Lorna’s loyalty to her mother, and her anger, are totally understandable, but the situation does demonstrate the pitfalls facing newspapers when they juice up their Web sites with material that might not have made it into print. In her letter, Lorna says she has learned that “one of the most outrageous, graphic and unnecessary stories was told to by my mother’s ‘friend’ Tom Green.” She says Green has admitted that the story – about Judy doing a sex act on a man under a table at a Santa Monica restaurant – was totally made up. “How dare he question how well a daughter knows her mother?” she demands. She claims the things Clarke has written and said about her “are out-and-out lies.” Lorna says she never called Judy a bitch and never despised her. He wanted to talk to me, I can be found.” “None of my representatives received any correspondence, and I open my mail. Clarke because he never spoke to me,” Lorna says. “My actions, feelings and emotions as a daughter were never shared with Mr. And she strongly disputes Clarke’s contention in the interview that he tried to get Lorna and sister Liza Minnelli to talk to him for his book. Lorna tells me she was content to just ignore the book itself, but she fears the Clarke interview will reach a far wider audience. Lorna has just fired off an angry letter to Bill Goldstein, book editor of the Times, protesting an interview he did online for the paper with Gerald Clarke, author of “Get Happy,” the latest bio of her mother, Judy Garland. Today, Lorna Luft is mad as hell at The New York Times for some news it didn’t see fit to print, but did post on the Internet.

THESE new-fangled Web sites can get old-fashioned media in a bit of a pickle.

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