IN REMEMBRANCE S
AG Life Achievement
Award honoree ELIZABETH TAYLOR died March 23, 2011 at age 79. The one-time child star would go on to make more than 50 films and win Oscars for Butterfield 8 and
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Other notable films included National Velvet, Father of the Bride, Giant and Cleopatra.
In 2001, Taylor was given a Presidential
Citizens Medal for her humanitarian work, most notably for being a pioneering AIDS activist, helping raise more than $200 million for AIDS research and bringing international attention to the epidemic. Gregory Peck accepted the 1997 SAG Life
Achievement Award on Taylor's behalf, reading a message from her: "This award is especially important to me because it's given by my peers. Not only for my first career, acting, but for what has now become my life, the eradication of the AIDS epidemic. As we all know, ours was one of the first industries to be directly and dramatically affected by the AIDS epidemic. And it's heartening to me that this community has risen to the challenge."
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