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Article: Actress displays a spirit of reform
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 3, 1988
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LOS ANGELES "The two things I never thought I'd be making a comedy
about," Liza Minnelli said, "are alcoholism and infertility - two
things that have occurred in my life."
Did that make any of the scenes particularly hard for you to do?
"You can draw from your experience to make it more real. But
then friends would tell me, `Liza, you've got to make a statement
here about alcoholism,' and I'd say, `Hey, it's only a movie!' "
This was while she was making "Arthur 2 on the Rocks,"
co-starring with Dudley Moore in the continuing saga of a cheerful
drunk with $750 million and almost as many one-liners. (The film will
open Friday at local theaters.)
"I was not interested in making ...