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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...

Ironically at an amfar event, but she was steadfast devoted to this message, and she was an extraordinary messenger of it. >> mathilde, although you say she didn't see it as a risk, everybody else did. it was a huge deal for a hollywood star like her to be going after this kind of cause. what effect do you think that liz taylor had on -- must call her elizabeth taylor, she hated being called liz, even though everybody else did -- that elizabeth taylor had on aids, on people, you know, wanting the treatment, what tangible effect did she have to improve people's lives, do you think? >> she had t...

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...

Failing. 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 g...

More attention to it. she was in it, before rock hudson acquired it, she was into aids. in the early '80s, when we first became aware of the term, and when she fought for something she fought for it vigorously. she fought for it with all she had. the word that felts her, passion. she was passionate about everything. she soaked it up, she soaked up the room. she changed the room when she walked in it. we'll never see her likes again. never. >> i think the world is going to miss elizabeth taylor, aren't they, larry? >> they sure are. even though we doesn't see much of her the last couple years, ...