Glenn Close Reveals SUNSET BOULEVARD Film is 'Getting Closer'

What are those things dangling from her ears? Do something new instead, these investors are babies. I guess she has no more tea towels to sell. Are they dangly earphones or mini speakers? Ridiculous. Norma Desmond was 50.

What are those things dangling from her ears?

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by Anonymousreply 223May 12, 2022 12:34 AM

Do something new instead, these investors are babies.

by Anonymousreply 1May 4, 2022 1:11 PM

I guess she has no more tea towels to sell.

by Anonymousreply 2May 4, 2022 1:12 PM

Are they dangly earphones or mini speakers?

by Anonymousreply 3May 4, 2022 1:15 PM

Ridiculous.

Norma Desmond was 50.

Glenn Close is what .. 372?

The time for a Sunset Boulevard remake was ... well, never. But Betty Lynn was a far better Norma than Close.

by Anonymousreply 4May 4, 2022 1:18 PM

Now I know why she wears wigs.

by Anonymousreply 6May 4, 2022 1:22 PM

Glennie is so desperate. If it gets remade, she'll probably lost another to a Brit actress.

by Anonymousreply 7May 4, 2022 1:23 PM

[quote]Are they dangly earphones or mini speakers?

I believe they’re badge reels since she no doubt wears one on set so production remembers who she is.

by Anonymousreply 8May 4, 2022 1:31 PM

She doesn't need to play Norma, she's living it. This is pathetic. Who runs head long into a critical roasting? She's nuts.

by Anonymousreply 9May 4, 2022 1:32 PM

If she didn't win an Oscar for " Guardians of the Galaxy," then there is no chance.

by Anonymousreply 10May 4, 2022 1:37 PM

She's too old for Norma. Let her play the staircase.

by Anonymousreply 11May 4, 2022 1:41 PM

Isn't this woman getting rather old to play Norma?

Or any of the waxworks?

Looking like the Isotta-Fraschini on the blocks simply isn't enough.

by Anonymousreply 12May 4, 2022 1:43 PM

A film of this is unnecessary.

Let them do a play and film that, lGreat Performances style.

by Anonymousreply 15May 4, 2022 2:03 PM

I’m a GC fan but I doubt she’ll win a competitive Oscar. She’ll get an honorary one when she’s in her 80’s.

by Anonymousreply 16May 4, 2022 2:04 PM

It could be funny if Joe is 50 and a deluded "young" gigolo. But it changes the story quite a bit.

by Anonymousreply 17May 4, 2022 2:05 PM

I suppose they could use the miracle filter used on DeNiro to make him young. It was convincing. Very costly I think.

by Anonymousreply 18May 4, 2022 2:06 PM

I think she actually looks more like Kinski before the Nosferatu makeup went on, R5.

by Anonymousreply 19May 4, 2022 2:10 PM

Oh dear, look at her nails? Bitten and dirty. What has she been doing? Why is she showing them?

by Anonymousreply 20May 4, 2022 2:26 PM

She looks like grandpa Munster in the face

by Anonymousreply 21May 4, 2022 2:30 PM

"Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up!" [NORMA SITS IN THE CHAIR LIFT AND SLOWLY RIDES DOWN WHILE MAKING STRANGE 'VAMP' GESTURES']

by Anonymousreply 22May 4, 2022 3:05 PM

[quote]Prepare the Vaseline!

It would have to rival the BP spill in the Gulf.

by Anonymousreply 23May 4, 2022 3:11 PM

I never noticed that beak on her, before. I wonder why she never had the tip shaved off?

by Anonymousreply 24May 4, 2022 3:12 PM

Remember Glenn has contractually first right refusal and the penalty to deny her the role would be in the MILLIONS

by Anonymousreply 26May 5, 2022 12:52 AM

I would love to see the musical movie update the story to present day and have Madonna as Norma.

by Anonymousreply 27May 5, 2022 1:03 AM

I don't think the age is that important for this. Just get a guy in his 30s.

by Anonymousreply 28May 5, 2022 2:03 AM

There's got to be a Sunset on that clause though. When they signed with Close, they knew how long it took to get Evita on film.

by Anonymousreply 29May 5, 2022 2:07 AM

Glenn is currently 8563 years old. She’ll be great in that movie!

by Anonymousreply 30May 5, 2022 2:17 AM

[Quote] I would love to see the musical movie update the story to present day and have Madonna as Norma.

But with her new face, Madonna looks 16!

by Anonymousreply 31May 5, 2022 2:18 AM

At this point, they should just do a movie within a movie about Close trying to get the film made. She could still do all the best scenes from the show and ground it in a little more gritty reality at the same time.

