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Liza Minnelli,Betty White, Wendie Malick and Tamara Tunie Visit Michael Feinstein

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Betty White, Liza Minnelli, Wendie Malick and Tamara Tunie Visit Michael Feinstein

Betty White, Liza Minnelli, Wendie Malick and Tamara Tunie were on hand for opening night of Michael Feinstein's "A Gershwin Holiday" engagement at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.

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By Matthew Blank
28 Nov 2012

The show continues through Dec. 22.

Feinstein, the multi-platinum-selling, two-time Emmy and five-time Grammy Award-nominated entertainer dubbed “The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook,” is considered one of the premier interpreters of American standards. His 200-plus shows a year have included performances at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House and the Hollywood Bowl as well as the White House and Buckingham Palace. In 2007, he founded the Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative, dedicated to celebrating the art form and preserving it through educational programs, Master Classes, and the annual High School Vocal Academy and Competition, which awards scholarships and prizes to students across the country. Michael serves on the Library of Congress’ National Recording Preservation Board, an organization dedicated to ensuring the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America’s sound recording heritage.
Feinstein's at Loews Regency is located at 540 Park Avenue at 61st Street. There is a $60 cover charge per person with a $40 food and beverage minimum. Special packages with signed books and a “meet and greet” opportunity are also available. Jackets are suggested but not required. For reservations, call (212) 339-4095. For more information, visit FeinsteinsAtTheRegency.com.

New holiday Steppenwolf show incorporates Liza Minnelli

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Adams on Reel Women: Liza Minnelli on beauty, mom and dad, and her first Oscar nomination for ‘The Sterile Cuckoo’

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By Thelma Adams | The Reel Breakdown – Mon, Nov 19, 2012 3:11 PM EST

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It's that voice that got me when Liza Minnelli phoned last Friday. The way it squeaks at times and then expands with feeling; the way it rises up as if it's trying to touch you, to prod you, to share the same emotion as the speaker. The way the voice never stays still and carries a bit of her mother, Judy Garland, like a genetic imprint, but still is all Liza (with a "z").
Liza made her film debut as a lead actress in 1969 for director Alan J. Pakula in "The Sterile Cuckoo." Now available for the first time on DVD and Blu-Ray from Olive Films, the dramedy is a simple story: A young woman named Mary Ann "Pookie" Adams takes the bus upstate to a girl's college near Hamilton, New York. She meets a straight-laced boy, Jerry (Wendell 'Where is he now?' Burton), who's traveling to the neighboring men's college and badgers him into a friendship. In her freshman year, Pookie loses both her virginity and her equilibrium, but manages to come out the other end with her spirit battered but intact.
Minnelli earned an Oscar nomination for this, her first lead role in a film notable for the strong portrayal of a kooky young woman of unconventional beauty at its center. It anticipates "Love Story," which came out the following year, without the melodrama and uber-beauties Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal. Pakula, having gotten his taste of directing with "The Sterile Cuckoo," went on to make the "paranoia" trilogy "Klute," "The Parallax View," and "All the President's Men."  Meanwhile, the newly minted Oscar nominee went on to win an Oscar for "Cabaret" and star in "New York, New York" and "Arthur." She's recently turned up on TV's "Arrested Development." And Liza popped around by phone to discuss "The Sterile Cuckoo," her first-born and a movie of which she's still enormously and rightfully proud.

Thelma Adams: I'm so happy there's a revival of "The Sterile Cuckoo." It was made over 40 years ago and it still looks fresh and raw. When was the last time you saw it?
Liza Minnelli: It's been years. I went to the opening with everybody in L.A. At the time, I didn't care much about doing movies. I loved Broadway. And my friend Tony Bill sent me the book and thought I should play Pookie Adams. I loved the character. I fought for it and I waited. I went in to audition and everybody was dressed in kooky clothes — it was the '60s. I wore what my father would have dressed me in for school but with the zipper undone on the skirt. The shirt collar was in the sweater. And they believed in me.
TA: What happened next?
LM: So Alan Pakula, who was producing, said he would do it. His partner Robert Mulligan ("To Kill a Mockingbird") was the director. And then Alan said, "I want to direct it." We went to studios and they wouldn't accept me. They said, "She's not discovered, people. She's never been in a film." So meanwhile, I went to London and got a job in Pakula's "Charlie Bubbles" to get a credit. The studio still didn't want to do it, so Alan changed studios to Paramount and we finally got it done.
TA: Do you think it hurt your career that you're not — I hate to say it — conventionally beautiful?
LM: Of course, but neither was Pookie. I hope I helped her out a little bit. My father [director Vincente Minnelli] was very smart. After I cut my hair off — before the screen test I had long hair — he said you still look almost too distinctive. "You should dye you hair," Daddy said. "You should have it streaked."(Because I have dark Italian hair.) Daddy said, "You have to look more conventional, more nothing. And you're very distinctive." So I followed his advice and it worked.

