![]() ![]() Garland is still everywhere, he argues, and he is probably right. ![]() ![]() Mason said at the graveside that posterity did not remember entertainers, but Clarke disagrees. Her latest biographer, Gerald Clarke, reminds us of the words of James Mason, Garland's funeral eulogist in 1969 and her co-star in A Star is Born. Not 'big' simply in the sense of 'a big voice that belts them out', but big because she was a transcendent and versatile performer. It is a hackneyed journey to self-destruction, but at least in Garland's case we are talking about the collapse of a really big talent. Garland's own ill-fated daughter, Liza Minnelli, will inevitably one day receive the same retrospective comandeering. Clearly, there is a Kenneth Anger-style horror story to be told about the rapid decline of Garland and there have been quite a few schlocky takes on her life already, each following the reductive line reserved for doomed female celebrities from Monroe through to Paula Yates. ![]()
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