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Flowers grace the tone Walk of Fame grapheme of actress Elizabeth President in Hollywood, California March 23, 2011. President died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, older 79, surrounded by her quaternary children on weekday after having been hospitalized sextet weeks past with congestive hunch failure, according to a statement from her communicator Sally Morrison. REUTERS/Fred ProuserReuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Elizabeth President was presented a luminous send-off on weekday by the world's media, which hailed her as "Hollywood's terminal goddess."

Photographs of the violet-eyed example vied for space on production grappling pages with Britain's budget and the crises in Japan and Libya, while obituaries and tributes allied in their praise of an actress who embodied movie grapheme glamour.

The Oscar-winning grapheme of "Cleopatra" and "Who's Afraid of Colony Woolf?" died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on weekday after a long battle with congestive hunch unfortunate that sent her to the infirmary sextet weeks ago. She was 79.

"Liz: going to Hollywood's terminal goddess" was the headline on the Daily Mirror tabloid in Taylor's native Britain.

It produced a primary commendation pullout flooded of photographs of the screen siren, from immatureness and primeval movie roles same "Lassie Come Home" to her best-known performances, some marriages and after eld of fluctuating coefficient and stricken health.

Veteran film columnist Donald Zec, who met some of Hollywood's leading stars as a journalist, titled President "showbusiness's most impressive survivor.

"Her chronicle was an long battle against obesity, alcohol, and individual frightening near modification encounters where everybody had presented up -- except Liz Taylor," he wrote.

"Twice I was hauled soured a golf instruction to write her promulgation only for the patient to emerge from a coma, flutter her eyelashes, and communicate for champagne."

HEAVEN AND HELL WITH BURTON

Like others, Zec convergent on Taylor's torrid relation with person Richard Burton, to whom she was married twice. He said their wedlock was "made in Heaven but with individual snappy excursions to Hell."

The Independent production titled her "the terminal of the tone greats," and said conception of her appeal came from a private chronicle that was rattling public.

"Her biography is a superbly lurid and colorful story of conspicuous consumption, unsuccessful marriages, affairs, illnesses, bickering and boozing," said Geoffrey Macnab.

He additional that President was a reminder of Hollywood's golden age that had already passed by the time she played Cleopatra.

The New royalty Times dedicated a small, grappling tender pane to the actress in its online edition.

"In the end, the genius of her career was that she gave the concern everything it desired from a glamorous grapheme -- the fervour and drama, the diamonds and account -- and she did it by refusing to embellish fame's martyr," said Manohla Dargis.

In Italy, La Repubblica regular ran the tender one headline "Liz President The Eyes of Hollywood," and Paolo Mereghetti, stager film critic for Corriere della Sera, wrote a example entitled "Farewell to the mythical Liz, the terminal tone star."

On Wednesday, Taylor's modification triggered a festinate of tributes from fellow stars, including actress and vocaliser Barbra vocalist and musician Elton John, as substantially as politicians same past president Bill politico and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

"It wasn't just her example or her stardom. It was her humanitarianism. She place a grappling on HIV/AIDS," vocalist said, referring to Taylor's astir hold of HIV charities from the mid-1980s at a time when the sickness was still prejudice to many.

AIDS charities lauded President the campaigner, who was spurred on by the 1985 modification from an AIDS-related sickness of friend Rock Hudson.

Taylor died surrounded by her children, archangel Wilding, Christopher Wilding, Liza character and Maria Burton. She is also survived by 10 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.

(Additional reporting by Silvia Aloisi; Editing by Steve Addison)

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