![]() ![]() since 3 years now I have been living with this virus and it has been giving me challenges, I was so perplexed cause i have been taking several drugs to be cured but all of my effort was in vain,one. Said Laurents on NPR, "So we wound up with Rosalind Russell in two-tone shoes."Īm here to appreciate Dr Ogudugu for using his herbal medicine to cure my Herpes virus. Laurents felt that was ridiculous as Garland would've been playing a middle-aged mother in a story that covers about 15 years. Warner, to Laurents' ire, nixed his' wish saying that Garland was 15 pounds too heavy. Garland, the daughter of an irresponsible show biz mother, was on a career high point the time having done a sensational, now-famous, 1961 concert at Carnegie Hall and scored a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her role in the 1961 Nazi trial drama, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG. Ironically, Arthur Laurents told National Public Radio some years ago that he wanted Judy Garland to play Rose in the 1962 Warner Bros. I see it as a strong musical drama that could've been done without musical numbers. The way Liza Minnelli broke down GYPSY to me is why I've never look at it in the same way since. When boys are in their mid-teens, their hormones are spinning like they're in those giant teacups at Disneyland. She has those boys and her girls sleeping in the same room with no barriers, no privacy. Rose has recruited about a half dozen teen boys to be in the act as back-up dancers and go on the road with them. Rose passes them off as pre-teens in their vaudeville act. Louise and her sister, June, are in their teens. Goldstone, I Love You" number is an upbeat number that's really a chilling example of Rose's parental irresponsibility. She finds her voice as an independent person. In that strip debut, Louise becomes a new star. It's Rose who coaxes her insecure daughter to do the strip in that seedy joint. There's emotional conflict because Rose has always wanted the star spot, to be the center of attention, and to be sexually attractive to the men. When the young, shapely and pretty newly-named Gypsy Rose Lee goes out the make her stripper debut, it's not for a sexual thrill. Rose was manipulative, irresponsible and had a huge ego. That gave some burlesque houses a seedy reputation. At burlesque houses, according to real-life former strippers, it was customary to see men in the audience pleasure themselves with newspapers over their laps. She told me that, during and after the Depression, America needed some kind of emotional release. Liza said that, in real life, the Rose character was in her early 40s and, at that time in society, women married a lot younger.Īs for the burlesque, Liza had done research about attitudes at that time in society. Liza added that, although some people may have thought her too young to play the role in a production that covers about 15 years, she said that folks often assume Rose was older because Merman was about 50 when she did the play. As Liza said, "Remember that she calls Louise (Gypsy) a 'no talent ox.' What kind of loving mother says a thing like that about her child?" Rose will use anybody to get what she wants. She's obsessed with her two kids and obsessed with her kids making her frozen dreams come true. Liza reminded me in conversation that Rose was not a sweet, selfless mother.
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