European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                20 the stars and stripes january 1981 modern living people dont really care who your parents Are or who youre related to if you dont have Talent t actress t r Lorna luit playing her own song by Jay Sharbutt associated press once upon a says Lorna a record Mogul who shall be nameless came up with this great idea for me to do a disco version of Over the whereupon i and the flip Side will be no thank and 1 left very she still laughs about no doubt the Mogul Judy garlands daughter Dis Ping moms old no doubt hed take credit if she also Sang the other hit by her older Liza no does her own which currently Means opening this month in co starring in a roadshow version of Neil Simons hit there playing our Shell tour in the show at least six Shes also got a Small role afoot in a new Ryan Oneal so about the wild and crazy world of designer and Shes negotiating to sing Rock for a record Compa and will zip up to new York 21 for a fast show at the a local Rock with Rick who produced a few of her and Back on the Road again in playing the Kooky lyricist first done on Broadway by another child of famous Luci daughter of Desi Arnaz and Lucille a Friendly lady with Reddis Blond hair and a nervous sense of often is asked about this business of being of Star she has a common sense reply ready it opens a lot of doors for but when the doors Are youd better show up with the people dont really care who your parents Are or who youre related to if you dont have Talent Shes nowhere As Well known As her late Mother or her of if it bugs she Doest publicly Grum she Calls Liza my Best Friend and busies herself working the better saloons of vegas and guests on to talk keeps the Rock thing going and does a stage musical now and her first professional gig was at age she Sang with Mother Judy at the Palace in new a moment she recalls As sheer she was a hard act to no matter who you shed previously considered becoming a but i freaked out at the first sight of of also ruled out being a so the most logical path led to show there was so much music around my House it was sort of a natural thing for me to go she her she want too she knew Liza was going to go into it and then she saw me out of the Corner of her Eye and Here goes another show business is full of stars offspring who one Day decide it be nifty to be a Sally Forth with no knowledge of their bomb and grow old wondering what went Luft says her Mother was very aware of that what she basically told me if youre serious about you must must take it because its not intensive voice and dance studies so did doom City her first time out in the real Showbiz world when she still was in High it was an Alan Jay Lerner musical of Lolita that never made it to she was signed to play a support ing i was in that for 10 it was a just what happened is that i got and for a really Lousy and they fired me in front of the cast int that charming and introduced me to the person who was taking Over my she started and they get she got even in the Best she promptly got hired for promises in 1972 and stayed in that Broadway hit for a year and a half until it after the Lolita you reach a Point in your life where you quit or you til show them some and i studied and worked harder than Ever its the Day i went into i was walking Down the Street and saw the producer who fired it was such a wonderful feeling to be Able to hold my head up and walk by him in Shubert who not on the inhibited says she was very Calm All she did was make a make a stick out her go Shes More mature and even her husband is an a musician who now is her personal Man Jake students of doomed stars and other such Riffraff often make a big Deal of her mothers losing bouts with pills and she recalls Judy Garland mom the other on the sunny there was turmoil and sadness at she but getting fired from Lolita was the worst moment in her they think of my Mother As this tragic she she her voice grew she she want tragic at she was they have this strange image that she was this woe begone person who did nothing but sob and cry and carry she was she had the most wonderful ability Liza and i both have and i think it saved my life to laugh at no matter How bad things to find humor in it lunch time Lorna slightly weary after four hours of rehearsing her was asked what Shell do when her six month stint in the show she in going to take a returning anything to a department store for adjustment is one of my favorite it ranks right there under getting three estimates on a crushed car it int that the salespeople give you a bad its just time on Christmas when i opened a Box containing a a Cardigan and i was flattered that my husband saw me As a 36pound the pants have Cheryl Tiegs right on the he said t weighed More than Cheryl Tiegs at my maybe you could Exchange them for a designer with a longer name and a bigger he the Day after the department store set up special desks to handle the returns More i took a second look at my How Are you handling Cheryl i said in the closet to no one in if i did without didst drink a Glass of water in 36 left the top Gripper secured the Zipper with a pin to keep it from easing on rolled up the legs and wore an i could get by with i Hung them in the closet and watched four Days after my husband asked if i had returned the i took another look at the if i did Arm Circle exercises every morning for the next rolled up the didst Button the two Bottom buttons and didst use my hands or Shoul Ders to open answer phones or drink i could Wear it under a i Hung it up in the a few Days i ran across the Box holding the Christmas i thought about returning it when i took another look at what the if i Hung it loosely Over by shoulders and looped the arms under my Chin and looked breathless like id just come off the it would fit like a i took it out of the threw away the tags and sales slips and viewed my coordinated sports outfit that Barbie would have to Wear a truss to get foolish on the other there int a Day goes by that ill not look at that Trio and quote a Wise Man who once some men see things As they Are and say i dream of things that never were and say Why not c Field enterprises