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Elizabeth Taylor, the screen legend whose career spanned more than 60 years and included star turns in Cleopatra, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, passed away this morning in Los Angeles at the age of 79, reports ABC News. Taylor had been hospitalized at L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center since February for symptoms related to congestive heart failure.

Taylor made Hollywood history in 1961 when she became the first actress to break the million-dollar salary threshold for Cleopatra. Reshoots and spiraling production costs turned the project into the most expensive film (adjusted for inflation) in Hollywood history and nearly drove 20th Century Fox out of business.

In her later years, she was perhaps as well known for her personal life--including eight marriages to seven husbands--as for her dramatic prowess. She made headlines for her jet-setting lifestyle, her opulent line of jewelry, and her struggles with alcohol and barbiturate abuse.

Here's how people are remembering her around the web:

Roger Ebert tweeted a link to his 1969 interview with Taylor and husband Richard Burton on the eve of the release of Anne of the Thousand Days.

Even non-Hollywood writers are paying their respects to Taylor today. "When the media tributes call her an icon, I think what is meant is: She always captured popular attention — whether on the silver screen or in People magazine," mused National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez. "Whether for her marriages, or her activism. When we saw her, she often seemed in pain. I pray she has found some peace.