Liza Minnelli launches her own TV show

(26 Jul 2002) AUDIO AS INCOMING
SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot House of Blues
2. Liza Minnelli and David Gest entering House of Blues
3. UPSOUND: Introduction of Liza Minnelli and David Gest
4. Cutaway press
5. SOT: (English) David Gest
"It's going to be an intimate evening, about twenty people. A lot of music. It's really a music show where you get to see a lot of really great people. We're hoping to have people like Dr Dre, Mary J Blige, Usher, Alan Jackson - a wide variety. Everybody from current people to legends like George Jones or Al Green, Barry White - a lot of
different people. Liza will be singing duets with people, she'll be singing alone. They'll be singing alone and it's kind of like a jam - a lot of fun in the house and then watching us set these things up - the day before"
6. Cutaway Liza listening
7. SOT: (English) Liza Minnelli on life in the limelight
"See, I grew up with this. You know, from the time I was born this has been happening to me. David has always been on the other side of the camera so he kind of went into more shock than I did - but his humour gets him through and my humour has always helped me to get through so the thing to do, it's like if anybody - it's like people who live in a smaller town. You know, let's say
whatever and the whole town is talking about the gossip - you sort of have to hove through it - get to the other side and live a good life."
8. Wideshot Liza and David on stage
9. Press cutaway
10. SOT: (English) David Gest
"Her energy? I think any person that can lose the weight, get totally off of prescription pills and alcohol and look like this woman does, come back get twenty standing ovations a night in England and in New York, get signed on the night of her first show by Clive Davis has to be an incredible human being. Look at my wife now! It's a miracle but Liza is back. I respect her, I love her and I think she has more energy than most people will ever have in her pinky."
11. Cutaway press
12. SOT: (English) Liza Minnelli
"Listen, with what has been said about us already that's so outrageous this is, in a funny kind of way, to show what it's really like."
13. Cutaway press
14. SOT: (English) David Gest and Liza Minnelli David
"I hope they enjoy it. That's all you can hope for is that you do a great show, that people come away being entertained and that they see us. That's the most you can ask for. If they like it great if it doesn't happen we go onward. But we're going to do our best to make it entertaining and fun."
LIZA on adopting a baby: "Well, no, that's0.we'll tell you about that when it happens. Things are happening but that I don't want to talk about right now because I don't."
LIZA: What do you do on your downtime? "Well, I dance every day. I go to class with Luigi who is a dancer in my mother and father's movies and is a great all time teacher and David is in the office and then we meet and we
have lunch and then we go back and obsess about something else."
15. Various: Liza and David on stage, Liza dancing and greeting photographers
LIZA INVITES MILLIONS FOR A TV DINNER
Plans for a new reality television show featuring entertainer Liza Minnelli and her husband David Gest have been unveiled in the US.
The couple are going to invite their friends - and VH1 television crews over for dinner once a week for a new reality series to be broadcast in October.
The show - spawned from the success of The Osbournes - appears as if it will be more of a musical show case rather than a look at the underbelly of life at the Gest-Minnelli house.
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