Elizabeth Taylor Gives Another Breath-Taking Performance

We can only assume at this point that Elizabeth Taylor doesn't think her health problems are as scary as others think they are. Or else maybe she's doing her best to act like she doesn't.

Elizabeth Taylor was reportedly rushed to hospital after mixing alcohol and prescription drugs. According to the National Enquirer magazine, the 76-year-old actress woke her assistant at 4am on April 6 after she started vomiting and had trouble breathing.

She was rushed to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where she was treated before returning home later that afternoon. A friend of the legendary star said: "Liz was panicking. She really thought she was going to die."

Dating back to the 1980s, Taylor's had two stays at the Betty Ford Clinic.

'Cleopatra' actress Elizabeth was previously treated at the Betty Ford Clinic in 1983 for chemical dependency and in 1988 for problems with painkillers. We sense that this star's light has been teetering out for so long it's hardly even worth worrying about it anymore.

[Monsters and Critics]

Elizabeth Taylor Turns Down Dialysis M for Murder

Yesterday, as mentioned, was Elizabeth Taylor's birthday. How did she celebrate, you may ask?

Silver screen legend Elizabeth Taylor is reportedly battling a new health complaint that is shutting her internal organs down. The ailing 76-year-old actress' latest medical crisis was brought on by the painkillers she has taken for years to combat chronic back and hip pain.

Sources tell the National Enquirer the drugs have caused irreversible damage to her liver and kidneys - but Taylor is refusing to go on dialysis that will prolong her life. An insider tells the publication, "Her body is starting to shut down, and she's adamant about not resorting to life support. Liz does not want to continue living if it means being connected to machines. Liz said she has no intention of going on dialysis - let alone consider organ transplants."

Although we remain skeptical about the source cited here, it fits with our belief that Taylor has taken a turn for the worse in recent months. During her life, she has broken her spine in five different points, had both hips replaced, gotten skin cancer, almost died from pneumonia twice, and survived a brain tumor.

Not to mention seven different husbands. She just doesn't want her last role to be in Married to a Machine Too.

[StarPulse.com]

Happy Birthday to Two People Who Are Genuinely Fat; Not Just Called Fat

For some reason we have some sort of fascination with stories of people who are dead and remain unburied, so here's one more for your reading enjoyment.

Once again this has nothing to do with the people whose birthdays we are celebrating, save for the fact that they are one year closer to being that rotting corpse.

Today is somebody's Birthday! Whose Birthday? Former Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon's Birthday. How Old Is He? 1,2,3,4... 80! And Never been Kissed By... Death

Ariel Sharon's name appears on 7 Death Pool rosters

• Sharon has been widowed twice. Shortly after becoming a military instructor, he married his first wife, Margalit, with whom he had a son, Gur. Margalit died in a car accident in May 1962. Their son, Gur, died in October 1967 after a friend shot him while they were playing with a rifle. After Margalit's death, Sharon married her younger sister, Lily. They had two sons, Omri and Gil'ad. Lily Sharon died of cancer in 2000.

With a family history like that, you have to be surprised he's survived in a vegetative state for more than 2 years.

Today is somebody else's Birthday! Whose Birthday? Actress Elizabeth Taylor's Birthday. How Old Is She? 1,2,3,4... 76! And Never been Kissed By... Death

Elizabeth Taylor's name appears on "I Am Ready to Meet My Maker's", "A Time to Kill's", "The South Shall Rise (from the Grave) Again's", and "Do Not Resuscitate's" rosters

• In the early 1980s she moved to Bel-Air, which is her current home. The fenced and gated property is on tour maps sold at street corners and is frequently passed by tour guides.
  

Does this make her the "Fresh Princess of Bel-Air?"

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