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" 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. "

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

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Death

Mother

Looking Forward

" The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me. "

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

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

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

" When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent. "

" Between them, my parents had 10 marriages. "

" People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child. "

Lorna Luft

Legend

Daughter

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

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

" When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it. "

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

" Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door. "

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Never

Asking

" The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. "

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

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

" Dinah had all the class. "

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Had

Class

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

" A star needs all the rest she can get. "

" Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting. "

" Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment. "

" 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. "

" I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends. "

" 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. "

" A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone. "

" I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me. "

" I was born in a blender. "

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

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

" Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her. "