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| • | "She chain-smokes and bites her nails to the quick", Time Magazine, Feb. 28, '72
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| • | "A quick gulp of ice water and a drag from a cigarette, and Liza burst back onstage", Newsweek, Feb. 28, '72
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| • | "She no longer chain-smokes but has failed to kick completely her Marlboro habit", People Magazine, Jan. 12, '76
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| • | "Liza Minnelli was fidgeting, and her fingers were nervously drumming on the table in the nearly deserted dining room of a hotel here. She needed a cigarette. While Minnelli was talking about risk-taking, her secretary, sitting a few tables away, raced to the rescue with a pack of cigarettes. Minnelli's intensity level dropped a few notches after the first puff - from fiercely intense to just plain intense...with a sweeping wave of her arm vigorous enough to knock the ash off her cigarette", St. Petersburg Times, Jan. 16, '90
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| • | "She is smiling, chain-smoking, sipping coffee from a plastic beaker and telling a story in a sweet gamine voice", Sunday Times (UK), Jun. 14,'92
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| • | "orders a Coke, asks for an ashtray, looks for a cigarette", The Guardian (Weekend Magazine) (UK), Jun. 8, '96
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| • | "chain-smoking Marlboros throughout...another Marlboro took an almighty hammering", Independent on Sunday (UK), Jul. 7, '96
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| • | Sunday Mail (UK), Feb. 16, '97 |
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| • | "We are having dinner in a smoke-filled New York restaurant so she [Minnelli] can take illicit puffs of the cigarettes she is supposed to have given up", "she takes a deep drag then washes it down with a drink - a soda", "A cigarette appears from nowhere, as if by magic", Times Magazine (UK), Mar. 14, '98
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| • | "Physically, she was more fit. She was slimmer, and tremendously less winded. That led me to believe she has certainly been cutting down on her smoking", website, May 4, '98
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| • | quit - "She also quit her tobacco habit on doctors' advice earlier this year - only to become a food junkie", The Express (UK), May 24, '98 |
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| • | "she lights one of the cigarettes she practically chain smokes", i-DMagazine (UK), Oct. '98
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| • | quit - "quit smoking close to a year ago, and it's made a big difference in her voice", USA Today, Apr. 20, '01
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| • | "A friend in New York reports: 'She has been bragging about not binge eating and smoking but when she went to the movies the other day she was clutching a pack of Marlboros in one hand and a tub of popcorn and Ben and Jerry's ice crea m in the other.'", The Sunday Telegraph (UK), Jun. 24, '01 |
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| • | "Minnelli and a few pals in a cordoned-off area of Brooklyn Diner East sipping martinis while she smoked Marlboro Lights she'd sent a waiter out to fetch", New York Post, Page Six column, Oct. 3, '01 |
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| • | "she made a dazed bid to sing at the bash & deliberately smoked near an asthmatic boy", The Sun Newspaper (UK), Feb. 6, '02 |
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| • | "she barks at me in a mock plummy English accent. 'I need anashtray'", "She is sipping cold, sugary coffee from a giant Starbucks cup; taking agitated drags from a Marlboro Light. 'Know something?' she says in a muscular, chewy voice. 'It's my last vice.' She holds up the cigarette, turns up one corner of her pursed mouth and raises an accusing eyebrow. 'And it's going within six months. I stopped smoking for a while then I thought I'd have one, then half an hour later I found myself lighting another and I thought, 'Son of a bitch.' She is getting married for the fourth time on Saturday. Does her bridegroom smoke? She widens her eyes. 'No! Heavens no!' So that is going to be a bone of contention? 'I have smoking areas in the house. Yes I do! Hah!'", "She lights another cigarette", The Sunday Telegraph (The Sunday Telegraph Magazine) (UK), Mar. 10, '02
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| • | quit - "First she gave up her beloved Martinis, then all food except salads, and now Liza Minnelli is having therapy to give up smoking. The dieting diva is under strict instructions from her new husband, David Gest, to cut out the fags, because they are ruining her voice. 'David won't let her go anywhere without him in case she lights up, or eats something she shouldn't or is tempted by a drink,' confides a member of her extensive entourage.", Daily Telegraph (UK), May 5, '02 |
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| • | "lit up a cigarette", New York Observer, Jun. 10, '02
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| • | "insisted on chain-smoking while a choking asthmatic child tried to escape her clutches", The Scotsman (UK), Jun. 26, '02
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| • | "Minnelli's a smoking diva...once insisted on smoking in her dressing room before a TV interview - and had to be shadowed by firefighters in case she started a blaze", website, Jun. 13, '03
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| • | shown smoking an all-white over tea at Harrod's in London, "Ruby Wax with...Liza Minnelli (and Husband)", BBC1 television (UK), Jul. 21, '03 |
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| • | "asked Imad [her bodyguard] to get her some cigarettes...Imad eventually managed to calm her down, taking her to the window and giving her a cigarette", Daily Mirror (UK), Oct. 27, '03
