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 Rose
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| posted: 1/10/2006 at 11:16:02 PM ET
Thanks. LOL
"Oh no, you won't. No, not a chance. No arguements, shut up and dance." -You'll Never Get Away From Me
"And if it wasn't for me then where would you be Miss Gypsy Rose Lee?" -Rose's Turn
|  GraceAnne
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thanks  !!
|  bp=bp
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i got the magazine today, and i cant find the article!!! ahh!
-Becca
| Rose
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| posted: 2/26/2006 at 1:56:45 PM ET
How did you get the magizine?
"Oh no, you won't. No, not a chance. No arguements, shut up and dance." -You'll Never Get Away From Me
"And if it wasn't for me then where would you be Miss Gypsy Rose Lee?" -Rose's Turn
| bp=bp
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10/14/2005 | posted: 2/26/2006 at 6:58:02 PM ET
i bought it.
-Becca
| *Nicolette*
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8/9/2005 | posted: 2/26/2006 at 9:42:50 PM ET
Does anyone have the whole article?
|  moljul
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| posted: 2/26/2006 at 10:50:39 PM ET
I really hate to break this to you but you responded to a VERY old thread that was started in March of 2003 which was the Vogue we were talking about - March 2003!
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| bp=bp
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10/14/2005 | posted: 2/27/2006 at 8:34:10 AM ET
lmao. well, THAT would explain it. thanks
-Becca
|  Jean
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This is a picture from the article:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/flamingo21044/album?.dir=9f3b&.src=ph
(I have to admit I got a good--if a bit perverse--laugh from this thread; thanks all!)
| Jean
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These are excerpts from the article, which is titled, "People are Talking About-Bernadette Peters":
"I should confess at this point that Peters was the first woman I ever saw, in person, without her clothes. I was ten and had been taken backstage after a matinee of “On the Town” to meet her. I knocked on her dressing-room door and, for some reason, didn’t wait for her to say “Come in” before pushing it open, to find the 23-year-old starlet in all her naked glory. It was a magnificent sight, one that made a lasting impression.
Thirty-one years later, I am sitting with Peters, who was last seen on Broadway in the 1999 revival of “Annie Get Your Gun”, at a corner table at Cafe Luxembourg, in New York. With her strawberry-blonde curls, porcelain complexion, and luscious-as-a-gumdrop figure--accentuated this afternoon by clingy black sweater and pants--Peters still looks, at 54, like an ingenue. For an actress of a certain age, youthful sex appeal and girlish charm are not, by most reckonings, considered liabilities. But these are the hurdles Peters must plow through when she barrels onto the stage of the Shubert Theater-and into the short, stout shadow cast by the ghost of Ethel Merman. Peters, of course, has appeared as an artist's mistress (Sunday in the Park with George), a romantically confused London expat (Song and Dance), and even a witch (Into the Woods), but can she play a character whom the late drama critic Walter Kerr once called "the very mastodon of all stage mothers," and whom Laurents describes simply as "a monster"?
Peters already has a leg up. When she was thirteen, she spent a year touring the country in a road company of “Gypsy” that starred Mitzi Green. "When I started working on the songs a few months ago, I realized that 1'd been living with this show for nearly my entire life," she says. Peters played one of the Hollywood Blondes and under-studied the role of Dainty June, the daughter who escapes Rose by running off with a chorus boy. (Peters went on in the part only once, after the regular Dainty June got hit on the head by a piece of scenery.) In an echo of the show, Peters's sister, Donna understudied Louise, June's mousy sister, who grows up to become Gypsy Rose Lee. (The lovely Tammy Blanchard, who won an Emmy for her astonishing portrayal of Judy Garland in a 2001 biopic, will play Louise in the new production.) They were accompanied by their mother, Marguerite, who Peters insists was not a real-life Rose.
"She always said, 'I'm not one of those stage mothers,' " Peters recalls in her baby-doll voice. "She was a riot, a bundle of energy, and everyone adored her--
she sometimes made lasagna for the entire cast and crew. She had the time of
her life. And we always had a deal that I could quit whenever I wanted."
If Marguerite was no Rose, she did play a huge role in steering her daughter's career. When Peters, a baker's daughter from Queens, was three, her mother started her on singing lessons. At five, she began appearing on “The Horn & Hardart Children’s Hour”, a live Sunday-morning variety show on NBC. For her first outing, Peters sang a number called "Ragtime Cowboy Joe." "Afterward, my mother said, 'You did it!' I said, 'I did? What did I do?'"
Marguerite, who as a child had run numbers for her father, took Peters to auditions and tap lessons, typed her resume on a manual typewriter, and counseled her daughter to change her last name from Lazzara. She also took enormous pride in her accomplishments. (Peters's brother, Joseph, once found their mother watching three television sets, each tuned to a different network, while listening to the radio. "Bernadette is in two commercials and a voice-over," she explained, "and I'm not going to miss them.") As it turns out, she harbored unrealized ambitions of her own. "My mother loved show business," Peters
says. "She had wanted to be an actress, but her own mother, who was from the Old Country, wouldn't let her. As far as my grandmother was concerned, I was as close to a whore as you could be without, you know, getting on your back."
One can see why Arthur Laurents, who directed both Broadway revivals of Gypsy, believes that Peters has what it takes to play Rose. "I figured she could be the biggest killer of them all--a killer with a smile," he says in his pointed, staccato voice. "She looks so sweet and adorable, but she's tough. Plus, the real Rose looked a lot like Bernadette-she was what they used to call a curvaceous blonde-and Bernadette will be able to play her as she really was, a woman who could get what she wanted from a man by wrapping him around her little finger. With Ethel Merman, there was no sex. Bernadette is all sex."
Sam Mendes also scoffs at the idea that Peters is a poor match for the role. "I hear it about my casting choices every time out," he says. " 'Natasha Richardson can't play Sally Bowles,' 'Kevin Spacey can't be a married man with a midlife crisis. Tom Hanks can’t play a hit man. Just wait and see-it's going to make you revisit the show in a whole different way."
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Written by Adam Green, from Vogue, March 2003
| moljul
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| posted: 2/27/2006 at 1:56:00 PM ET
Thanks for that Jean. I hadn't read the article in a long time so even just some excerpts were fun.
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| bp=bp
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10/14/2005 | posted: 2/27/2006 at 2:03:32 PM ET
thanks for that post. and that picture is adorable!!!
-Becca
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