Liz Taylor quits showbiz

Elizabeth Taylor is giving up showbusiness, saying raising money to fight Aids is more important to her than acting.

Taylor says when she goes to the Academy Awards on Sunday, in honour of the ceremony's 75th anniversary, it will be her last entertainment appearance.

"At the end of the broadcast, all the past winners are going to walk across the stage. So that will be my swan song on the stage," she told "Access Hollywood".

"I've retired from acting; it doesn't really interest me much anymore. It seems kind of superficial because now my life is Aids, not acting."

Taylor, who won best-actress Oscars for 1966's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and 1960's "Butterfield 8," says she's glad the red carpet arrival has been scrapped this year.

"I think it's frivolous. I've never done it. I've always avoided it because you get pushed around so," the 71-year-old said.