TA: It definitely did. What I love about the movie is that it's constructed around this rare bird of a young woman. She's not conventionally beautiful like Ali MacGraw in "Love Story."  Pookie doesn't fit in, although she tries. She's not an obvious love object. She's in your face. She withholds emotional information. She gets drunk and tells intimate secrets about other girls, only some of which are true. And yet she is an idiosyncratic character that fits perfectly in the American movies of the late 1960s and 1970s.
LM: The best I can do in this article is agree with you. In that era, conventional beauty was happening, in movies like "Love Story," and all those wonderful movies with perfectly happy endings. It was weird — the guys were starting to get less conventional: Jack Nicholson, John Cassavetes, and Dustin Hoffman.
TA: There's a wonderfully awkward scene when Pookie and Jerry go off to one of those seaside cabin courts in the dead of winter to make love for the first time. She wants to have sex and he's reticent once they've finally entered the chilly hotel room. And it's clearly told from Pookie's point of view.
LM: I was so into the part and into Pookie. I was looking at everything from her perspective. We went up to Hamilton College. We were really isolated. It was wonderful. I never went to college and I changed schools so much because we traveled. I knew how Pookie felt in school. Being quiet and not saying much of anything. I wasn't like her, but I understood her. She was lonely and needy and full of spirit. She was not part of the in crowd, the kind of girl that had one best friend in school. We changed schools so often you didn't have time to be in the groove and I was shy. I was much more like Pookie than Sally Bowles.

TA: How was the movie received at the time?
LM: It was received really well and I got nominated for an Academy Award. I couldn't believe it!
I was all surprised and my dad said, "You do a good job and these are the consequences." He said, "I'm really proud of you."
TA: How did your mother [Judy Garland] react?
LM: I remember being so enthusiastic about this, that I had found a part that I could play. I sent her the script and she called me. I was in New York and she said, "Why do you want to do this part?" I said, "It's a really good part." She said, "But she's so lonely."
TA: What was your response?
LM: "There's part of her in all of us, isn't there? Isn't that why you're asking, Mother?"

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Liza Minnelli shares Judy Garland's anti-bullying advice

LIZA MINNELLI TO APPEAR ON CURRENT TV's JOY BEHAR: SAY ANYTHING!" ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20

By Official Liza Minnelli

TUNE IN ALERT!

LIZA MINNELLI TO APPEAR ON CURRENT TV's JOY BEHAR: SAY ANYTHING!" ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20

"Joy Behar: Say Anything!" will welcome the legendary Liza Minnelli for the first time on Tuesday, November 20.

Minnelli will be a guest on the Current TV program to talk about her new CD Liza Minnelli Live At The Winter Garden which was released earlier this year and her year-long tour which concludes on December 13 & 14 at the Segerstrom Center For the Arts in Costa, Mesa, CA.

The long-awaited Live At The Winter Garden recording is derived from the original master engineered by Phil Ramone. The recording includes performances from Minnelli's Broadway show in Janyary 1974 as well as three recently discovered live bonus tracks that were not included on the original LP. Only pirated versions of the album have circulated since.

Liza's Costa Mesa concerts will find her sharing the stage with MenAlive: The Orange County Gay Men's Chorus. She will perform a signature set accompanied by her own band and will collaborate on numbers featuring the MenAlive Chorus.

"Joy Behar: Say Anything!" airs on Current TV at 6:00PM (EST) and repeats at 9:00PM (EST).

Liza Minnelli on the SCANDALOUS Red Carpet - Exclusive Opening Night Video

Liza Minnelli VIDEO @ Scandalous Opening Night

Liza Minnelli, Carolee Carmello, Kathie Lee Gifford, Have Faith in Broadway's Scandalous on Opening Night

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Nov 16, 2012 • New York City

Hoda Kotb, Frank Gifford, Kris Jenner, Matt Lauer, and Regis Philbin were among those took in the heavenly new bio-musical at the Neil Simon Theatre.

By David Gordon

The Broadway premiere of Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson celebrated its opening night on Thursday November 15 at the Neil Simon Theatre. Following the performance, the cast, which is led by two-time Tony nominee Carolee Carmello, and VIP guests headed to the Copacabana on 47th Street to celebrate.

Following the life of McPherson, an evangelist who became the world's first media superstar, the work features a book and lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford and music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman. David Armstrong directs the production, which features choreography by Lorin Latarro and musical direction/arrangements by Joel Fram.

The principal cast of Scandalous also includes Tony Award-winner George Hearn, Candy Buckley, Roz Ryan, Andrew Samonsky, and Edward Watts.

