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ASSOCIATE Editor Gerald Clarke picked up his phone one day last week and found Liza Minnelli on the line with a surprising question. Why, she asked, had he missed the previous evening's première of her film, Cabaret? His excuse, Clarke assured her, was entirely legitimate: he had been busy most of the night writing a cover story about her for this week's issue...
...actress had perhaps grown accustomed to having Clarke within note-taking distance. Though TIME correspondents in Hollywood, New York, Paris and London were digging into Minnelli's past and present, Clarke felt that he had to get to know his subject personally. Writers, of course, usually have that feeling when the subject is a movie star of the opposite sex. Nonetheless...
...capture that quality, Clarke conscientiously lunched with Minnelli in New York, spent hours interviewing her at her hotel suite, and traveled to San Juan to catch her nightclub act and do a bit of pub-crawling with her and her friends. Minnelli is always a fast-stepper, and one Sunday night after a particularly exhausting performance, she changed clothes, gathered her friends and set out to sample San Juan night life...
...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...
...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...