I'd like to see Barbra do the same thing with Gypsy.

by Anonymousreply 32May 5, 2022 2:37 AM

“We’re getting closer, MY PRETTY!!!”

by Anonymousreply 33May 5, 2022 4:46 PM

It's a testament to how delusional Glenn is that she thinks she could pull off the love scenes at her age. At least with Gloria Swanson, there was SOME sense of her allure for Holden.

by Anonymousreply 34May 5, 2022 6:54 PM

Will she be playing Norma Deadmond?

by Anonymousreply 35May 5, 2022 6:55 PM

Is Glenn Close the new Brendad Ickson?

by Anonymousreply 36May 5, 2022 7:10 PM

Dear god what happened to her hair? Her forehead goes all the way back to her stem cells.

by Anonymousreply 37May 5, 2022 9:53 PM

Can't you just imagine her losing an Oscar to Barbra Streisand as Momma Rose?

by Anonymousreply 38May 5, 2022 9:59 PM

[quote] I would love to see the musical movie update the story to present day and have Madonna as Norma.

I would love to see the musical movie update the story to present hole

by Anonymousreply 39May 5, 2022 10:01 PM

Maybe in the update Max can service Joe orally, hating him, but fluffing him to penetrate Madame.

by Anonymousreply 40May 5, 2022 10:09 PM

Get Danny Mac the UK's most recent joe for r40

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by Anonymousreply 41May 5, 2022 10:14 PM

Someone joked in another thread that Catherine Zeta Jones could do this role but I think it would be great casting!

by Anonymousreply 43May 5, 2022 10:26 PM

I'd be delighted to play Betty Schafer.

by Anonymousreply 44May 5, 2022 10:27 PM

Zeta Jones could do it. For the love of Max Factor, Close is too old.

by Anonymousreply 45May 5, 2022 10:33 PM

Catherine has those great, old time looks and is a decent singer.

by Anonymousreply 47May 5, 2022 10:43 PM

CZJ is 52. Swanson was 50

I’d watch Danny Mac or Billy Magnusson fuck her.

by Anonymousreply 48May 5, 2022 10:45 PM

Zeta-Jones would be ideal. She's got the look, glamour, voice, and is the right age. She can be vampy and campy. She's also the only person who I can think of who'd be able to play Carlotta in Follies in a film version.

She could even keep her original Welsh accent for the part. It could be another reason why audiences turned on her. Maybe they couldn't understand her.

by Anonymousreply 49May 5, 2022 10:46 PM

And her pussy gives you cancer

by Anonymousreply 50May 5, 2022 10:47 PM

Lol R49 that accent comment is hilarious!

by Anonymousreply 51May 5, 2022 10:47 PM

Master Class is also on the way.

by Anonymousreply 52May 6, 2022 7:01 AM

I think she could star in this movie because attitudes have changed around age. Swanson was 50 and that was considered really old in 1950. Glen is 75 and that's old in 2022. But the people above are right, CZJ would be the best choice.

by Anonymousreply 53May 6, 2022 11:13 AM

In OP’s photo, she looks like Gollum about to say “My Precioussss.”

by Anonymousreply 54May 6, 2022 11:38 AM

But the movie wasn't about age, it was about the nature of fame and the nature of Hollywood (though age played a part in it.) Norma's gone psychiatric, yes, but she's not the Carol Burnett character - she's more analogous to an addict. She can't live without the work and everything that comes with. On some level, her desire for a return has to be believable or understandable, otherwise it's an accidental comedy where the viewer is laughing at, not with. A 75-year old anybody as Norma is simply going to be a joke.

Then you get to the fact this is a musical, whatever its merits. Patti LuPone is 73, Betty Buckley is 74, they could still sing it respectably but as above neither could play it. They're too old for the part. Glenn Close arguably could sing it, with lowered keys and generosity for her fame, when she originated it [italic]nearly thirty years ago.[/italic]

If Close really has got a Sunset clause without a sunset clause ALW can still buck it... his Cinderella stunt last week shows he's still happy to bulldoze when it comes to people's employment.

If it's to be done it should be done properly and cast properly.

by Anonymousreply 55May 6, 2022 12:41 PM

She's got so many Oscars to make up for, let's hope she's not angling to direct, too.

"In any case, the 1994 production was something of a triumph for Close; she was well-reviewed and won the Tony award. It pains me to say that her second outing as Norma is no triumph. Leave aside that she cannot sing the role, if she ever could. Her head voice is now pitchy and hooty; her chest voice raw and unregulated. (It’s also madly overamplified to achieve the effects deemed necessary in the big numbers.) Great acting was meant to compensate, but her new interpretation of Norma — a mite more playful and less otherworldly — actually makes things worse. The climactic final scenes in which she goes completely bonkers seem underprepared, and her insanity thus laughable instead of pitiable."

