Legendary British-American actress, Elizabeth Taylor, has died from congestive heart failure. In a successful career spanning 7 decades, she received 3 Oscars, performing in such notable films as "Cleopatra", "Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Giant", and "The Taming of the Shrew." She was also founding national chairman for American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR). On March 24, she was buried at Forest Lawn in Glendale CA, in the same cemetery where friend Michael Jackson is interred.
Inspirational American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert, Jack LaLanne, has died at age 96, from respiratory failure due to pneumonia. His many achievements included a chain of health clubs he licensed to Bally Company (they are now knowns as Bally's Total Fitness), "The Jack LaLanne Show," a television exercise show that ran for 34 years, and several books and videos on fitness, as well as exercise equipment, vitamin supplements & juicers. He worked out 2 hours each day throughout his life. He was laid to rest February 1 at Forest Lawn.
