The Most Beautiful Woman in the World (72 page)

68.
Twitter .com/dameelizabeth.

69.
This Is It!
Premiere telecast, October 26, 2009.

70.
ABC,
The Jimmy Kimmel Show
, Labor Day rebroadcast, September 15, 2009.

71.
Interview with Jack Larson, November 2, 2009.

72.
Twitter, July 22, 2010.

73.
Wikipedia.

74.
Twitter, January 15, 2010, and December 10, 2009.

75.
Twitter, May 27, 2009, and May 28, 2009.

76.
Debbie Reynolds, “Debbie Prays Ex Has Finally Found Peace,”
Globe
, October 11, 2010, p. 44.

77.
Sam Kashner, “A Love Too Big To Last,”
Vanity Fair
, July 2010.

78.
ET’s statement is described, but not quoted, in Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger’s
Furious Love
, New York: HarperCollins, 2010, p. 438: “He told her what he wanted. Home was where Elizabeth was, and he wanted to come home.” As source, the authors cite: “Conversations with Elizabeth Taylor’s confidante.”

79.
Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger,
Furious Love
, New York: HarperCollins, 2010, p. 438.

80.
Elizabeth Taylor’s birthday party: Lynn Allison, “Liz Taylor’s Brave Goodbye,”
Globe
, February 28, 2011, pp. 26– 27.

81.
Dame Elizabeth’s February 2011 health crisis: AP report, “Elizabeth Taylor Improving but Still Hospitalized,” New York Times, Internet, February 18, 2011;
Los Angeles Times
, “Elizabeth Taylor Showing Improvement,” February 11, 2011; www .bing .com; “Update on Dame Elizabeth’s Health,” February 15, 2011. Michael Glynn, Rick Egusquiza, Jon Boon, and Lynn Allison in “Liz Taylor’s Life-Saving Operation,” page 27; and Lynn Allison, “Liz’s Sad Last Days,” page 21, both in
National Enquirer
, February 28 and February 21, 2011, respectively.

82.
Harper’s Bazaar
staff, “Elizabeth Taylor Talks with Kim Kardashian,”
Harper’s Bazaar
, February 9, 2011, accessed on Dame Elizabeth’s Twitter site.

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