My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
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To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
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The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.
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The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?
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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
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When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
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I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
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I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
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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.
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My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
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