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Vatican Radio and the Vatican’s official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano mourned the passing of Elizabeth Taylor on Friday. “The curtain falls on the violet eyes of Hollywood” read the L’Osservatore headline.
It is reported that L’Osservatore Romano said Taylor was the “last remaining star in the firmament of old Hollywood” and it praised her contributions on AIDS and other charitable Causes.
Lauding her as a “great actress who became too soon an icon of the star system,” the article noted that Taylor’s career, which began in childhood, was later marked by an “impressive series of health problems and accidents on the set.”
Author Emilo Ranzato lamented Taylor’s turbulent life but said that “Taylore managed to redeem herself thanks to an ever more decisive commitment to charity work, often in tandem with her friend Michael Jackson.”
“In recent years her great contribution to the struggle against AIDS would win her important prizes and honors, but above all a newfound energy,” Ranzato wrote. That success allowed Taylor “to be stronger despite poor health, and despite the label of living legend that always weighed on her shoulders.”
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