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by Anonymousreply 56May 6, 2022 12:43 PM

[quote] If Close really has got a Sunset clause without a sunset clause ALW can still buck it... his Cinderella stunt last week shows he's still happy to bulldoze when it comes to people's employment.

FIRE HER.

by Anonymousreply 57May 6, 2022 1:01 PM

While Desmond is supposed to be 50, in our minds, she’s 70

by Anonymousreply 60May 6, 2022 1:03 PM

It's less about age than about the art-form changing around her and leaving her behind. Not just that she aged out.

by Anonymousreply 62May 6, 2022 1:06 PM

I don't think anybody cares about this story anymore. If they could update it a bit, perhaps.

by Anonymousreply 63May 6, 2022 2:15 PM

Why doesn't Glenn direct CZJ? They could both be winners!

by Anonymousreply 64May 6, 2022 2:24 PM

Sunset Boulevard is very much a twentieth century story. I am surprised that any studio would ever green light this as a musical movie. Who will buy tickets for it? Not young people...

by Anonymousreply 65May 6, 2022 2:54 PM

I think there's a market for it on streaming, Glenn actually looks passable in that still from R56

by Anonymousreply 66May 6, 2022 3:16 PM

But in the 2017 review they said her voice was gone and she couldn't play the role. What is she going to do, have her voice dubbed? Or have Norma Desmond be auto-tuned? This seems like desperation on her part.

Give her an honorary Oscar, please. Then maybe she will calm down.

by Anonymousreply 67May 6, 2022 3:28 PM

r56 That still is wax. Still, she never looked so good!

by Anonymousreply 68May 6, 2022 3:29 PM

What do you mean wax r68?

by Anonymousreply 69May 6, 2022 3:39 PM

They should have filmed the Sunset revival

by Anonymousreply 71May 6, 2022 4:05 PM

r67 Glenn would have needed to have been in possession of a voice to lose it. I don’t think the caterwauling braying from her prime years counts.

by Anonymousreply 72May 6, 2022 4:07 PM

If Norma can be older, why not just use Streisand?

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by Anonymousreply 73May 6, 2022 4:10 PM

What are those things dangling from her ears?

Hearing aids!

by Anonymousreply 74May 6, 2022 4:12 PM

I can’t believe she has those terrible fingernails on full display.

by Anonymousreply 75May 6, 2022 4:18 PM

She sounded the same in 2017 as she did in 1994.

Take that how you will.

by Anonymousreply 76May 6, 2022 4:20 PM

R71 Someone did, both times!

by Anonymousreply 79May 6, 2022 5:43 PM

R73, because Streisand was offered the role ages ago and declined because she didn't think Norma was likable enough. At least that's the story I heard.

by Anonymousreply 80May 6, 2022 7:42 PM

Oh, God, R81, don't give her ideas.

by Anonymousreply 82May 6, 2022 9:26 PM

Diahann Carroll did it in Canada and I think she'd be much better than Glenn.

by Anonymousreply 83May 6, 2022 9:26 PM

[quote]Glenn Close Reveals SUNSET BOULEVARD Film is 'Getting Closer'

Glenn Close Reveals death is 'Getting Closer'

by Anonymousreply 84May 6, 2022 9:27 PM

All waxed up she looks like Patricia Hodge.

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by Anonymousreply 86May 6, 2022 9:43 PM

Poor Patricia Hodge; born with that unfortunate facial deformity.

by Anonymousreply 87May 6, 2022 10:18 PM

M sure is posting a lot these days. And I'm going only by the ones she signed!

by Anonymousreply 88May 7, 2022 9:14 AM

She should not do this film. She is not a good singer.

Give it to Patti Lupone.

by Anonymousreply 89May 7, 2022 9:21 AM

[quote] Diahann Carroll did it in Canada and I think she'd be much better than Glenn.

Me too.

by Anonymousreply 93May 7, 2022 11:33 AM

I don't like Barbra's rendition, there. Sounds like braying.

by Anonymousreply 94May 7, 2022 11:47 AM

You could play the movie on her forehead.

by Anonymousreply 95May 7, 2022 11:54 AM

I hope they put the magical singing antiques back in this version.

by Anonymousreply 96May 7, 2022 11:54 AM

It would be hilarious if Meryl Streep is cast as Norma Desmond.

by Anonymousreply 97May 7, 2022 11:58 AM

[quote]I don't like Barbra's rendition, there. Sounds like braying.

