Lorna luft

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

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.

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.

The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.