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My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.
Lorna Luft
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Lorna Luft
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 21
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I think every show I do, whether I am doing eight shows a week of a Broadway show... I think, that's a show I'll never get back... I go home at night and I think to myself, that was my favorite.
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When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.
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Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
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Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.
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My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
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The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
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I used drugs as a social activity a way to have fun with friends.
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I'm extraordinarily honored and proud when I am told that I am part of the Broadway community and part of the Broadway family. Because, Broadway is a family. And it doesn't matter if you did one show or if you did fifty shows.
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The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage after the first concert to meet the Beatles in person. I had a huge crush on George Harrison at the time, having inherited my family's passion for skinny musicians, and I was simply awestruck to be meeting the Fab Four in person.
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