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Join with her. she urged the president to pay more attention to it. she was in it, you know, 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 gave it with all she had. she was so -- you know a word that fits her, passion. she was passionate about everything. she just 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, isn't it, larry? >> sure a...

Krim and kenneth cole, chairmen of amfar. >> mathilde, let me start with you. when she got involved with aids, it was incredibly unfashionable to do, a huge risk as a big star to be doing this, wasn't it? >> now, i think it was a risk for her because she has had all the strength and the courage and the dedication to do what she was doing that nobody could touch that, and she really was -- the film we just saw had a say, she was never afraid of the truth. >> that's certainly true. kenneth, that was a great driving thing about elizabeth taylor was she didn't care really what people thought. she ...

Failing, and she wasn't, her spirit wasn't, but her body was, and it had lived a lot and suffered a lot. >> carole, what do you think would be the way that 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 bacharach and i were putting stevie w...

I want to talk about her legacy, the cause closest to elizabeth taylor's heart, her work in the fight against hiv and aids. here with me now is ma tilde cripple and kenneth cole, chairman of amfar. >> matilde, let me start with you, when she got involved with aids it was incredibly unfashionable to do, a huge risk as a big star to be doing this. wasn't it? >> now, i think it was a risk for her because she has had all the strength and the courage and the dedication to do what she was doing that nobody could touch that and she really was -- the film we just saw had a say, she was never afraid of...

Resources invested in fighting aids and the most important resource lacking was understanding and empathy and she made the correction there and we have had a public that is much more understanding and supportive since she became involved. >> kenneth, she came out with this phrase we all have aids and that had this huge impact around the world because it was elizabeth taylor saying it. 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 appea...