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Liz Taylor Stand-in Recalls Working With the Legend

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. -- Far from the glare of Hollywood, an 82-year-old woman living quietly in this beachside community reacted to news of actress Elizabeth Taylor's death with tears and an overwhelming sense of sadness. It was a lifetime away, but memories of Hollywood's golden age started flooding back to Sydney Mack...

Liz Taylor's Life in Film and Husbands

Elizabeth Taylor, who died early this morning at the age of 79, had a prolific life in marriage, film, philanthropy, sickness and diamonds. A consummate Hollywood starlet, Taylor spent only 12 years of her life under the radar before she burst into stardom with her role in 1944's "National Velvet." She was truly "famous...

Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79: Celebrities Remember Her on Twitter

"Elizabeth Taylor takes final bow. Never more beautiful than as Maggie the cat. Never more actor impressive than as Martha in Virginia Woolf," Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers wrote after the breaking news that the beloved star of Hollywood's golden age had died this morning. Taylor, remembered for Academy...

Did Deadly Drugs, Not a Snake, Kill Cleopatra?

(June 30) -- A snake bite is not what killed Cleopatra, queen of the Nile, according to German scientists. A team led by Christoph Schaefer, a historian and professor at the University of Trier, has concluded that she died after taking a drug cocktail that included opium and hemlock. After traveling with other experts to...