Highlights from 2007 Elizabeth Taylor interview

(24 Mar 2011) SHOTLIST
AP Entertainment
Los Angeles, 27 September 2007
1. Wide Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar
2. Elizabeth Taylor hits arrivals line
(Reporter: Is your fight against AIDS the biggest role in your life?) UPSOUND: (English) Elizabeth Taylor/Actress: "Yes it is."
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elizabeth Taylor/Actor, on supporting Macy's HIV/AIDS fund-raising efforts: "I have done this every year for 30 years. And it's tradition and it's part of my existence."
4. Wide Elizabeth Taylor in wheelchair
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elizabeth Taylor/Actor, on the difference between raising money for HIV/AIDS causes now, versus the early days of the crisis: "I used to have doors slammed in my face, telephones hung up on me. This . . . it's 100 percent turnaround."
6. Elizabeth Taylor takes drink of water, with pan to ring
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elizabeth Taylor/Actor, on getting married again:
"Married? Noooooooo! Now I'm gonna howl!" (Howls)
8. Elizabeth Taylor speaking to man
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elizabeth Taylor/Actor, on whether she's feeling better these days: "Physically? Yes. I still have, I'm going to try and walk on the stage tonight. And say a little prayer for me that I don't fall."
10. Elizabeth Taylor walks out on stage to standing ovation.
STORYLINE
TAYLOR TALKS CHARITY AND MARRIAGE IN 2007 INTERVIEW
Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess, died on Wednesday (23 March) at age 79 after weeks in the hospital with congestive heart failure.
Back in 2007, Taylor, age 75 and in a wheelchair, talked charity and marriage at the Macy's Passport HIV/AIDS fundraiser.
The event honored Taylor with its first Humanitarian Award for AIDS activism.
"I have done this every year for (25) years," Taylor said. "It's tradition and it's part of my existence."
As longtime friend Rock Hudson battled AIDS, to which he succumbed in 1985, Taylor began work to raise mainstream awareness of the AIDS crisis, and to raise funds for HIV/AIDS agencies. By 1999, she had spearheaded campaigns raising more than $50 million (USD) for HIV/AIDS charities.
"I used to have doors slammed in my face, telephones hung up on me," she recalled. "This . . . it's 100 percent turnaround."
The actress has been married eight times to seven men (twice to actor Richard Burton), and was amused when asked if she'd marry again.
"Married?!" she replied, on the brink of laughter. " Noooooooo!" she bellowed. "Now I'm gonna howl."
Then she really howled.

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