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Raintree County (1957) trailer Elizabeth Taylor







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Liz Taylor In Lovely Loose Swimsuit At The Beach







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Suddenly Last Summer Elizabeth Taylor







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Giant trailer







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Elizabeth Taylor winning her first Oscar for "Butterfield 8"







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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) trailer Elizabeth Taylor







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Amy Is Punished - Little Women (1949) Elizabeth Taylor








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Joan Crawford Interview on Elizabeth Taylor & George Cukor







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The V.I.P.s (1963) trailer Elizabeth Taylor








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Could Obama be Impeached over Libya? Let's ask Biden







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Elevated Radiation Levels Detected in Tokyo Tap Water






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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) trailer Elizabeth Taylor







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Edu Guedes chora ao reencontrar Palmirinha


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DE SÃO PAULO

Hoje na Folha O apresentador Edu Guedes se emocionou ao reencontrar a culinarista Palmirinha. Segundo ele, que caiu no choro, foi ela quem o ajudou no início da carreira.


Os dois gravaram um bate-papo para o "Receita pra Dois", da RecordNews.

O programa será exibido no próximo sábado.

A informação é da coluna Outro Canal, assinada por Keila Jimenez e publicada na Folha desta quarta-feira (23). A íntegra da coluna está disponível para assinantes do jornal e do UOL.


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O apresentador Edu Guedes chora ao gravar entrevista com a culinarista Palmirinha
O apresentador Edu Guedes chora ao gravar entrevista com Palmirinha, que o ajudou no começo da carreira






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Pescadores encontram tubarão em Mongaguá (SP)


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Pescadores de Mongaguá (litoral de São Paulo) tiveram uma surpresa na manhã desta quarta-feira. Eles saíram para pescar robalo e tainha, mas encontraram um tubarão de mais de dois metros de comprimento, pesando cerca de 100 kg.

O bicho, da espécie conhecida como Mangona, foi encontrado a cerca de quatro metros de profundidade, na região do mar onde costumam ficar os surfistas, de acordo com Érique Tadeu de Almeida Fortes, 31. Pescador desde criança, esse é seu quarto tubarão.

"Ele ficou na rede, que foi enrolando nele até ficar preso", diz. A rede era de um amigo de Fortes que o chamou para ajudar a puxar o peixe. Foram necessários cinco homens para tirar o tubarão do oceano. Quando conseguiram coloca-lo em cima do barco, Fortes conta que três colegas pularam no mar de medo.

Se ele ficou com medo também? "Como não ficar com medo? Quando ele se batia, fazia muito estrago, porque era muito forte, muito grande, o dente muito afiado. É um tubarão como vemos em filme", diz.

Apesar do sufoco para tira-lo do mar e do medo que causou, o tubarão rendeu um bom dinheiro. Ele foi vendido a R$ 8 o quilo, e pesava 96 kg depois de limpo. "Deu uns R$ 700. A gente fala que ganhou o da semana", afirma Fortes. O pescador explica que o tubarão que encontraram é como um cação, só que maior.


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Pescadores de Mongaguá (SP) retiram o tubarão do barco. Ele foi encontrado a cerca de 500 metros da praia
Pescadores de Mongaguá (SP) retiram o tubarão do barco. Ele foi encontrado a cerca de 500 metros da praia






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Se mantiene el monitoreo de radiactividad que podrían contaminar nubes





Globovisión/Sociedad Nuclear de Venezuela
23/03/2011 9:38:33 p.m.
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Este resumen será publicado todos los días para mantener a los medios de comunicación y al público en general informado de los eventos que se desarrollen día a día relacionados con la crisis nuclear de Japón.

Sólo se tomará información proveniente de las autoridades japonesas, de la empresa TEPCO, encargada de la operación de las centrales nucleares y del Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA)

FECHA: 22 DE MARZO DE 2011.
HORA: 6:00 p.m.

1.- A la fecha no hay ninguna persona contaminada con radiactividad.

