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At 1.28 a.m. on Wednesday, 23 March 2011, just three weeks after celebrating her 79th birthday, the biggest legend Hollywood has ever known perished. The tributes and eulogies to Elizabeth Taylor were legion. A weeping Elton John said, "We've just lost a Hollywood giant. More importantly, we've lost an unbelievable individual." In Elizabeth Taylor: THE GIRL, The Lover, The Story, 1932-2011, acclaimed biographer David Bret has written the revealing, incisive and definitive life tale of the most questionable cinematic icon since Mae Western. While never yielding in his admiration and respect, Bret has stripped away the veneer to portray the legend as she actually was: sometimes arrogant, attention-seeking, avaricious, reckless, monstrous towards her peers, large, even foolish at times; but, above all, through the tumultuous associations and the non-public mayhem, a survivor. Elizabeth Taylor was the previous of the Hollywood greats. As David Bret writes, "Most of her contemporaries - Garbo, Streisand and Dietrich excepted - were compelled to walk in the darkness of her sun. Of today's personalities, not one may be considered worthy of moving even inside a mile of that shadow.
