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On paper, it just couldn’t work, but on screen Thornton is wonderful as the larger-than-life Hollywood child star turned movie icon who struggled to live up to her own legend all the while trying to live down her own demons.
Sigrid Thornton is a revelation as Garland. She tells Ian Horner all about that incident here in this interview for Liza's 2009 Sydney concert. Peter was furious, Liza was forever grateful.
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The TV movie relates the time Peter Allen told off Judy Garland for calling Liza Minnelli "fat". There’s a lot of story and lots of wonderful characters to fit into two episodes and it’s not easy to do that when the secondary characters include Judy Garland, who for a while would manage him, and Liza Minnelli, who for a while would marry him. Generally speaking, the movie is not so much understated as unbalanced - focussing on the high points of the story, not fleshing out the person at the heart of it all. He could use a phrase to convey so much, like the powerful lines “why a son ever has need of a gun” and “something was wrong but it’s easier to drink than go crazy” and “all that’s left of the singer’s all that’s left of the song”. And now the book has been made into a two-part TV movie, though Seven insists it’s a mini-series, part one debuting Sunday, September 13, at 8.30pm.
It was told by the late Stephen MacLean in his excellent biography, which became a TV doco, then a stage musical in Sydney which was to star Hugh Jackman replaced at the last minute by Todd McKenney, then off to Broadway originally to star McKenney, replaced at the last minute by Jackman. Allen on the other hand was proudly gay, in an era when it wasn’t so easily accepted. Not even Liberace's boyfriend could convince him to come out. On stage he was as flamboyant as Liberace - who insisted right up until he died, in 1987, of AIDS, that he was straight. Yet for all his showmanship, he was at heart the archetypal country boy from Tenterfield, northern NSW, and he defiantly referenced this in song after song, expressing the struggles of growing up gay, and just growing up, in country Armidale. His first album was out in 1971 (Sydney’s first Mardi Gras was in 1979). He was famous for his maraccas, his Hawaiian shirts, his calisthenic piano-playing (seated or standing, one foot on the pedals, the other stretched over the top of the grand piano) - his cabaret show was a one-man Mardi Gras long before the Sydney suburbs knew what Mardi Gras was. Peter Allen is the greatest songwriter this country has ever produced.