1.1.- Se detectaron restos de material radiactivo en el canal marítimo de descarga en el área de los reactores. Se tomaron muestras Yodo—131, Cesio-134 y Cesio-137. El día de mañana se incrementará a 8 los sectores del área de muestreo en el canal marítimo. Los resultados serán conocidos el día 24 de Marzo. Es de hacer notar que los efectos del Yodo-131 desaparecen a los 8 días. Igualmente, se observó que las lecturas de los monitores de radiactividad muestran un descenso continuo en el área de los reactores. Se hizo monitoreo a vegetales provenientes del área de Fukushima los cuales muestran niveles no aceptables de Yodo y Cesio. Ese ordeno destruir esos alimentos. En el resto de Japón no hay novedades de esta naturaleza.
1.3.- Continúa saliendo humo blanco de las unidades 2 y 3 producto de la evaporación del agua lanzada sobre los edificios de los reactores. El volumen es menos intenso que ayer. Los planes de ventilar este reactor se han pospuesto por cuanto la presión ha comenzado a disminuir.
1.4.- Se mantiene el monitoreo de radiactividad que podrían contaminar nubes que puedan trasladar la contaminación a los Estados Unidos. Todas las lecturas incluyendo Tokio están por debajo de valores peligrosos a la vida humana.
1.5.- El nivel de temperatura en la unidad 2 ha disminuido a 55º Centígrados, lo cual es aceptable por estar debajo del punto de ebullición del agua que es 100º Centígrados.
Las unidades 5 y 6, las cuales estaban apagadas y en mantenimiento para el momento del terremoto, han bajado su temperatura de 70 a 40 Grados Centígrados. Igualmente se logro instalar dos Plantas eléctricas para alimentar las bombas de enfriamiento. De esta manera se suspende el rociado de agua desde helicópteros. En estas unidades se han abierto orificios para ventilar el Hidrogeno y evitar futuras explosiones.
1.7.- Continua con éxito la instalación de una red eléctrica de Voltaje Alterno en las unidades 1 y 2 lo cual va a permitir llevar a normal funcionamiento las bombas de enfriamiento. Se ha logrado encender componentes no relacionados con la actividad de los reactores.

1.8.- La Autoridad nuclear de Japón recomienda a los evacuados del perímetro de 20 Km., tomar una sola dosis de pastillas de Yodo, de acuerdo a la siguiente tabla:

EDAD DOSIS
Recién nacidos 12,5 mg.
1 mes a 3 años 25 mg.
3 a 13 años 38 mg.
13 a 40 años 76 mg.
Mas de 40 años No es necesario

Nota: Las personas que están fuera de este perímetro no necesitan tomar estas pastillas.

Datos de Interés:

La palabra “Radioactividad” no existe en el idioma español, la palabra correcta es “Radiactividad” o “Radiactivo”. Su significado es:

Propiedad de ciertos cuerpos cuyos átomos, al desintegrarse espontáneamente, emiten radiaciones. Su unidad de medida en el Sistema Internacional es el Becquerel o el Sievert.

De acuerdo al Diccionario de la Real Academia Española el significado de la palabra “Fusión Nuclear” es: Reacción nuclear, producida por la unión de dos núcleos ligeros, que da lugar a un núcleo más pesado, con gran desprendimiento de energía. La energía solar se origina por la fusión nuclear del hidrógeno en el Sol.

En consecuencia usar esa palabra para describir la fundición o derretimiento del núcleo de Uranio es incorrecta.

1.- Continua el programa de racionamiento de electricidad en el área de Fukushima de acuerdo al cronograma publicado por la empresa TEPCO.

Fuentes: Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica, Autoridad Nuclear de Japón y empresa TEPCO.






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AEIA: grave situación por radioactividad en Fukushima







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#japon Se agotan pastillas de potasio



Ante la crisis radioactiva, la gente se ha lanzado en masa a adquirir pastillas de Ioduro de Potasio para combatir los efectos de la radiación






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México, D.F. a 23 de marzo 2011


Ante la crisis radioactiva que se ha desatado en Japón, las compras de pánico han redundado en el agotamiento en anaqueles de las pastillas de Ioduro de Potasio, las cuales sirven para evitar el avance de las consecuencias de estar expuesto a la radiación.

Ha sido de tal forma la demanda que las compañías farmacéuticas han declarado que sus reservas se han agotado, y es que lo peor del caso es que en las farmacias no existe como tal el Ioduro de Potasio, ya que las empresas lo fabrican sólo por encargo.

Los países en donde se ha registrado más venta de Ioduro de Potasio son Japón, Estados Unidos y países vecinos del primero.

No obstante, se ha revelado que las pastillas de Ioduro de Potasio solamente protegen a la glándula tiroides de desarrolla cáncer, tras absorber isótopos de la fusión nuclear.