Featured in the ensemble are Nick Cartell, Joseph Dellger, Erica Dorfler, Carlos L. Encinias, Hannah Florence, Corey Greenan, Benjamin Howes, Karen Hyland, Elizabeth Ward Land, Alison Luff, Jesse Nager, Sam Strasfeld, Betsy Struxness, Billie Wildrick, Dan'yelle Williamson, and Matt Wolfe.
Guests at the performance included Gifford's husband, football legend Frank Gifford, and their children Cassidy and Cody; Gifford's Today Show cohorts Hoda Kotb, Savannah Guthrie, Matt Lauer, Al Roker, Natalie Morales, Sara Haines, Willie Geist, Jill Martin, and Bobbie Thomas; Tony and Oscar winner Liza Minnelli; legendary TV personality Regis Philbin, television personality Kris Jenner, playwright Theresa Rebeck, Tony Award-winner Lillias White, and stage favorites Eve Plumb, Jim Caruso, and Jackie Hoffman.

Click here for more information and tickets to Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson.

Click here for TheaterMania's review of Scandalous.

Click here for TheaterMania's interview with Kathie Lee Gifford.

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Liza Minnelli Sports A Fall Style That's Award-Worthy

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As one of the few performers who's earned an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award Liza Minnelli knows how to put on a good show. And her love for drama doesn't stop when the curtain closes. She's a girl that loves to dress up -- no jeans and t-shirts here. She inherited her mother Judy Garland's sense of old Hollywood glamour, but has always put her own adventurous twist on things.
Liza really came into her own during the '70s when she often wore the designs of her best friend and default personal stylist Halston. Once under Halston's fashionable wing, the raven-haired beauty became a favorite of Andy Warhol and a frequent party-goer at Studio 54. She also developed a killer wardrobe with sequins, draped pants suits and furs galore. The combination of her show-stopping style, unconventional looks and that trademark short hairdo (popularized by the film "Cabaret") turned her into a fashion icon. Even at 66 she's still fabulous and has that sense of humor (have you seen Arrested Development?) we've always loved her for.
In this 1970 photo Liza grins for the paparazzi as she steps out in a swoon-worthy fall look. With her matching gray suit, fur stole and silver pendant necklace she oozes seventies New York cool. We can only imagine what hip party she was headed to. Would you try Liza's chic ensemble?

Liza Minnelli to do super debut in 'Smash' on NBC!

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By Deborah Vankin

November 13, 2012, 1:23 p.m.

The legendary Liza Minnelli epitomizes Broadway flash and pop – and now she’ll sing and dance her way across the small screen in “Smash.”

NBC announced Tuesday that Minnelli -- already a Tony, Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe and Grammy winner –- will appear as herself in an episode of “Smash.”  The show returns for a second season in early February. Minnelli’s episode, “The Surprise Party,” will air later in the spring.

Minnelli, daughter of actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli, will sing an original song in her “Smash” debut with Christian Borle (who plays Tom on the show).

The iconic performer played Sally Bowles in the 1972 film adaptation of Broadway’s “Cabaret”; the role earned her an Academy Award for best actress.
In a statement, NBC Chairman Robert Greenblatt called Minnelli “the essence of a multi-talented, singular show business sensation, particularly for her extraordinary contributions to Broadway."
"What could be more fitting than to have her legendary talent on a show that celebrates a world Liza has dazzled for decades?”  Greenblatt said. “I had the pleasure of working with Liza when we restored her landmark television special ‘Liza With a Z' at Showtime, and to see her artistry up close and personal is a thing to behold."

(Lawrence K. Ho/Los Angeles Times / August 11, 2012)

Passion still shows when Liza hits the stage

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By Everett Evans | November 12, 2012

Liza Minnelli can still do it - still storm on stage, take command and galvanize an audience.
She proved that Saturday at Galveston's Grand 1894 Opera House, from the moment she strutted out to apply her old-time show-biz sell to "Alexander's Ragtime Band," the venerable Irving Berlin standard that's virtually the granddaddy of 20th-century song.
It made a fitting opener for a star who is one of the last of her breed: the pure entertainer who's crazy about performing, loves her audience and always gives it everything she's got.
Sure, the voice is not what it once was - breathless at times, with moments of slurred diction or uncertain pitch. It's hard for her to nail those big high notes now, harder still to hold them, so she sometimes tries the repeat-attack approach. Yet the anticipatory "Can I hit it?" leading into such moments only puts the audience more in her corner. Her step, too, is wobbly now and then, and she spends half her stage time perched in a director's chair. Given her tumultuous life and health problems of recent years (including hip replacements and a broken knee), it's a wonder she can stand at all.
Yet it's amazing how little any of this matters, because her presence, charisma and performer's instincts are undiminished. The gutsiness and indomitability are as much a part of her mystique as her storied career and phenomenal lineage. The rapport between the star and her fans has an almost-revivalistic fervor, as was certainly the case Saturday. She knows how to build the rapt attention and rhapsodic enthusiasm to fever pitch, making every song a personal manifesto.

