Cooler than Cool JUDY/MEL outtake

That's wonderful!

It's not that he didn't like her, but it's in his book "The Other Side of The Rainbow", written, I think in about '71. It was about working on her early 60s TV show (when she was a wreck). Decades later, people thought it was in really bad taste for Mel to write that book. I liked it, and the fact that the show itself hardly showed the "turmoil", is indeed a testament to all those talented peoples' professional abilities.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Other-Side-Rainbow-Television/dp/0195072952

Mel Torme's book was self-serving. Judy thought he was a good vocal arranger and guest singer. He thought he was major artist who had been coerced into doing degrading work for a faded diva, the William Holden to her Gloria Steinem, She responded by teasing him, as she did on the Christmas show, when she sings the #1 hit song he had written for Nat King Cole and deliberately sings the lyric "...and see if reindeer really know how to fly" as "...and see if rain-BOWS really know how to fly." Which makes no sense but disses him and seems like a reference to her song.


Find the real story here:


Rainbow's End: The Judy Garland Show

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"the William Holden to her Gloria Steinem"

I think you meant Gloria Swanson, but we understand what you meant. And thank you for the response. I love watching tv and movies and knowing what was going on behind the scenes. I really like to see if I can see any hint of a sexual liaison or a deep seated hatred.

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