"Una píldora es útil durante 24 horas, pero después se debe tomar otra píldora. Pero no deben tomarse dos píldoras a la vez porque consumir demasiado yoduro de potasio no es bueno (…) Como todo lo demás, el fármaco no es 100% efectivo. Pero sí puede bloquear la absorción de yodo radiactivo", reveló el profesor John Boice, experto en epidemiología del cáncer del Instituto Internacional de Epidemiología, en Estados Unidos.

El experto reveló también que los más afectados por la radioactividad son los niños.

"Algo que aprendimos estudiando los efectos del desastre de Chernobyl, es que los niños que vivían en las áreas contaminadas por la radiación y que bebieron leche que seguía contaminada años después, mostraron un incremento enrome en cáncer de tiroides vinculado al yodo radiactivo", indicó.

No obstante, Boice fue enfático al decir que dichas “tabletas de yoduro de potasio no son píldoras mágicas (…) Protegen contra el cáncer de tiroides, pero no, contra otras posibles formas de cáncer”. (Con información de BBC)



“Las tabletas de yoduro de potasio no son píldoras mágicas. Protegen contra el cáncer de tiroides, pero no, contra otras posibles formas de cáncer”, dijo un experto.



Radiación en alimentos es grave: OMS
La Organización Mundial de la Salud reveló que la contaminación en alimentos procedentes de Japón es más grave de lo que se esperaba


¿Cuándo es dañina la radiación?
Diariamente se está expuesto a radiaciones que no causan daño alguno a menos que exista una sobreexposición


¿Cuánta radiación podemos soportar?
Diariamente estamos expuestos a la radiación pero las dosis son tan mínimas que son inofensivas.


Escasean pastillas contra efectos de radiación
El medicamento, llamado Iosat, protege la tiroides contra el cáncer si la persona se expone a la radiación, pero no el resto del cuerpo




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Reaction from across the world to Taylor's death

Some reaction following the death of Elizabeth Taylor:

"Elizabeth's legacy will live on in many people around the world whose lives will be longer and better because of her work and the ongoing efforts of those she inspired." — Statement from former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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"I don't know what was more impressive her magnitude as a star or her magnitude as a friend. Her talent for friendship was unmatched. I will miss her for the rest of my life and beyond." — Shirley MacLaine.

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"(Taylor) forever marked the history of the Seventh Art ... (her) Cleopatra remains unequaled ... (she was) devoted from the youngest age to a limitless passion for film." — Francois Fillon, prime minister of France.

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"I shall remember her as a woman whose heart and soul were as beautiful as her classic face and majestic eyes." — Former Sen. John W. Warner.

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"She was a true star, because she not only had beauty and notoriety; Elizabeth Taylor had talent. As a friend she was always, always there for me. I'll miss her for the rest of my life, but I was so lucky to have known her." — Liza Minnelli.

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"She was passionate — and compassionate — about everything in her life, including her family, her friends, and especially the victims of the AIDS. She was truly a legend and we will miss her." — Nancy Reagan.

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"She was the last of the true Hollywood icons, a great beauty, a great actress and continually fascinating to the world throughout her tumultuous life and career." — Joan Collins.

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"She was an incredible talent, and yes, she had those unforgettable eyes. I greatly admire her humanitarian efforts which have touched so many lives. Elizabeth was a very dear, generous and loving lady." — Eva Marie Saint.

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"She's in heaven and she's in a heavenly place and she's happy." — Debbie Reynolds to "Access Hollywood."

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"The whole world has been in love with Elizabeth Taylor and I was fortunate enough to be one of them." — George Hamilton.

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"She really, I think, is like the last of the movie stars. She said that there had never been a time in her life when she wasn't famous." — Barbara Walters on "The View."

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"Elizabeth Taylor was the last of the great glamour stars. She was the longest-running soap opera in history, and represented all the allure and tragedy that attracts people to Hollywood." — British director Michael Winner.

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"She earned our adoration for her stunning beauty and for being the very essence of glamorous movie stardom. And she earned our enduring love and respect for her compassion and her courage in standing up and speaking out about AIDS when others preferred to bury their heads in the sand." — Elton John.

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"It's the end of an era. It wasn't just her beauty or her stardom. It was her humanitarianism. She put a face on HIV/AIDS. She was funny. She was generous. She made her life count." — Barbra Streisand.

