Wednesday List

THE LIZA MINNELLI LIST

I'm barely scratching the surface I know... Liza Minnelli DOMINATES in cyberspace, as well she should. She's too fucking fabulous for words. She blew my mind in New York New York and of course, in Cabaret, one of my all time favourite movies. Furthermore, in the present she does fascinatingly horrible things and has fascinatingly horribly things happen to her.

Her work with the Pet Shop Boys in the 1980s is amazing-good campy. For example, Don't Drop Bombs, and the absolute gem below "Losing My Mind" - ironic title, non?

Liza Minnelli and the Pet Shop Boys - Losing my Mind. [Oh the Irony]

In more recent Liza Minelli News, has been the David Gest lawsuit (obvious). With it's full quota of sordid Minelli/Gest relationship-revelations. Herpes! Assault!etc.

Then there was her gripping fourth wedding to David Gest in 2002, known as the Night of a 1,000 Facelifts, with Liz Taylor, Mia Farrow and Michael Jackson as bridesmaids. The marriage lasted just over a year, the divorce case much longer. He accused her of beating him up and giving him an ‘unmentionable’ disease (herpes) and ruining his hair transplant by pulling it out. 

Perhaps, more pertinently, he claimed that she was ‘unable to be effectively merchandised’ because she was ‘alcoholic and overweight’. She in turn accused him of drugging her, of being ‘a manipulative neat freak’ and putting her dog down. 

There was also a suit from a bodyguard who claimed that she harassed him with sexual demands - all good tabloid fun and I was rather hoping there might be another marriage on the horizon, but she says she will never marry again.  

This extract is from, strangely, the Khaleej Times. But you know, whatever.

• lizaminnelli.com, for "Liza Minnelli, Live Concerts, Celebrity Gossip or anything similar...!" I think free MP3s?
• the Official Liza Minnelli website is http://www.officiallizaminnelli.com/, and has a special message from Liza herself! Too excitement... Also, pictures of Liza through the years... from Fab to Hag. Oh, and you have to read the "Ask Liza" section, where you can ask her questions that mirror the messages that her Marketing and PR department are trying to get across! Quelle surprise.

And now I sign off my list o'links for this Wednesday with Liza in Cabaret - *sigh* - she's SO fab.