Liza Minnelli expected to sit in a director’s chair when she made an appearance at the 2022 Oscars , but instead, she claims in her new memoir, the Academy insisted she sit in a wheelchair. “I was inexplicably ordered — not even asked — to sit in a wheelchair or not appear at all,” Minnelli wrote in Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, according to Variety . “I was told it was because of my age, and for safety reasons, because I might slip out of the director’s chair, which was bullshit. ‘I will not