Especially plying her husky lower range in intimate readings of quieter ballads, Minnelli's voice still impressed with its warmth, musicality and genuine passion.

Intense feeling and neat phrasing marked her graceful melding of the Gershwins' "Love Is Here to Stay" and Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner's "Here I'll Stay." She was slyly knowing in Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz's innocently naughty "Confession." With Hugh Martin and Marshall Barer's "On Such a Night as This," she artfully worked the nostalgia for golden age Hollywood. She applied her considerable acting skill and nuance of gesture in a telling reading of "What Makes a Man?" Charles Aznavour's poignant, pre-gay rights portrait of a lonely drag queen.
Naturally, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Minnelli's own patron saints among the great songwriters, were well represented. She recalled her replacement stint in the original "Chicago" with the torchy "My Own Best Friend." Of course, the night's biggest cheers greeted her signature songs "Maybe This Time," "Cabaret," "New York, New York," and (arguably the team's best of all) "The World Goes Round," in which her intense focus and charged delivery proved particularly potent.
Her superb accompanist/music director Billy Stritch and his seven-member band supported her splendidly throughout; he also contributed some spiffy vocals, really percolating in "No Moon at All."
Even without sequins (the airline lost her luggage, she said, explaining her simple red sweater over black top and slacks), Minnelli razzle-dazzled 'em. Whatever it is that makes a star, she's still got it.
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Liza Flashback ~ CHICAGO the musical

Liza Minnelli Hollywood Bowl 2012

The Minnelli Style 1973!

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Posted: October 4, 2012 | Author: Miss Peelpants

Liza Minnelli has been in show business off and on since the age of three when she had her first walk-on part in The Good Old Summertime. Now at the age of 27 she is a firmly established, gutsy, vital, talented star who appears to have the necessary resilience to stay one. But the public demands that its current idols should always be on show, so Liza Minnelli’s looks, costumes and make-up have become an essential part of her professional life. But did she really like clothes ?
“Well, I am one of the 10 best dressed women in the world — so they tell me.” Who tells you? “They tell me.” She gave an abrupt shout of laughter and then looked gloomy, as if the sound of her voice depressed her. Dressed in a beige knitted suit bordered with a brown frieze and wearing no make-up, she apologised for keeping us waiting just a few minutes, and explained that she had been rehearsing for the three concerts that she was to do in London later that week. “Do you mind if I eat something? I haven’t had a bite all day.” Rapidly she spooned her way through a plate of clear soup, crunched some celery, and cut a slice of cheese which she ate like cake. Did she diet? “No, I really don’t have to. I drop pounds when I work; the weight just rolls off.” When she I was younger she tipped the scales at over ll stone; she’s thinner now, but still nicely curvy rather than model-girl skinny.

liza Minnelli Stage costumes designed by Keith Hodges

In the bedroom she opened her wardrobe door: it bulged with clothes. “I’m afraid that I haven’t got much here, all the really great stuff is on its way from the States.” On her dressing-table, next to a bottle of Vitamin B with Vitamin C complex tablets, were rows of giant lashes laid out like dead insects — these eyelashes have become almost her trade-mark. “And we’ve got boxes more,” said her secretary. “They are made from real hair,” Liza explained. “Christina makes them up for me, and when they get a bit tacky we send them back and she washes and re-does them for me.”
Her emphatic, idiosyncratic make-up was created by the Hollywood beautician Christina (Christina prefers the word ‘created’), and from time to time she` tums up to adjust it and apply it. “Shc designed it for me but wrote it all down so that I can do it myself.” Liza disappeared into the bathroom, emerging minutes later having washed and dried her short dark hair. Quickly she applied  her make-up and expertly fixed on a pair of the enormous lashes which fanned around her large, expressive eyes like peacock’s feathers.

