Today is Liza Minnelli's birthday.

She's fabulous, and we all love her.

Happy Birthday, Liza.

It's Liza's birthday! Ring them bells!

It'sh shtime to shcelebrate! Shend in the clownsh!

Mother and daughter.

How could Liza not be great with a mother - Judy Garland - who was one of the greatest superstars of all time?

She sure has lived longer than I would have imagined.

Then and now. Give the girl a break - she's in her 70's now.

I was molested.

I like Blue....

Liza got the coveted Oscar for her greatest on screen performance in Cabaret.

Singing with Mom on her TV show back in the 1960's.

I never had a famous mother who paved the way for me. I had to claw my way to the top.

I went to one of her concerts a few years ago. She couldn't make it straight through any number without stopping and hacking. Plus she was either high, drunk or both. The other tacky gays in the audience cheered her on and were yelling that they loved her. I thought it was atrocious. She was a mess.

i love her...................

When Dean Martin dropped out of the road show, She replaced him and I saw Liza perform with Sammy Davis Jr and Frank Sinatra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes I did. I was a mere child of 16, but I was in heaven. Mama took me. She knew.

I too saw her a few years ago in Rancho Mirage. Lorna was in the audience (not being molested) and it was a really good concert, all things being said. Of course the voice was nowhere near what it once was, but her sense of theatricality was totally on spot.

So give the old girl her due. All those surgeries and medical emergencies (and high drama) have taken her toll, but it was a good ride.

Happy Birthday, Liza May.

Toot toot. Beep beep.

We love you, Liza.

Happy Birthday, Liza!

Happy Birthday, Georgia!

Liza's movie debut, with Mama and Van Johnson, in "In the Good Old Summertime."

Who molested Lorna?

Streisand was first offered the lead role in Cabaret. But I think Liza pulled off the definitive role of Sally Bowles.

Liza will always be fabulous. She was really great as Lucille II in Arrested Development, and had a great sense of humor, especially about herself.

R20 Yes! Oh fuck...can someone find the thread about when she was off her tits on QVC? I'm looking but no luck so far.

LOVE HER! Here is her gayest song

Happy Birthday to the beautiful and delightful Liza. Her talent can never be compared to today’s, because she shines.

Happy Birthday, Liza.

She doesn't look a day over 87.

Dear Miss Minnelli, I was pre-pubescent small town cub when I saw "Cabaret" and left the movie theater in a daze knowing there is a world out there completely different from the one I knew, but could never relate to. Sally Bowles made me feel like I had two mothers: one mental, different from the biological one - 10 years before I could actually come to terms with my sexual identity. Thank you so much for your presence and your talent, that like a star shine a little bright light into our lives. Very Happy Birthday!!!!!

Love your post, R30.

R30 your sweet post gave me goosebumps. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you R31 and R32 ...

All the best to Liza!

Love you, Liza. Thanks for the music and the memories. Your magic will live forever in your recordings and films.

She's the best.

Liza, you're fabulous.

I love her. Happy birthday, Liza.

Today belongs to her.

F&F for R4.

Have they issued a stamp?

Happy Birthday, Liza! There aren't too many people who can command a stadium like she does.

You've got to hand it to her -- she kept topping herself decade after decade -- exhilarating performances. I saw her many times and, good as she was in Cabaret and in Liza with a Z, Liza's greatest strength is live performance. She brings the house down again and again. I first saw her live in 1976, just before New York, New York came out, full of raw energy. She was astounding in The Act -- lighting fast costume changes, powerhouse songs. Her 1980 concerts at Carnegie Hall was a new Liza -- more focused, channelling her talents more precisely. The Rink was haunting, and Liza playing a burnt out ex-hippy was different. She had one dazzling number the seared into your heard -- "All the Children in a Row" -- that anyone who came of age in that era was moved by. Carnegie Hall in 1987 was like a lightning bolt -- spot on. Radio City in 1990 and 1991 was a fun frolic, with all of Liza's Demon Divas. She and Aznavour together in 1992 -- they loved performing together, even though the were both better solo. Minnelli on Minnelli -- Liza was struggling with a cold, but great production values won the day. Liza's Back -- a departure, but some great moments. Liza's at the Palace -- another fun romp. There were other concerts, too, but each one of those live performances was a thrill.

