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...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...
...reached an age where I am starting a new career as a character actress," says Ingrid Bergman, now at work on her 43rd film. The movie, which will be titled A Matter of Time in English-speaking countries and Nina elsewhere, stars Bergman as an aged contessa and Liza Minnelli as a young hotel chambermaid enthralled by the older woman's reminiscences. Bergman, who still needs nearly an hour-long makeup job to affect the wrinkled look, says the contessa "is just the opposite of my own character because she is destroying herself by dreams of her youth...
Luxurious, sassy and a lot of fun, Lucky Lady is very much a movie of the times-both now and then. It is a wisecracking, softhearted romantic adventure in which the major characters seem modeled on movie stars. With the shade of Jean Harlow peering over her cocked shoulder, Liza Minnelli plays a '20s rumrunner called Claire Dobie. Gene Hackman and Burt Reynolds, her partners in crime, are like Tracy and Gable, fast friends and occasional antagonists, both in love with Claire. These three amorous buddies run booze up the California coast from Mexico, playing cat-and-mouse with...
...three principals seem to realize their importance in maintaining the proper chemical balance. Liza Minnelli is better than she has ever been, sweet and raffish, while Burt Reynolds cuts up with infectious bemusement. Much of the heavy acting falls to Gene Hackman-just as it did to Spencer Tracy-and he performs with subdued authority. If the stars seem sometimes to be off on different courses, playing out their own roles instead of playing to each other, this is one of the hazards of all-star Hollywood entertainment...
...With God On Our Side." In place of the original line, "I've learned to hate the Russians/ all through my whole life," Dylan sang, "I learned to hate Russia/ and China/ and Korea/ and Vietnam/ and South America/ and Bulgaria." Onstage, he's exactly the opposite of a Liza Minelli offering her heart up to the audience. Dylan is coy, buried under the sombrero, the guitar and the harmonica holder; he demands complete fascination from the crowd and he gets...