{"id":93715,"date":"2025-04-06T19:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T02:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93715"},"modified":"2025-04-06T19:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T02:27:52","slug":"liza-mitzi-and-darren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/04\/06\/liza-mitzi-and-darren\/","title":{"rendered":"Liza, Mitzi and Darren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cI\u2019m watching the documentary about <strong>Michael Feinstein<\/strong>!<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> &#8211; <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Michael Musto<\/strong> after seeing <em>PBS<\/em>\u2019s airing of <strong><em>Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a double-edged sword making a documentary about someone still alive.&nbsp; Take <strong>Liza Minnelli<\/strong>.&nbsp; Oh sure, she\u2019ll ramble on and on about <strong>Kaye Thompson<\/strong>, <strong>Kander <\/strong>and <strong>Ebb<\/strong>, <strong>Halston<\/strong>, and even <strong>Mia Farrow<\/strong>.&nbsp; But she doesn\u2019t want to talk about her parents, her siblings, her \u201cromances\u201d, her addictions, or even Studio 54.&nbsp; All that stuff is recounted by people who are Liza\u2019s confidants from the past decade or two.&nbsp; Do they have firsthand knowledge of events that happened half a century ago?&nbsp; In most cases, no \u2013 they just know what Liza told them.&nbsp; Her own lore has become fact by way of repetition.&nbsp; While the documentary is short on insight and revelations, it includes some fantastic film footage.&nbsp; There are also curious moments.&nbsp; For instance, one almost never imagines <strong>Darren Criss <\/strong>to share a Liza story &#8211; let alone one that also includes <strong>Mitzi Gaynor<\/strong>.&nbsp; It\u2019s almost otherworldly \u2013 and yet, oddly familiar.&nbsp; Come to think of it, it\u2019s not surprising at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m watching the documentary about Michael Feinstein!&#8221; &#8211; Michael Musto after seeing PBS\u2019s airing of Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story. It\u2019s a double-edged sword making a documentary about someone still alive.&nbsp; Take Liza Minnelli.&nbsp; Oh sure, she\u2019ll ramble on and on about Kaye Thompson, Kander and Ebb, Halston, and even Mia Farrow.&nbsp; But<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93724,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93715\/revisions\/93724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}