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I love the Beatles, naturally but ... take that, John Lennon (who referred to her as "Judy Garbage"). Such is the tribute of the talentless to Genius. One feels pretty sure that Paul, at least, on the occasion must have known the real thing when he saw it ... And this performance, too, immediatel...

Lovely Lovely! Lovely! I am not THAT old, but again, it makes one wonder -- what the h*** is wrong with us these days, that two utterly unparalleled talents such as these (well ... maybe ONE truly unparalleled talent, and another one of Hollywood's greatest [!}) would not even have a venue within...

Judy died officially, according to the death certificate issued in London shortly after her death, from "accidental overdose from an incautious use" of her prescribed medication. The phenomenon is a common one (Judy had even warned Marilyn Monroe about it) when one is used to taking medication su...

How tantalizing ... she's as fine (on screen) as ever. One gets a great sense of the way in which she was being treated, too, from those last few seconds ... the look of genuine bewilderment on her face says it all ... as if she were being completely ignored, like some bit player, rather than bei...

@bvheath You hit something the few people ever comment on right on the nose. When I first saw "Oz" on television at the age of 3 my mother even remembers my turning to her after just a few minutes and saying: "Wow ... Dorothy sings when she talks!" And, indeed, she did. Distinct idiolect and emph...

Astounding. Impeccable. And with a piano, live on set as well, off the cuff, so to speak ... I am SO GLAD they cut this bit, however, .... it's just too much ... I cry enough throughout this beautiful film as it is! This excerpt would simply have slayed me. Even now ... once in a while only, in ...

When I saw this revival at Lincoln Center (for the first time!) ... I realized my generation could proffer up genuine talent (such as LuPone) that could not only rival but, dare I say it, out-do even Merman herself. This was real theatre, and tremendous fun. Lupone has had the Midas touch since 1...

Ah, yes ... I thought -- as in their joint singing of "We're Off to See the Wizard", that must have been the young Ebsen's voice rather than that of his later replacement, Jack Haley! Not sure if you note here that these are Harold Arlen's "home movies" ... original footage dumped en masse off th...

Clear, lucid, and generous (and slightly evasive!) as usual; a nice corrective to all the 'urban mythology'. One would think from the voice alone she might yet have been a young girl. The interviewer -- for such an individual -- is outrageously unprepared and uninformed, isn't he?

Lovely how she is able to respond at least a bit to the individual musicians and backing singers even when labouring under the tyranny of (in this instance) such a radically unsympathetic director!

Hear hear! Cannot be said enough. Introduce her to younger individuals as much as you can ... they have never experienced such talent in their generation. (And they are invariably impressed ... just the"Get Happy" sequence in "Summer Stock" is enough to get them hooked! I'm feeling evangelical .....

@funkytune2006 Misunderstanding, perhaps. I was thinking of the way some of the newspapers here in Europe rushed to press with photos of the dying Diana in the Paris tunnel that were never to be printed here in the UK (nor, I think, in the US) in a manner that was indecorous and unbecoming. Thos...

Her best version of this ... Wonderful production values ... move from inner monologue to theatre, etc. What power! ... and what seeming conviction. Odd, but I do not even think of this as "Fred's song anymore ... but more Judy's own. And yes, the walk ... love the walk. (And despite the comment...

The album is easily the best thing she has done in years ... it is truly a knock out. Buy it! It's amazing .. more paced and genuinely relaxed than she is here. Honestly ... and her voice is in control and her phrasing excellent. She sings "I Got Lost in his Arms" in such a way so that its sentim...

Must it be prefaced by a talentless explosion of such vulgar and tasteless crap as it is here (nothing to do with the album, of course) ... and then, just for a kick in the rubber parts ... the ad for "Lady Gaga"??? The heart sinks. Liza and Billy Stritch should not be surrounded by such schlock....

Yes ... very well said. You make some insightful points ...

Amazing stuff, truly. "On Such a Night Like This" is a pleasure of the highest order. Nobody ever notices when she takes the mic out of herself, but this is the best combination of "classic" and self-referential (and self-deprecating in its way). Rather like late-era Rosemary Clooney, we might ju...

This IS Christmas ...

Oh good lord ... have you heard what that apparently nice (but patently deluded) little man, Chris Martin, from "Coldplay" has done to this? Judy ... come back ... you never did anything for which you needed to be forgiven in the first place ... but come back ... all is, well, not what it should ...