Word: liza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...translations. Isherwood's stories were taut, bittersweet recollections of bohemian Berlin in the early '30s. By the time Scenarist Allen and Director Fosse have wrung them out, what's left -with one exception-is mostly slack and sour. The exception is their vibrant star Liza Minnelli, who cocks a derby over a green-shadowed eye and struts off with the movie, or as much of it as is worth carrying...
...central setting is the Kit Kat Club, a sleazy microcosm of Germany in transition. The songs and dances performed there form an ironic counterpoint to the action, which has mainly to do with the mad affairs of Americanborn Sally Bowles (Liza's role), a Kit Kat entertainer, who has dedicated her life to "divine decadence...
...Liza Minnelli is a dazzling entertainer, which, ironically, makes her less than effective as Sally. It is impossible to believe, once Liza starts singing, that this is a girl doomed to spend her career belting out tunes in third-rate clubs. Her talents as a performer are simply too great for the part - and for the movie...
...monument to King Victor Emmanuel II, where he stands or sits for a while in a public expression of outrage. Police and firemen are so nervous about the popularity of monument perching that last week they scrambled onto the dome of the Pantheon to rescue Liza Barkley, 19, a tourist from Philadelphia. Liza was hustled off to a psychiatric clinic before she could explain, through an interpreter, that she was an architecture student and had climbed up a scaffolding to inspect the structure of the dome...
Divorced. Vincente Minnelli, 68, Oscar-winning Hollywood director (Gigi, 1958) and father, by his previous marriage to Judy Garland, of Singer-Actress Liza Minnelli; and Denise Minnelli, 40, best-dressed and bejeweled Beverly Hills hostess; after ten years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...