Front Page Roundup: Remembering Liz Taylor

Thursday, 24 March 2011 | by Pat's Picks

Liz Taylor’s death is front-page news in virtually every paper this morning. There are so many classic photos of the screen icon that it was interesting to see which one each paper picked. Noting the worldwide reaction to her death, USA Today goes all out and asks whether Taylor was the “biggest star ever?” The paper says she’s been “iconic virtually since World War II, one of the last products of the old Hollywood studio system. And, thanks to her friendships with the likes of Michael Jackson and Elton John, she has been a forerunner of today’s celebrity-driven pop culture.”

In the New York Post, Larry King starts his tribute to Taylor by remembering her eyes: “Elizabeth Taylor’s eyes were purple. They were violet. I’ve never seen anything like them again.” King says if “she was your friend, it was for life.”

The LA Times has excerpts from Taylor’s five best films: “National Velvet”; “A Place in the Sun”; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”; “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”; “Suddenly, Last Summer”

The most clever insight into Taylor’s stardom may have come from the Wall Street Journal, who notes that the man who wrote her obituary for the New York Times actually died six years ago. It’s common practice for papers to prepare obituaries but in Taylor’s case, the process was started well before her death.

Below is a selection of front pages from around the country, check out what photos they chose to illustrate Taylor’s legacy. And below that are some stellar photos from her early life.