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"Elizabeth was the last great movie star. And a great human being. What I'll always remember about Elizabeth was her laugh. She would walk into a room looking like a princess and suddenly there would be this cackle that filled the room that would crack us all up. I'm so glad to have known her. It's a very sad day for me." — Barry Manilow.

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"Elizabeth Taylor was the last of the Hollywood greats, and a fantastically charming woman." — Tweet from singer George Michael.

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"Elizabeth is known throughout the world as an Academy Award-winning actress, but what is less known is her devotion to philanthropic causes and in 1980, she received the center's highest honor, its Humanitarian Award. She will be sorely missed." — Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

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"Elizabeth, thank you for all your help in the battle for HIV and AIDS. You will be missed by the world." — Tweet from former basketball star Magic Johnson.

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"She leaves a monumental legacy that has improved and extended millions of lives and will enrich countless more for generations to come." — Statement from amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.

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"She was the most amazing woman. When she walked into a room, she just had the most amazing presence about her. She was just incredible." — Designer Elizabeth Emanuel.

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"Elizabeth and I began our careers about the same time at MGM. Throughout her tumultuous life, she will be remembered for some unique and memorable work. And she will be ever remembered and appreciated for her forthright support of amfAR." — Actress Angela Lansbury.

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"In a career spanning more than 70 years and 50 films, her talent endured the test of time and transcended generations of moviegoers. She truly was an American icon, whose legacy went far beyond her acting skills, most notably in her efforts to lead the battle against HIV/AIDS." — Chris Dodd, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America.

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"She was just a magnificent woman. She was a great broad and a good friend." — Whoopi Goldberg on "The View."

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"It's a terrible loss. A unique talent and a singularly spectacular individual." — Actor Martin Landau, who appeared with Taylor in "Cleopatra."

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"Liz Taylor was an amazing woman and screen legend, she was an incredible friend to my brother at his side through some of his most difficult times and of course loved by his children and our family. She will live on in our hearts forever, my prayers go out to her family." — La Toya Jackson.

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"We were honored to work with Elizabeth Taylor on 'General Hospital.' Her portrayal of Helena was a defining moment for the show and an extraordinary experience for everyone involved." — Statement from the soap opera "General Hospital."

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"I loved her. She hosted a huge party when 'Hello Dolly' first opened in Los Angeles. I remember the lavender roses and the aura of the personality. She said when you find the particular love of your life it is never forgotten. We loved you too Elizabeth." — Carol Channing.

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"I was on Broadway with 'Sugar Babies' simultaneously while Elizabeth was appearing in 'Little Foxes.' We would meet occasionally after shows. I will never forget those eyes or that laugh." — Rip Taylor.

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"She was a marker of our time, my time. It seems like yesterday that I taught a beautiful 14-year-old Elizabeth how to swim at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, more beautiful, more voluptuous than Miss America. I will miss her." — Esther Williams.







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Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor, whose violet eyes, tumultuous love life and passion for diamonds epitomized Hollywood glamour, died on Wednesday at age 79.

The star of "Cleopatra" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles surrounded by family after a long battle with congestive heart failure that sent her to the hospital six weeks ago.

In a career spanning seven decades, Taylor first gained fame in 1944's "National Velvet" at age 12 and was nominated for five Oscars. She won the best actress award for "BUtterfield 8" (1960) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966) with actor Richard Burton, whom she would marry twice.

Taylor's eight marriages, health problems, prescription drug addiction and ballooning weight often overshadowed her career, but she overcame adversity and used her fame to advocate for causes such as AIDS education and research.

Her death triggered an outpouring of tributes from Hollywood luminaries like Barbra Streisand, recording stars such as Elton John and politicians including former president Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Speaking for her family was her son, Michael Wilding, who called his mother, "an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love."

"It wasn't just her beauty or her stardom. It was her humanitarianism. She put a face on HIV/AIDS," Streisand said. John called her "a Hollywood giant" and an incredible human being.

In a joint statement, the Clintons called her "thoroughly American royalty."

GLAMOROUS HOLLYWOOD LIFE

Taylor was born on February 27, 1932, in London to American parents. She moved to the United States as a child and soon after her 10th birthday landed the lead in the 1942 film "Lassie Come Home," followed by her turn as a young girl who tames the fury of a wild horse in "National Velvet."

