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...and scripted by "Desperate Housewives" producer-creator Marc Cherry and "CSI" producer-writer David Rambo. During one break, Lorna Luft rose from her seat to serenade Mitchell with "You Made Me Love You," a classic once sung by Luft's mother, Judy Garland,...
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Lorna Luft talks about her mother in this touching documentary.
Lorna Luft at age 14 years old on the Mike Douglas Show 1967 singing "Smile"
Singer Lorna Luft (daughter of Judy Garland), appears on the Tonight Show on Oct. 10, 1989. She sings "I Got Rhythym" and talks with Jay Leno who was sitting in for Johnny Carson.
Judy and her daughter Lorna Luft rock out at the Palace Theatre at Judy's final engagement. July 31. 1967.
Judy Garlands daughter Lorna Luft at 4 years old interrupts Judy recording on a program called Nightline, 1957.
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Final performances of “White Christmas” will be at l p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. For ticket information and other performance times phone (502) 584-7777.)
Here’s a gladly received holiday package arriving at the Kentucky Center a few days after the
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After a performance of "White Christmas," a member of the audience stopped by to see one of the stars in her dressing room.
"My father adored your mother," the visitor said.
Because the star was Lorna Luft, daughter of Judy Garland, and the visitor was
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Lorna Luft on her mothers show,The Judy Garland show 1963 siting on Jack Jones lap.
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The following celebrities were born on November 21:
Goldie Hawn is 64.
Joseph Campanella (”The Colbys,” “Ben”) is 82.
Jean Shepard is 76.
Laurence Luckinbill is 75.
Marlo Thomas is 72.
Dr. John is 69.
Juliet Mills (”Passions”, “Nanny and the Professor”)
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Today is Saturday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2009 with 40 to follow.
The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Mars, Saturn and Mercury. The evening stars are Neptune, Jupiter and Uranus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio.
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Marlo Thomas is 72. Actress Juliet Mills ( Nanny and the Professor ) is 68. Actor-director Harold Ramis is 65. Goldie Hawn is 64. Actress-singer Lorna Luft is 57. Actress Cherry Jones ( 24 ) is 53. Actress Nicollette Sheridan is 46. Singer Bjork is 44.
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Miami Herald
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THERE'S one song which is guaranteed to put you in a festive mood... White Christmas.
Now you can indulge in the Yuletide spirit with a spectacular stage musical based on the classic 1954 film.
White Christmas, which opens at the Theatre Royal Plymouth
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This Is Plymouth
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The '80s saw a wave of syndicated horror anthology series, including
Monsters, Freddy's Nightmares, The Twilight Zone (which
started its run on CBS but finished up on syndication), and . The last one was produced by George A. Romero. ran in syndication
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Charles Sykes/Associated Press Judy Garland’s daughter Lorna Luft walked a yellow brick carpet in front of a hot-air balloon at a gala to mark the 70th anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz” at Tavern on the Green in July.
Some New Yorkers might be forgiven
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LOL, the mods must be sloooow tonite ...
Um, Judy Garland revealed alot about the making of TWoO o'er the years.
The film is where she got addicted to both DIET pills (Speed!) and then "downers", which of course led to a life of
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Stephen Bogardus, Kerry O'Malley, David Elder, Megan Sikora, and Lorna Luft will head the cast of the national tour of >i>Irving Berlin's White Christmas. The show will play Omaha, Cincinatti,
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TAMPA, Fla. -- A Gulf coast internist accused of groping female patients during medical appointments has voluntarily relinquished his license. Gangadhara Rao Chapalamadugu was arrested and charged with criminal battery earlier this year. According to a
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Miami Herald
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Seventy years after Judy Garland sang her way into stardom, the "Wizard of Oz" is still capturing the hearts and minds of audiences everywhere as CBS News Correspondent Kelly Wallace reports.
In fact, it's considered the most watched movie
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Kelly Wallace is a CBS News Correspondent based in New York.
Ask almost anyone about The Wizard of Oz and they immediately recount their favorite scene or the first time they watched it during childhood. I remember seeing the movie year after year with
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BURBANK, Calif., September 25, 2009 /PRNewswire/ — Over the course of this past year, Warner Bros. Entertainment has been celebrating the 70th Anniversary of an iconic American classic, The Wizard of Oz, with a slate of spectacular events spanning the
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Judy Garland's daughter Lorna Luft tells stories from "The Wizard of Oz," including her impressions of Margaret Hamilton (who played the Wicked Witch) and dangerous accidents on the set. The clip is an excerpt from Frank DeCaro's 70th Anniversary Spectacular, celebrating the four-disc Collector's Edition of the newly remastered film classic, that aired live on SIRIUS OutQ, SIRIUS Ch. 109 and XM Ch. 98. See www.sirius.com for a free trial.
