Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#1Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
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.
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#2Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
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.
#2Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 6:06pm
She really is a delusional nutcase.
Enough with her already.
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#3Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 6:32pmAs 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.
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#4Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 6:33pmWe all wish she'd go away but I am telling you..she's not going!
#6Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:18pmOkay, 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.
#7Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
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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#8Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:34pmWhen did Andrea McArdle say that she could still play Annie?
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#9Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:34pmIf 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#10Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:36pmBut it's her birthday tomorrow!
#11Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
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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#12Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#13Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 8:18pmLOL^^^^^^^^!!!!!!
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pinoyidol2006
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/11
#14Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 8:50pmIs she trying to satisfy that microphone?
I like your imperturbable perspicacity.
#15Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
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.
#16Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:14pmI 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
#17Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
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.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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#18Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:36pmOMG Thank you for uploading that video! Might be the best thing on youtube!
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
#19Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:43pmWhatever about Jennifer, I thought Wendy Williams to be the more objectionable...remind never to watch that show.
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#20Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:45pmI'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
#21Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:48pmI 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.
#22Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:54pmShe's quite a bitter lady. That's all I have to say.
#23Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 11:13pmShe 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
#24Jennifer Holliday's Up To Her Old Tricks
Posted: 10/18/11 at 11:15pmI wish Carol Channing would flip out on Streisand every time she opened her mouth.
