Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks

[Mattbrain]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks#1

Posted: 10/18/11 at 6:01pm

http://www.broadway.com/buzz/158174/original-dreamgirls-star-jennifer-holliday-talks-getting-dissed-by-jennifer-hudson-on-the-wendy-williams-show/

Thought that this was water under the bridge.

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[Jordan Catalano]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #2

Posted: 10/18/11 at 6:04pm

Girlfriend needs to GET OVER IT ALREADY. Andrea McArdle doesn't go around bitching about how nobody asks her input on other ANNIE movies. Last I checked, Jane Krakowski wasn't making the rounds complaining about NINE.

I love her but everytime she brings this up I just hate her a little bit more.

[adamgreer]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #2

Posted: 10/18/11 at 6:06pm

She really is a delusional nutcase.

Enough with her already.

[bwayfan7000]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #3

Posted: 10/18/11 at 6:32pm

As if the interview wasn't crazy enough, her performances of that song really almost ruins it at this point. It's even more spoof-y than when Capathia Jenkins spoofed her in Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me.

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim

[Unknown User]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #4

Posted: 10/18/11 at 6:33pm

We all wish she'd go away but I am telling you..she's not going!

[CATSNYrevival]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #5

Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:00pm

She looks great though.

[Edna Turnblad]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #6

Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:18pm

Okay, I can never get enough of the Tonys performance. However, this lady be crazy! First, I can't stop looking at her because of her crazy hair. Then, she's bitter about Jennifer Hudson seeming to decide to make her own interpretation of the role. Finally, her crazy mouth that I find so interesting and fun at the Tonys is just insane looking here. I think I'll keep good ole', pink outfit wearing Jennifer Holliday.

[best12bars]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #7

Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:21pm

She makes me sad. I hope one day she can let it go. I don't think she'll ever be happy until she does. She has no sense of perspective on this at all. Maybe she never will.

And this might sound harsh, but I'm tired of so many people saying "she still has the pipes."

No, she doesn't. Not even close. It's like a former Rockette who can only kick waist-high but still wants to be on the line. Holliday was able to do extraordinary things with her voice at a young age. She was like a thoroughbred that peaked early on, yet keeps trying to recapture the former glory. The worst part is she thinks she can still do it. I suppose that kind of "blind confidence" can drive people to keep going, but not if it's this delusional. And so many people "enable" her by saying, "Wow! You still go it!"

No, kid. You don't. It's a shame she didn't mature and evolve into either a Martha Wash or a Terri White or a Carol Woods. It's almost as bad as if Andrea McArdle thought she could still play Annie and was upset that she wasn't considered for the role in the Rob Marshall TV movie.

No sense of perspective at all.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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Updated On: 10/18/11 at 07:21 PM

[CATSNYrevival]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #8

Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:34pm

When did Andrea McArdle say that she could still play Annie?

[AwesomeDanny]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #9

Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:34pm

If you want people to refer to you for help with the role, don't sing the song like that. Jennifer Hudson did quite well without her help.

[chewy5000]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #10

Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:36pm

But it's her birthday tomorrow!

[best12bars]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #11

Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:37pm

"When did Andrea McArdle say that she could still play Annie?"

CATS---that was a hypothetical comparison. Thankfully not a real one!

I'll fix it so it's morer clearerer.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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Updated On: 10/18/11 at 07:37 PM

[AC126748]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #12

Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:48pm

There's a reason why Loretta Devine was asked to be in the film and Holliday wasn't. People like working with Ms. Devine.

And Jennifer, girlfriend...that is one janky-ass wig.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[TheatreDiva90016]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #13

Posted: 10/18/11 at 8:18pm

LOL^^^^^^^^!!!!!!

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[pinoyidol2006]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #14

Posted: 10/18/11 at 8:50pm

Is she trying to satisfy that microphone?

I like your imperturbable perspicacity.

[adamgreer]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #15

Posted: 10/18/11 at 8:53pm

I just re-watched the performance, and it really does play like the Forbidden Broadway parody of her.

Sad.

[singtopher]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #16

Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:14pm

I thought it was cute the way Wendy pretended to cry.

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

[binau]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #17

Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:16pm

So was the Holiday & Hudson duet really just a chance for Holiday to try and upstage Hudson :S?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtDFHXjJ7SU

HAHHAHA at the transition between them at 1:45 seconds

Awkward bitterness.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

Updated On: 10/18/11 at 10:16 PM

[BroadwayBound062]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #18

Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:36pm

OMG Thank you for uploading that video! Might be the best thing on youtube!

Genius lasts longer than beauty.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #19

Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:43pm

Whatever about Jennifer, I thought Wendy Williams to be the more objectionable...remind never to watch that show.

Beyoncé is not an ally. Actions speak louder than words, Mrs. Carter. #Dubai #$$$

[ChiChi]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #20

Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:45pm

I'm not able to see the videos on the computer I am at, but if the host entertained Ms. Holliday's childishness for even a minute I hope she realized it as a mistake later.

Gypsy - Betty Buckley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUN5XoB5vFs&feature=youtu.be

[strummergirl]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #21

Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:48pm

I have to imagine being there for that duet would be like the SNL parody of the audience reaction to Oprah's favorite things with flailing and spontaneous combustion. Wow, that video.

[jv92]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #22

Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:54pm

She's quite a bitter lady. That's all I have to say.

[ChiChi]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #23

Posted: 10/18/11 at 11:13pm

She needs to think about the REAL issues surrounding not being cast in a film version of a stage show that a person was in on Broadway. In comparison to people like Angela Lansbury and Julie Andrews (to name a couple) who successfuly starred in shows and were never asked to partake in the film version she's pretty much nobody. Is Dreamgirls the only thing that ever happened in her sorry little life?

Gypsy - Betty Buckley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUN5XoB5vFs&feature=youtu.be

[Jordan Catalano]

Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks #24

Posted: 10/18/11 at 11:15pm

I wish Carol Channing would flip out on Streisand every time she opened her mouth.