor entertained audiences worldwide, her beauty captured in films like Cleopatra and her acting skills giving stellar performances in films like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Butterfield 8. But it was her role in National Velvet with Mickey Rooney that made her a star.
She began acting at 12, was a star by 18, a widow at 26.
We knew her as well for her private life as we did her storybook career. She was married eight times, with her husbands including a hotel magnate (Conrad Hilton), actors (Michael Wilding, Eddie Fisher), a producer (Michael Todd), a Senator (John Warner), and a construction worker (Larry Fortensky). But to most of us, it was her two marriages to actor Richard Burton that are remembered most.
In her later years, Liz Taylor was an ardent AIDS activist, as well as a successful entrepreneur, being the first star to tie her name to a perfume line, and then developing a successful jewelry line.
Suffering from congestive heart failure, Elizabeth Taylor passed away this morning at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in California with her four children at her side.
Harry Connick Jr. was not impressed with a variety show act in Australia that highlighted the Jackson Five. Connick let the performers and the host know exactly what he thought of the act………
Perhaps now that Michael Jackson’s public memorial is over, the media will return to reporting important things, like the healthcare reform, the Sotomayer confirmation, and of course, Congress’ foray into the NCAA. And perhaps, being shmaed into it a bit, the media may honor some of pur heroes, like Lt. Brian Bradshaw of WA., who have died in the service of our country.
But for a time today, as though royalty had died, the world watched family and friends pay tribute to the talent that was Michael Jackson. When you get past the phoniness of Rev. Al Sharpton, and the “cashing in” of Usher, there were two poignant moments in the memorial. The first was the words of Brooke Shields, who often accompanied Jackson as his “standby date”. Shields words were those of a true friend recalling childhood memories.
Then, as the stage filled with family and friends at the end, Jackson’s 11 year old daughter, Paris, spoke, in tears, exressing what a good “Daddy” she had, that she “loved so much”.
Michael Jackson‘s three young children, after a lifetime of fierce protection from the prying eyes of the world, came out into the open Tuesday for the most public and heart-wrenching debut imaginable.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090707/ap_on_en_mu/us_michael_jackson_children
Just 4 hours after the announcement of the death of pop icon Farrah Fawcett to cancer, word came from Los Angeles that Michael Jackson had been rushed to UCLA Medical Center in cardiac arrest. Within the hour, TMZ was reporting that his family had said he was in very bad condition.
Just before 6 pm EST, announcement was made that the superstar singer entertainer, the King of Pop, was dead at the age of 50 !
Two of the top pop icons of the 70′s dead on the same day.
