'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus but by Babs herself?- Page 5

[SweetLips]

Posted: 8/9/14 at 8:21pm

lovebwy--if you can only quote from a TV series as if it were the words from A GOD-then me thinks that all you've said before comes from a mind that is far too obsessed with TV/movies/stage [unreality]. There is a whole world out there of mass killings, illness, plane disasters etc--whoever/whatever/whenver/ifever Gypsy graces our screens--nothing you say or think will prevent this happening.
Then you can bask in the glory[or not] of your opinion on this tedious subject.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 8/9/14 at 8:22pm

Wait, is there some reliable source telling us Streisand is now directing again? Or are you just assuming that from the subject line of this thread? Because none of the articles linked here state that to my knowledge.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/9/14 at 8:34pm

"mass killings, illness, plane disasters etc"

Why would I want to deal with THOSE things, dahling? I'm a gay man. I'm over the rainbow. My whole world is LuPone and theatah, and Auntie Mame, Addison DeWitt and Mad Men and Hair at the Hollywood Bowl. Streisand doing Gypsy is earth shattering news in MY world, BABY!

Updated On: 8/9/14 at 08:34 PM

[Sally Durant Plummer]

Posted: 8/9/14 at 8:45pm

Lovebwy, I truly believe you are a lovely person. But I'm just one person. So here's my advice, and you can take or it leave it: if you continue to make the same attacking comments in threads, you are going to annoy people. If you attack these people, or proceed to hate everything, you will be labeled a troll. And if you keep doing what you are doing in this thread, you could become the next SueStorm, or Next To Normal Nate. And then you will be ignored. And then you will make another screen name, and even though you try to blend in, everyone will know who you were. I'm not saying you have attacked anyone, but I'm just giving you some advice based on the short time I've been here. I hope you make the right choice, and surely we can talk on better terms about something we both appreciate - perhaps LuPone's incandescent performance in Evita?

Updated On: 8/9/14 at 08:45 PM

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/9/14 at 8:56pm

Sal thanks for the advice. I don't think I'm attacking anyone personally here, but I do have very strong opinions both negative and positive!!

I sadly never got to see La LuPone in Evita, but I grew up in the tri-state area so the ad that used to run with her and Mandy is imprinted on my brain. Once I saw her in Anything Goes in December of 1988, it was over. I became a PattiFan for life!

There is a video of her doing Rainbow High on youtube from somewhere in the middle of the run. It is superhuman. It is not of this earth. It is a woman possessed by who-knows-what and absolutely brilliant.

I DID, however, get to see her in Gypsy and she was brilliant. And last year at the Santa Monica College with Rudesky. And countless times in concert...

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/9/14 at 10:24pm

And don't presume to speak for all gay men.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/9/14 at 10:36pm

I never spoke for all gay men. I spoke for THIS gay man, BABY.

[vpd1981]

Posted: 8/9/14 at 11:19pm

Streisand will direct and to make everyone happy, Sherri Shepard will play Rose.

Will it happen if we type it ALL IN CAPS?!?

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/9/14 at 11:55pm

Roses I've seen:

Tyne Daly
Linda Lavin
Rita Moreno
Some woman at the Performing Arts Center in Providence
Patti LuPone

Obviously Patti was best. I bet Babs won't hold a candle to any of these women.

When I saw Rita do it at the North Shore Music Theater in Beverly, MA it was a disaster. Not because of Rita but because her daughter was playing Gypsy Rose Lee and she was sick and didn't have an understudy. Many songs were cut, and she talked though Let Me Entertain You. They should have cancelled the performance.

[Showface]

Posted: 8/11/14 at 6:27pm

She also sounds GREAT on her duet with Michael Buble. I take back my reservations on Barbra in this role.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/11/14 at 6:33pm

She's in the "Frank Sinatra Duets" phase of her career. They shouldn't let her near Mama Rose with a 10 foot pole.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/11/14 at 6:39pm

Ok, racist. Ok.

[Showface]

Posted: 8/11/14 at 6:42pm

But here's the deal:

She looks great (62, maybe even younger) I would say.
She sounds great, so she could handle the score
Its BARBRA STREISAND playing MAMA ROSE!!!
The first part of the film does not have to be built on closeups if her age is that much of an issue
Its BARBRA STREISAND playing MAMA ROSE!!!

Let's just hope the book, main plot points, and score stay in tact. I actually have faith in this film. And it seems like they are going into production early next year, so that's AWESOME!

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/11/14 at 9:19pm

Barbra doesn't have the AURA of a 32 year old woman. She can't play Rose. It will be an utter disaster.

I can't WAIT to come back to this very thread and give a big fat "I TOLD YA SO" when this fails!!!

[SweeneyLovett]

Posted: 8/11/14 at 9:38pm

Her voice does sound better than it has in a long time and she looks great. I say, let her do it. I'd like to have a legitimately good version of Gypsy on record. The other 2 films pretty much suck. They'll really have to work hard to make it any worse than those. Besides, even if it's a trainwreck of the Mame variety, at least we'll all have another great American camp classic. It can go either way at this point. I'm just curious to find out who else has been cast and who's really directing.

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

Posted: 8/12/14 at 7:47am

I'd love to know if a script was attached to the Breakdown Services casting notice mentioned earlier, even if they just hired a new screenwriter and Julian Fellowes is off the table.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 9:31am

Richard LaGravenese is penning the script. Which is yet ANOTHER strike against it.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 12:24pm

The thing is nobody else seems to want to film this. It's not like Barbra wanting to star in this film is stopping some other version from getting made.

I also haven't believed most Roses I've seen onstage as the mother of ten year old girls, if we're being honest. Patti was nearly sixty and didn't look anywhere near 32 (which is the age I see being thrown about here on this thread), and certainly didn't have the "aura" of 32 either. If the performance is good then the audience will suspend their disbelief, if not, then we will have another camp classic to throw on the shelf.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 12:32pm

When has a Mama Rose ever appeared 32?

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 12:57pm

Phyl, we're talking about HISTORY. The real life Mama Rose was no older than 32 when the events of the play start. A woman in her 50's can pull it off. A 75 year old, no so much.

[Showface]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 1:19pm

The women who played Mama Rose in Gypsy were in their 50's and they weren't necessarily "32-looking".

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 1:59pm

The real Rose Hovick (b. August 31, 1890) was 20 when Louise (b. February 9, 1911) was born and 22 when June (b. November 8, 1912) was born. The girls are 7 and 5, respectively, when the story begins (somebody correct me if I'm wrong), which would make Rose 27. I assume the play ends with Gypsy in her early 20s, making Rose in her early 40s. Thus, she should be no older than 45 at most.

You can get away with casting older on stage, since the audience is generally far away and the lighting helps, but the camera is up close and personal and not as forgiving. The two movie Roses, Russell and Midler, were 54 and 47, respectively. That's still in the ballpark of 45. Streisand is nearly 20 years older than Russell was, and 30 years older than Rose was in the story! Heck, she's a decade older than Rose ever was; she died in 1954 at age 64.

[Showface]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 2:16pm

And Streisand looks just as good and young as Russell was. And also, she's making this film, they've already started casting apparently, and she's not gonna stop making it because she's Barbra Streisand, and we are fans typing on a computer. She doesnt need our approval, and I can assure you, that when this film is released, most of all of us will be there on opening day (even the naysayers).

I can't wait!

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 2:18pm

I don't care how many movie remakes they do of GYPSY. There will always be one definitive Louise/Gypsy for me: NATALIE WOOD.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 2:20pm

Carlos, just wait to see how amazing Cher is going to be as Louise in this new movie.