Always sounded to me like easy listening or elevator music, but then everything of hers did after about 1990.

by Anonymousreply 98May 7, 2022 12:05 PM

She ought film a documentary- Living as Albert Knobbs for a year-

by Anonymousreply 99May 7, 2022 12:37 PM

Patti’s early demo she writes about in her book. Just after arriving at London ALW took her to the studio and made her record two main songs. It is sensational version and better than cast recording version. If Glenn could song like Patti then maybe…

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by Anonymousreply 100May 7, 2022 1:29 PM

^ Boy, to hear it sung properly again you realize how many accommodations were made for Close.

by Anonymousreply 102May 7, 2022 1:37 PM

Saw LuPone in the Original London cast. She was phenomenal in the role.

by Anonymousreply 103May 7, 2022 3:08 PM

They need to look at the original movie again. Norma is a middle-aged eccentric relic, not a freak until the end.

by Anonymousreply 104May 7, 2022 4:22 PM

Now if they updated the story and had her as a famous actress from the 80’s who wants to make a comeback as a super hero version of Salome, that would be something. Or instead of hiring a screenwriter, she hires a social media guru or photographer. Something to change it.

by Anonymousreply 105May 7, 2022 5:05 PM

R100 sounds good mostly at beginning - like old fashioned operetta voice.

by Anonymousreply 107May 7, 2022 5:31 PM

At the nursing home, Glenn will be kept in solitary confinement because she constantly talks about Sunset Boulevard being “closer” to filming.

by Anonymousreply 108May 7, 2022 5:38 PM

Poor, poor Glenn...

It's not you, Glennie - you're still BIG!

The Oscars have gotten small...

by Anonymousreply 109May 7, 2022 5:40 PM

It's all so meta...

Glenn a sad older actress desperate to play a sad older actress, who can't accept that she's becoming irrelevant in her industry...

by Anonymousreply 110May 7, 2022 5:43 PM

Glenn sweetie, Gloria already did that and she had the decency to clean her nails first...

by Anonymousreply 111May 7, 2022 5:45 PM

I wonder if we could appease Glenn by giving her a fake Oscar and promising her that her "Hillbilly Elegy" Mamaw will become a huge cult hit 20 or 30 years after she's dead...

by Anonymousreply 112May 7, 2022 5:48 PM

I saw Glenn multiple times in the original, and while her voice wasn't the greatest, she made you believe she could sing. I'm not sure that would work all these years later.

by Anonymousreply 113May 7, 2022 5:54 PM

Is it closer to Peacock + with a rotation of aging real housewives + Glenn doing the Norma role? Not sure who would bankroll a film of this unless Glenn is using all of her own retirement money.

by Anonymousreply 114May 7, 2022 5:56 PM

r100

that is an awesome version and I love Patti but Glenn's version has more actual emotion(or something like that... it's hard for me to explain).. Patti's version is so technical

by Anonymousreply 115May 7, 2022 6:01 PM

Catherine Zeta Jones has that old showbiz air which Glenn completely lacks. It annoys me that Glenn has this trait of thinking like she owns the part, probably because she classes herself above the other actresses who played it. She's very pretentious.

by Anonymousreply 116May 7, 2022 6:14 PM

Glenn DOES own the part -- she has the contract to prove it.

by Anonymousreply 117May 7, 2022 6:15 PM

Hollywood is a business and Meryl Streep will bring more people to the film than Glenn. Meryl became an A lister after Devil Wears Prada, wheras Glenn has always been more in the realm of 'respected actress', and hasn't had a star performance since Fatal Attraction, unless you count the Cruella DeVille thing,

by Anonymousreply 118May 7, 2022 6:20 PM

Unless whoever makes the film is willing to first lose a lawsuit from Glenn it's only Glenn who will be paying the part.

by Anonymousreply 119May 7, 2022 6:21 PM

In this era, a major studio is not going to greenlight "Sunset Boulevard" starring Glenn Close.

It's not financially feasible unless Glenn commits her own money, as Lucille Ball did with "Mame".

by Anonymousreply 120May 7, 2022 6:26 PM

I'm not even sure they'd green light this movie with the biggest star in the world at the moment. Musicals are risky enough when they're good, but besides a few songs, Sunset Boulevard has a very unmemorable score and, anytime you're away from Norma, is a bit of a bore.

by Anonymousreply 121May 7, 2022 6:28 PM

What if some of the girls pooled their money together for a anthology miniseries?

Episode 1: Glenn in Sunset Blvd.

Episode 2: Barbra in Gypsy

Episode 3: Faye in Master Class

Episode 4: Suzanne Somers in The Blonde in the Thunderbird

by Anonymousreply 122May 7, 2022 6:28 PM

[quote]It's all so meta...Glenn a sad older actress desperate to play a sad older actress, who can't accept that she's becoming irrelevant in her industry

A documentary about Glenn's unending crusade to make this a movie would be far a more compelling story.

by Anonymousreply 123May 7, 2022 6:30 PM

ha R122 it'd be like a Make A Wish series for older actresses.

by Anonymousreply 124May 7, 2022 6:31 PM

Jesus, could that photo possibly be MORE UNFLATTERING??!!

by Anonymousreply 125May 7, 2022 6:34 PM

[quote] I'm not even sure they'd green light this movie with the biggest star in the world at the moment. Musicals are risky enough when they're good, but besides a few songs,

I'm not sure why you would say that? Cats was a smash at the movie box office

by Anonymousreply 126May 7, 2022 6:38 PM

I think the story works better for a woman of Glenn's age. Times have changed. 50 isn't really all that old anymore.

by Anonymousreply 127May 7, 2022 6:48 PM

[quote]50 isn't really all that old anymore.

