Liz Taylor RIP

The death is also announced of Elizabeth Taylor, the actress, aged 79. She had seven husbands, albeit one of them twice, succumbed to what Americans call ‘substance abuse’ and said Michael Jackson was the most normal person she knew.


It is not for this blog to judge people, least of all their character analysis, only to judge how the living judge others.

I will finish with the fact that she campaigned for AIDS victims and gave one of the world’s great precious stones, the Burton-Taylor diamond, to an orphanage.

They'd make a film of her, a story of redemption, if it weren't that it would involve how trivial Hollywood really is.