![]() Minnelli’s early success brought her money. The killer instinct of a performer had come out in her.” One minute she smiled at me, and the next minute she was like the lioness that owned the stage and suddenly found somebody invading her territory. One minute I was on stage with my mother, the next moment I was on stage with Judy Garland. “It was like Mama suddenly realized I was good, that she didn’t have to apologize for me. Garland’s competitive spirit was not lost on young Minnelli: And I got her up there because I’m her mother and conceivably her inspiration - the heck with her motivation.” “Can you believe that’s Liza up there? We did that! You got her up there looking the way she does. Garland proclaimed to Donald Brooks, the show’s costume designer: She was just 19 years old on the opening night of the Broadway musical Flora The Red Menace, and her mother was there to cheer her on. ![]() “I had two business managers and they’re both in jail! I mean, Marty Scorsese and I had the same business manager… and he’s in the clink! Luckily, now I insist on always signing my own checks. Her mother Judy Garland died with a huge debt. Just four years ago, she gave a series of concerts in the UK, including a night at The Palladium, the same venue of her mother’s famous comeback concerts in 1964. Minnelli has been performing since she was two-years old. She keeps on giving and giving and demanding love. Minnelli’s performing style is so: “Please, Please, Love Me”, that I find it simply rude not to. Through the ups and downs, the drugs and booze, the weight gains and losses, and the marriages, just when she seems a joke, Minnelli redeems and reinvents herself with choices like Results, her terrific 1989 album with Pet Shop Boys. Minnelli made Sally Bowels her own and ruined it for every actor that followed. She is one of only 17 people to have won them all.įor me, Liza Minnelli was somewhat miscast in her most famous role, Sally Bowles in Cabaret, a character decidedly marked by her lack of talent. There is no denying the talent: An Academy Award, Emmy Award, Tony Award, Grammy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe all sit on her mantle. “Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.” Here is the full quote, as said to Rona Barrett:
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