Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Reviving a tradition from the glory days of Las Vegas, Liza Minnelli has been given the green light to perform a free show for fellow entertainers. "Good news," wrote Luxor president Felix Rappaport in a 1 a.m. e-mail Saturday. Advertisement "We are going to do her ‘gypsy’ show after all, when she returns in November," Rappaport said after a late-night dinner Friday with Minnelli and MGM Mirage executives. Minnelli had mentioned her desire to re-create the old Vegas days during an interview Thursday. I had asked her if a single Las Vegas performance stood out among her career highlights. She cited the 2 a.m. shows with Sammy Davis Jr. for the show kids, also known in show business as "gypsies." "I’ll do it again," she vowed during the interview, but not until she talked it over with MGM Mirage decision-makers, she added. Approval came after Friday’s show during dinner with Rappaport, MGM Mirage entertainment boss Richard Sturm and others. She is at the Luxor’s 1,400-seat venue for Thanksgiving weekend Nov. 23-25, and I’m hearing it could be a 1 p.m. show on the 25th, a Saturday. One thing’s certain: After seeing her light up the stage on Friday, her gypsy show will be the hottest ticket this town has seen in ages.

Norm Clarke 

2006 seems to be her year for her career!

Liza Minelli, fresh off her cameo appearance in the film "The OH in Ohio" and her recurring role in "Arrested Development," will guest-star in an upcoming episode of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."  Minelli, 59, will play a former beauty queen whose daughter, an aspiring beauty queen, was found murdered on Halloween night, said Pam Golum, a spokeswoman for Wolf Films, which produces the NBC show. The episode, called "Masquerade," is filming now and will air in November, Golum said Thursday.

AP 

Sounds like a twisted take on the JonBenet Ramsey case. Plus it is nice to finally see Liza play a Queen for once since she has been married to so many!
On another note, first Chevy Chase now Liza Minnelli…who is next?

A judge threw out a $10 million civil assault lawsuit Monday filed against Liza Minnelli by her estranged husband, David Gest, who claimed she beat him so badly during alcoholic rages he had to be hospitalized. State Supreme Court Justice Jane Solomon granted Minnelli’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit on the ground that Gest’s doctor had failed to rebut the 60-year-old actress-singer’s medical expert, who said Gest’s headaches were caused by a strain of herpes that causes shingles and not by beatings. Gest’s lawyer, Lorraine Nadel, said she would appeal the ruling. She said that although Minnelli’s physician diagnosed Gest’s headaches as being caused by herpes zoster, Gest’s doctor said he tested negative for the virus. "He said it was the beatings," Nadel said Gest’s doctor reported. The 53-year-old Gest, who was in Memphis, Tenn., said through Nadel that he was "shocked" and "stunned" by Solomon’s ruling. Solomon said the only issues remaining in her court are those in which Minnelli claims in a $2 million lawsuit that Gest misappropriated her earnings. Gest has denied that he wrongfully took money from Minnelli and has said she owes him money because of what he spent trying to revive her career. Minnelli and Gest were married March 16, 2002, in a star-studded ceremony with Michael Jackson as best man and Elizabeth Taylor as maid of honor. They separated in July 2003 and filed for divorce later that year. The divorce case is pending before state Supreme Court Judge Harold Beeler. Gest’s lawyers have asked Beeler to order a trial to determine the validity of a prenuptial agreement.

Greenwich Time 

What is interesting is he claimed she gave him the herpes that he says that he doesn’t have that she claimed was the reason for his headaches? Does that make sense?

The Liza Minnelli-David Gest court clash has gone from nasty to nuclear, with Minnelli accusing her estranged hubby of having tried to "poison" her, and Gest charging that his marriage to "Liza with a Z" had him scared that he was David with an STD.According to papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the four-times-married Minnelli, 60, claims that she was "living in fear" while she and the producer were together, afraid he was "trying to poison her with drugs."Gest, meanwhile, claims that the Oscar-winner – who he says repeatedly beat him – hid her sexually transmitted disease, herpes simplex, from him until well after they tied the knot. Gest said he never contracted any sexual disease."David was devastated when he found [this] out a year after they had been together and six months after they were married," a source close to him said.In the public court filing, Gest’s lawyer demands to know when and how Minnelli got infected – and says his 53-year-old client plans to make her medical condition an issue in their long-running divorce case, in which each is accusing the other of being "cruel and inhuman."If she had herpes before they got married in March 2002, the filing says, that would be fraud and their prenuptial agreement could be thrown out – which would enable Gest to go after the "Cabaret" star’s cash.But Minnelli’s side is arguing that it was Gest who violated the prenup "by seeking to learn the circumstances of the infection that was disclosed to him during the relationship, after unprotected relations," so she should be able to go after his money.The case will be back in court Friday.

NY Post 

This divorce is uglier than Gest’s face.

Liza Minnelli poses with Roxy, a pomeranian, one of the dogs competing in the Cutest Pet category of the Mayor’s Alliance for New York City’s Animals Pet Pride Pageant Saturday June 24, 2006 in New York. Minelli was one of the competition’s judges.

AP 

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