Biography chuck lizza

“Cat Dancers,” an extraordinary HBO documentary, tells a tale so touching, heartbreaking and complex that it took eight years to tell.

Ron and Joy Holiday were childhood friends in Maine who bonded through ballet, and later, as a married couple, went on to showbiz success with an exotic tiger act that began when actor William Holden gave them a black leopard cub from his African animal preserve.

The couple operated out of the Cat Dancers ranch in Florida where they hired a young man named Chuck Lizza to work with their animals.

Lizza joined the act and eventually became a lover to the middle-aged Holidays.

In 1998, Lizza was killed in a freak accident by Jupiter, a rare white Bengal tiger who was introduced to the act despite Joy Holiday’s objections.

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After Lizza’s death, though, she took to her bed, stopped eating, and lost over 20 pounds in five weeks fell. She was pining for death. Five weeks later, she got her wish.

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