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Liza Minnelli Reacts to Passing of Mickey Rooney
by Caryn Robbins - Apr 7, 2014

Stage legend Liza Minnelli posted the following statement on her Official Facebook page regarding the loss of the Hollywood star

Carol Channing, Cher, Stephanie J. Block & More React to Passing of Mickey Rooney
by Caryn Robbins - Apr 7, 2014

Today, stars of stage and screen reacted to the passing of the stage and screen legend

Breaking News: Legendary Entertainer Mickey Rooney Dies at 93
by Robert Diamond - Apr 7, 2014

According to TMZ, Mickey Rooney, who spent nearly his entire life in the show business, died today at 93, after being in ill health for quite some time. He appeared on Broadway in Sugar Babies (opposite fellow MGM legend Ann Miller) and The Will Rogers Follies.

BWW Reviews: BABES IN HOLLYWOOD Takes Audiences On a Nostalgia-Fueled Sentimental Journey
by Jeffrey Ellis - Feb 29, 2012

Granted, Babes in Hollywood isn't for all theater audiences-although, frankly, it should be…what's with you people?-and you'll certainly love it more if you're at least somewhat informed about the Garland/Rooney film oeuvre or the legendarily close relationship the two young stars forged as children and continued throughout their lives. Although that friendship was abruptly ended in 1969 when Garland died in London (I remember reading the news in the Memphis Press-Scimitar as a sixth grader), I've no doubt Mickey Rooney still has conversations with his old pal, somewhere within the recesses of his memory and his heart.