Elizabeth Taylor

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.


When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932) is a two-time Academy Award-winning English American actress. Known for her acting skills and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle including many marriages, she is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood’s golden years, as well as a larger-than-life celebrity.
The American Film Institute named Taylor seventh among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time.

You can read a lot about Elizabeth Taylor's career, she has had a long and interesting one. I honor her for her work with AIDS charity. She, more than any other person brought this disease "out of the closet" into the spotlight of human awareness so that people would realize that it needed attention and affected all humans.

Taylor has devoted much time and energy to AIDS-related charities and fundraising. She helped start the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) after the death of her former co-star and friend, Rock Hudson. She also created her own AIDS foundation, Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation (ETAF). By 1999, she had helped to raise an estimated US$50 million to fight the disease.

Recently, in 2006, Taylor donated US$40,000 to the New Orleans Aids task force, a charity designed for the New Orleans population with AIDS and HIV. The NO/AIDS task force estimated that about 7,400 residents were infected with HIV before Hurricane Katrina.[citation needed] Taylor and Macy's donated a 37-foot "CareVan," equipped with examination tables and X-Ray equipment.

Go read about her career here, here and here but honor her for her humanitarian work. I do.