Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor, a photo by Rebel Without a Cause on Flickr.

Timeless Glamour. She made the transition from adored child actor (National Velvet) to two time Academy Award winner (Butterfield 8, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) She lived larger than life, having been married eight times to seven men. She collected jewels like they were candy (her collection was estimated at upwards of $150 million) and almost single handedly put AIDS awareness and fundraising on the map in 1984, at a time when no one was acknowledging the illness. She was by all acounts tremendously kind, with a bawdy sense of humor, and you get the sense that we will never see another Hollywood star as great in beauty, personality and scope of life experience as Elizabeth Taylor.