" I Bet It's A Pip!"
" I Bet It's A Pip!"
Riboflavin
Swing Joined: 11/11/04
#27re: ' I Bet It's A Pip!'
Posted: 11/14/04 at 1:07am
Annette Bening turned down both Marian(Robin Hood) and Catwoman(Batman Returns) because she was pregnant.
Molly Ringwald turned down Ghost(which went to Demi Moore) and Pretty Woman(which of course helped out Julia Roberts' career).
Nicole Kidman dropped out Panic Room because she was still recovering from Moulin Rouge.
Mary Martin turned down My Fair Lady.
Cary Grant was offerred Henry Higgins in the My Fair Lady movie, but said only Rex Harrison can play the role.
Oh, and I had heard that Debra Winger had agreed to do A League of Their Own, until Madonna was cast, then dropped out because this was when Madonna was still racy.
#29re: ' I Bet It's A Pip!'
Posted: 12/24/04 at 12:15pm
Bette Midler turned down Sister Act.
Mel Gibson - The Gladiator
Holly Hunter - As Good As it Gets
Nancy Reagan & Esther Williams turned down Albert Brooks' "Mother"
Tom Hanks - Jerry Maguire & American Beauty
Debra Winger - The Piano
Michelle Pfeiffer - The Silence of the Lambs
Dustin Hoffman - Dead Poet's Society
Robert DeNiro - Do the Right Thing
Cher, Goldie Hawn & Shelly Long - Working Girl
Tina Turner - (As Shug Avery) The Color Purple
Jill Clayburgh, Jane Fonda & Faye Dunaway - Norma Rae
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#35re: ' I Bet It's A Pip!'
Posted: 12/25/04 at 4:08pm
Ronald Regan turned down Gone With the Wind....
Gale Sondergard did turn down the Wicked Witch of the West when she was told she would be made to look ugly:
it was mutual...
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