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[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 11:53am

Tazzy, I echo your sentiments on the film version of HAIR.

A great, great film...one of the best stage to screen adaptations IMO, and I really don't care that Rado and Ragni despised it. They got paid handsomely for the screen rights, deposited their hefty checks and then began to b!tch and moan.

Too bad they fail to remember that the movie got excellent reviews when it was released, but it failed at the box office because people weren't ready for it.

Time has been kind to it and it has picked up new fans along the way. Definitely a classic.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 12:20pm

I have to say that I, too, loved the HAIR movie.

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 12:26pm

I love the HAIR movie, too. Not a "guilty pleasure" film for me.

It's a good film.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 12:33pm

I would not define HAIR as a guilty pleasure. It's a WONDERFUL film! I love Beverly D'Angelo's rendition of "Good Morning Starshine". I like her singing voice very much, too bad that is the only song she was given to sing. Her vocal talents were put to better use a year later when she played Patsy Cline in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER. She does a killer "Walking After Midnight".

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 12:42pm

I think the whole cast of Hair is great!

I'm still jolted away from the moment when the Asian girl opens her mouth and out comes Betty Buckley dubbing her. At the time, people (including me) weren't familiar enough with Betty's voice, and I didn't know until much later that she had done the dubbing on Walking In Space.

But now when I watch it, it's like Patti LuPone's voice coming out of Lisa Kudrow, or something. It's pretty jarring. (Still love it, though!)

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 1:07pm

Still get the goose bumps when Cheryl Barnes tears into "Easy To Be Hard", hers for me THE BEST recorded version of that song.

There were so many talented individuals involved in the recording of the HAIR soundtrack: Nell Carter, Ellen Foley, Ren Woods, Charlaine Woodard, Laurie Beecham, The Stylistics, Betty Buckley and a pre-Miss America Suzette Charles, who performs "Frank Mills" on the film's soundtrack album, although the song was not used in the completed film. Even Charlotte Rae got to sing "My Conviction" on the soundtrack album but again that song was not used in the completed film.

Updated On: 11/9/13 at 01:07 PM

[Marianne2]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 1:16pm

Never seen Hair the movie, but I saw the revival on Broadway. I do eventually want to see the movie though.

I definitely have no right to judge people for enjoying what are deemed horrible movies by the masses. My guilty pleasure is Xanadu. I loved the Broadway show, not knowing the movie. So of course, I was curious again. It is bad, but in a fun way. I think ABC Family was showing it one night, which is how I was fortunate to finally see it. I did buy it on DVD somewhere along the line.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 2:05pm

To all you Hair devotees, I have one thing to say: Go start your own thread.

The only properly cast actor in the ACL movie was Vicki Frederick. She was able to capture Sheila's essence. Terrence Mann was good but his role is really a throwaway role.

Alyson Reed was probably the best non-star choice for Cassie at that time, but her performance doesn't rise to the level of Donna McKechnie or Laurie Gamache.

I didn't like Yamil Borges. I felt like screaming "Just sing the song and stop with all the silent movie faces and stupid voices." Maybe it wasn't her fault, but Nothing is a song that in order to get the payoff at the end, it has to be sung in earnest.

Audrey Landers missed the point of the character Val. Val is not a sexpot. Landers didn't play Val's bravado. I wish they would have considered Vicki Lewis for that role. She would have delivered a more solid Val.

Michael Douglas, what can you say? He was there to have a star name above the title. Zach's a difficult character because in the material he's an unseen presence.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 2:19pm

I love Hair -- the only reason I own this movie is due to it coming (at least in Canada) in a three pack with DeLovely and Hair ($9.00 at the supermarket.) As a kid I remember though that my cousins LOVED it -- and we had to watch it with them more than a few times. I was obnoxious enough even at that age and had read, that it was a horrible movie, and only saw the revival on tour 6 or so years back, so gave the movie a second chance....

Yeah. The French and Saunders clip pretty much sums it up. It's too bad considering the movie Bennett had planned when the studio even gave him his own office.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 2:45pm

LMAO @ Gothampc's MELTDOWN. Get over yourself girl, no one is going to pay attention to you. DEAL. WITH. IT.

Oh and as for your long winded post: I ain't got time to read so much blah-blah-blah: ZERO VALUE ADDED as far as I'm concerned.

So, now that I got that off my chest: Thank you EricMontreal for sharing with us your love for the HAIR film. You should really see it in high def.

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 3:04pm

I never miss a Richard Attenborough musical!

[tazber]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 3:05pm

Totally agree about Cheryl Barnes' version of Easy to Be Hard.

And I still get choked up during The Flesh Failures. Cry every time.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 3:18pm

LOVE THE FILM VERSION OF HAIR!!!!

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 3:27pm

And Annie Golden was wonderful as well.

[devonian.t]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 3:32pm

Add me to the Hair devotee group! Forman is a genius.

Attenborough should have directed the musical of 'Ghandi' before he was let anywhere near ACL.

I think the best way to film ACL would be a live recording.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 3:36pm

I enjoy Hair a lot.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 3:48pm

I never miss a Richard Attenborough musical!

...and I never miss a good Liv Ullmann musical..and she did 2 of them!

[Up In One]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 3:49pm

Hair is a brilliant adaptation of a stage anchored musical, can still feel the chills it gave me the first time I saw it in a movie house. I thought Little Shop of Horrors was a pretty good film adaptation and remember loving the Godspell film, need to give that one a rewatch. A Chorus Line and The Wiz were pretty awful.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 3:51pm

To whoever changed the title of this thread I just want you to know I love you! xoxo

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 4:46pm

My wish for so many years is that Beverly D'Angelo would do another Broadway musical. Her one and only show was ROCKABYE HAMLET, 37 years ago.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 5:02pm

Based on her voice work as Lurleen Lumpkin on The Simpsons I would like to see her as Miss Mona in a revival of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

Posted: 11/9/13 at 8:11pm

Both HAIR and A CHORUS LINE were movies my family rented regularly from our local library when I was very young and just getting into musicals. It wasn't for a very long time that I realized how different they were from their stage counterparts, and I still have a certain fondness for them.

A CHORUS LINE is often so deliciously bad that I cannot stop watching, especially during "Let Me Dance for You" with Cassie's dance outbursts and those corny flashbacks.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 11/10/13 at 1:40pm

Beverly was at the Victoria film festival here a few years back, and my volunteer job was to get her at the airport and escort her to her lecture. An *amazingly* kind and generous woman - she had nothing but nice things to say about Hair. She seemed to be, at that point anyway, not really interested in doing much more movie work but said she would like to do more stage work again.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/10/13 at 4:00pm

The sound you hear is Michael Bennett turning over in his grave that this is being given a new life.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 11/10/13 at 4:28pm

Screw the Hair movie. Great choreography, great singing of the score, not the show I love.

I've said my piece.