Won't Somebody Please Be Liza Minnelli's Friend?  The misery of
Liza Minnelli stretches into yet another agonizing day.
Paparazzi caught up with the living legend in West Hollywood
(where else?) on Monday night, and a cameraman asked her what
she thought about Ellen DeGeneres' Oscars joke at Liza's
expense. ("Hello to the best Liza Minnelli impersonator I've
ever seen," DeGeneres said from the stage to Minnelli in the
audience during the opening monologue. "Good job, sir." The
internet being the internet wondered if this was transphobic.)
"I think she thought it would be funny," said Liza
diplomatically to the pap in a video posted on TMZ. "But she
never stopped after she said it and said, 'My friend Liza
Minnelli.' So I think it went a bit astray on her. I don't think
she meant any harm at all and she's a wonderful lady."  Liza
said this in her normal delivery, equal parts warm and bubbly.
Her eyes told a different story: "(We are still friends,
right?)"  And then, speaking of people maybe not liking Liza,