Elizabeth Taylor Hospitalized
L O S A N G E L E S, Aug. 9 -- Elizabeth Taylor remains hospitalized withpneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center today.
The actress was admitted last week but hospital officials refuseto disclose her present condition.
Taylor’s publicist says its a mild case of pneumonia and the68-year-old should be out of the hospital by the end of the week.
The Oscar-winning actress has had many health problems in recent years. One year ago, she was hospitalized after a nasty fall in her Bel-Air mansion, during which she broke a bone in her back. In 1997, Taylor made an amazingly swift recovery from an operation to remove a golf ball-sized, benign brain tumor.
Even as a young starlet, Taylor had many ailments. She hurt her back after she was thrown from a horse while filming National Velvet in 1945, which seemed to trigger a string of physical problems, including an addiction to sleeping pills, numerous hip surgeries, and high blood pressure. She won Academy Awards for her roles in Butterfield 8 in1960 and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966. She was also honored by Queen Elizabeth II this past May; the London-born actress was “damed” (the female equivalent of being knighted).
Mr. Showbiz and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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