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Demetria Daniels

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LIZA MINNELLI sang in person at Brooklyn Borough President
Marty Markowitz's - Seaside Concert. She was magnificent and sang with zest, brilliance, passion,energy, love and warmth. She started the concert with "I'm happy to see you, I love you too".With warmth and rememberance, she said "when I was 16, I played in Brooklyn, in summer stock". Switching from a magnificent white beaded pants suit to a black sequin one, she performed with greatness. There could be no other word that best describes her. She smiled and joked with the almost 2,000 audience smelling the sea breeze; "I was here 40 years ago and don't feel a day older". Like the stars above, she shined with many unknown lyrics by Kander & Ebb, and others from Broadway shows, her favorites- one which was a quiet folk tune called "Lowdown Town". Also on the program were "I Am My Own Best Friend".
We lost the Dodgers, but we gained Liza, now she is ours forever, lucky us.
Thank you for coming to Brooklyn, we love you.





*************************************************************************************We mourn the passing of ANN LORING, teacher to so many of us, friend and past President of AFTRA. She was the first person to say hello to me when I became a member of the National Television Academy of Arts and Sciences; she served on the Board of Governors and was a National Trustee of that organization. Our sympathy to her children Steve and Joe. A memorial is planned for Sunday, July 24 at Campbells. Steve said "she affected the lives of so many". She had been on my mind and I had a strong impulse to call her for lunch, yes, that very day, the day she died, and I did to find out the very sadest of news. I brought her sons deep colored roses which have since faded, but her memory still lives in all those screenplays produced in Hollywood and in all of our hearts, when we hear her name.
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posted by Demetria at 1:23 PM