In the beginning she was depicted on speed giving a master performance: singing her heart out, gesturing, pinging across the stage, reaching out to audience members' hands etc. Then she put in an Oscar-nominated performance opposite James Mason in the 1954 film A Star Is Born ~~ and yet no-one wanted to hire her afterwards because by that stage in her career she was already considered unreliable.
In the end she was performing concerts in theatres for practically no money because she owed it all to the IRS as back taxes for movies made the decade before. Drunk, confused, forgetting what song it was, tangling herself up in the microphone wire. And booed off the stage in Australia.
Her poor daughter Lorna Luft (upon whose memoir the film was based) had to tell a family court judge that she wanted to be with her mom rather than her dad because her mother couldn't live without her. This was true, in the most literal way. The judge sighed and granted custody to "Miss Garland". And the drunken, drugged confusion continued.
It was a pretty horrible story. Funny how when you see something close-up it doesn't seem in the slightest bit "glamorous". A lot of people do consider drug-taking and even drug addiction glamorous. The more you see, the less you like it. But many don't see the full details until they themselves are addicted. By that time your one comfort, that seems to give you life, is the thing that is killing you.
I wasn't trying to say yesterday that I thought my lovely label would get my any special treatment. Merely that I tick a box. So they would know what preconceptions to shove my way if I ever did get inpatient "care"...
Here's a furry picture of a cute koala.
MUSIC: Judy Garland sings THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY in A Star Is Born
Koalas are so cute.
ReplyDeleteI was going to write a post tonight but I'm too tired, I think I'll just have an ealryish night.
Still no hamster!
I hope you're having a good weekend Gledwood, take care, with love x
I remember reading that Judy was put on cocaine when she was in The Wizard of Oz.To keep her weiht down.
ReplyDeleteI knew she needed amphetamines to awake and barbs to sleep.Your right theres nothing glamorous about a person dependent on any thing.I think its more glamourous to wake up and not need a single thing to get throuht the day and sleep throught the night.
Poor Judy Garland. I loved her and Liza to.Liza quit that life style and changed the words to her Cabaret song to.
BUGERLUGS: I hope that pignpongball-sized swine turns up soon... maybe it is time to start putting food or water out. Or a trap, with a kind of ramp scattered thinly with seeds leading to a drop into a box where loads of fruit, vegetables and water etc lie and then hopefully the robo-sense of smell will be powerful enough to provoke a furry leap of faith...(?)
ReplyDeleteBEVERLY: I saw Liza Minelli on the Ruby Wax show. She turned up too late to the interview and too stoned to say anything much. She was in a truly terrible state... I think this was in the 90s...
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