It is for an actress. And it's still a period piece. And Glenn's periods are long gone.

by Anonymousreply 128May 7, 2022 6:51 PM

[quote] that is an awesome version and I love Patti but Glenn's version has more actual emotion(or something like that... it's hard for me to explain).. Patti's version is so technical

r115 remember that this was made before she'd even done the show for real

by Anonymousreply 129May 7, 2022 7:37 PM

Who do we want to see in the pool as Joe?

by Anonymousreply 130May 7, 2022 7:37 PM

Why can they do it on a tiny budget? Glenn doesn't need to draw a salary as its her passion project. She could convince one of her Hollywood friends to let them film in their mansion.

by Anonymousreply 132May 7, 2022 7:43 PM

[quote] "Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up!" [NORMA SITS IN THE CHAIR LIFT AND SLOWLY RIDES DOWN WHILE MAKING STRANGE 'VAMP' GESTURES']

lol

by Anonymousreply 134May 7, 2022 7:47 PM

Maybe we could create Hillbilly Elegy: The Musical and Glenn could sing Mawmaw... I mean, if Mawmaw sounds like a stage-three lung cancer patient grinding the gears on a standard, that wouldn't be a problem.

by Anonymousreply 135May 7, 2022 8:00 PM

[quote] She could convince one of her Hollywood friends to let them film in their mansion.

Yes, who needs a studio? I can bring them in with an Indie movie!

by Anonymousreply 136May 7, 2022 8:01 PM

Eh, no, Miss Close we just wanted to borrow your Prius.

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by Anonymousreply 137May 7, 2022 8:08 PM

That butch haircut on Glenn needs to go.

by Anonymousreply 138May 7, 2022 8:16 PM

^^^ Yes, hair and nails... what was she thinking?

by Anonymousreply 139May 7, 2022 8:17 PM

You can't transpose it and have it work. The transition from silents to talkies killed her career (along with the fact she'd probably lived through the shelf life over your average star... almost nobody lasts forever.) She was in an era where she had no options to retain her fame (barring a sensational murder trial, which crazy as she became I don't think was part of her plan.) She was too old to come back. That dead end held for actresses through the fifties and sixties and most of the seventies, though eventually Love Boat and the nightime soaps created opportunity in the 80s.

So let Close play it, but since 50 isn't so old today, apparently, let Norma be 60 or 70 or 75 in 1950. Except the height of the silents was between the 1910s and 1920s, so a 75-year old forgotten star in 1950 would mean she was a star around age 35. A bit long in the tooth when the big star Gloria Swanson was 16 in 1915. Mary Pickford was 23 the same year.

So you could move the story to just a forgotten movie star but why? That movie has been made, in 1950, starring Gloria Swanson. Just making another film about a forgotten star (who could probably still get on What's My Line? and Mike Douglas and the Tonight Show) doesn't break any new ground.

Today, a seventy-five year old could still command attention... between Instagram and the Daily Mail, Madonna will never go away. So a modern day Norma wouldn't be forgotten though she would be a freak show. Does anybody want to watch Glenn Close starring in a movie based on Madonna's elder years?

If they turn this to film they are making a movie of the musical - and that musical is based on the movie that has already told the tale and is held among the film classics. At any other point in time almost every song needs a rewrite and lots of the dialogue. Who says "we didn't need words, we had faces?" past about 1960? How does Max sing "when we met, she was a child, barely sixteen..." "With one look, I put words to shame..." It just becomes a quagmire. There's nothing left. The critics will have a field day. It will be Ishtar or Heaven's Gate or CATS.

Selznick had a line that saved him a lot of grief: You don't fuck with a classic.