liza Minnelli Clothes by Halston

The off-stage clothes that she showed us looked classic and good, a few from St Laurent, lots from Halston whose clothes she adores, others from De Noyer; her silver jewellery was designed by Peretti for Halston in New York. Some of the clothes, like Halston’s slinky black jersey dress and his black sequinned suit, she wears both on and off stage: “I simply adore black,” she said. Once she complained that just because she had been to 22 schools and had tive fathers everyone ex- pected her to be a delinquent: “But I had an English nanny for four years.” Even so, you get the feeling that the girl who used to wear bright green nail varnish and heavy purple eye- shadow lurks quite near the surface.
A friend said: “At home she looks diiferent. She wears funky blue jeans and outrageous shoes.” “Yes, I do like shoes,” she admitted. More than anything else? “Yes, you could say more than anything else.” She produced a pair of white skin, stubby-toed shoes with incredibly high heels which were studded with multi—coloured rhinestones which glittered and flashed in the lights.
“Desi calls them my Buicks,” (Desi Arnaz Jnr., her boy—friend before the arrival of Peter Sellers). “I buy them from Fred Slatten in California. They are the best sort of shoes, made in Italy with the diamanté stuck on in America.” She says that she is a mixture of Italian, French and Irish. The press cuttings suggest she is part Jewish too? “N0, I’m not, but my half-sister Lorna (Luft) is half-Jewish. The Press make mistakes. I get irritated when they put expressions into my mouth that I wouldn’t use, like ‘haargh’ or ‘yee-uck’, which don’t sound like me. Occasionally I might use ‘shri-ek’ – but not much. A reporter once wrote that he called on me when I was living in a London mews, banged on the door, no-one came, but as he walked away, a top window opened, and I appeared and threw a bottle of vodka at him. I have never lived in a London mews — and I don’t drink vodka.”

Clothes by Halston

Her off-stage wardrobe may have calmed down a bit, but on stage she glitters and shines in extravagant theatrical fantasies. “You would have flipped if I’d had the red satin here, it’s straight, not cut on the bias. And the cloche hat with the flower. Oh, but I really want the red dress.
“Keith Hodges designed it for me with the hat. Keith’s 26 years old and works for himself in California. He sent me a couple of sketches one day, they were simple but extraordinary. One had this hat, another a boa. A funny look. You wou1dn’t have wanted it yourself but I felt that it was right for me. They were a combination of something that Chanel might have designed and someone like Casati might have worn.” Marchesa Casati was one of the most exotic personalities of the early 1900s; a great hostess who painted her face white, dyed her hair flame-red before it was considered ‘proper’, ringed her eyes with kohl, wore tiger skins and eccentric hats, and kept a small Tunisian slave whom she once painted gold.
“I intend to make a film about her with my father. We’ve been looking for the right thing for ages. It’s from a novel, The Film of Memory by Maurice Druon, and it’s about Casati’s relationship with a little room-maid, when she’s old and sick living in the Hotel Inghilterra in Rome. She changes the girl’s life. I’ll play the maid who becomes a kind of mirror to the old woman’s memories, and in the few of the flash-backs I’ll play Casati.
“For Cabaret we almost did the clothes ourselves. There was a designer, I won’t mention her name, but the original clothes were just ‘the pits’. I had to tell her about shoulder pads and explain what ‘cut on the bias’ meant. Once I said ‘Look, before the war . . .’ and she said ‘What war ?’ Imagine. In one scene Fosse [the director, Bob Fosse] threw me his tuxedo waistcoat and said ‘Try this’. It worked so I wore it.” She paused: “You know there is a real Sally Bowles? She really exists. Isn’t it funny, Sally desperately wanted to be famous and important – she wanted to be – and now she is.”

Interview by Meriel McCooey. Photographs by David Bailey. Scanned by Miss Peelpants from The Sunday Times Magazine, July 1973

Dress by Halston

Liza Minnelli World Never Ends

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Liza Minnelli  Sterling St. Jacques Studio 54

St. John's Confidential File

Posted by Michael St John on Nov 10, 2012 - 7:20:33 AM

HELLO AMERICA!—I've known Liza Minnelli since she was 12 years old. Her dad Vincent Minnelli and I were good friends. As a matter of fact, famed producer Arthur Freed took time to introduce us. It was quite an important meeting for me.

However, it became more memorable when I remember shaking the hand of this little girl with long straight dark hair and the eyes of her very famous, legendary mom Judy Garland. Speaking with Liza as always has been very special. She's a woman of distinction who like her mom is what our industry is all about.

MSJ: How different has life become since you were a youngster chasing after you dad at MGM?

LM: Not very different at all. My life has always been hectic and sometimes absolutely confusing.

MSJ: You haven't done a major film in quite a long time is this by choice or you simply hasn't found a script that suits you?

LM: There haven't been very many stories that really appealed to me. At this point in my life, I need stories of genuine substance. And that's what people seem to want.

MSJ: Has the ups and downs of your mom's career affected how you've framed yours?

LM: Yes, in a way. I've watched how she handled things, generally, and learned that I have to be my own person. After all your career and life is on the line. So, it's important to make decisions about music, stories on your gut.

MSJ: Has your idea concerning marriage changed very much, especially after a few tries?

LM: Yes, in a way. I've got to keep in mind who I've decided to spend the rest of my life with. Many guys marry an illusion, they have no idea what the woman is or about. With me, I believe, the men I've married was seduced by the image on stage or the face on the cover of an entertainment magazine. But they had no idea who I really am.

MSJ: Since you've had a few tries at marriage, have you decided that the ritual is especially not for you? And what kind of man pleases you most?

