Here are some more excerpts from the Liza Diaries
My town car was stuck in traffic on the way to the Helen Hayes. I had the driver pull the plug for my portable blender, shoved the whole thing into my purse, and jumped out, yelling "I'll take it from here, Buster!" I didn't make it two blocks into Times Square when a funny looking man in a marvelous raincoat stopped me. "Hey, cutie," he whispered, "how 'bout a little company?" So I did ten bars of "Being Alive" and still made my 8:00 show. Fans - you gotta love 'em!
I had just finished a congratulatory note to Totie Fields for her Emmy win as "Sybil," when a young woman rang my doorbell. I had Bobbi, my pianist, take my dry cleaning to the door. He came back moments later, clothes still in hand. "Z," he said, "She says she's Tina Minnelli, your half-sister." "Half-sister?" I gasped, "Has she been in an accident?" Then he explained it to me and I sent him back to the door to give her an autographed poster of Lucky Lady and a cashmere sweater, gorgeous except for a pesky stain from when mother threw up on me during our duet of "When the Saints Go Marching In" at the Empire Room at the Waldorf. Years later, a psychotherapist at Hazledon told me that the reason I treat my half-sister this way is possibly linked to my being a selfish brat
I'm told that the Studio 54 days were apparently some of my happiest times. That's when men were men - I vaguely remember doing the hustle with Halston, Roddy McDowell's wandering hands, and making out with that smoldering Tony Perkins. Funny, one minute you're dancing with Sylvester in nothing but a glitter headband, and next thing you know you wake up on the set of Rent-A-Cop wearing a medi-lert bracelet with your agent's phone number scrawled on it. And everyone made such a big damned deal about Bianca riding in on that white horse, but nobody seems to remember the scandal the next night when Marisa Berenson and I rode in on Merv Griffin, the three of us dressed as Kukla, Fran and Ollie!
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