Glenn Close needs to stop embarrassing herself over this.

by Anonymousreply 140May 7, 2022 8:25 PM

How much of a budget does this need? $15M?

by Anonymousreply 141May 7, 2022 8:29 PM

^^^ I'm sure Glenn has all her old costumes... and they still fit!

by Anonymousreply 142May 7, 2022 8:32 PM

La La Land cost $30 million. Mamma Mia! cost $52 million.

by Anonymousreply 143May 7, 2022 8:32 PM

And just think how much they have to pay G to reprise her singing triumph.

by Anonymousreply 144May 7, 2022 8:35 PM

R40 you made me laugh out loud!

by Anonymousreply 145May 7, 2022 8:35 PM

Posthumous honorary Oscar seems more likely.

by Anonymousreply 147May 7, 2022 8:36 PM

The relationship between Norma and Joe is a critical part of the story. 30-something Joe with 50ish Norma is plausible. With an 80ish Norma it's disturbing.

by Anonymousreply 148May 7, 2022 8:44 PM

50 might not be today what it meant back then but at the oldest you'd want somebody 60 not older. Somebody in their 70s could play the monkey.

by Anonymousreply 149May 7, 2022 8:46 PM

Why is M acting so superior? Frances McDormand has three Best Actress Oscars. M just 2.

Fran is the new queen of the Oscars. (and M's implied nudity at the end of that apocalypse film is so disturbing.)

by Anonymousreply 150May 7, 2022 10:34 PM

It just seems doomed. Wasn't she trying to get Ryan Murphy attached at some point? Seems like a perfect project for him, but if even he had issues with it, it's probably time to give it up. She played the role twice on stage to mostly acclaim.

I'd say they can just wait out the contract until she dies, but I get the feeling Glenn might live into her hundreds and, by that time, Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez will be the names mentioned to play Norma.

by Anonymousreply 151May 7, 2022 11:11 PM

She must be a joke around Hollywood.

by Anonymousreply 152May 7, 2022 11:24 PM

Musicals don't do well at the box office. Looks at the disastrous performance of Cats and the West Side Story remake. Popular entertainment has completely changed, it's all urban black influenced now.

by Anonymousreply 153May 8, 2022 12:13 AM

I still wish Liza played Evita. Glenn would be fine as Norma. God knows she can play it in her sleep. Yet the thought of Liza as Evita - now that’s a movie!

by Anonymousreply 156May 8, 2022 12:33 AM

It doesn’t really matter if she wins this award. She’s had a long and illustrious career. She’s been working all along. The reward is to be a well respected working actor. She already has that.

by Anonymousreply 157May 8, 2022 12:36 AM

Everybody seems to think so but her. She just can't chill out.

by Anonymousreply 158May 8, 2022 2:24 AM

I'd say say she's gotten the better end of the bargain. She has no Oscar, but her performance in Fatal Attraction has become iconic ad will be remembered for decades to come. Most Oscar winning performances and movies are forgotten a week after the ceremony.

by Anonymousreply 159May 8, 2022 2:51 AM

Not sure if this was really 6 years ago but sh~ sounds good and acts the shit out of this number

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by Anonymousreply 162May 8, 2022 11:54 AM

And this one. Surely if she can't sing now they can just use her old recordings and rejig them in the studio?

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by Anonymousreply 163May 8, 2022 11:55 AM

That would be a great compromise, if you want a 75 year old playing twenty-five years younger and there are no other actresses of the right age who could actually sing it.

by Anonymousreply 164May 8, 2022 12:39 PM

I don't know if she keeps bringing it up or just keeps getting asked about it.

by Anonymousreply 165May 8, 2022 1:37 PM

You'd think she'd have a better answer than one that makes her look foolish. 75 can't play 50. She looks great for 75, but not great enough for 50.

by Anonymousreply 166May 8, 2022 1:39 PM

With the hairline, she's closer to playing Max.

by Anonymousreply 167May 8, 2022 1:42 PM

They'll give her an insulting fucking honorary degree just before she kicks the bucket.

by Anonymousreply 168May 8, 2022 1:49 PM

Glenn could do it for scale to keep costs down.

Maybe even shoot in her backyard

by Anonymousreply 169May 8, 2022 1:59 PM

Norma is deluded and living in a fantasy world, [italic] and [/italic] she speak-sings, "I can play any role."

So, what if it's a meta version that takes place all in Norma's head, and she does indeed play [italic] all [/italic] the roles-- Glenn as Norma! Glenn as Norma as Joe! Glenn as Norma as Max! Glenn as Norma pleasuring herself as imaginary Joe finger-bangs her while she sings "The Perfect Year." I smell Oscar. (At least that what I hope that smell is.)

by Anonymousreply 170May 8, 2022 2:16 PM

Which Norma casting would make Glenn freak out more: Meryl Streep or Olivia Colman?

by Anonymousreply 171May 8, 2022 2:32 PM

I think our Faye could be legendary as Norma in a modern remake! Her swansong! Faye rattling round an old mansion, preparing for her comeback. Going to plastic surgeons for facelifts and fillers. Channing Tatum as Joe, Anthony Hopkins as Max. Faye watching China Town every night, hiring and firing little homosexual boy assistants. Revisiting the old studio in her vintage Rolls Royce. Cameos by veteran actors playing themselves; Warren Beatty, Shirley McClaine, et.al. I'm ready for my close up Mr Spielberg, 'WHAT is a Kardashian!'

by Anonymousreply 172May 8, 2022 2:40 PM

[quote] Norma is deluded and living in a fantasy world, and she speak-sings, "I can play any role."

