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Dollypop is SEETHING with venom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are people on this message board who would impugn TGC!!!!!!! All I can say is OFF WITH THEIR HEADS (if they have any!!!!)
First off, if you're going to talk about That Streisand Woman, you should spell her name correctly although she didn't. It's B-A-R-B-R-A. Obviously this stupid woman was so busy chewing her hangnails at Erasmus High School that she neglected to learn how to spell her name. She's missing an "A", which she may have given to Hester Prynne for all I know.
Secondly, That Streisand Woman pulled every trick imaginable to get cast in what is supposed to be the film version of TWHM. She pretended to be TGC's friend, but was pulling strings behind her back to steal what Carol calls "her baby" from her.
Thirdly, she is much too young to be worried about "the parade passing her by". The whole number is laughable because it centers on a woman who is barely out of her teens!
Fourthly, the character's name is Dolly Levi, born GALLAGHER. The character is IRISH, yet That Streisand Woman played the part with a Jewish accent.
Fifthly, Walter Matthau hated working with That Streisand Woman and it shows in the movie. There is absolutely no chemistry between them. (Matthau had more chemistry with Jack Lemmon in THE ODD COUPLE--figure that one out!)
Sixthly, Mrs Molloy is a young widow who runs a hat shop in lower Manhattan. Then explain to me how she has a rococo ceiling in her shop?
Seventhly, The Waiter's Gallop is one of the most exhilerating moments ever presented on any stage. In the film it's so stupid that I had to turn away from the screen. Where did they come up with those steps? There isn't a waiter on screen who doesn't look gay. On stage, TGC the title number aimed to fill the theater with "quivering clitorises" (The words of Gower Champion) because Dolly was returning to life--and her sexuality. The waiters in the movie's Harmonia Gardens all seem to be imported from Fire Island. Why would Dolly get excited over them? Don't tell me she's a "fag hag"!
Eightly, did Michael Crawford have to use that de-nasel voice? He was playing a 33 year old man, not an adenoidal teenager!
...and by the way, whatever happened to Mary Ann Snow and EJ Peaker??? They were touted as being the "stars of the future".
I hate the film and have turned the soundtrack recording of it into a candy dish (easily done by placing an old record album into a pan of boiling water).
I kid you not when I say that I stopped going to movies after seeing this filthy piece of garbage. If Hollywood could be responsible for desecrating one of the greatest works of musical comedy, then I won't patronize it. Quite frankly, I don't understand why they are still making movies in this day and age. Haven't we reached a point of enlightenment yet!!!!!!
I HATE MOVIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
