Elizabeth Taylor

So what's new here? Previous biographies have characterized Taylor as lonely and depressed during her 1976 to 1982 marriage to the late Sen. John Warner, R-Va., ...

Her vitality, if this book is to be believed, bordered on the superhuman; likewise, her sweetness, generosity, loyalty, bawdiness and love of life. Burton’s wife at the time of his death, Sally Hay, did her best to thwart that dream, purchasing the cemetery plot next to his. Taylor was the first major celebrity to raise money and awareness about HIV/AIDS and dispel myths about it. But when it came to weddings, the eight-times married Taylor was apt to leap before she looked. These values and activities would seem to describe any successful politician, especially at the highest level, and it is surprisingly that Taylor did not anticipate them. Previous biographies have characterized Taylor as lonely and depressed during her 1976 to 1982 marriage to the late Sen.