Hot damn! It's been ages since we last watched The Muppet Show - not to mention since the last time the series aired - so we totally forgot about all their amazing musical guests, like Ms. Liza Minelli.
Above you'll see the legendary song bird sing "Copacabana. while the jump brings "Everything's Coming Up Roses," plus some random Muppet shenanigans.
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Yes, Liza Minnelli will reprise her role as vertigo-suffering Lucille Austero in the Arrested Development movie. We're so excited, our heads are spinning! [NYDN]
We read one sentence and called it quits: "Long dead from the drugs and the drink and the sadness, Garland…will be featured "live in concert" with the Boston Pops this summer." Sorry, folks. Our contract explicitly says, "No reanimated gay icons, especially if they sing." [Gawker]
Arrested Development patriarch Jeffrey Tambor told a radio show yesterday that Ron Howard may go ahead with a movie based on the brilliant but canceled television show. We sure hope Liza reprises her role as the perpetually dizzy Lucille Austero!
Does life imitate art? It does when you're Liza Minnelli. The legendary singer - who played vertigo-suffering Lucille Austero on Arrested Development - "felt dizzy" before passing out during a concert in Sweden Tuesday:
Liza Minnelli collapsed on stage during a performance in Sweden and was rushed back to the United States for medical treatment, a concert spokesman said Thursday.
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"As she walked down the steps, she passed out. She was taken immediately to her hotel where a doctor was waiting," Nedanovski told The Associated Press.He said Minnelli was flown to the United States on Thursday on the advice of her doctors there.
The Old Queens of America Coalition announced plans to hold a vigil for Ms. Minnelli. "This is the biggest tragedy since AIDS," said the group's representative, Seymour Buttes.
• As we mentioned last Friday, Bid2Beat AIDS' ebay auction makes a triumphant return today. We'll be featuring a number of items over the next few days. Before we get to the Liza Minnelli and Neil Patrick Harris productsd, we'd like to highlight our current favorite: a signed Dynasty era Joan Collins poster. Have you ever seen anything more spectacular? We haven't. It's currently only 19.99: a small price to pay for a piece of camp history. Check it out here.
• Young College Republican comes out as "straight".
• Elton John and Led Zeppelin trade world tour secrets.
• Bill O'Reilly hosts Alf: the video.
• No clear answers in Dean Johnson's mysterious death.
• Howard Stern a gay hero?
• Janet Jackson ruins Jackson 5 reunion.
• Ken Hutcherson prays for The Stranger.
• Spiritually-oriented non-profit Soulforce and friends use gay families to prove mega-churches wrong.
• Clinton v. Obama heats up.
Liza Minnelli spent the weekend in Rio, where she popped into Mangueira Samba School for a little dance lesson.
We don't know how the iconic actress fared, but we're loving this picture. If only we could think of that one word to describe it…
We've been following the Gest/Minnelli divorce with a wary eye. You've probably heard about the herpes allegations and all the boozing, but that intrigues us not.
What we find most intriguing is the bodyguard assistant angle: M'Hammed Soumayah, who once counted Minnelli as his illustrious employer, is suing her for $100 million. Soumayah claims Ms. Liza with a z beat him and attempted to bed him in exchange for his job.
Shocking, right? We love Liza as much as the next fag, but if she tried to get us to fuck her, we'd ask for $200 million. And a yacht.
In an upcoming Newsweek interview Liza Minnelli says she isn't sure how she obtained gay icon status, but perhaps it has something to do with her, shall we say, unconventional looks:
“I think probably Barbra (Streisand) and maybe even Cher and myself in school felt like outcasts because we didn’t have standard looks…Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for — in other words, cheered on — by people who feel different.”
Well gosh, perhaps it also has something to do with her domination of 1970's musical theater in gay-themed shows Cabaret and Chicago (if you haven't rented Cabaret yet, you must), her short-but-amicable marriage to super-gay Peter Allen, her raging drug habit fueled by regular appearances at Studio 54, and her disasterous marriage to gross Botox posterboy David Gest. And wasn't she the daughter of Judy Garland, or someone like that?…
She also says in a contest between herself, Cher and Streisand to determine who’s the No. 1 gay icon, Cher would win. We say it's all a wash.
Liza Minnelli Loves Her Gay Fans [MSNBC]
• Taylor Hicks is losing his trademark grey hair. We imagine it will be his downfall. Call Keri Russell and ask her how Felicity went when she got her haircut. [TMZ]
• Contestants are gettin' nekkid for the The Eurovision Song Contest, basically the European version of Idol. And we thought the drag queen from Bulgaria was fun. Why won't Ace and Chris Daughtry drop trou? No fair. Go look at the rest of the pics, delish. [Casual in Istanbul]
• In celebration of the release of the (admittedly really good) release of Liza with a Z, Liza Minnelli slurs her way through an interview with Larry King. Fret not if it doesn't make sense, it's not supposed to. [fourfour]
• Richard Gere and a gerbil? Keanu and Geffen? Bowie and Mick? Check out these gay urban legends debunked. [Gay.com]
• The Gays in NYC have something to scream about: Liza Minnelli is set to perform at Bloomberg’s inauguration. Brian Ellner must be thrilled. [ABC News]
• The gay community lost several prominent players this year. Gay.com remembers, but leaves out Luther Vandross too. [Gay.com]
• Clay Aiken’s boyfriend is a singer/dancer/hairstylist. We can’t fought him. We love men with multiple talents too. [Perez Hilton]
• Out lists the gay folks they’d like to play Survivor with. Yes, it’s as inane as it sounds! [Out]
• We're scratching our heads on this one. So gay guys in Hong Kong under 21 who are caught having sex go straight to the slammer? Isn't that sort of like handing a lush the keys to the liquor cabinet?
• Paris and Nicole are looking for a few good lesbos. (via Defamer)
• Upstate New York television sets just got a whole lot gayer.
• Madge sings about Kabbalah on her new album. The song's titled "Isaac," not "Esther."
• R.I.P. Leo Sternbach, creator of Valium and the man responsible for sending countless celebrities to the Betty Ford Clinic. Somewhere Liza Minnelli is lighting a candle. (Thanks, Thomas)