Let's shout birthday wishes to the rooftops, just like her singing.

Between the release of CABARET and the Oscar ceremony the following spring, I saw a young and nearly perfect Liza Minnelli perform in concert. At the Indiana State Fair.

The Oscar got her out of venues like that for decades. 10 years ago, more or less, I saw her perform a summer concert in Asser Levy Park in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. The neighborhood is heavily Russian. The Russian ladies turned out in force to see Liza. They were all black eyeliner, cigarettes, and huge smiles. "Ya, yah.... She is good. Good as mother." They all sang along to "New York, New York." I didn't know who to watch.

In some ways, the moment linked below is her best. NO ONE could have done what she does here.

Is Lorna doing OK after collapsing while performing at Domino's Pizza in London?

Did the Domino’s Pizza have a breakfast nook for Lorna to collapse into?

Happy Birthday Liza!

I like the clothes!

19 more years and she'll outlive Deanna Durbin! Happy birthday, Liza!

Liza gave a sang at a prison yard in Illinois in June or July of1972. Joliet prison or maybe it was just the Cook County jail. I remember an article with photos in the Chicago Today newspaper the day it happened. Sounds very WTF but there's a slice of 1972 life for you.

Thanks boysch!

Cabaret was a central experience in my coming out. Both her performance and Michael York's performance out me - Mary yes! - on the road to comment my out. A month after the Oscar I saw her live in Chicago and I was "I guess I'm really gay now!" For those reasons she is beyond age to me, yes another "Mary!!" (It was also Liza With a Z" time as well.)

The movie New York New York was supposed to move her career forward but her film career never recovered.

When I saw her live in concert in 1981 for the first time I was 17. It was then that I knew I was gay.

What room you so long, R54

R51 that was at the time she sang at the Arie Crown Theater aka Cavern in Chicago. See R53

What took you so long, R54?

"Stepping Out" (1991) was the nadir of Liza's film career. She was on every talk-show possible flogging it with the same old, bad clip from the movie.

It was supposed to be her comeback movie featuring dancing and singing with a group of misfits. It was rightly billed as "The comedy with two left feet".

When released it crashed at the box office and only took in a little over a quarter of a million dollars then went straight to video.

She never again had a starring role in a big screen movie.

Great flashy photo of Liza.

Quite a cast.....

Two of my favorite albums are "Liza Minnelli" (1968) and "Come Saturday Morning" (1969).

It's Liza in her pre-Cabaret kooky waif persona.

She sings Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson before they were well known. The selection of songs is eccentric and fits her personality.

She's not a great voice here but she gives a delight interpretation to the material.

If you're a Liza fan and don't know those discs, take a listen. Really enjoyable.

*delightful

I had the Liza Minnelli “Foursider” album which had all that material, R61. Loved it!

Happy Birthday Liza! I had never seen that Bad Girls video before, that was amazing! Liza sure could dance!!

Liza and Cher.

Tragic creature.

She's an EGOT - even though her Grammy was not a competitive one - it was a "Grammy legend" award. So in a way that's better.

Streisand's Tony is also non competitive; she was given the "Star of the Decade" award in 1970.

That isn't better. A true EGOT wins in all categories.

R68 = Philip Michael Thomas

And how many awards a true IDIOT like R68 has ever won or ever will?

Liza Minnelli is the only legend left alive ... if you can think of another just mention it ... just don't bring Olivia or Madonna, if you don't want to be laughed at .... Happy Birthday!!!

I get sad when I see those glamorous pictures of nights long ago. Life is kind of a cosmic joke, isn't it?

Happy Birthday, Liza. Thanks for all the years of pure entertainment.

She was incredible at her peak. I wonder if she misses the 70s.

