#1
Posted: 1/9/15 at 4:56pm
Since everyone is posting about wanting to make a movie..We should be hearing something very soon.. Save the hate responses. I just like seeing STREISAND on the message board.
STREISAND wants to make GYPSY
#2
Posted: 1/9/15 at 4:59pm
She does? Do you have a source? A link? Something?
#4
Posted: 1/9/15 at 5:03pm
A previous discussion
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1076925&mobile=on
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1076925&mobile=on
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#5
Posted: 1/9/15 at 5:10pm
Can't that pretentious egomaniac just live in her mall forever and leave GYPSY alone?
#6
Posted: 1/9/15 at 6:55pm
It's too bad she didn't attempt this decades ago. She is now too old to play June and Louise's Grandmother.
#7
Posted: 1/9/15 at 7:18pm
Worst. Idea. Ever.
Updated On: 2/13/15 at 07:18 PM
#8
Posted: 1/9/15 at 7:22pm
I can remember way back in 1994 just before they announced the Bette Midler version Streisand made a play for the rights in order to thwart the Milder version and make her own. Too bad it didn't work because the Midler version is horrible and 20 years ago Babs was still a viable Rose.
The idea of her playing Rose at this point is unfathomable and it should never happen.
The idea of her playing Rose at this point is unfathomable and it should never happen.
Updated On: 1/9/15 at 07:22 PM
#9
Posted: 1/9/15 at 7:23pm
all well and good people but...she should direct it!...i would love to see this movie as her rightful swan song...making the GYPSY of our dreams!!
#10
Posted: 1/9/15 at 7:50pm
I'm fine with her directing. But her being in it would be just terrible.
#11
Posted: 1/9/15 at 7:50pm
Wow, that's interesting that you feel that way. I actually love the Bette version
#12
Posted: 1/9/15 at 8:09pm
I think the Bette version looks cheap and is cheesy.
But, I'm sure I like things that are cheap and cheesy too!
But, I'm sure I like things that are cheap and cheesy too!
#13
Posted: 1/9/15 at 8:16pm
"I can remember way back in 1994 just before they announced the Bette Midler version Streisand made a play for the rights in order to thwart the Milder version and make her own."
Tyne Daly was also mighty pissed off because she was expecting to make the tv version and Bette swooped in and stole it.
Tyne Daly was also mighty pissed off because she was expecting to make the tv version and Bette swooped in and stole it.
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#14
Posted: 1/9/15 at 8:34pm
It's not necessarily the same exact story.. Maybe rose dies and the grandmother comes into the picture, uses the grandkids to get famous.. It's not unrealistic or unreasonable; just don't think remake, think more based on.. It's a fable after all.
Lohan's mom, Kris Kardasian.. Reality Tv. A comment on society. Maybe not vaudeville..
Lohan's mom, Kris Kardasian.. Reality Tv. A comment on society. Maybe not vaudeville..
Updated On: 1/9/15 at 08:34 PM
#15
Posted: 1/9/15 at 9:26pm
To be kind, let's just say the Bette version ... does not hold up. Have you taken a peek lately? She goes down on the camera lens. It's a terribly calibrated performance by everyone, Midler but especially the director and editor, so wrongly considered for the small screen in every way (though some of it would be too big for Radio City). She needed help to scale the heights while still finding the human dimension. It plays like she's pushing, lacking confidence, in just about every sequence. It's too bad, because one would think she would be a natural Rose. But oddly enough, she seems very wrong for it. As right as she -- and the Midler persona -- proved to be for Sue Mengers. I think assuming any performer who trades on an outre performance style is right for Rose is a mistake. One of the reasons Daly, Lansbury and Peters worked for me: they found the woman underneath the iconic Merman outline, so many other colors. When Rose is a Mt. Rushmore drag act, she has no breath of recognizable life and though it never damages the show -- it's too perfect -- it can be exhausting to experience.
Streisand, to me, was possibly wrong twenty years ago. I just don't think the raw, low-class gutter thing comes easily to her. Rose has no inherent class, it's all show, borrowed, with an expiration date; Rose doesn't have those odd vowels Arthur Laurents talks about Streisand using in WAY WE WERE that marred her performance. She needs to strip away the Streisand persona entirely and build from the ground up. To me, it can't be done. It's been said before many times, but I fear a Lucy Mame with better vocals.
Streisand, to me, was possibly wrong twenty years ago. I just don't think the raw, low-class gutter thing comes easily to her. Rose has no inherent class, it's all show, borrowed, with an expiration date; Rose doesn't have those odd vowels Arthur Laurents talks about Streisand using in WAY WE WERE that marred her performance. She needs to strip away the Streisand persona entirely and build from the ground up. To me, it can't be done. It's been said before many times, but I fear a Lucy Mame with better vocals.
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#16
Posted: 1/9/15 at 10:34pm
Is Babs too young for a good film version of MAME?
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#17
Posted: 1/9/15 at 11:07pm
It's not necessarily the same exact story.. Maybe rose dies and the grandmother comes into the picture, uses the grandkids to get famous.. It's not unrealistic or unreasonable; just don't think remake, think more based on.. It's a fable after all.
Lohan's mom, Kris Kardasian.. Reality Tv. A comment on society. Maybe not vaudeville..
Are you saying that it will be an updated film?
Lohan's mom, Kris Kardasian.. Reality Tv. A comment on society. Maybe not vaudeville..
Are you saying that it will be an updated film?
#18
Posted: 1/10/15 at 11:06am
It is not a remake,a re-imagining perhaps. But.. I don't know anything.
Updated On: 1/10/15 at 11:06 AM
#19
Posted: 1/10/15 at 11:17am
Just let her do it. Who cares. You all will go watch it anyway.
#20
Posted: 1/10/15 at 12:03pm
I have a feeling she will end up directing the film.... but, then again, I can't imagine her actually letting anyone else play Mama Rose.
They should do a concert version of the show with her. That would be fantastic.
They should do a concert version of the show with her. That would be fantastic.
#22
Posted: 1/10/15 at 12:30pm
"It's been said before many times, but I fear a Lucy Mame with better vocals."
I would be there the minute after the reviews came out, if they said that.
I would be there the minute after the reviews came out, if they said that.
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#23
Posted: 1/10/15 at 2:19pm
Streisand directing Menzel; would probably sell a fair amount of tickets. Whether it'd be watchable...?
#24
Posted: 1/10/15 at 4:09pm
Menzel doesn't really strike me as a Rose.
I was against Streisand Gypsy when she first started threatening it, but now I'm totally on board. I want this to happen. I need this to happen.
I was against Streisand Gypsy when she first started threatening it, but now I'm totally on board. I want this to happen. I need this to happen.
#25
Posted: 1/10/15 at 4:18pm
Streisand directing Menzel; would probably sell a fair amount of tickets
Totally. If by "fair amount" you mean 10 tickets.
Totally. If by "fair amount" you mean 10 tickets.
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