She confirmed her star power in 1958 in Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and cemented her reputation as among the greatest actresses of her generation playing a foul-mouthed alcoholic in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

She continued working through the 1970s, '80s and '90s, taking a variety of roles in movies and on television. In 1992, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave her its humanitarian honor. Her last movie was the 1994 live action comedy "The Flintstones."

But Taylor's fame went far beyond her screen life. After marriages to hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, British actor Michael Wilding and film producer Mike Todd, she found herself in a scandalous love triangle with singer Eddie Fisher and his wife actress Debbie Reynolds, before marrying Fisher.

Reynolds, 78, was gracious in remembering Taylor on Wednesday, calling her career long and productive and saying "no one else could equal Elizabeth's beauty and sexuality."

While filming the lavish "Cleopatra", at the time the most expensive movie ever made, in Rome in 1961, Taylor started a torrid affair with her married co-star Burton. The pair first wed in 1964 and Burton lavished her with furs and diamonds, including a $1 million pear-shaped jewel.

But the actors were as famous for their tempestuous relationship as they were for their love. They divorced in 1974, only to remarry in 1975 and divorce again in 1976.

"We enjoy fighting," Taylor once said. "Having an out-and-out, outrageous, ridiculous fight is one of the greatest exercises in marital togetherness."

She also married U.S. Senator John Warner and construction worker Larry Fortensky. "She was my 'partner' in laying the foundation for 30 years of public service in the U.S. Senate," Warner said. "We were always friends -- to the end.

TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH

As she grew older, the Hollywood legend began drinking heavily and grew addicted to prescription drugs. Her weight ballooned and she was lampooned by comedians. In 1983 she entered the Betty Ford Center in California for treatment.

Yet, she overcame those problems, and when her friend Rock Hudson died of AIDS in 1985 she began a crusade to raise awareness and money to treat the deadly disease.

"She was among the first to speak out on behalf of people living with HIV when others reacted with fear and often outright hostility," said The American Foundation for AIDS Research, of which Taylor was founding national chairman.

In May 2000, Taylor received the title "Dame," the female equivalent of a knighthood, from Queen Elizabeth.

When her friend Michael Jackson was tried and acquitted on child molestation charges in 2005, she defended him in public.

In her final few years, the once legendary beauty took to using a wheelchair in public to cope with crippling back pain, but she was still making appearances at charity events.

She was first diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2004. She also had three hip replacement operations, a benign brain tumor, skin cancer, pneumonia and heart surgery.

Taylor died surrounded by her children, Michael Wilding, Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd, and Maria Burton. In addition, she is survived by 10 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.

(Additional reporting by Daniel Trotta and Jill Serjeant; editing by John Whitesides and Phil Barbara)







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#news Agents nab immigrants, others posing as military

SAN DIEGO – At first glance, the white van seemed full of clean-cut Marines in uniform — not necessarily an unusual sight near the Border Patrol's desert checkpoint along Interstate 8.

But a plainclothes Border Patrol agent who had served in the Marine Corps wasn't fooled, especially when the driver didn't know the birthday of the Marine Corps — something every Marine is taught.

Another agent later noticed that passenger Jose Guadalupe Ceja Jr., a suspected smuggler, didn't seem to understand English, and he and the driver both had nametags reading "Lopez."

A closer look revealed 13 of the people were actually illegal Mexican immigrants and two were suspected U.S. smugglers trying to make it through the checkpoint in camouflage fatigues.

It was a shocking new tactic even for migrant smugglers known to go to great lengths — from stuffing illegal immigrants into the trunks of cars to transporting them in vehicles painted to look TV news trucks and Border Patrol vans — to dodge authorities patrolling the border.

Mexican smugglers often don that country's military uniforms to try to get their illegal loads past authorities. In a 2006 incident that strained U.S.-Mexico relations, traffickers dressed as Mexican soldiers crossed the Rio Grande and were seen helping suspected drug smugglers elude U.S. law enforcement during a chase.

But the use of Marine disguises appears to be one of the first cases of smugglers and immigrants posing as U.S. military.

Former Marine Capt. David Danelo, a senior fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia who has authored a book about the U.S.-Mexico border, says smugglers had the unfortunate luck of running into well-trained Border Patrol agents with military experience.

"Should we punish these guys by sending them through four years of basic training?" he joked about the suspects. "The troubling reality and the real question here is, has this ever succeeded before? That's an answer we just don't know."

