Open Post: Hosted By Liza Minnelli Singing And Smoking While On Her Way To The Oscars
The 2022 Oscars aired just over a month ago (bitch, it feels like 134 years), and, while so-and-so and the other guy may have dominated the headlines, we mustn’t forget the return of Liza Minnelli, who presented the award for Best Picture with Lady Gaga. A week ago Liza’s longtime collaborator, Michael Feinstein, said the legendary entertainer was disappointed by the appearance. She’d planned to present in a director’s chair, but a stage manager insisted that she use a wheelchair. This last-minute decision left Liza “shaken”, and she didn’t like how she came across onstage.
Two days ago Michael uploaded a video of Liza on the way to the Academy Awards, and she seems a helluva lot more lively than she did on TV. The clip shows 76-year-old Liza sitting in a car (sans seatbelt), smoking a ciggie (sans ashtray), and belting out the old song, “(It’s Gonna Be A) Great Day!” It’s serving, “the Uber from the pre-drink to the bar.” Except without the water bottle filled with vodka.
Here’s Michael’s Liza video:
And obviously, the video went viral:
The cigarette, the sleeves, the broken broadway voice.
THIS is a visual handbook on camp. https://t.co/dHpyTIAgme— JohnPaul (@JPJaval) April 27, 2022
Wow, it’s hard not to see and hear Liza’s mom, Judy Garland, in that clip. And, oh look, here’s Judy singing the same song in 1964 (she would have been 42):
All that’s missing is the cigarette!
Pic: Instagram