Liz Taylor’s death yesterday left Hollywood and countless stars and power players reeling.
Dozens of Tinseltown’s leading lights poured their hearts out — in person and on Twitter and Facebook — about how the Oscar-winning actress touched their lives and worked to battle AIDS.
“The whole world has been in love with Elizabeth Taylor and I was fortunate enough to be one of them,” tweeted actor George Hamilton, who dated the violet-eyed screen star in the 1980s.
“Every year Elizabeth Taylor sent my dad a telegram (yes, telegram) for his birthday,” wrote Rosanne Cash, whose singer dad, Johnny Cash, was pals with Taylor. “It said: ‘Remember, I’m younger than you! (by 1 day).”
Jane Fonda, Taylor’s old friend and former co-star from the 1976 film “The Blue Bird,” said, “I knew Elizabeth Taylor and I can tell you she was kind, brave, generous and loyal. I am sad.”
And Taylor’s longtime pal Mickey Rooney called her death “momentous.”
“She was a lady who gave of herself to everyone,” he said.
Of all people, few had as complicated a relationship with Taylor as Debbie Reynolds, whose husband, Eddie Fisher left her for Liz after Taylor’s husband, Mike Todd, died in a plane crash.
“She was the most glamorous and sensuous star of our generation,” Reynolds said of her. “No one could equal Elizabeth’s beauty and sexuality. Women liked her and men adored her — my husband included . . . She was a symbol of stardom.”
“I just talked to her two weeks ago,” Reynolds added. “I said, ‘Getting old is not easy, is it? Being ill is very difficult . . . ‘ She said how hard it was and that she was pleased I called. We reminisced a little bit.”
Like many others, Madonna praised Taylor for her AIDS work. “I admired and respected her not only as an actress but for her amazing and inspiring work as an AIDS activist,” she said.
Rosie O’Donnell called Taylor, “a legend — a leader in the fight against AIDS — a beauty inside and out.”