Liza Minnelli is the only person in the whole wide world that made me enjoy a Stephen Sondheim song. For that alone she deserves not only the Grammy but the fucking Nobel Prize!

Liza, Fat Liz and Betty Ford at Studio 54.

I have had no idea Studio 54 held AA meetings ...

That's how they were able to get around that liquor license problem, r76.

Don't forget Kirk Douglas, R71.

Oh! And Baby Peggy is still around. She turned 100 last October.

Fabulous, R65. Kids, THAT’S how we dressed to dance, not the polyester stereotype.

It was the shoes that were important.

Also, Kirk Douglas is a big old movie star, not a legend.

Liza only made 12 big screen movies. Despite her Oscar win for Cabaret, musicals were on the way out and even with her terrific energy and musical talent her eccentric looks (she was not a beautiful woman or a sex symbol) worked against her as a romantic leading lady. Hollywood didn't quite know what do to with her and she fared out much better in live concert performances and Broadway than movies.

I've met her twice -- Once when I was a kid trying to get her autograph and then years later when I briefly worked with her. Both times she could not have been nicer.

After her pivotal role of Cabaret which put Liza on the A List, she waited 3 years to make another movie. "Lucky Lady" was a piece of dreck and it didn't help that Gene Hackman got top billing and was given a much bigger salary for the movie than her. It harmed her movie career and she never again went back to her glory days of Cabaret.

Liza is a national treasure. I have seen her a half a dozen times in concert. She was sensational. Electric! No one has the stage presence or can perform like Liza. There was no one like her. She's enormously talented. I got to meet her once when I worked with her. She was lovely, charming, chatty, funny and oh so gracious. Her mother raised a warm, kind and wonderful person. Liza is show business royalty. I love her.

Happy Birthday, Liza. You're a doll.

Liza never had album sales like "Judy at Carnegie Hall."

But she has lived much longer than her mother. And that is what really counts.

Hopefully she won't die on the shitter, but her taste in men is like Mamas.

Liza is a dynamic performer on stage, one of the best. Here she is performing for the Queen of England.

And later she meets the Queen who smiles radiantly at her.

Rhetorical Question: If Lucille Ball would have approved of Desi Jr. dating Liza do you think Marriage would have been in the cards?

I liked Desi and Liza together.

I know this can be a difficult question, because one can not change the past. It’s the what if’s...

I respectfully disegree R78, Kirk "raping dimples"Douglas just like Olivia de "so young" Havilland is/was a famous Hollwood actor. Neither have the iconic status that Liza Minnelli have achieved. Granted it is restricted to gay fraction of the population, but seriously the notions of straight and culture don't mix together very well.

You've I do like your sense of reasoning R77

I do like your sense of reasoning R77

Speaking of Minnelli, I'm interested to see the Judy Garland movie being released in September. It's so refreshing to finally see a Hollywood biopic cover someone besides fucking Marilyn Monroe. Maybe one day Minnelli will get her own biopic.

Yes, Chrissy Metz IS Liza. All Chrissy has to do is sit in a wheelchair, and talk/sing off key. Maybe Chalamet as Michael Feinstein.

OP: Gorgeous photo of Liza. She deserves to be posted twice.

Liza is the greatest. Happy Birthday, sweetheart.

For somebody who had such an insanely fucked-up childhood, Liza is remarkably down-to-earth and a good person. Lots of people would've been total nutjobs if they'd gone through what she did.

It's too bad that she's in such poor health though. She's a poster hold for drugs and drink.

What's wrong with her, health-wise?

Two hips, three replacements. Knee replacements. Scoliosis. Arthritis. Encephalitis. Jazz Hands. Whim Whams and Scurvy.

Jazz Hands, lol. But I feel bad about Liza -- a friend knows her and says that she is a really sweet person. Hope she is feeling better nowadays.

Just a reminder of her onstage charm. This was cut from "Liza With a Z" because it was too raunchy. How quaint.

I wish the girl playing her in the Fosse thing weren't so... puny.

Liza was ZAFTIG!

