"We have to find a new Dolly" says Herman — Page 3

"I'll smear your face all over Duffy Square."

Gimme a break! A middle-aged lard as* is going to smear my face all over Duffy Square? Who's going to hold your oxygen cannister while you do that? Besides, I'm a lover, not a fighter.

Wow- Never thought it would come to this. Okay- maybe I am a wuss, but Uncle DollyPop is family, and when one has to choose bewtween family and stranger, he goes with the family member. That's the way its always been.

"I can't wait to beat the daylights out of you"

Puhleeze...you couldn't catch me. You can't move fast enough with your walker!!!

"when one has to choose bewtween family and stranger, he goes with the family member. That's the way its always been. "

OMG. Billy, not only are you a wuss, you are an idiot. No one is asking you to choose between your uncle and a stranger. I simply want you to grow some ball* and stand up for yourself and have confidence in your opinions and not be swayed by some pathetic,balding,middle-aged,Dolly wannabe, theater queen whose parade has definitely passed him by!!!

Okay Albin, what do you mean I couldn't catch up with you? I've got news for you Albin. I TAKE GERITOL and although you think you're doing the same I've secretly been replacing all of yours with Karo syrup. Ha! Ha! Ha!

And leave BillyLawlor out of this. He's a nice kid who needn't be sullied by your pernicious ways!

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Did you hear that Albin, "Stop being a negative manhole!"

(Out of the mouths of babes!)

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See what you did, Albin--you went and got us in trouble! I hope that makes you feel good!

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Was that supposed to be funny? Was that supposed to be funny? Because if it was, I fail to see the humor of it!

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"I, personally, just think Albin is being an ass."

I think all three of you are being asses. If Streisand would agree to do the role, it would be a major casting coup. She's the right age and she can sing the ass off pretty much anybody else who's been suggested.

Dollypop's complaints about Streisand break down to; 1) She was the wrong age. 2) She didn't have any chemistry with Walter Mattheau (sp) and 3) She played Dolly as Jewish although Dolly is written as an Irishwoman who married a Jewish man.

oh, and 4) She got the movie role and Channing didn't.

1) Streisand is the right age now.
2) I don't think anybody short of Jack Lemmon has ever had any chemistry with Walter Mattheau.
3) Pearl Bailey played her as a [black] woman! I don't hear anybody complaining about that!

and finally;

4) At the risk of being bitch-slapped, Carol Channing's forte was live theatre. Blown up on a 40 foot screen, she would have been w a y too broad! The producers never wanted her for the movie (the mind shuts down at the idea of Elizabeth Taylor as Dolly, but there it is)

There are problems with the movie. (Never get a dancer to direct- were the musical numbers that long on stage?) But it is an enjoyable production.

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Agreed. Lol. Now, I can safely say that I think Barbara Streisand would be a MUCH better choice. I already told Dolly in a PM: I'm young and stupid, and I don't see the funny and/or sarcastic side of things.

I don't doubt Emily would play the part to perfection, LOL. I'm just so used to seeing that geriatric Dolly that it's hard for me to picture her in the role *right now*. I do think she'd be fabulous in a few years, though.

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How about Janet Reno?

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