Elizabeth Taylor Makes Her Final Entrances
Elizabeth Taylor only makes rare appearances in the last decade of her life but is given many honors including the Kennedy Center Honors. She is made a Dame in 2000. It isn't the first time she meets the Queen.
In 2001, Elizabeth Taylor reunites with Debbie Reynolds to make The Old Broads.
They bond again over their distaste for Eddie Fisher.
Elizabeth Taylor struggles with health problems toward the end of her life.
She has to have her head shaved due to a brain tumor but later goes swimming with sharks to prove she still has some life left in her.
She still loves animals and has a little white favorite dog at the end of her life.
She dies of congestive heart disease in March of 2011 and is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park where her friend Michael Jackson was buried when he died in 2009. She is 79 years old. Richard Burton's last letter is buried with her.
You're a blank, a cipher, a zero!
Richard Burton Is Gone
Vanish!
Damien Rice Interlude
The Poem
Stop, stop, stop went my heart;
time to disembark.
Contractable diseases in their separate rooms
holding on for you,
holding on for Dear Life,
Buzz went the buzzer.
Ding went the bell.
Few hearts survive.
Love gets old.
I've come home; I've done my time.
Swing from the chandelier
'til the end of the line.
The universe reels,
the film reels.
God speed your love to me.
