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Mourners included Liza Minnelli, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Eydie Gorme, Mia Farrow, Milton Berle, Connie Stevens, Wayne Newton, Lew Wasserman, Tom Selleck, Paul Anka, Joey Heatherton, Tim Conway, Bob Newhart, Ben Vereen, Ed McMahon, Anthony Quinn, Red Buttons, Marlo Thomas and Angie Dickinson. Pallbearers included Steve Lawrence, Don Rickles and Tom Dreesen, the comic who opened for Sinatra for many years...
...Frowick Halston was the first fashion superstar, a huge personality who was the embodiment of '70s glamour, excess and hyperactive nightlife, the dresser of such gorgeous creatures as Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli, Lauren Bacall and Jacqueline Kennedy (he even created her pink pillbox hat). But as a designer, he was all minimalist chic. His simple, elegant lines, his use of sensual, clinging fabrics like jersey and cashmere and practical ones like Ultrasuede and his disavowal of the extraneous made him the quintessential American designer. But a businessman he was not. Long before he died...
Sally herself, played by Natasha Richardson, is older, more wasted, less the perky-quirky charmer played by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 movie. Richardson (The Handmaid's Tale onscreen; Anna Christie onstage; Vanessa Redgrave's daughter in real life) doesn't belt out the Kander and Ebb numbers a la Liza; she acts them. The climactic title song, most startlingly, is no longer a triumphant anthem. Richardson clutches the microphone and grits through the lyrics ("Start by admitting/ From cradle to tomb/ Isn't that long a stay"), shouting her defiance even as she struggles to keep from flying apart...
...spectacularly decadent twist on the part that made Joel Grey's career) sports blue and red eye shadow, sequined nipples and suspenders wrapped around his crotch--Alex from A Clockwork Orange filtered through Madonna's Sex book. Where Bob Fosse's film was a Felliniesque star vehicle for Minnelli, Mendes has deglamorized Cabaret, broadened its human scope and brilliantly re-energized...
...movie, the Oscar-winning actress briefly returned to Hollywood to narrate a film on depression (her mother committed suicide when Fonda was 12) to be shown at a fund-raising lunch this week at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. At the lunch, other celebrities such as Mike Wallace and Liza Minnelli hope to start doing for depression what Elizabeth Taylor did for AIDS...