Book description
At 1. 28 a. m. on Wednesday, 23 March 2011, just three weeks after
celebrating her 79th birthday, the biggest star Hollywood has ever
known died. The tributes and eulogies to Elizabeth Taylor were legion.
A weeping Elton John said, 'We have just lost a Hollywood giant. More
importantly, we have lost an incredible human being.'
In Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend,
1932-2011, acclaimed biographer David Bret has written the
revealing, incisive and definitive life story of the most
controversial cinematic icon since Mae West. While never yielding in
his admiration and respect, Bret has stripped away the veneer to
portray the star as she really was: sometimes arrogant,
attention-seeking, avaricious, reckless, monstrous towards her peers,
generous, even foolish at times but, above all, through the tumultuous
relationships and the personal mayhem, a survivor.
Elizabeth Taylor was the very last of the Hollywood greats. As David
Bret writes, 'Most of her contemporaries - Garbo, Streisand and
Dietrich excepted - were compelled to walk in the shadow of her sun.
Of today's stars, not one may be deemed worthy of stepping even within
a mile of that shadow.
French-born David Bret is a leading show business biographer. He has
contributed to many television and radio documentaries and has written
over 30 books and plays.
