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" I was born in a blender. "

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" Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. "

Looking Forward

" Between them, my parents had 10 marriages. "

" My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. "

" When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest. "

" My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences. "

" The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them. "

" The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage. "

" There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on. "

" A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman. "

" My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior. "

" The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American. "

" Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive. "

" People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it. "

" My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. "

" Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles. "

" Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends. "

" It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started. "

" One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions. "

" The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad? "

" Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother. "

" Dinah had all the class. "

" There is a time of reckoning in all our lives. "

" When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody. "

" The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck. "