STREISAND wants to make GYPSY — Page 8

You're right. I must have missed the part in the press release that said she was going to play every role ever written. I thought it was just one. My bad.

Jordan Catalano said: "Yeah it's pretty stupid. It's not like she can sing or act or anything. I mean when you think about it, there really has never been a dumber thing ever."

And it's even dumber because her wanting to do this is clearly holding up the long, long line of all the other people in Hollywood who are just beating down the door to Arthur's crypt to get ahold of the script for their own film versions.

Even if it was a suitable role for her, which it definitely is not, she's 20 years too old for it. They'd be shooting her through an acre of gauze and she'd massacre those songs. Dreadful. 

Her voice is a shadow of its former self. I saw her sing a couple of years ago on TV and is was clear that the arrangement was designed to help her manage every single note. The soaring spontaneity of her voice of old is gone and will never be recovered. No one sang like Babs in the 1960s. NO ONE!!  But, now?? She shouldn't be allowed within a continent's length of that brilliant show unless she is the one who puts up the dough. 

No, I'd probably wait a couple weeks and then catch it at the first showing of the day for cheap at the AMC on 34th 

I would go with a group of gays and throw Goobers at the screen, and make fun of her the entire time.

LOL! Best12 that is classic.

I pray to Jesus this DOES NOT happen. Barbara needs to keep her old, long fingernailed mitts OFF Gypsy.

it's Oct. 1 and still no "official" confirmation.  Travolta justgave an interview to EXTRA...

John also confirmed rumors of a possible “Gypsy" remake, sharing, “Well, yeah, I mean Barbra wanting to do ‘Gypsy' for years, and she’s been developing it, and I think she always visualized Gaga as Louise and maybe me as Herbie.” 

http://extratv.com/2015/10/01/john-travolta-on-marriage-gypsy-gaga-gotti-and-making-it-all-work/

If this were made I think the results would be more fascinating than good. and maybe a little grim.  It would also, almost certainly, come out as a television movie ala' South Pacific which starred Glenn Close.  The original feature, by the way, was not only good but perfectly cast  with Natalie singing everything undubbed.

I agree that the original movie version of Gypsy is good. Two things made it very flawed though. That Godawful voice over they had Roz Russell do. The other problems is Russell's singing voice. If everything else were the same and they'd let Merman do the movie, it was be an all time unquestioned classic.

lovebwy said: "I agree that the original movie version of Gypsy is good. Two things made it very flawed though. That Godawful voice over they had Roz Russell do. The other problems is Russell's singing voice. If everything else were the same and they'd let Merman do the movie, it was be an all time unquestioned classic."

I agree with this. Call me biased but Natalie Wood was born to play Louise/Gypsy, she lived with a real life "Mama Rose", she knew what it was like to have a tyrannical stage mother thrust you into the spotlight at a very young age. The 1962 movie shines because of her.

She should star in "Ballroom" with Tom Hanks. The score is mostly by her supposedly good friends the Bergmans. It's poignant and the role is age-appropriate. Sarah Jessica Parker can play her daughter.