Liza really is someone who must be seen live on stage. Her energy was just out of this world and she was a true storyteller. She's a way better actress than people give her credit for. I remember her on some British talent show giving these actresses/singers advice on singing Maybe This Time and she was so smart and so articulate and so in tune with what the song was trying to say. She did something similar on Kathy Griffin's old reality show where she coached her for a role on SVU and she was terrific. She really knows what she's doing. Her voice was a powerhouse of the Merman variety - not pretty, but powerful. Merman didn't really translate well on recordings either. A true Broadway singing actress, which we don't have many of today.

She did my favorite "Rose's Turn" form Gypsy. A shame she never played Rose on stage or on film/TV. She would have nailed it. I believe she was offered the Tyne Daly revival, but didn't want to play the role 8 shows a week because she thought it would be exhausted. With as much as Liza puts into every performance, I could understand and respect that.

A "What if..?/"How would it have worked? "

Liza in "What's Up, Doc? "

How very dare you R105

Liza Minnelli Tries to Turn Off a Lamp

Drop-dead gorgeous Broadway star Kelli Barrett is playing Liza in the FOSSE/VERDON series... she's insanely talented but very thin/fit and arguably much better voice than Liza at her peak, so as long as they play up the fabulosity I think she will be fine. BTW she is married to THE CHER SHOW star Jarrod Spector (Sonny Bono) who is similarly way too sexy/talented for the role he is currently playing. Did Sonny even know what abs were?

Liza Minnelli doing a cameo appearance in Mel Brooks hit film, Silent Movie.

Stepping out with Diana

Liza’s beauty is flawless, IMHO.

Hope it was a divine birthday -- xo

R46 That really is a remarkable piece of video. And you're right. No one else in the world could do what she does there, or ever could. *Maybe* her mother. But, if nothing else Liza has a unique talent.

She was a pretty little thing

R116 and thus began Liza's love of gay men at 1:23

R46 is delusional. Or maybe Liza. No one could've sung it better? That's hilarious.

The poor thing was doomed from the start. No one could possibly compare to her mother, but growing up in that family she had no choice. The Oscar for Cabaret was a condolence 'gift', just a few years after Garland's death. And even Liza herself knew she could never compare, never ever be anywhere near as good, hence the close to 50 year heavy drug habit.

I will give her this though: When she was very young, as in the clip that R115 posted, she had a decent voice and clearly showed talent. The pressure was just too great for it to last very long...

I agree that at her best, Judy was better than all but a very few performer, especially in person..

A condolence Oscar? Have you even seen "Cabaret"?

Yup. She was okay, but her screeching was over the top.

R118 I didn't say no one could've sung it better at all. I don't think that.

I said no one could do what she does in that clip, which is holding the ENTIRE audience of Giants Stadium in the palm of her hand. And that utterly incredible 3rd fucking finale she does- no one would have the balls to do that. I find that piece of tape to be electric. Absolutely astounding.

Judy, at her best, was a better singer. But Liza had her mom's ability to sell a song and knock it across the footlights.

Thanks R122, that helps clarify your views. I agree Liza COULD sell a song from time to time, but that faded WAY too quickly.

And I would counter that Whitney Houston did just as well, if not better, during her 1991 performance of the Star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl. Certainly had a better overall voice. But she too ruined it all with her drug use. Very sad for both...

You should've stopped at 1, Mama

I was mosleted!

MOSLETED!

Liza's performance in Cabaret is terrific and has stood the test of time. Her Oscar was well-earned, especially considering it was a tough year. Diana Ross and Cicely Tyson were also deserving. But so was Liza.

And I'll always prefer her version of New York, New York to Frank's.

R123 Whitney is great there, sure.

I was never a Liza fan until later adulthood. This is much a MARY! thing but I can remember being down over a guy, and crying watching Judy sing The Man That Got Away from her TV show. I never believed Liza capable of doing anything like it.

Then, I saw performances like this. Liza feels every word, every NOTE of this song. Her buildup is like her mother's doing Rock-a-Bye-Your-Baby. This is a pretty brilliant performance of The World Goes 'Round.

