that star quality. you couldn't take your eyes off of her. of course, the scandals, the marriages, all of those things sort of loaded up on it, too. but there was always that magnificent screen presence, a total professional, a funny lady, nice lady, a down-to-earth lady who had her own share of problems, which sort of, in a way, those vulnerabilities made the public care more about her, i think. the fact that she did have weight problems, the fact she did have sometimes the alcohol problems, that she had these different foibles in her life and rise above it. carey talked about when they had to shut down " cleopatra" after she almost died. people don't realize how mesmerized the world was by the scandal, the burton-taylor