LM: Oh, I think I could try again. I admit my life as a married woman hasn't been that impressive but hell, I've tried so hard to make that part of my life special. Some how, I haven't been able to make a lasting relationship with anybody. Momma, had the same problem I think. She was so hungry for love and attention, and in a way I guess I'm the same.

MSJ: What pleases you most about being in the spotlight twenty-four hours a day?

LM: That people respect me for what I do. And when I walk on stage and see their smiles and watch them applaud even before I sing a note, that is the greatest experience ever. I love what I do!

MSJ: You and your sister Lorna Luft who is also a good friend of mine, seem to still support each other in every way. How often do you get together or see each other?

LM: Whenever we are not working or on the road doing a concert or a show. I love my sister! And I'm happiest when I know she and her kids are ok. The time we spend together is very special. When we get the chance to sing together somewhere is the most exciting time of my life. It's just like having momma there -- it's something we were born to do.

MSJ: Who is Liza Minnelli today?

LM: I'm still the gal who sits in a dressing room somewhere in the world anxiously waiting to hear the cue from a stage manager yell "You got FIVE minutes before curtain goes up, Miss Minnelli!" That's when I know I'm still alive!

Photo Flash: Liza Minnelli, The Nederlanders and More at 'Living Landmarks' Fall 2012 Gala

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Margo Nederlander, James L. Nederlander, Robert Osborne, Liza Minnelli, Charlen Nederlander, James M. Nederlander

 November 9, 2012; 07:11 PM - by BWW News Desk

The 19th annual “Living Landmarks” gala was a star-studded event attracting some 450 people to The Plaza ballroom on November 8th. Each year, The New York Landmarks Conservancy recognizes New Yorkers who have made outstanding contributions to the City and honors them as Living Landmarks. This year the honorees are: Daniel Boulud, Robert Caro, Peter L. Malkin, Liza Minnelli, James M. Nederlander, James L. Nederlander, and E. John Rosenwald, Jr. Scroll below for photos from the event!

The New York Landmarks Conservancy is dedicated to preserving, revitalizing, and reusing New York’s architecturally significant buildings. Through pragmatic leadership, financial and technical assistance, advocacy, and public education, the Conservancy ensures that New York’s historically and culturally significant buildings, streetscapes, and neighborhoods continue to contribute to New York’s economy, tourism, and quality of life.

The Conservancy advocates for preservation in Washington, Albany, and at City Hall by encouraging sound policies that incorporate preservation as an integral part of urban planning. To safeguard the more than 21,000 building protected by the City’s Landmarks Law, the Conservancy works closely with property owners, community groups, the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and other public agencies.

The Conservancy was founded in 1973 by a small group of architects, lawyers, planners, writers, and preservationists eager to save and reuse landmark buildings. Some early successes include saving the U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green and the Fraunces Tavern block, also in Lower Manhattan, restoring the Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn, and converting the Federal Archive Building in Greenwich Village to residential apartments and stores. The Conservancy is one of the leading preservation groups in the country. For more information see: www.nylandmarks.org. Photo Credit: Rob Rich


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Legendary Minnelli coming to Grand

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By Everett Evans | November 8, 2012 | Updated: November 8, 2012 10:28pm

Everyone knows Liza Minnelli is a legend. But did you know she's now also a landmark?
No kidding, the New York Landmarks Conservancy this very month has declared Minnelli a living landmark. True, the honor has been bestowed upon a number of theater greats, but it does underscore Minnelli's iconic status. Call her legend, landmark or just plain Liza, she will perform Saturday at Galveston's Grand 1894 Opera House.
Her "Confessions" show takes its title from her well-received 2010 CD, a change of pace that showcased a gentler Minnelli in intimate renditions of her personal favorites, songs not previously associated with her. But she confides she'll make room for the signature numbers fans expect to hear.
With this year's 40th anniversary of the release of "Cabaret" and her "Live at the Winter Garden" concert just released on CD for the first time, many fans are looking back to the star's 1970s salad days. Yet however grateful for those times, Minnelli says she's most concerned with the here and now.

Q: Can you single out the proudest achievement of your career - the show or film that was most satisfying to do?
A: I always look forward to the next thing. I look forward to the Galveston date.

