Heart failure (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/12517000/ns/today-entertainment/)!
This isn't ordinarily the sort of thing I would post about here, but she was one of the all-time greats. Classy lady, and I'm very sad to see her go.
Here's an article (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8401293/Dame-Elizabeth-Taylor-dies-in-Los-Angeles-aged-79.html) that gives Dame Elizabeth the correct form of address. 'Taylor' is no way to refer to a Dame.
you refer to her as Dame. on this side of the pond, we'll call her Liz.
Well, she managed to bring her sense of humor right into her own funeral; not often somebody manages to pull off something like that!
Elizabeth Taylor, well-known for decades among friends and colleagues for always being "fashionably late" for any engagement, had left explicit but quiet instructions that her funeral was to begin precisely fifteen minutes late! Which, of course, it did (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2011/03/elizabeth-taylor-late-for-her-own-funeral/1).
I've asked this question on two other threads, but where was this scene from the Elizabeth Taylor movie BUtterfield 8 on the New York State Thruway?:
http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=53622
I thought I'd recognize it, but I don't, although I keep thinking it's somewhere in Rockland County.