{"id":79297,"date":"2011-03-25T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T07:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=79297"},"modified":"2011-03-25T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T07:16:12","slug":"elizabeth-taylor-fashionably-late-even-at-her-own-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/25\/elizabeth-taylor-fashionably-late-even-at-her-own-funeral.html","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Taylor Fashionably Late Even at Her Own Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The screen legend was laid to rest in Forest Lawn Memorial Park on Thursday in a small private ceremony that started 15 minutes later than scheduled, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/gossip\/2011\/03\/24\/2011-03-24_elizabeth_taylor_laid_to_rest_in_the_same_cemetery_as_michael_jackson_friends_mo.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>NYDailyNews.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She even wanted to be late for her own funeral,&#8221; a family representative announced, saying Taylor had left instructions asking for the late start.<\/p>\n<p>Helicopters buzzed overhead and a handful of fans milled about as black limos carried about four dozen relatives and close friends into the same cemetery as her beloved friend, Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, 79, who died Wednesday of congestive heart failure, was entombed in the same large, multilevel mausoleum as the King of Pop.<\/p>\n<p>Her closed casket was draped with a blanket of gardenias, violets and lily of the valley.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-denominational service, officiated by Rabbi Jerry Cutler, lasted about an hour and included a poetry reading by actor Colin Farrell, who recited Gerard Manley Hopkins&#8217; &#8220;The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was followed by more readings by Taylor&#8217;s son, Michael Wilding, her grandson, Tarquin Wilding, and Tarquin&#8217;s daughter, Liza Burton Tivey.<\/p>\n<p>A larger memorial service is expected in the next two weeks, actress Debbie Reynolds said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like funerals but I will go out of respect, and I&#8217;m sure her family will rejoice in the fact they had a wonderful mother and friend \u2014 a great and glamorous woman,&#8221; Reynolds, 78, said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;She even wanted to be late for her own funeral,&#8221; a family representative announced, saying Taylor had left instructions asking for the late start.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11851],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}