1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: This is a podcast from dou Wor Back now to 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:08,159 Speaker 1: the dou Wor Saturday Morning Show with Larry Minty. A 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: few years ago, Liza Minelli had an unfortunate experience on 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: stage during the Academy Awards, and now she explains it 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 1: all in her new memoir. New York Post entertainment critic 6 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 1: Johnny Oleczinski has more Liza Minelli's new memoir. You're saying 7 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: there's some juicy stuff in. 8 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 2: It, Okay, So I love I Love Liza Minelli. I 9 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 2: Love Liza Manelli, Chicago, Arthur, New York, New York. She's 10 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 2: sang it before Frank Sinatra ever did. So. She releases 11 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 2: this new memoir and she's talking about the twenty twenty 12 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 2: two Oscars when she presented with Lady Gaga, which was 13 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 2: a very if everyone remembers a very sad moment because 14 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: out comes this. I believe she was seventy six at 15 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 2: the time, and she's rolled out on a wheelchair and 16 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 2: she's shaking and she couldn't get her words together. Everyone 17 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 2: felt like, why did they put this woman up there? Well, 18 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 2: she says in this new memoir that what she wanted 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 2: she asked them, She said, could I be seated in 20 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 2: a director's chair, you know, one of those fabric chairs. 21 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 2: Are they kind of elegant looking very Hollywood And they 22 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 2: said absolutely not. And she says, Lady Gaga said, I 23 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 2: won't go out if she's not in a wheelchair, because 24 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 2: they said for her safety, she must be in a wheelchair. 25 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 2: So what she says happened is it put her too 26 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 2: low to the ground to be able to see the teleprompter. 27 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 2: And she warned them about this, so they gave her 28 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 2: some flimsy note cards that were in a different order 29 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 2: and that's why. So it made her look mentally feeble. 30 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 2: And it got me thinking with share at the Grammys recently, 31 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 2: you know, saying Luther Vandros won when he's been dead 32 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 2: for twenty years, and the way they set her up 33 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 2: to have a Lifetime Achievement award followed by doing the 34 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 2: Best Record of the Year. They just keep setting up 35 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 2: these legends. We really like to fail and these award shows. 36 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 2: They're already so stupid, but I think that's one of 37 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 2: the dumbest things they can do, is take these great 38 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 2: talents and just make us pity them and them. 39 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: And it's such a sign of disrespect and almost not 40 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: to follow their wishes. When she says, hey, I'd rather 41 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: do it this way, the answer will yes, Okay, we'll 42 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 1: do it that way. I don't. I don't understand it 43 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: at all, And it seems like they believe they're irrelevant. 44 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: Well then why have them there? 45 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 2: And why did they hand this to an intern or something? 46 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 2: Why would this be being decided offstage on the night 47 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 2: wouldn't every minute? You know what it's like to work 48 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 2: with publicists of stars. I send five hundred emails just 49 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 2: so they can tell me, you know, repeat, what their 50 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 2: birthday is. And they couldn't figure out how to get 51 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 2: Liza a good spot. 52 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 1: I don't know what it's like. I had a producer 53 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: for that or yeah. 54 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 2: The other one is of Faye Dunaway and Warren Batty 55 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 2: them handing these people the wrong envelope for Best Picture, 56 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 2: and then we go, oh, you know, Warren Batty and 57 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 2: Faye Dunaware are such idiots? For months and no, it 58 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 2: was the accounting firm that handed them the wrong envelope. 59 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 2: So why do we just keep embarrassing great stars? It 60 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 2: sickens me. 61 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: That's a great point. How did the blizzard effect Broadway? 62 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 2: Oh? 63 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 1: It was bad. It was bad. 64 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 2: They shut down last night. Well, the big problem is 65 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 2: so Sunday and Monday everything shut down, and Broadway, you know, 66 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 2: is a very tenuous business. You're kind of Usually it's 67 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 2: it's like paycheck to paycheck. You're either profitable or you 68 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 2: aren't on in a given week, and so a lot 69 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 2: of shows will lose a lot of money. But here's 70 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 2: what I'll tell listeners nearby. If you want to venture in, 71 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 2: or if you're in here already, I bet today is 72 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 2: a great day to go get into a show that 73 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 2: you otherwise couldn't because there will be people whose flights 74 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 2: were canceled that are still trying to rebook that because 75 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 2: everything is still a mess at Laguardi and Newark and JFK. 76 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 2: There'll be people that don't want to get on the 77 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 2: New Jersey transit yet and maybe they're not totally backed 78 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 2: up to snuff. So if you want to go see Hamilton, 79 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 2: you might be able to walk up and get a ticket. 