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Had lived a lot and suffered a lot. >> carol, what do you think would be the way she would like to be remembered? what was most important to elizabeth, do you think? >> most important to elizabeth were her family, her friends, her care about aids research, standing up before anyone that we knew of in hollywood stood up after her friend rock hudson died a terrible death from aids. she came out and supported amfar and later her own foundation. she came to the studio with me when burt baccarat were putting on stevie wonder and gladys knight. it was then i realized we should give the money to eliz...

We were originally the american foundation for aids and it evolved into the aids foundation, and she was adamant that it was a global pandemic. if it existed anywhere, it existed everywhere. if anyone was infected, everyone was affected, so she somewhat inspired this campaign and everybody coming together holding hands, wagons circling around the importance of communicating this critical message. >> kenneth cole, mathilde krim, thank you both very much. >> thank you. coming up, more memories of elizabeth taylor from a co-star and someone who had an early encounter with her and never forgot i...

And she wasn't, her spirit wasn't, but her body was, and it had lived a lot and suffered a lot. >> carol, what do you think would be the way she would like to be remembered? what was most important to elizabeth, do you think? >> most important to elizabeth were her family, her friends, her care about aids research, standing up before anyone that we knew of in hollywood stood up after her friend rock hudson died a terrible death from aids. she came out and supported amfar and later her own foundation. she came to the studio with me when burt baccarat were putting on stevie wonder and gladys kni...

I wish your mother was here. >> she is here, she's inside me. >> velvet, you'll be disqualified at the end when they find out you're a girl. you'll have to forfeit the prize money, and they may even send you to prison for fraud. and if there's any trouble, you tell them it was me -- >> elizabeth taylor in the role that made her a star, "national velvet ,"and now her stepdaughter carrie fisher. there's something absolutely mesmeric about elizabeth taylor on screen. i've been in awe of her beauty, the radiance she brought to a screen. what is your impression of her as an actress? >> well, i mean...

You know, what she made fashionable was it was okay to support the gay community and to support aids research and to raise money for aids in a way that nobody had really been able to force through into mass appeal. >> she -- this campaign that you're looking at right now was actually inspired by her message, her bigger message that, in effect, aids was not an american problem. we were originally the american foundation for aids and it evolved into the aids foundation, and she was adamant that it was a global pandemic. if it existed anywhere, it existed everywhere. if anyone was infected, every...