Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardly the all-American childhood, full of Girl Scout meetings and slumber parties. "To other people, being Judy Garland's daughter meant that either I led the glamorous, spoiled life of a movie star's child or that I was a poor little waif, a vagabond gypsy kid." Neither was true. Or both. "I may have been reared strangely compared with other kids, but I had a swell time growing up. Really." Childhood was visiting movie sets where Judy was filming or where Liza's father, Vincente Minnelli, was directing. It was enormous birthday parties, "all with...
...kid myself about the reasons success happened so easily for me: my mother and the curiosity factor," says Liza. When she was 18, her mother asked her to share the bill at a Judy Garland comeback at the London Palladium. "That was terrifying," says Liza. "First of all, Mama was so adored. It's hard to buck that orgy of emotion. Second, Mama suddenly realized that she had a grown-up daughter, that she wasn't a kid herself any more. She became very competitive with me." By 19 Liza had the lead in a Broadway musical, Flora...
...Though she loves to be with friends, talking, talking, talking, she claims, "I'm a little shy, especially in crowds. Except when I'm wafting." Wafting? "That's when you pretend you're not really you. It's like when you were a kid and used to play games where you were Nancy Drew. Like you walk into a crowded room as an observer and not as a participant. You just look everybody over. You can just sort of SWO-O-O-P through the whole evening. It's not taking things too seriously...
...their first five confrontations this season. To make matters worse, whenever the young upstart catches a Bruin game on TV, he calls Phil and gives him a few pointers. Phil would be outraged-if the Hawks' new netman were not his kid brother Tony, 26. As it is, Phil is unabashedly proud. Tony, he says, "is the best goalie in the league...
...understands the unique agonies of metropolitan adolescence. The reluctant hero of the piece, Paul (Barry Gordon), is a shy, bright kid trying to get through a particularly difficult mid-teen summer on Long Island. His parents have enough money, he gets to use the car and the speedboat, but he is still vaguely dissatisfied. The root of his trouble is hardly unique: girls. To him they seem frivolous yet desirable, brainless but captivating. They all appear to share one dominating characteristic: inaccessibility...