And then, I was finally old enough to appreciate how utterly perfect she was in Cabaret. It's a flawless performance.

So yeah, when I got older, I came to appreciate her. Only my wisdom made me take a second look. I was wrong about her for years.

What a magnificent performance... thanks for the story, R128. I'd never seen this clip before. Nobody else can touch Liza. Plus, knowing her BFF Fred Ebb and John Kander tailor-made this song and so many more just to her, it's not unlike Harold Arlen writing for Judy. Haters will hate, but Liza on K&E tunes is the definition of spectacular. "And The World Goes Round", "Maybe This Time" and "New York, New York" are as good as it gets.

Happy Birthday, Liza. Thank you for your enormous talent, unique and beautiful presence and will to go on. xo

You were late. Her birthday is over.

[quote]Have they issued a stamp?

You have to be dead before they honor you with a stamp. And who uses stamps anymore?

73 Questions With Liza

I once read in Billboard circa realy 90s that she was in the studio with Shep Pettibone, perhaps for a Results follow-up. What I wouldn't give to hear those tracks. Love Liza.

Sorry, R118, but the no reference to singing appears anywhere in my post.

Kiss!

According to Stevie Phillips, Liza's former manager, she had a big production deal set up for Liza in the early 70s--Liza would have helped produce her own pictures, which would have made her a player and also allowed them to find her roles that suited her quirky talents. The deal fell apart when Liza fired Stevie in favor of her boyfriend Desi Arnaz Jr.'s marriage, supposedly to try to impress Lucille Ball, who disapproved of Liza. The new manager sent her out on tour after tour, which paid her well and let her party her ass off, but allowed her movie career to wither on the vine. She never revived it again.

Phillips' book is worth reading: It's a fast, fun, juicy read.

Desi Arnaz Jr.'s MANAGER--don't know why it came out 'marriage' in the above post.

It is a shame she didn't do more movies. She is a good actress.

"When I schould have schouted and schcremed inschead, Scho Schorry I Schaid"

Did The Pet Shop Boys purposely put that many s's in the lyrics so Liza would have to schay them?

Minnelli is an overrated bore.

I suspect you never saw her live, at her peak.

@R142 . And no doubt "bore" is something you know quite well.

Face it R144, she's a tired old has-been and her schtick is tedious.

@R145 . "Tired, old, has-been, schtick, tedious". That's quite a toolbox that you have there !

R146 - she's so fresh and ground-breaking!

She's been through much diversity!

[quote] How could Liza not be great with a mother - Judy Garland - who was one of the greatest superstars of all time?

That'sh jusht what I alwaysh tell Joey! How can he NOT be shenshational with shuch a shupershtar ash a mother?

Her Roxie....

Boysch, Boysch!

I was molested.

I like sequins

R142, loves thrilling performers like Laura Osnes and Kelli O'Hara

Has anyone seen her out? Even wheeled into The Abbey ala Liz?

Lascht time I schaw her (in this totally schpontaneous clip):

Liza appears to be much nicer to her fans and people in general than many other celebrities. Gotta give her credit for being a sweetheart.

[quote] NO ONE could do what she does here.

Or here!

That TMZ video is 1 1/2 old.

Agree R137. It's incomprehensible that Liza won the Oscar for Best Actress and didn't have a follow up film in theatres until three years later. If she'd followed the typical pattern, she'd have had 1-2 prestige studio films per year for the next few years. But she wanted to tour and party and then the moment was gone.

And she had done Liza with a Z on TV that year too!

Touring seems much harder than making a movie. But Liza really needs to be seen in person, so she probably made the right choice.

Not so much R161. She can (and has) always tour. Film careers for women are only likely to take off and sustain within a short window of time in their youth. Being a bankable film star for a while opens the door to every other form of entertainment pretty much forever.

Don't you girls read Page Six?

I wonder if Desi Arnaz Jr. ever goes over to Sierra Towers and slips Liza the D, just for old time's sake.

URGENT: Liza now has her own VEVO channel on YouTube

The video for "Losing My Mind" has been uploaded!

