One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.
When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.
Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.
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.
It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
I was born in a blender.
To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.
A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.
When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.
The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?
