{"id":639321,"date":"2026-03-07T19:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/639321\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T19:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:42:19","slug":"liza-minnellis-memoir-kids-wait-till-you-hear-this-reviewed-by-sam-wasson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/639321\/","title":{"rendered":"Liza Minnelli&#8217;s Memoir, &#8220;Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!,&#8221; Reviewed by Sam Wasson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!<\/strong> by Liza Minnelli <\/p>\n<p>Autobiography is in everything we choose to show of ourselves. It\u2019s also, in ghostlike photonegative, in everything we don\u2019t or can\u2019t say. You can\u2019t run away from you. And actors, who run from themselves for a living, can be counted on to produce the most withholding and also unintentionally revealing memoirs. What they don\u2019t, won\u2019t, or aren\u2019t able to tell us about themselves speaks volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Add to that hall of mirrors the labyrinthine confusions of addiction, fame, natural and unnatural forgetting, and the persistent denials of self and others so common to sufferers of childhood neglect (which tends to be the best possible training ground for a life on stage or screen), and it can often feel that an actor\u2019s or singer\u2019s life, no matter how spectacular in lived reality, can itself be summed up as follows: I performed, therefore I am.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-small\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/air-mail.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      Enter your e-mail to read the full story for free<br \/>and to receive our weekly e-mail newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-5 text-center text-md\" data-paywall-capture-target=\"intro\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/subscribe?from=lAh756\" data-turbo=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to AIR MAIL<\/a> for full access.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-5 mb-0 article-card-text text-center\" data-paywall-capture-target=\"existing\">\n    Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/subscription\/sign-in?from=lAh756\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli Autobiography is in everything we choose to show of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":639322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[272248,272249,185,171,10035,50412,187947,272250,83248,272251,272252,67,132,68,272253],"class_list":{"0":"post-639321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-an-american-in-paris","9":"tag-bob-fosse","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-frank-sinatra","13":"tag-judy-garland","14":"tag-liza-minnelli","15":"tag-liza-with-a-z","16":"tag-martin-scorsese","17":"tag-meet-me-in-st-louis","18":"tag-peter-sellers","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-vincent-minnelli"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116189603265737873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}