Indeed, the brazenness raised a host of troubling, still unanswered questions: How did they get the uniforms? Were the uniforms only to trick immigration authorities or did the immigrants have more serious, military intentions?

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service — the investigative arm of the Navy, which includes the Marine Corps — has teamed up with the Border Patrol to find out.

"If people are pretending to be Marines for criminal reasons, we'll want to know why," said Ed Buice, spokesman for the Navy's investigative arm, known as NCIS.

Buice, however, said he couldn't discuss details of the investigation.

"I'm sure they were hoping agents would just see military people in a white van with government plates and just wave them through," Border Patrol spokesman Michael Jimenez said.

The immigrants and smugglers weren't that lucky.

A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego said the van with a government plate caught the eye of a Border Patrol agent identified only as S. Smith who was driving an unmarked vehicle down the interstate on the night of March 14.

The van with the words "U.S. Government, For official use only" on the license plate seemed suspicious. What's more, one of the numbers reflected light differently when Smith's headlights shined on it.

Smith sped up and passed the van to get a better look: The driver was wearing a military uniform and he could see others in the back wearing Marine Corps caps.

Smith called his colleagues at the nearest checkpoint and told them to do a close inspection of the van when it arrived. He followed and asked the driver during the inspection where they were headed. "Joint Service Base" was the answer.

Smith didn't buy it, especially after seeing one of the numbers on the license plate of the van had been changed from a 0 to an 8.

Another agent, identified only by his last name Robinson, also a former Marine, noticed other anomalies: Some of the group was wearing desert camouflage uniforms and others were wearing urban camouflage uniforms.

He asked Ceja directly if he was a Marine, and he admitted he was not, according to the complaint.

Agents later tracked down Guadalupe Garcia, another smuggling suspect, who was apparently scouting out agents, at a checkpoint outside Jacumba, Calif., according to the complaint. Marine Corps insignias were found under a passenger seat in his car, authorities said.

Arturo Leyva, another suspect, told authorities he had been asked to smuggle drugs by a man he met at a bar in the border town of Calexico but had backed out, the complaint said. Authorities say he later ran into the man at a bar across the border in Mexicali and agreed to smuggle immigrants.

He was given a cell phone and called on March 14. He was told a taxi would be taking him from his home in El Centro to Calexico.

From there, the men and immigrants went to a trailer park, where a man arrived with a military style duffle bag full of uniforms, the complaint states. The man coached Ceja on how to talk to the Border Patrol and say they were coming from Yuma Air Force base.

It was unclear where the uniforms had been obtained. Marine Capt. Brian Block at the Pentagon said the official attire is the property of service members who buy it when they enter the military and it's up to the individual to keep track of it after they are discharged.

Block said the services strongly encourage military members to maintain control of their uniforms for security reasons, but he acknowledges not everyone heeds the advice.

"You can go into just about any Army-Navy store and pick up old camies if you want to, especially in the San Diego area, where there is a lot of military," he said. "But if you don't have a military ID card, you can't walk onto a base."

Leyva's attorney, Douglas Brown, said his client and the two other U.S. citizens arrested have entered a preliminary plea of not guilty. Ceja's attorney, Martin Molina, declined to comment. Garcia's attorney could not be reached for comment.

It is not known if any of them have a military background or any connection to someone in the armed services.








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Taylor lived glorious spectacle on-screen and off


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Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 AFP/HO/File – Legendary Hollywood actress and violet-eyed beauty Elizabeth Taylor, who captured hearts in "National …

LOS ANGELES – Elizabeth Taylor went from dazzling beauty in her glory years to self-described ruin in old age.

She spent almost her entire life in the public eye, from tiny dancer performing at age 3 before the future queen of England, to child screen star to scandalous home-wrecker to three-time Academy Award winner for both acting and humanitarian work.

A diva, she made a spectacle of her private life — eight marriages, ravenous appetites for drugs, booze and food, ill health that sparked headlines constantly proclaiming her at death's door. All of it often overshadowed the fireworks she created on screen.

Yet for all her infamy and indulgences, Taylor died Wednesday a beloved idol, a woman who somehow held onto her status as one of old Hollywood's last larger-than-life legends, adored even as she waned to a tabloid figure.

Taylor, 79, died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks.

"We know, quite simply, that the world is a better place for Mom having lived in it. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will always be with us, and her love will live forever in our hearts," her son, Michael Wilding, said in a prepared statement.

