Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Elizabeth Taylor’s death marks the end of an era


Elizabeth Taylor’s death today, March 23, 2011, marks the end of an era in American popular culture.

The AP’s David Germain and Hillel Italie sum up Taylor’s life and times:

LOS ANGELES — Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old-fashioned movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday at age 79.

She was surrounded by her four children when she died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks, said publicist Sally Morrison.

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