It was a good moment.
Liza Minnelli made a rare appearance in the final of “Rupaul’s Drag Race” season on Friday night, where he received the Giving Us Lifetime Achievement Award program.
Honor recognizes people who have had an impact on the world of resistance and fashion.
The crowd exploded in a round of applause when the 79 -year -old Egot winner told the audience: “I love you!”
“I speak for a grateful nation when I say: Liza, we love you,” said host Rupaul to Minelli.
“Thank you. I don’t know what else to say, except, if it weren’t for you, I would be me. You made me!” The actress, who was sitting on a red throne, replied.
Rupaul, 64, walked sweetly: “Well, you really made us! Once again, we call bells!”
After accepting his award, Minnelli went to his 1972 song “Ring Them Bells” and hit a series of poses from his chair.
Minnelli has long been a champion of the LGBTQ+community, writing a letter to Billboard in honor of pride in 2017.
“Where would it be without the LGBTQ community of dazzling souls that have always supported me and understood at a unique and extraordinary level,” the artist wrote. “From my first memories, I understood that some people were designed, so special when I with so many creative people who work in films made by my mother and my father.”
“Today I celebrate all special, past and present people,” Minnelli continued. “Who made me possible to be here and be bravely different. His examples have molded me, and without them, my life would be empty.”
Before “Drag Race”, the last great appearance of the “Cabaret” star was in the 2022 Oscar, where he took the stage in a wheelchair, along Lady Gaga.
The duo presented the prize for the best film, with Minnelli’s publicist, Scott Gorenstein, tells people at that time: “Lady Gaga requested that Liza present the award with her.”
“You know how I love working with Legends. And I am honored to present the final award of the night with a true show business legend,” said Gaga, 39, while I was on stage.
Minnelli, the daughter of Judy Garland and Vincento Minnelli, first jumped to fame after starring the unreasonable rebirth of “Best Foot forward” in 1963.
In 1969, the actress got the main role in the romance/drama “The Sterile Cuckoo” and a year later, in 1970, he starred in “tell me that you love me, Junie Moon”.
Duration at the same time, Minnelli worked in his music: recording his debut album “Liza Minnelli” in 1968 and two albums, “Eat Saturday Morning” and “New Feelin”, in 1970.
Two years later, in 1972, Minnelli became a family name for his interpretation of Sally Bowles in “Cabaret”, in which he touched his first prize of the Academy.
“He is the son of the film that was so happy to be,” he told the BBC in 1973. “I think Bob Fosse found a new way of making a musical movie. You know, it was like anything else in particular Burry Opody,” but no one enters a and a -lot and a -a -a -lousy orly it is a small song in a small song and a little opody.
In 2024, Minnelli reflected on his career and growing with two powerful parents.
“The most glamorous was my father, and the most challenging was my mother,” Oscar winner told the interview magazine at that time. “I bounced from one side to another because they were divorced, but I loved them a lot. My mother was fascinating because I knew so many fascinating people who would come. And my father uses Daset and observes choreographed things and would learn to see people like Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly.”
Garland, who played Dorothy Gale in “The Wizard of Oz” in 1939, died at the age of 47 years of an overdose in 1969.
Vincento, meanwhile, married Garland from 1945 to 1951, and died in 1986 at age 83.
As for the greatest erroneous concept that people have about Minnelli?
She shared that “they read garbage, guts and damn that my life is really beautiful. It is full of loved ones, laughs, creativity and emotional and financial security.”
“People armed crazy stories, it’s a boring. I don’t think people understand what close family we are. My Saister Lorna and I gathered and oars,” Minnelli explained. “She has family courage. I love each of my brothers. My brother Joey, my sister Tina [from Vincente’s second marriage]. His children were here with me for a few days and the press did not find out. Ha!“
