There are going to be approximately 3 million words written about Liz Taylor in the next 24 hours, and I don't think I can add much of substance to them. So I'll just say that at the peak of her career, she was not just a star, but also a legitimately great Hollywood actor. And of course if there were such a thing as an objective standard for beauty, she would be a standard-bearer. Even in her latter-decades turn as a perennial tabloid queen, her innate dignity and poise always made her seem larger, more significant than the trivia that surrounded her. Her early, forceful activism on AIDS would by itself justify a laudatory memoriam.
Here's a nice interview with her, talking about her breakthrough role opposite Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (1951):
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