Intl. Notebook | Mar 23 2011 |
![ELIZABETHAN ERA](/images/headline/1227.png)
Golden age Hollywood loses its shiniest jewel.
Above, a promo shot of legendary beauty and two-time Academy Award-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor. She was one of the last stars to emerge from Hollywood’s old studio system, and one of the first true modern celebrities in terms of her relationship with the press and the public’s obsession with her. Famously frail throughout her life, she died today at age seventy-nine.