Word: hollywoodizations
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NAME: Planet ("Chapter 11") Hollywood OCCUPATION: Serving burgers with high prices BEST PUNCH: Representatives from the restaurant appeared at the show's outdoor set the following day and shamed Roker into an on-air apology by bringing crateloads of toys for the show to donate to needy children...
...there's hardheaded career calculation here too. Hollywood, which gave her an Oscar in 1973 for Cabaret, pretty much washed its hands of Liza years ago, and even Broadway hasn't been very hospitable lately. Her last appearance, replacing Julie Andrews as the star of Victor/Victoria in 1997, got mixed reviews and ended prematurely because of her health problems. On a concert tour in the months that followed, she began canceling performances, alienating fans and bookers alike. When she called in sick at the last minute for a tribute in her honor thrown by Burt Reynolds in Los Angeles--then...
...comeback on Broadway, where Liza opens this week in a month-long concert engagement at the Palace Theater, where Garland herself once staged a famous comeback. Called Minnelli on Minnelli, Liza's show is a tribute to the movies of her father Vincente, director of such classic Hollywood musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris and Gigi. In it she reminisces a bit, shows pictures from the family album, sings numbers identified with her mother that she would never touch before (like The Trolley Song from Meet Me in St. Louis) and demonstrates that her voice...
About reports that she had relapsed into abusing alcohol or drugs, she explains, with only a bit of Hollywood indirection: "If somebody looked at you and [because of medical problems] said, 'You can't ever sing and dance again...' It was depressing. And if you have this disease, you have it. And it is a medical disease. You have to be so careful. It can get you down. But then it's your responsibility to get back...
...collar folk" (back then, Dad sold fruit from a truck; Mom worked on a circuit-board assembly line). After Sarah Lawrence College, where he met his wife, actress Chris Lindsay, he honed his craft at New York City's Juilliard School Playwright's Program. What if he scores in Hollywood? "The movie stuff will pay my rent," he says. "But if I want my words to remain as is, I'll stay in the theater...