A star from her teen years in such films as "National Velvet," "Little Women" and "Father of the Bride," Taylor won best-actress Oscars as a high-end hooker in 1960s "BUtterfield 8" and an alcoholic shrew in a savage marriage in 1966's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

In the latter, she starred with husband Richard Burton, their on-screen emotional tempest considered a glimpse of their stormy real lives (they divorced in 1974, remarried in 1975 and divorced again a year later).

For all the ferocity of her screen roles and the turmoil of her life, Taylor was remembered for her gentler, life-affirming side.

"The shock of Elizabeth was not only her beauty," said "Virginia Woolf" director Mike Nichols. "It was her generosity, her giant laugh, her vitality, whether tackling a complex scene on film or where we would all have dinner until dawn."

"She is singular and indelible on film and in our hearts," he said.

Though Taylor continued acting in film, television and theater in the 1980s and 1990s, she called it quits on the big screen with 1994's "The Flintstones," playing caveman Fred's nagging mother-in-law.

Taylor bid farewell to the small screen with 2001's "These Old Broads," a geriatric diva romp co-starring Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins and one-time romantic rival Debbie Reynolds, whose husband, Eddie Fisher, left her for Taylor in the late 1950s.

She was remembered for her friendship, standing by Michael Jackson, Rock Hudson and other troubled friends.

"I don't know what was more impressive, her magnitude as a star or her magnitude as a friend," MacLaine said. "Her talent for friendship was unmatched. I will miss her for the rest of my life and beyond."

Collins called Taylor one of the last of the true Hollywood icons. "There will never be another star who will come close to her luminosity and generosity, particularly in her fight against AIDS," she said.

AIDS activism had become Taylor's real work long before she gave up acting. Her passion in raising money and AIDS awareness brought her an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1993.

"Acting is, to me now, artificial," Taylor told The Associated Press at the 2005 dedication of a UCLA AIDS research center. "Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful.

"But if nobody does, then nothing gets done," she said.

One of the groups that benefited, the American Foundation for AIDS Research, praised Taylor for being "among the first to speak out on behalf of people living with HIV when others reacted with fear and often outright hostility."

Taylor's work "improved and extended millions of lives and will enrich countless more for generations to come," the group said.

Taylor received the Legion of Honor, France's most prestigious award, in 1987 for AIDS efforts. In 2000, Queen Elizabeth II made Taylor a dame — the female equivalent of a knight — for her services to charity and the entertainment industry.

Taylor herself, however, suffered through the decades.

She fell from a horse while shooting 1944's "National Velvet," causing a back injury that plagued her for the rest of her life. Her third husband, producer Michael Todd, died in a plane crash after only a year of marriage.

Taylor had life-threatening bouts with pneumonia, a brain tumor and congestive heart failure in her 60s and 70s, and from drug and alcohol abuse, including a 35-year addiction to sleeping pills and painkillers, which prompted her to check in to the Betty Ford Center.

She had at least 20 major operations, including replacements of both hip joints and surgery to remove the benign brain tumor.

Taylor also dealt with obesity, packing on as much as 60 pounds and writing, "It's a wonder I didn't explode" in her 1988 book "Elizabeth Takes Off," about how she gained the weight and then shed it.

"Eating became one of the most pleasant activities I could find to fill the lonely hours and I ate and drank with abandon," she said.

After a lifetime of ailments and self-abuse, Taylor said in a 2004 interview with W magazine that "my body's a real mess. ... Just completely convex and concave."

Her trials made her a butt of jokes, but even when people made fun, she preserved a hint of the divine aura of her youth.

When cartoonist Garry Trudeau mocked Taylor and then-husband John Warner, newly installed as a U.S. senator, in a 1979 "Doonesbury" comic strip, he memorably described her as a "tad overweight, but with violet eyes to die for."

Her eyes were only part of the charms that took her to the top in Hollywood and kept her there for decades.

Born in London on Feb. 27, 1932, to art dealer Francis Taylor and American stage actress Sara Sothern, Taylor seemed born for the spotlight. A seasoned ballerina at age 3, Taylor danced before Princess Elizabeth, the future queen.

Her family moved to Hollywood at the outset of World War II. She then made her screen debut with a tiny part in the 1942 comedy "There's One Born Every Minute." Her big break came a year later in "Lassie Come Home."

