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That’s one of the reasons she is appearing as the guest speaker and performing for the Signature Luncheon fundraiser for the Tidewell Foundation in Sarasota at noon Friday. Because of the coronavirus, it is being held virtually for the first time and tickets are available at tidewellfoundation.org. “Hospice is an incredible thing,” she said in a telephone interview this week from her Palm Springs home. “Tidewell is so beloved and it’s a subject matter that people don’t want to dea...

By the time Judy Garland made her first and only concert appearance in Dublin in July 1951, she had been an international star for more than a decade. She had starred in 27 feature length films, performed on more than 200 radio shows, appeared in hundreds of national and international magazines and newspapers, and recorded more than 70 records and albums. The diminutive songstress, whose voice could pack an emotional wallop equal in intensity to a cosmic collision, arrived in Ireland, land of h...