What a wonderful idea! It could all be in Glenn/Gloria's mind. She could play all the roles in the movie like Eddie Murphy does in his movies. If nobody else is in the movies, it might be easier for her to get the Oscar nod.

by Anonymousreply 173May 8, 2022 2:45 PM

Will this conflict with the Frank Perdue biopic she’ll be starring in?

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by Anonymousreply 175May 8, 2022 2:53 PM

OP- Is the day Glenn Close announces she's a LESBIAN getting closer?

by Anonymousreply 177May 8, 2022 2:56 PM

R175- Back in the late 1970's and early 1980's I thought that Perdue reminded me of Ed Koch.

by Anonymousreply 178May 8, 2022 2:57 PM

R177 not according to that carpenter she reportedly blew at the Minsk

by Anonymousreply 179May 8, 2022 3:01 PM

Wasn't there stories Glenn was as randy as a goat when younger?

by Anonymousreply 180May 8, 2022 3:36 PM

She looks like she's ready to play Popeye in a remake of the 1980 movie.

by Anonymousreply 182May 8, 2022 5:47 PM

I've come to the conclusion her unstable childhood and youth actually created a Glenn Close that is kinda nuts - her old lady freak is just trampling her inside voice.

by Anonymousreply 183May 8, 2022 5:49 PM

They should make a documentary movie about Glenn Close relentlessly pursuing the role of an aging actress relentlessly pursuing a role. It's the same story!

by Anonymousreply 184May 8, 2022 5:55 PM

After her embarrassing and distasteful "da Butt" dance the Academy should not allow her anywhere near the Oscars.

by Anonymousreply 185May 8, 2022 6:01 PM

[quote] They should make a documentary movie about Glenn Close relentlessly pursuing the role of an aging actress relentlessly pursuing a role. It's the same story!

Yes, they could add CGI effect and Glenn could morph into Gloria on screen! Green screen extra.

by Anonymousreply 186May 8, 2022 6:50 PM

Glenn has always wanted to be considered sexy and desirable. Watch interviews about Dangerous Liaisons - all she can talk about is how great her tits looked

by Anonymousreply 187May 8, 2022 6:55 PM

At least Glenn still looks normal.

I assume part of the reason she's still the second busiest actresses her age (after Streep) is that she doesn't look weird.

Of course if Norma was alive now she's be pumped with enough fillers to pass for a Hindenburg.

by Anonymousreply 188May 8, 2022 6:57 PM

She's very Norma here...

when she says she likes someone to cling to.

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by Anonymousreply 189May 8, 2022 7:05 PM

Does "Sunset Boulevard" still resonate when the likes of Glenn Close, Streep etc. are headlining projects into their seventies and eighties?

by Anonymousreply 190May 8, 2022 7:07 PM

Catherine Zeta-Jones should play Norma.

by Anonymousreply 191May 8, 2022 7:49 PM

R189- OMG

she TOTALLY looks like Albert Nobbs there

by Anonymousreply 192May 8, 2022 9:11 PM

Albert Nobbs IS Norma Desmond in Drag!

by Anonymousreply 193May 8, 2022 10:54 PM

R162 R163 you have ZERO information literacy. That concert was in 1998.

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by Anonymousreply 194May 8, 2022 11:20 PM

She looks like a demonic gimlet creature.

by Anonymousreply 195May 8, 2022 11:27 PM

She just played the role, quite well like 5 years ago. She can still do it now especially on film with all the tricks they use.

by Anonymousreply 196May 9, 2022 5:24 AM

Catherine Zeta- Jones is ovah. I can't even think of the last time she had a lead role in a film.

by Anonymousreply 197May 9, 2022 5:25 AM

R197 - she the right age, and has the acting and singing chops. She also has a classic silent movie star look. Glenn Close has morphed into Prince Charles.

by Anonymousreply 198May 9, 2022 5:38 AM

At 33 Catherine Zeta-Jones is far too young for the role.

by Anonymousreply 199May 9, 2022 5:45 AM

Doesn't CZJ make Lifetime movies these days?

by Anonymousreply 200May 9, 2022 5:54 AM

The joke is I don't think any of the money men want to make this movie or it would have happened by now if not before now, properly cast. It might - [italic] might [/italic] - be a critical hit but who's the audience? Where's the profit? It lost money on Broadway. You'd need a lot more than Glenn Close's obsession and some show queens to get your money back now. This isn't a movie. It's a special event one time only revival for Great Performances on PBS.

by Anonymousreply 203May 9, 2022 12:39 PM

Doesn't Glenn Close effectively make straight-to-video movies these days? No one goes to a theater to see them.

by Anonymousreply 204May 10, 2022 12:20 AM

The Oscar snub actually seems to have boosted her career. She got a nomination for the otherwise panned Hillbilly Elegy. Plus had a key role in Swan Song.