80 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: What a great news you can use tip that you 81 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: just gave. I hope somebody takes you up one and. 82 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 2: As a useless critic, that's a nice nice hey. 83 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: You know what if you do end up going and 84 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: seeing a show that Johnny Olzinski just gave you the 85 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: tip about. Please let us know and leave us a 86 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: talk back, because we'd love to hear about your experience. 87 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: I love this if you're an Elvis fan. My wife 88 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: is an enormous Elvis Presley fan, so she's gonna be 89 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: excited about this. You were recommending a new documentary. 90 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really cool movie. It's called Epic Elvis 91 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 2: Presley in Concert. And if you're a big Elvis fan, 92 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 2: you know about his final career thing at the International 93 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 2: Hotel in Las Vegas sixty nine, I think seventy six. 94 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 2: There was almost no footage available of that ever, and 95 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 2: Baz Luhrman, who directed the Elvis movie with Austin Butler 96 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 2: Warner Brothers, gave him access to their salt mines in 97 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,919 Speaker 2: Kansas City where they keep these old negatives and he 98 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 2: found hours and hours of footage of this legendary concert. 99 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 2: And Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings and who 100 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 2: did the Beatles get back? He helped him clean up that footage. Wow, 101 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 2: and I saw it in Toronto. And they use also 102 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 2: interview footage from an Elvis press conference that had never 103 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 2: been released. So he tells his own story, and you 104 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 2: see eighty percent of this footage has never been seen before. 105 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 2: And what you get is everyone thinks toward the end 106 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 2: that Elvis was kind of just this, you know, fat, 107 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 2: untalented guy, because that is the cartoon we've turned him 108 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 2: into since his death, which is extremely upsetting. But you 109 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 2: see a top tier entertainer, it's like you're ad an 110 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 2: Elvis concert. I was talking to Baslerhiman yesterday actually, and 111 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 2: he said, I'm giving him the world tour he never had. 112 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 2: But if you're a fan, I really when I saw 113 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 2: the premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, there were women 114 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 2: standing up dancing. He's still got it? 115 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: Will there? Is it gonna be in theaters first? 116 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 2: Yeah? Actually the theater down by me and Union Square 117 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 2: has eight showings of it on Friday. I though, what documentary? 118 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 2: It's not really when I say documentary, and that's a 119 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 2: very stuffy word. This is an exciting concert interspersed with 120 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 2: kind of bits of Elvis's life. Really, it's a concert 121 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 2: movie and it's like looking through a window. It's so clean. 122 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: I'm definitely going. We'll go this weekend. And you know what, 123 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: I don't know about the James Bond movie. I don't 124 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: know about any of the rumors, but I have to 125 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 1: say they must have the best publicist in the business, 126 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: because everybody is constantly talking about this movie that is 127 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: not even anywhere close to being put out because of 128 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: who's going to be in it, who's going to be 129 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 1: the new James, but who's gonna be the new James 130 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 1: Bond girl? So please feed into it, tell us the 131 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: latest rumor. 132 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 2: I mean, as a journalist, I feel a journalists in quotes, 133 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 2: I'm started to feel guilty about talking about anymore because 134 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 2: I've come on this show and said, you know very 135 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 2: resolutely who it's going to because every week. 136 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: There's an audience for it. There is absolutely an audience. 137 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 2: Which is that there's an audience for But they'll say 138 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 2: there will be okay, sources that say that it's gonna 139 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,679 Speaker 2: be Aaron Taylor Johnson, it's going to be Calm Turner, 140 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 2: and this week the the gossip site dumois is saying 141 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 2: it's going to be Jacob Alordi. You've made a look, 142 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 2: but Doumoi is actually, I don't want to say reputable, 143 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 2: but popular, and they get a lot of things right, Oh. 144 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: You stop me from mucking you. I was about the 145 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: when you just saw my face and you stop the muck. 146 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 2: Ohky, well mock away, I couldn't care less. 147 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: Oh wow, all right, well, Johnny Olazinski, thanks so much 148 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: for coming in today. I appreciate your time. 149 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 2: So Jacob already of Wuthering Heights, and Frankenstein, who's now 150 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 2: made for the Oscar. He's the latest. He's twenty eight, 151 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 2: which seems very young, but if you can believe Sean Connery, 152 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 2: I believe was thirty. George Lazenby was twenty nine in 153 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 2: the sixties, being thirty looked a lot older because they 154 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 2: actually had hardship. Yeah, so no plastic surgery and no moisturizer. 155 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 2: So he does look very young, and he's like six 156 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 2: five or something. But I think that's an alright rumor. 157 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 2: Some of the Brits will hate it because he's Australian, 158 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 2: so he'll have to, you know, sharpen up that accent 159 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 2: a bit. 160 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: Johnny Oleaczinski, New York Post entertainment critic. This has been 161 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: a podcast from WR