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...then an alienated pillravaged monster who can't keep her weight down or her ratings up. Poor Neely gets shipped from The Head (of the studio) to the headshrinker to the loony bin and back again so many times you could call her the comeback kid a la Judy Garland...
...made it. In a sequined paisley pants suit, a fragile and unforgettable figure jogs down the aisle, hugging admirers, shaking hands and just plain shaking. She is?who else??Judy Garland, now 45, and making her third Palace "comeback" in 15 years...
Pity & Terror. Another Hollywood character, the late Spencer Tracy, once said that "Garland audiences don't just listen?they feel." They also fear?and in some cases hope?that they may be witnesses to a breakdown, which is one of the compelling attractions exerted by this durable but disaster-prone star. Her audiences arrive, it seems, achingly aware of Judy's tortured past: her teenage stardom and traumas, her voice crack-ups and innumerable busted contracts, her four broken marriages to increasingly younger men (she just broke off an engagement to a public relations man 16 years her junior...
...Garland affects a far broader audience than her ever-present little bluebirds. She has the true entertainer's capacity for transmitting her feelings across the footlights. Nor is it a oneway message. "Audiences," she says, "have kept me alive." As she told her exuberant cult at the Palace last week: "Everything I want is right here...
...female impersonator at Manhattan's East Village, who specializes in imitating Judy's style and bills himself as Bonnie Garland, showed up at the Palace premiere in the same costume Judy wore...