Word: minnelli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sweet and Guarded. Such perfectionism does not mean that De Niro is all work and no play, though it is some times a close thing. He is married to Actress Diahnne Abbott, whose torchy ren dition of Honeysuckle Rose in New York, New York upstages Liza Minnelli's belting. He is the demonstrably proud fa ther of chubby, seven-month-old Raphael (notes Papa earnestly: "He's been laughing since he was a month...
...disjointed from the opening sequence, a frenzied victory celebration in a skyscraper nightclub where Tommy Dorsey's orchestra is doing a radio spot. Unemployed Sax Player Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro), on a spree in his sporty new civvies, picks up ex-U.S.O. Singer Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) in an ill-paced scene that is lumbered with flat, witless dialogue ("Give me your phone number...
...Francine, Minnelli is wholesome, glib, plucky - more a familiar manner than a characterization. Despite some heavy histrionics in her marital squabbles with Jimmy, there is a sense in her performance of counting the choruses till her next solo. Indeed, the latter half of the film moves toward her virtual apotheosis in a series of climactic production numbers. Their impact depends on how you feel about Liza's nightclub...
Auld Acquaintances Liza Minnelli and Sammy Davis Jr. are getting together for a little New Year's Eve celebration, and other couples are invited to join them, if they have $200 to $500 to spare. Davis, 50, who was best man at her 1974 wedding to Jack Haley Jr., will share the spotlight with Liza, 30, singing, dancing and clowning in a 1½-hour cabaret act at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla. Bubbles Liza: "I've been dreaming about this ever since Sammy jumped onto the stage in the middle of my act at Harrah...
...Auden about the boy bars in Berlin. Between affairs, he met Jean Ross, the prototype for his fictional Sally Bowles, and wrote of her escapades in Goodbye to Berlin. Sally turns out to be somewhat less vulnerable than portrayed by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret. Says Isherwood: "Sally wasn't a victim, wasn't proletarian, was a mere self-indulgent upper-middle-class foreign tourist who could escape from Berlin whenever she chose...