Catherine Zeta-Jones in new film of Gypsy?

"The rumor is out and hot that the Weinstein Co. is close on the heels of director Rob Marshall for a movie version [of Gypsy]" and it would appear that they have everyone's favourite Welsh girl in their sights as Rose - according to Liz Smith.

Weinsteins see Catherine Zeta-Jones in new 'Gypsy' film

I'll believe it when I see it.

This is too much in the "gossip" phase right now... thank you, Miss Liz Smith.

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Catherine Zeta Jones notoriously shaves off several years from her age - she's actually in the ballpark of 40, which isn't really too young to play the role.

I could see it - she's already said she wants to play the role.

What would be interesting would be a movie of Gypsy Rose Lee's life, not the musical GYPSY, but the original book it was based on.

Great minds!

Well, Best12, it is arguable that there has yet to be a definitive film version of GYPSY.

The Roz Russell version, though not the fiasco that say the movie version of MAME is, suffers from lots of problems, and the Bette Midler TV movie looks worse and worse on repeated viewings - it just lacks magic, and Midler who I at first loved in the role seems less and less right for it.

So, if the Weinsteins want to produce another go at a movie of GYPSY - I'm all for it. The musical has always had the potential to be extraordinary on film, it just hasn't gotten there yet.

And even if CZJ were only 35 (she is not as I say above) there is no reason to believe Rose would be in her sixties; its much more plausable to me that she would have had children young and that, as much as any other reason, would have been why she couldn't have been a star herself.

Does anyone know how old the real Rose was?

Updated On: 6/13/06 at 09:48 AM

So, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again... and again... and again?

I guess so.

Hey, I'll go see it, if it actualy gets made.

EDIT: alterego--They say she was 16 when she played Peggy. Funny how her age keeps shifting around.

"That old gasoline tank? She's SIXTY if she's a minute." --- The Women

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Updated On: 6/13/06 at 09:52 AM

LOL. That's a good one MichaelB.

I'll go with 41. I know someone who worked with her in that show (42ND ST), in conversation her name came up once and this friend was asked what she had been like, there was a long pause and my friend said ' put it this way, she's got everything she set out to get'. Interpret that anyway you wish.

Nor wishes to be.

Claire Leech was the original Peggy in London, but Zeta Jones did the performance that year on the Olivier Awards; so she must have been the first replacement. And given that Leech was an American, she probably only opened the show and stayed with it a few months.

At any rate, CZJ wasn't 16 in 1986, 87, or 88...

Okay, don't throw tomatoes at me for this, but can Natalie Portman sing? I was thinking her for Louise.

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Why would she have to be old? So if she had Louise at 17 (plausible) she'd be 37 or so at the end of the story?