Q: What can the audience expect?
A: I hope they can expect a good show!
Q: One of the qualities most remarked upon throughout your career has been your dynamism, your way of giving 1,000 percent at every show. What's the secret to that?
A: Imagine that you have 2,000 people looking at you. You'd be energized, too, and want to do your best. It's called "Deliver!" That is my job, and I chose it, and I love to do it. And I sure don't want to disappoint anyone who's come out to see me. Whenever I go out onstage, I pretend I am in front of a big V. And standing behind me are my parents, and Fred and John, and Marvin (Hamlisch) and Bob (Fosse) - and really an army of all the people who have believed in me and helped me and been my friend. So I am never, never out there alone.
Q: Given your parentage and the environment of your early years, is there any way that you would not have gone into show business?
A: At one time, I wanted to be an ice skater.
Q: But that's performing, too, isn't it? Many people with legendary parents never quite emerge from their shadows. How did you manage it?
A: I learned the craft from the bottom. When I started as a teenager, I worked at everything, including hanging lights and scenery. This has always been something I was doing because I loved it. I grew up with this and, you know, I like to learn. And early on, I had the good fortune to meet these terrific people, like John and Fred, Bob Fosse and Marvin Hamlisch - people who influenced me and shaped my career. I looked for the best and tried to figure out how to work with them.
Q: I was very moved by "Minnelli on Minnelli," your 1999 Broadway show in tribute to your father. Do you feel a responsibility to the legacy of your parents?

A: It's not that I feel a responsibility. It's more like, "Man, you don't want to miss this, this was great!" I've always said my mother gave me my drive, and my father gave me my dreams. I never wanted to use them. If I did it, I wanted to do it myself and make them proud of me. That was a promise I made to both of them.
Q: You got a lot of attention for your cameo in "Sex and the City 2," doing Beyoncé's "Single Ladies."
A: That was fun. When I was asked to do it, I said, "Terrific." I know everybody in the cast, and I respect Beyoncé. We got Ron Lewis, whom I've worked with on several shows, to choreograph it. He included her (Beyoncé's) most famous moves but made them fit me.
Q: I understand "Arrested Development" is coming back, and you'll be back in your recurring role as Lucille Austere.
A: I love the whole cast, and Mitchell (Hurwitz, the series' creator) is dead wonderful. We've made some new episodes for Netflix already, and I'll be doing more when I go back after my tour dates.
Q: What keeps you going?
A: Health. Going to dance class every day. If you are a performer, you are an athlete. You have to keep up. I think back on all I've learned - that it's all been so interesting and exciting. Mostly, what I feel is a lot of gratitude. But, going forward, the most important thing to have is curiosity. What is happening now and what's next. And I'm a great audience. I go to see a lot of people, and I love to find new talent and help support it. (She gave major early boosts to the careers of Michael Feinstein and Billy Stritch.) Lately, I'm a big fan of a young singer and pianist named Nicholas King. He's really good, and he's serious about it and wants to learn. That's what I admire. When somebody doesn't just want to be a star, they want to do it well and have fun doing it.

Liza Minnelli
When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: Grand 1894 Opera House, 2020 Postoffice, Galveston
Tickets: $45-$185; 800-821-1894

Liza Minnelli at a glance
Liza Minnelli has been showbiz royalty from her birth - to mother Judy Garland, still regarded as one of the most electrifying entertainers of all time, and father, Vincente Minnelli, famed director of such classic films as "An American in Paris," "The Band Wagon" and "Gigi."
Yet Minnelli made it big on her own. She apprenticed in summer stock, made her off-Broadway debut at 17 in a 1963 revival of "Best Foot Forward" and two years later won her first Tony for her Broadway debut in "Flora the Red Menace." It was also the Broadway debut of John Kander and Fred Ebb and the beginning of the brilliant writing team's long and fruitful collaboration with Minnelli.
The rest is showbiz history, from her first Oscar nomination for "The Sterile Cuckoo" to her win for "Cabaret," other movies including "Arthur" and "New York, New York," such Broadway shows as "The Act" and "The Rink," and celebrated concerts at the Winter Garden, Carnegie Hall and Radio City. Along the way, she's also won four Tonys, two Golden Globes, an Emmy and a Grammy Legend Award.
Everett Evans
everett.evans@chron.com

Liza Minnelli, James M. and James L. Nederlander Are Honored as "Living Landmarks" at Nov. 8 Gala in NYC

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By Michael Gioia
08 Nov 2012

The New York Landmarks Conservancy presents the 19th annual Living Landmarks Celebration Nov. 8 at the Plaza. Liza Minnelli, James M. Nederlander and James L. Nederlander are among the 2012 honorees.

The evening begins with cocktail hour at 7 PM and is followed by dinner at 8 PM.
Other 2012 honorees include chef Daniel Boulud, real estate icon Peter L. Malkin and business executive E. John Rosenwald, Jr. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro will receive the Lew Rudin Living Landmark Award for Public Service.
Louise Grunwald and Graydon Carter serve as honorary co-chairs at the gala, and the Celebration Committee includes former "Living Landmarks" Judy Collins, Barbara Goldsmith, Vartan Gregorian, Marian Heiskell, A.E. Hotchner, Ray Kelly, Mathilde Krim, Mary McFadden, Elizabeth Rohatyn, Amy and Howard Rubenstein, Tommy Tune and Bunny Williams.

Liz Smith, who co-chairs the event along with Peter G. Peterson, hosts. Music is provided by Peter Duchin and his orchestra.

