00:00She's Liza with a Z, and now she has a book with a B.
00:03The B stands for bombshells, A-list affairs, Hollywood beefs, and drugs.
00:09Oh my.
00:10Hey, it was the 70s.
00:11We've got the biggest revelations from Liza's memoir, Kids, Wait Till You Hear This, out now.
00:17First, the cabaret star revealed that she had a secret, cocaine-fueled affair with fame director Martin Scorsese.
00:23She wrote that it had more layers than a lasagna, that they both had volcanic tempers,
00:28and that the whole thing was a runaway train.
00:31The affair started on the set of their 1977 movie musical, New York, New York,
00:36while they were both married to other people.
00:39Things got so intense that Liza and her then-husband, Jack Haley Jr.,
00:44a.k.a. the Tin Man from Wizard of Oz, ran into Marty in Greenwich Village,
00:48where he blew up at her for having another affair, screaming,
00:53How can you do this to me? How can you do this to me?
00:56That fling was with Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov.
01:01Who says ballet isn't relevant?
01:04Timothee Chalamet.
01:05Next major bombshell, Liza had beef with Gene Hackman.
01:09In the book, she blasted her late co-star from 1975's Lucky Lady.
01:13The movie was critically panned and flopped, and she blamed him for it, writing,
01:17I don't like to whine, but choreographer Stanley Donan later shared publicly that Gene was
01:23very dismissive of me during the film.
01:25It's hard to go to work when the chemistry is absent.
01:28I think it's fair to say that Gene was downright rude.
01:31This comes about a year after Gene's eerie death at the age of 95 in a secluded New Mexico mansion.
01:37And finally, we gotta talk about Liza's gay husband.
01:40This is not news, but Liza's first marriage was to Australian singer-songwriter Peter Allen,
01:46a.k.a. the boy from Oz, famously played by Hugh Jackman on Broadway.
01:50In the tell-all, she reveals how their marriage fell apart after she walked in on him having
01:55passionate sex with a man.
01:57This was a betrayal of our marital intimacy, our deepest trust in each other.
02:01And at first, I couldn't process it.
02:03It was impossible for my heart to absorb what my eyes had seen.
02:07The couple was introduced through Liza's mother, THE Judy Garland, and it's notable
02:11that her father, director Vincent Minnelli, was widely believed to be gay or bisexual.
02:16Liza also wrote that she and Peter actually had an active and very fulfilling sexual life,
02:20and that he tried desperately to be monogamous, but his feelings for men would not go away,
02:25adding,
02:26It was a fact of his life, and now mine.
02:29Liza and Peter were married from 1967 to 1974, and she says they continue to genuinely love
02:35and respect each other in the years ahead.
02:37Liza had her own dalliances, too.
02:39During her engagement to Peter, she had a sweet affair with French singer Charles Aznavour.
02:45They met at a cocktail party and were instantly attracted to each other.
02:49Quote,
02:59From her Oscar-winning role as Sally Bowles in Cabaret, to her hilarious turn as Lucille
03:042 in Arrested Development, Liza Minnelli has proven time and time again that she's so much
03:10more than just Judy Garland's daughter.
03:12She turns 80 on March 12th, the day after her book hits shelves, and to quote one of my favorite
03:17Twitter accounts, Liza Minnelli will outlive us all.
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