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...About 60 Garland Junior College students, faculty members, and administrators protested the college's June 30 closing by demonstrating for about six hours in front of its administration building in Boston yesterday...
...better actor as a result of this, but I'm not sure that I'll even give a damn," says the weary performer, considering the rigors of working with Barbra Streisand. The film features Barbra in the part played by Janet Gaynor back in 1937 and Judy Garland 17 years later. Streisand is not just the leading lady, but the executive producer as well, and the shooting schedule has been dawn-to-dark frantic. Reports Kris: "I'm scared to death of her. The best one-word description of Barbra would be 'formidable...
...final London performances in 1969, Judy Garland faltered so badly that some members of the audience pelted her with bread rolls. Last week, when Singer Lorna Luft, 23, Judy's daughter and Actress Liza Minnelli's half sister, came to play the London Palladium, it was the critics who did the bombarding. The London Times found her "a not particularly talented performer who tries hard enough but against impossible odds." What she lacks, said the Guardian, "is that bruised-by-life quality you find in most top female vocalists" -a failing that the British critics seemed anxious...
...Garland, Texas...
...unusual kid. I didn't look like anybody else," she recalls. "Everybody was wearing pageboys, and I had frizzy hair." She changed her name from Phoebe Laub to Phoebe Snow, a sign on boxcars near her home in Teaneck, N.J. She doted on Shirley Temple movies and Judy Garland records. Later she borrowed from early enthusiasms. "I copped that lick for my refrain in Poetry Man from The Continental in the old Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie," she admits. Her parents-her mother was a Martha Graham dancer-encouraged her to study classical piano. With Billie Holiday, Big Bill...