Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.