I recently learned that she had her own rendition of "Rose's Turn". Fabulous! And then I listened to Liza With A Z for the first time. She really had something. It reminded me of Judy at Carnegie Hall. Anyway it's nice reading the memories here of older people who remember her from her prime. Wish I could've seen her then!

Well, I hate to stick a pin in the balloon, but late last night, This Channel ran NEW YORK, NEW YORK and I decided to watch it. I had only seen in once, in a theater, when it first ran, and unfortunately I could only take about 45 minutes of it. WHAT a CLUNKER! They were BOTH awful in it. It must have been one coke fueled spectacular failure.

At least Liza got the song out of it, despite that asshole Sinatra hogging it for himself and doing a shitty rendition. It is Liza's voice that should be heard throughout Times Square every NYE. Sad!

It's a movie that had no direction. Part old time musical, part romantic drama. DeNiro's character had no, and I mean no, redeeming or likable qualities. Liza's character appeared to be a doormat. You're right, Liza did get a good musical number out of it. In fact, all the music in it is first-rate. It's the plot, script, and direction that stunk.

Liza has many talents, but I don't think improv is one of them. The script, as it is, of NYNY was largely improvised. Maybe if they'd handed out a toot of coke with the admission ticket, it would have been a hit. It was a "you had to be there" script and the audience wasn't in on the party.

Though I do quote the taxi scene in the birch forest as often as I can.

And the World Goes Round is another great song in NYNY

How come they got permission to exhume her?

She's supposed to have Taurus rising. How do you see that in her?

R173 The Taurus rising and its ruler Venus in Aries make her very confident and aggressive performer, but Venus is in the 12th house makes her a very hard worker behind the scenes. It makes sense that she grew up on movie sets watching movie magic get made and she truly appreciates the arts. Liza has Moon, Mars and Saturn conjunct in Cancer. Judy had Mercury, Pluto, Ascendant and Venus in Cancer. They are both sensitive and emotionally expressive. Liza has Sun in Pisces and Mercury in Aries which square her mother's Sun in Gemini and Mercury in Cancer respectively. The two definitely clashed but their Cancerian connection formed a very strong maternal bond between them.

As well as the title song, Liza also got "The World Goes Round" out of NYNY. That's one of my personal favorites, love that song.

I love the soundtrack to NYNY, but the movie is a dud.

R174 Also, Cancer is ruled by the moon and both represent the mother. So Liza has her moon in its home sign of Cancer, so she truly idolized her mother (with her many planets in Cancer) and thought Judy was the best at what she did and the same for her father Vincente, his Sun is in Pisces like Liza's and the Sun represents her father. She really did/does adore her parents.

Happy Birthday gorgeous lady. Ps. I keep hoping you'll turn up in Arrested Development. Xxx

I've seen the Victor/Victoria clip before - friends who saw her in the show thought she was fabulous. But she did that after the hip replacement, and when I watch the dance routines I can't help but look at her hips and think "ow. ouch. ow." Plus she ruined her vocal chords on that show as well.

Lorna would've been better.

I was molested!

Elderly DL queens with a Liza obsession - almost as pathetic as the Madonna crazies.

Yes, except Minnelli has talent.

[quote]Plus she ruined her vocal chords on that show as well.

Oh, dear. Even C Sharp Major?

No, Liza was not wonderful in Victor/Victoria. To me, she better in a less complex show like "Minnelli on Minnelli" at the Palace in New York.

I don't know why people consider her ugly. Odd looking at times and unconventional, yeah, but not ugly.

I was molested!

Please R129. Yes, Liza is at her best in R128's clip, but to say that 'no one else could touch her is just absolute nonsense. Are you actually saying that Bernadette Peters or Streisand or Lena Horne (who was still sounding great) could not have sung it as well or even better?

My gawd, even Michelle Lee had a stronger and especially less strained singing voice. This clip cuts into her number halfway through and the sound quality isn't so great, but you can still hear she had a great voice.

Why has she never had a hit?

