Patti LuPone: A Memoir (spoiler alert) — Page 7

Must have something to do with Le Miz. She was Cosette. But I'm just thinking that Ms. Caine better be right or Patti will take her down.

Betty, that was Sunset Blvd. I just skimmed the Evita chapter and it says that Streisand wanted the role of Evita. She recorded songs from Sunset before LuPone, as I am sure you already know. Doesn't say anything about her recording "...Argentina". (Unless I missed something)

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Updated On: 9/25/10 at 01:24 AM

Before this book, I loved Patti.

Now, she has an excuse for everythng, has slept with everyone and can bitch about anything.

I love her even more.

Its the Sunset Boulevard chapter on the audiobook when she talks about Barbara recording "With One Look" and "As If..." She says that this happened to her before when Barbra recorded Argentina before she did for EVITA.

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Loved the book, read it in 24 hrs. Patti has certainly had a lot of hard times, i respect her for writing this stuff. Great to hear about SUNSET and BAKER'S WIFE.

I think this [audio]book was the best thing ever. I didn't think her life was this interesting - it was almost almost TOO interesting - suspiciously so.

On the audiobook, I liked her impersonations of ALW etc.. - I just love it. I actually respect her much more now.

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But in a GOOD way I'm Sure! ;D

Care to elaborate, MTVMANN?

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I know I'm late to the game, but I just finished the book. Full disclosure, I expected a score-settling bitchfest when I went in. And... yeah, that's pretty much what I found.

What I found most off-putting (and I'm sure many of you will disagree with me) is that - unless I missed something - she's never really had a "real" job a day in her life (as in non-performing, non show biz job) and STILL can manage to sound completely entitled and ungrateful regarding almost her entire career. She goes from being the first acting class at Julliard, which leads to her working as an actor non-stop for four years through the rest of her storied career without so much as ever having to say "May I take your order?" but everything's a struggle and everyone is out to get her - then, now and forever.

I'm not speaking anything about her talent, which I think is extraordinary. It's just a shame she seems to think of her life and career, which to me seems pretty charmed, as just an endless string of miseries and conspiracies against her.

One thing I was unsure of, because after page upon page of actual bitching and complaining it's hard to know when she's being serious or not - was she kidding when she blamed her diction problems on the sound person at Anything Goes?

Well, unless the sound person was God, I don't know how they could have helped.
I guess that person has followed her from every show since.
The only show I understood most of her lyrics was SWEENEY TODD,
ah the fear of Sondheim!

She talks weird. Always. I saw her on a Law & Order rerun last week and was like "What the hell was that??"

I've never seen that video before and it was honestly one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

If someone with Photoshop skills were to create an image of Patti in a McDonald's uniform I would not be unhappy about it.

Just sayin'.

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What I'm saying is, I'd really really really like to see Patti LuPone in a visor.

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