Hey, It’s the Comeback Kids! Liza, Mickey—Wow!

Liza Minnelli
The Palace Theatre
Through December 28

I don’t know how many comebacks a been-around human body over 50 is physiologically capable of pulling off before it drops dead, but in her electrifying new show at the Palace, Liza Minnelli, 62, like her mother before her, has done it again. Sparkling Read More

Liza Minnelli Has Collapsed

Liza Minnelli collapsed in the midst of a live performance last night in Sweden. She had traveled to the Scandinavian nation to put on a Christmas show, but after singing only a few songs, the beloved icon fell off the side of the stage. Luckily for Ms. Minnelli, 61, a technician caught her Read More

Liza Minelli Sells Dad’s House for $3.5 M.


Liza Minelli.

The Los Angeles’ Times Hot Property column reported yesterday that Liza Minnelli has finally sold her father Vicente’s Beverly Hills estate for “about $3.5 million.”

When her father died in 1986 he left the Hollywood Regency style house on one acre near the Beverly Hills Hotel to Liza, but Read More

Bloomberg Sworn In, But Big Show Comes From Liza’s Tonsils

In the chaotic hours before Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s inauguration on Sunday, Deputy Mayor Patti Harris took a moment to walk down to the dingy basement of City Hall and visit a nondescript office that Liza Minnelli had commandeered as her dressing room.

“She’ll be right with you,” an assistant to Ms. Minnelli informed Ms. Harris, Read More

Bloomberg Sworn In, But Big Show Comes From Liza’s Tonsils

In the chaotic hours before Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s inauguration on Sunday, Deputy Mayor Patti Harris took a moment to walk down to the dingy basement of City Hall and visit a nondescript office that Liza Minnelli had commandeered as her dressing room.

“She’ll be right with you,” an assistant to Ms. Minnelli informed Ms. Harris, Read More

Jackman Triumphs Arm in Arm With Camp and Kitsch

It’s a pleasure to report how terrific Hugh Jackman’s performance is in The Boy From Oz. Very rarely, perhaps once or twice if we’re very lucky, certain supreme musical stars are embraced absolutely by an audience. Mr. Jackman is one of them. He stops the show, and no wonder. From start to blazing finish, the Read More

Borgata Babes

At 22, fashion designer Zac Posen has only been legally able to drink or gamble for a little over a year-but in that time, he has staged three well-received fashion shows, and his designs have appeared on the backs of Natalie Portman, Naomi Campbell and Demi Moore.

His latest accomplishment: an outfit for the cocktail Read More

Pee-Wee Merman’s Big Adventure

Imagine a disco-era Ethel Merman trapped in the body of Pee-wee Herman, entertaining the likes of Liza Minnelli in the Betty Ford Center auditorium.

This twisted character, Pee-wee Merman, is proving to be the strangest star of drag auteur Michael West’s new show, Almost Live from the Betty Ford Clinic , now playing Thursdays Read More

Oh, Kay! Rex Reed Recalls Kay Thompson

Kay Thompson, one of the most uniquely fascinating women in New York, passed away on July 2. Roy Rogers got more space, but Kay Thompson got more tears. None of the obituaries got it right and The New York Times didn’t even try. Yes, she was best known as the creator of Eloise, the precocious Read More