Taylor's screen test for the film won her both the part and a long-term contract. She grew up quickly after that.

"I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman," she once said. "I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt."

Steady work and high-profile romances followed into her late teens, with early lovers including athletes Ralph Kiner and Glenn Davis and hotel heir Conrad Hilton Jr., whom she married at age 18 and divorced just months later.

Taylor showed her first real grown-up glimmers as an actress with 1951's "A Place in the Sun," adapted from Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy."

After some old-fashioned costume pageants ("Ivanhoe," "Beau Brummell") and romances ("The Last Time I Saw Paris," "The Girl Who Had Everything"), Taylor set the screen ablaze opposite Rock Hudson and James Dean in the 1956 epic "Giant."

She was primed to become one of the era's most-acclaimed actresses.

Taylor got four straight Oscar nominations from 1957-1960, for "Raintree County," the back-to-back Tennessee Williams adaptations "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Suddenly, Last Summer," then her win for "BUtterfield 8," a film she later disparaged.

Professional success was tempered by the headlines that came with Taylor's personal life. She was wed again at 19, to British actor Michael Wilding, a marriage that lasted four years and produced two sons.

She married producer Todd, with whom she had a daughter. Fisher was best man at Todd's wedding to Taylor. A year after Todd's death in the plane crash, Fisher left Reynolds to marry Taylor, who converted to Judaism before the wedding.

Then came Burton. They met while filming "Cleopatra," a colossally expensive production that nearly ruined 20th Century Fox.

The movie was derided by critics as a bloated bore, but the ardor between Taylor's Cleopatra and Burton's Marc Antony came to life for real as the co-stars began one of Hollywood's great and stormy love affairs.

The romance created such a sensation that the Vatican denounced their behavior as the "caprices of adult children."

After Taylor divorced Fisher and Burton divorced his wife, they were married in 1964. Along with a daughter, the fiery relationship produced a surprisingly durable working partnership.

Over a decade, Taylor and Burton co-starred in "The VIPs," "The Sandpiper," "The Taming of the Shrew," "The Comedians," "Dr. Faustus," "Boom!", "Under Milk Wood," and "Hammersmith is Out."

They also starred in a 1973 TV movie, "Divorce His, Divorce Hers," prophetically about the breakup of a marriage. Their own first marriage ended a year later.

But it was "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", released in 1966 when their marriage still was fairly fresh, that stands as the dramatic peak for Taylor and Burton and an eerie window into an explosive romance.

Based on Edward Albee's play, the film stars Burton and Taylor as George and Martha, who nearly destroy each other over the course of a drunken evening of vicious role-playing and mind games with another couple.

"We fight a great deal," Burton once said of his real life with Taylor, "and we watch the people around us who don't quite know how to behave during these storms. We don't fight when we are alone."

Taylor was also known for real-life sauciness.

"She had a sense of humor that was so bawdy, even I was saying, `Really? That came out of your mouth?'" Whoopi Goldberg said on ABC's "The View," recalling how Taylor gave her advice about her own Hollywood career.

"She was just a magnificent woman. She was a great broad and a good friend," Goldberg said.

After their second marriage ended, Taylor and Burton reunited professionally for a touring production of Noel Coward's "Private Lives" in 1982. Burton died two years later. Taylor married Warner in 1976, and they divorced in 1982.

Two of Taylor's early marriages, to Wilding and Todd, were to men 20 years older than she was. For her final marriage in 1991, Taylor wed a man 20 years younger, Larry Fortensky, a trucker and construction worker she met at the Betty Ford Center.

That wedding was a media circus at the ranch of her friend, Michael Jackson. It included the din of helicopter blades, a journalist who parachuted to a spot near the couple and a gossip columnist as official scribe.

By 1995, Taylor and Fortensky had separated. She divorced for the last time in 1997.

"I was taught by my parents that if you fall in love, if you want to have a love affair, you get married," Taylor once said. "I guess I'm very old-fashioned."

Taylor's survivors include daughters Maria Burton-Carson and Liza Todd-Tivey, sons Christopher and Michael Wilding, 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. A private family funeral is planned later this week.

Not long before Burton's death, as her Hollywood career was winding down and her first stint in rehab lay before her, Taylor, turning 50 at the time, looked back on her life self-critically but unapologetically.

"I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been," she said. "But I'm me. God knows, I'm me."








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