I love Patti but why does she always

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I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 3:39pm

Repeat the same things in her interviews. In every Gypsy interview I've seen shes said at least once:
1. She's not a monster, she's a mother.
2. The roles I've wanted to play, I can't. I wanted to play Adelaide, and Nellin in SP.
3. Growing up I didn't wana play Madame Rose I wanted to play TULSA.

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#2

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 4:10pm

Because they're true.

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#3

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 4:11pm

Because the answers never change.

You expect her to change her mind every time she's asked a question?

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#4

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 4:28pm

Patti wants to play everything. I saw her in an interview a few years ago and she was mad because she didn't get "Annie Get Your Gun". She said she thought she would be the successor to the Merman catalouge.

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#5

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 4:29pm

Well she did play Annie in a concert version.

#6

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 4:34pm

Concert versions don't count. You don't win Tonys for concert versions. And you saw Patti's basic theme on the Awards: "I haven't won one in 28 years" and "I had two previous speeches prepared." For her, it's all about winning the Tony.

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#7

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 4:39pm

well, people also don't ask her many other questions. she had a lot to say about Rose's mother in the BWW interview posted on Friday but then they cut her off. maybe if someone did a little research and formulated more interesting questions, all her interviews wouldn't sound the same.


and how come everyone's ragging on her for the "SHUT UP IT'S BEEN TWENTY-NINE YEARS!" comment? can no one take a joke. [an a la Stritch joke, to boot!]

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#8

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 4:46pm

if she changed her answer every time, she would come off as flaky

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#9

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 4:47pm

"can no one take a joke. [an a la Stritch joke, to boot!]"

Because Stritch was twice as old as Patti when Stritch said it. There's a certain point where you let old broads say whatever they want to say and Patti hasn't reached that age yet.

Plus, Stritch had never won a Tony, despite over 55 years of turning in some excellent performances.

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#10

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 4:54pm

Who's Elaine Stritch?

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Posted: 6/16/08 at 4:56pm

Updated On: 5/3/09 at 04:56 PM

#12

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 7:23pm

"Patti wants to play everything. I saw her in an interview a few years ago and she was mad because she didn't get 'Annie Get Your Gun'."

Yes, well, that's everything, I guess . . .

#13

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 7:29pm

"Repeat the same things in her interviews"

Because she's asked the same questions repeatedly?

#14

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 7:30pm

Why do Patti Haterzs always throw the same accusations out, time and time again?

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#15

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 7:41pm

Actors wanting to play great parts--what's THAT about?

She must be the biggest monster on earth! Where's the National Guard when you need them?

#16

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 9:06pm

"Because Stritch was twice as old as Patti when Stritch said it. There's a certain point where you let old broads say whatever they want to say and Patti hasn't reached that age yet. "

So, Elaine Stritch was 120 when she said she'd been waiting all that time? Wow. That's impressive.

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#17

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 10:27pm

Well maybe it's better she repeat herself then say things like this:

"It's a huge part," Patti LuPone said of the legendary stage-mother of "Gypsy," the role that won her the Tony for leading actress in a musical. "It encompasses everything: comedy, tragedy, singing, shouting, a range of emotions. If you lose the Tony for this, it's like you didn't do a good job. Isn't that terrible to say?"


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Posted: 6/16/08 at 10:41pm

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#19

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 10:43pm

God forbid the woman get wrapped up in the moment.

You think that if one of the other actresses had won and started going over time they'd be thinking "Oh those poor other women I was in my category with!"?

PLEASE

#20

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 11:01pm

I guess you've never read or heard Patti's comments about wishing the league honored all deserving performances of the season.

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When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

#21

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 11:11pm

Speaking of things Patti said, anyone know if this story is true?

that poor unfortunate woman was her hairdresser for Sweeney. They worked together every day but they did not get along, then she had to leave her job because she had some kind of cancer or sickness, and when someone came to tell Patti she said, 'Well, that doesn't make her any better at styling my hair.' Everyone just stared blankly at her, and then she said ' I know, I'm a bitch', and then walked away
Sweeney

#22

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 11:19pm

I would trust nothing posted on the imdb boards.

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#23

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/16/08 at 11:32pm

"You don't win Tonys for concert versions. And you saw Patti's basic theme on the Awards: "I haven't won one in 28 years" and "I had two previous speeches prepared." For her, it's all about winning the Tony."


She mentioned the Tony awards...at the Tony awards. I'm not sure what your problem is with her comments.

#24

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/17/08 at 12:45am

Mutts2- I don't doubt that that is true.

#25

re: I love Patti but why does she always

Posted: 6/17/08 at 1:36am

When asked the same questions over and over, it would stand to reason that she says the same things over and over.
About the imdb rumor, I agree with whoever said they wouldn't trust anything from those boards. According to them, Kathryn Grayson and Ann Miller were passing as white. Nothing wrong with the concept, but saying something like that, or the Patti comment which does contain the element of a moral deficiency, just to start a rumor is the disease that long ago killed the reliability of imdb.

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