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| • | "breaks off because she needs a 'puff of a cigarette now, for a second'...when she has stubbed out her cigarette (she does not, she insists 'smoke')...breaks off for another 'puff of cigarette'", Mail on Sunday (You magazine) (UK), Nov. 2, '03 |
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| • | "When the actors break, she smokes a Marlboro Light 100 down to its filter", New York Times, Nov. 9, '03
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| • | "[David Gest] I don't wish her ill will. In fact, I hope she goes to bigger heights than I took her to. But she won't unless she quits smoking, she watches her weight and doesn't drink. And that's a tall order for Liza Minnelli. She's 57 years old. And [those are] not great odds", New York Daily News, Jan. 20, '04
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| • | " 'I don't wish her ill will,' [David Gest] said of loopy Liza. 'In fact, I hope she goes to bigger heights than I took her to. But she won't unless she quits smoking, she watches her weight and doesn't drink'", Daily Star (UK), Jan. 22, '04
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| • | "Gest wouldn't let Liza eat a cake because it might be bad for her, so she smoked, instead", The Listener (New Zealand), May 29, '04
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| • | "puffing on a cigarette", Reuters, Sep. 10, '05
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| • | "Liza with a 'C'. For 'cigarette,' that is. That's what Liza Minnelli was puffing away on Tuesday night on the sidewalk outside the Regency Hotel, where her pal Tony Danza was opening his latest run at Feinstein's. 'She's been trying desperately to give up smoking, and her vocal coach is really working on her,' Minnelli's friend Liz Rosenberg told me yesterday. 'But it was a social evening and she had a few cigarettes. It's especially hard not to smoke during a social evening. But she hasn't had a single cigarette today' ", New York Daily News, Feb. 2, '06
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| • | "In a suite at the Regency Hotel, as she smokes, breaks into song", New York Metro, Mar. 6, '06
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| • | "purses her lips around a cigarette", New York Times, Mar. 12, '06
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| • | "purses her lips around a cigarette", International Herald Tribune, Mar. 14, '06
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| • | "chain-smoking Marlboro Lights...waved a cigarette", New York Times, Mar. 16, '06
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| • | "Dressed for comfort, telling stories animatedly, chain-smoking unabashedly and having herself a grand ol' time", Baltimore Sun, Mar. 26, '06
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| • | "Exhaling the smoke from her cigarette", Boston Globe, Mar. 28, '06
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| • | "chortles, her laughter a clue that the cigarette she's holding isn't the day's first", Brandon Sun (Canada), Mar. 30, '06
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| • | "puffed on a cigarette and chatted with the crowd while munching on a hot dog and fries", Contactmusic (UK), Aug. 21, '06
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| • | "was seen chewing down on a hot dog and fries and puffing a cigarette while chatting up a crowd of mostly senior citizens", Zee News (India), Aug. 21, '06
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| • | "Though shes kicked the alcohol habit, she still enjoys the occasional American cigarette.", Montreal Mirror, Aug. '06
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| • | "She laughs and lights a cigarette. 'my only vice,' she says. 'And I'm having such trouble even wanting to give them up. When I'm singing, I allow myself three a day.' She was due to sing in public two days after we met. 'So I'll only smoke three cigarettes tomorrow and Saturday.' She exhales. 'Anyway, every singer i've ever known smoked. Look at Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and Dean Martin.'... a smoky laugh", Daily Mail (Weekend magazine) (UK), Sep. 30, '06 |
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| • | "holds in her hand a cigarette. In the saucer she is using as an ashtray, there are two crumpled stubs. She claimed recently that smoking was her only remaining vice", The Guardian (UK), Oct. 5, '06
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| • | "took a drag off her cigarette", Charlotte Sun-Herald, Dec. 24, '07
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| • | "despite her health problems, she admits to one vice, smoking. She admitted: 'I'm having such trouble even wanting to give them up. When I'm singing, I allow myself three a day'", Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 5, '08
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| • | "reaches for a cigarette. 'My only remaining vice', she grins... reaches for another Marlboro Light", Mail on Sunday (You magazine) (UK), Apr. 6, '08 |
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| • | "endless cigarette breaks...The fire alarm goes off just then and, after tolerating the noise for a few seconds, Minnelli says, 'Let's go and have a cigarette. Come on. What a great excuse to smoke!'... cigarette in one wildly gesticulating hand... paused, for a second, to throw down her cigarette. 'Kill that for me, will ya?'... drags on her cigarette", The Guardian (UK), Apr. 12, '08
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| • | her mother (Judy Garland) let her smoke when she was 15, Garland biography, when? |
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| • | "the chain-smoking and newly trim singer", website, when?
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| • | "trying to limit her daily number of cigarettes", Italian website
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