She has two major films coming up with Josh Brolin in one and one in a Lee Daniels film.

The Daniels film sounds like it may have a good role for her.

by Anonymousreply 205May 10, 2022 12:24 AM

Dan from "Fatal Attraction"'s testicles.

by Anonymousreply 206May 10, 2022 12:34 AM

[quote]The Daniels film sounds like it may have a good role for her.

[italic]Demon House: A family living in a home in Indiana discover strange, demonic occurrences that convince them and the community that the house is a portal to hell.[/italic]

It is extremely difficult to get a horror movie right. The brief summary sounds a bit schlocky, but it's all in the execution.

by Anonymousreply 207May 10, 2022 4:39 AM

Aside from Sunset Boulevard, Glenn has also had two other film projects in development for a very long time:

FLIGHT: The story of Anne Spoerry, the first female flying doctor in Africa.

DUCHESS: An aging woman who gained notoriety decades earlier for posing as Russian Duchess Anastasia, embarks on a secret road trip honeymoon in Virginia with her American husband.

For the first one I assume Glenn is the present day character whose story is told via flashback with a young actress. Both projects actually sound really interesting, especially the second one, for which Glenn seems like a great casting choice. Let's get these films fast tracked, people!

by Anonymousreply 208May 10, 2022 4:47 AM

r207 I'm curious about it since Close is the only white cast member so she is obviosly not part of the family

I wonder if she is the Zelda Rubinstein type character. Could provide her with lots of theatrics.

by Anonymousreply 209May 10, 2022 6:19 AM

Glenn would be divine in that First Lady show.

As George Washington, naturally.

by Anonymousreply 210May 10, 2022 7:10 PM

Uh oh! Does Glenn/Gloria know?

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by Anonymousreply 211May 11, 2022 12:06 AM

If she is at least she could wear some of her turbans.

by Anonymousreply 212May 11, 2022 1:48 AM

She is so, so wrong for this project, which itself is misconceived.

by Anonymousreply 213May 11, 2022 2:22 AM

Alas, I’m always far too young to play the roles I’m desired to play most by my adoring public. It’s a true curse…

by Anonymousreply 214May 11, 2022 4:54 AM

I always thought the real reason she was perceived to have succeeded in the role is that she so shamelessly camped it up - coming closer to Carol Burnett's version, which by the 90s more people would have remembered than remembered the movie. There was no subtlety to the performance and she was among the least capable of all the women who sang it. If she'd originated the part with the voice and that bombast, I bet she would have been slaughtered by the critics, although that would in part be down to that style of performance in the middle of that gargantuan, burlesque set and the theatre media's reflexive dislike of ALW. Still, if she'd come first, instead of later in the flow of drama out of that turkey, I bet she'd be remembered for failing, not succeeding. As it is, her attachment to the show is turning her into a joke. The aging actress who can't win an Oscar and can't let go of a part she's too old to play. Is she more Norma Desmond or Baby Jane?

by Anonymousreply 215May 11, 2022 1:04 PM

Oh, hush. Close had played the role twice, decades apart, and she has been well reviewed both times. Patti LuPone was not well reviewed. You may love her as a "beltress" but facts are facts.

by Anonymousreply 216May 11, 2022 4:59 PM

LuPone is usually known for chewing the scenery, but her Norma was almost like a wounded animal. She came to life when she was singing, but her performance was much more vulnerable than I was expecting.

by Anonymousreply 217May 11, 2022 7:03 PM

Sounds like Betty Buckley in GYPSY.

by Anonymousreply 218May 11, 2022 7:17 PM

I agree... she played it soft... I'm guessing directed to play it soft to contrast with Swanson, whereas Close did an imitation.

by Anonymousreply 219May 11, 2022 7:26 PM

No. Paige did an imitation, and a good one.

by Anonymousreply 220May 11, 2022 7:31 PM

LuPone seemed oddly confused in Sunset. Like she didn't know where she should stand, what scene came next etc.

It was a strangely amateur performance only made worse by the high expectations of the audience. It just seemed like she should be brilliant in the role.....but she wasn't.

by Anonymousreply 221May 12, 2022 12:08 AM

Maybe she was pararnoid about repeating her Eva Peron performance, so she underplayed.

by Anonymousreply 222May 12, 2022 12:27 AM

[quote] After her embarrassing and distasteful "da Butt"

Exactly! It was vile, vulgar and humiliating and tokenist and ugliness exemplified.

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