The Death Of A Legend And The End Of An Era

To me she was the most beautiful movie star of all time and possibly the most beautiful woman that ever lived. Words cannot express how sad I am that Elizabeth Taylor the last greatest legend has passed away. When I first heard a few weeks ago that she had been taken into hospital I knew the end was near, she has escaped death on numerous occasions throughout her life and battled with pain and illness, but a strong woman doesn’t break easily and she was able to live to the grand age of 79, not bad considering how many great stars die young and how many of her ex husbands, friends and co-stars met their fate way before their time. You just cannot beat death forever, and by the time you reach a certain age you become susceptible to your illnesses and complications of which she had many, in addition to that she lost her great friend Michael Jackson recently and I know that took an extra toll on her frail body, but I can’t help feeling deeply saddened and forlorn that the last great star of an unprecedented era is forever gone. She just seemed to out live so many people and I know she’d found happiness in the last few years of her life with someone who seemed to adore her.

A star like her as Michael Jackson will never come along again, not in my life time. She was truly one of a kind. Her unique beauty and violet eyes lit up the silver screen and her off screen romances with the likes of Eddie Fisher, Mike Todd and her great love Richard Burton gave birth to a tabloid frenzy and a popular celebrity culture that still lives on today, she was the first actress to command a million dollar pay cheque, one of the first women to take a huge stance and speak out about AIDS, she loved jewellery and perfume, she was a real woman, not perfect, but instead perfectly flawed. She was a movie star beyond movie stardom and a legend beyond legends.

Elizabeth Taylor I salute you, may your soul forever rest in peace, you are gone now but you will never be forgotten.