Word: lorna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...milk for dessert). Her weight, of course, is hardly the only thing that has made her a star of the gossip pages. There were the slew of canceled concert appearances, the reports of erratic behavior, a faltering singing voice and a feud and chilled relations with her half sister Lorna Luft, author of a warts-and-all family memoir. No one ever said being the daughter of Judy Garland (dead of an overdose at age 47) was easy. But for a walking, talking soap opera, you'd have to look pretty hard to top Liza...
Which is not quite the way it sounds in Luft's tell-all book, Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir (which, among other things, recounts Lorna's role in getting Liza into rehab). The two aren't talking now, though Liza doesn't describe it as a feud: "We're sisters, and we're going through something." She won't even bad-mouth the book, which she claims she hasn't read. "It's her point of view. I think it was probably cathartic for her to write it." Catharsis or not, Liza refused to join her sister...
...photogenic violence is a legacy of earlier Lethal Weapon's, albeit not the only one. Leo is a retainer from the second, Riggs' girlfriend Lorna (Rene Russo) from Lethal Weapon 3, and the partners' past actions color every scene at LAPD head quarters. But never does the movie rest on the laurels of its predecessors. Many jokes are funny for the uninitiated even as they take on added resonance for those who have followed Riggs and Murtaugh through the years, and no jokes exclude those who are not die-hard fans. Old characters and running gags are neatly integrated into...
...past decade Martin has undergone a healing process: from half-mad he dwindled first to charming eccentricity and now, in Lethal Weapon 4, he's just another guy with a commitment problem. In short, he's no longer an interesting problem for Murtaugh or even for Rene Russo's Lorna, the lady patiently waiting for his wedding ring...
...panel included Lisa Drake, an environmental engineer; Penny Ellard '88, a project manager and software engineer at Bolt, Beranek and New-man, a computer technology firm; and Lorna Gibson, an MIT materials engineer professor...