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Red "Ruby Slippers," worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, are on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington on November 19, 2008. The museum, closed for renovations for two years, reopens to the public on November
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On the night of Thursday, Sept 24, 2009, “The Wizard of Oz” celebrated its 70th Anniversary and Warner Bros. Entertainment pulled out all the stops.
If you stepped outside into the post-work-rush-hour traffic of New York City, you may have wondered why
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BuzzFocus.com
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Richard Crouse chats with Lorna Luft about her mother Judy Garland and the 70th anniversary of "The Wizard of Oz"
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I'm not much for parties, but I went from a MOMA reception celebrating the 75th anniversary of the New York Film Critics Circle to a vastly larger soiree at the Tavern on the Green. The latter was honoring the 70th anniversary of "The Wizard Of Oz,''
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THIS YEAR marks the 70th anniversary of the release of "The Wizard of Oz." Warner Home Video is debuting a Blu-Ray and DVD "Ultimate Collector's Edition" of the beloved film. So, you think they are just going to put the thing in stores with no
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Veteran actor, Burt Reynolds, has reportedly entered rehab to seek treatment for drugs and alcohol abuse. The actor, who is best known for his string of movie hits in the 70s, such as Deliverance, The Longest Yard, and Smokey and the Bandit, is
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With all the interest in Michael Jackson's final resting place I thought it might be interesting to look back and see where the final resting place is of some of the stars of yesteryear. Many of the actors/actresses I've chosen are from movies I
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This essay is an updated version of a story that first appeared in the November 2003 issue of American Photo and the Digital Journalist Web site.
Sammy Davis Jr. in his dressing room, lost in a cigarette’s reverie. Liza Minnelli pushing half-sister
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Vanity Fair
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Singer, actor, producer, author and all around entertainer, Lorna Luft , comes to The Rrazz Room at The Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, San Francisco CA. for six shows of "An Intimate Evening with Lorna Luft," Aug 25-30. Performances are at 8 PM with the
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WHEN The Company Music Theatre came to Manchester last year, they brought with them a four-star reputation from London and a quest to make youth theatre, at West End standard, less
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Leaving the corporate seats, Michael Idato dips a toe into the sea
of Pink fans.
Since time immemorial, young patrons of the musical arts have
congregated in enormous stadiums. In the warming glow of pop
superstars who have fleeced their wallets in
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Singer, actor, producer, author and all around entertainer, Lorna Luft , comes to The Rrazz Room at The Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, San Francisco CA. for six shows of "An Intimate Evening with Lorna Luft," Aug 25-30. Performances are at 8 PM with the
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San Francisco's Rrazz Room has announced an updated list of performers who will appear over the next 12 months.
Among the many acts that will grace the club are Lorna Luft (August 25-30), Steven
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EW's "dance-television critic" Annie Barret summed up the performance perfectly in her TV Watch about last night's show. "We watched Katie Holmes lip-sync her way through 'Get Happy' in a gam-orous tribute to Judy Garland," she wrote. "Prior to this
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THE QUEEN OF BROADWAY: It's a long way from Broadway to Cabazon, but Liza Minnelli, who just won a Tony Award to reinforce her place as the queen of Broadway, is giving Cabazon a show at Casino Morongo.
Minnelli, who gave two benefit concerts in the
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Many a celebrity biographer is a rabid fan hiding behind reams of research, smothering the reader in unprocessed minutiae. But Boyt -- novelist, great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud and Judy Garland fan -- doesn't disguise her ardor for the
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Miami Herald
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Lorna Luft at Crown Casino, Melbourne - May 2008 Lorna sings Hello Bluebird
Lorna Luft on Loose Women - 2nd July 2009 Lorna pops in for a chat with the ladies.
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Color symbolism is a literary device that is hammered home by high school English teachers around the country. Students are encouraged to ponder why Jay Gatsby reaches out to the green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock and what Robert Frost
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In the wake of Michael Jackson's death, I've found myself returning to the interview I did with Lorna Luft for my current book, The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us. She spoke poignantly and
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Newsweek
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"Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years," press notes read, "Judy Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. And in the year that sees the 70th
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Playbill
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In her memoir, which she says helped her work through her grief, Lorna recalled one episode when her mother nearly killed her brother Joey with a butchers knife.
By then she had become the parent to her increasingly fragile mother whose
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Lorna Luft - I've Gotta Be Me - 1992 This is taken from Liza and Friends: A Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr
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BBC Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night concert series will continue July 1 with Lorna Luft and Friends Celebrate the Music of Judy Garland.
The concert will be held at London's Mermaid Theatre and will be recorded for subsequent broadcast on BBC
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Broadway musical performer and voice teacher Joan Kobin died May 30 of natural causes in New York. She was 88.
Among her voice students were film actors including Van Johnson, Farley Granger, Robert Stack, Jane Powell, Arlene Dahl, Broadway
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