She wasn't a pop singer.

'Results' is a great CD start-to-finish. Her version of "Tonight Is Forever" is transcendant.

R189 Bernadette Peters with her kewpie doll shtick? Ice queen Lena Horne with her weirdo expressions? And Michelle Lee of all people? Michelle Lee ?? Shrill, zero stage presence. Not a clue...not a clue as to how to deliver a song.

Watch Liza. It's not just about voice. It's interpretation. It's honing down every little movement. It's knowing how to build the song, how to mine the lyrics for all they've got. How to weave a story and draw the audience in. Like her mother she knew how to tie every gesture, every nod of the head, every glance to the words she's singing.

And it's STYLE....Liza at her peak had that in spades. The eyes, the mouth, the signature hair cut...she was a Hirshfield caricature come to life.

R192 I just don't think Liza's voice and persona works very well for pop. She's Kander & Ebb, she's B'way. The Standards.

She was also great singing storytelling songs....Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson. But for me anyway she just sounds so out of place singing pop or rock.

R189 I doubt any of the people you mentioned could hold the entirety of Giants stadium in the palm of their hand singing New York, New York. And remember, those people didn't specifically pay to see Liza. I think the talent she displays in that tape is unique. Could someone sing it technically better? Sure. My Aunt Jane could. But very few could captivate 82,000 people like she does there.

I like blue.

R190 she had some pop hits in the UK with "Results".

This was set to launch a Top-40s career, but nobody played it. Seems like it could have been a middling hit for somebody like Helen Reddy back in the day.

R195, Lena Horne captured similar crowds all across the country during her one-woman show in the early 80's, and she was 64 years old at the time.

After the Carnegie Hall cd came out, thr record company EMI announced a set of cds to follow......but nothing happened. Liz Smith, Liza's biggest booster, mentioned it in her column.

I've always loved her, but she really must be seen live or at least on video/film that was recorded live. She's not a studio singer at all. You have to see her act the songs. It's really something else. She was always so great at interpreting songs.

I wash moleshted.

I Iive in the Shierra Towersch!

Minnelli is great.

R199 Lena Horne did not play to such crowds or such venues with her one woman show. There were only 3 women that could do that back then: Barbra, Liza and Diana. Not even Cher. And certainly not Lena Horne.

What about Donna Summer, r205? Wasn't she able to pull huge crowds at that time?

Summer was more of an album performer. There was nothing electric about her stage performances.

I was aborted.

I love Liza. She's so fucking strong.

Put that cow in the ground.

Linda Ronstadt filled stadiums back in the day.

Oh, come on -- Linda wasn't THAT fat.

I kept a shlice of my shweet birthday cake in the freeshzer. I'm defroshting it now for a shnack.

Lena Horne never filled stadiums or anything like the Arie Crown theater in Chicago, which is where I saw Liza the first time. I saw Lena in a medium-sized theater, which is where everyone else saw her that year.

Donna Summer came way after Liza.

Too bad the guy above is grayed out as a right wing propagandist, because I agree with his analysis. Weird. Here is Liza and her storytelling best.

R214 that Arie Crown concert was amazing

73 and she's still chain-smoking! Some people are able to get away with it.

Have you heard her sing in the past 10 years? She's still alive, but her voice is completely gone. I don't know if I'd call that "getting away with it." Although, you're right - it probably won't be what kills her.

I took the train from Rock Island with a friend and stayed at the Palmer House that weekend, R215. IIRC, it was the tour that featured this image, right after her CABARET/WITH A Z successes.

I must have been about 16 or so. Bigtime!

I wonder how she feels watching FOSSE/VERDON on TV. She did fuck Fosse, yes?

Share an ishe cream cone with a friend for May Day, get shprinklesh if you want. Live a little, it'sh all jusht a cabaret.

I thought the old hag died years ago.

When did Liza shart scheaking in thish way?? Did she always or did it develop over time?

Mama shang the One Horn One Eyed Flying Purple People Eater.

dl hates lisa

Datalounge LOVES Liza. Only boring people dislike her.