The New York Landmarks Conservancy is dedicated to "celebrating, preserving and protecting the iconic buildings and diverse neighborhoods that define this vibrant and extraordinary City." Since its founding in 1973, it has loaned and granted more than $36 million to help people save their homes, cultural, civic and religious institutions.
Tickets for the gala start at $1,000; tables start at $10,000. For more information, contact Jenna Smith at (212) 995-5260 or email at JennaSmith@NYLandmarks.org.

ROLEX CEO Stewart Wicht presents Liza with the 2012 Rolex Dance Award

ROLEX CEO Stewart Wicht presents Liza with the 2012 Rolex Dance Award
Photo: ROLEX Presents JUMP FOR JOY! A Dance Variety Spectacular - Career Transition For Dancers’ 27th Anniversary Jubilee;
New York, NY. PHOTO CREDIT - Richard Termine © 2012 Richard Termine— at City Center.

LIZA MINNELLI (Rolex Dance Award);
PHOTO CREDIT - Richard Termine © 2012 Richard Termine — at City Center.

LIZA MINNELLI (Rolex Dance Award); Host for the Gala ANGELA LANSBURY; Broadway star CHITA RIVERA; BEN VEREEN (Tony Award-winner Star of Stage & Screen); SONO OSATO (renowned dancer and actress, original Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, starred as ‘Miss Tu

Photo: ROLEX Presents JUMP FOR JOY! A Dance Variety Spectacular - Career Transition For Dancers’ 27th Anniversary Jubilee; American Dance Machine...

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Arthur Murray Dancers
Big Apple Circus
Cirque du Soleil
Nate Cooper
Dancing Classrooms
EveryDayMan Adventures
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Hybrid Movement Company
New York City Ballet
Jason Samuels Smith
Suzanne Farrell Ballet
Tigerpalast Varieté Theater Frankfurt
Amra-Faye Wright; rehearsal & performance photographed: Monday, November 5, 2012; 7:00 PM at City Center; New York, NY. Photograph: © 2012 Richard Termine
PHOTO CREDIT - Richard Termine © 2012 Richard Termine

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JUMP FOR JOY! Jubilee Honors Liza Minnelli; Angela Lansbury Hosts Tonight, 11/5

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Monday, November 5, 2012; 12:11 AM - by BWW News Desk

Rolex presents "JUMP FOR JOY! A Dance Variety Spectacular--Career Transition For Dancers’ 27th Anniversary Jubilee" tonight, November 5, at 7:00 pm at New York City Center, 131 West 55 Street (btwn. 6th & 7th Aves). Legendary star Angela Lansbury will host. It will be followed by a "Supper with the Stars" in The Grand Ballroom at The Hilton New York.

JUMP FOR JOY! provides a fun-filled evening that weaves together all genres and dance styles in an exciting tapestry of quality entertainment, including special appearances and performances by American Dance Machine 21, Arthur Murray Dancers, Big Apple Circus, Cirque du Soleil, Nate Cooper, Dancing Classrooms, EveryDayMan Adventures, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Hybrid Movement Company, New York City Ballet, Jason Samuels Smith, Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Tigerpalast Varieté Theater Frankfurt, Amra-Faye Wright, and Chita Rivera. The entertainment event of the new season is produced and directed by Ann Marie DeAngelo. (Appearances and performances are subject to change.)
Angela Lansbury has enjoyed a career without precedent, spanning more than half a century as a star of movies, a five time Tony Award-winning actress, and star of "Murder, She Wrote," the longest running detective drama series in television history.
The Rolex Dance Award will be presented to Liza Minnelli, winner of four Tony Awards, an Oscar, a special "Legends" Grammy, two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy. She is one of the entertainment world's consummate performers. On film, on stage and in television, Liza has won critical acclaim and recognition from her peers in show business, giving new dimension and credibility to the word “superstar.” The Career Transition For Dancers Outstanding Contributions to the World of Dance Awards will be awarded to: Joni Berry, Michele Herbert, Gerald M. Appelstein, and Arthur Murray International (celebrating its 100th Anniversary).


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Liza & the New York Yankees "Night of 100 Stars" (1982)

Minnelli cancels Kirby Center performance

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Published: November 3, 2012

Liza Minnelli's concert Saturday at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts in Wilkes-Barre has been canceled because of the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, the venue announced Friday.
Ms. Minnelli's management issued the following statement on her behalf: "Due to the horrific conditions suffered by so many people in the surrounding areas of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, it is with great regret that Liza Minnelli's November 3 concert at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts has been cancelled.
"We hope to announce a future date in Wilkes-Barre when scheduling allows. Until then, refunds are available at point of purchase. Liza's thoughts and prayers are with all of those affected by Hurricane Sandy and she is looking forward to being with her fans at a later date."