THE STREISAND EFFECT

[GUEST]

Love her or hate her she is one of the greatest talents this country has ever produced and like Linda she is a strong woman with a keen sense of right and wrong and terrific political insight. She puts her "money where her mouth is" and is not one to back down from the good fight. Fortunately for her fans she has remained active in so many ways and will soon be back on the big screen doing one of the many things she does best:

Tuesday, 13 March 2012
JULIAN FELLOWES TO ADAPT SCREENPLAY FOR STREISAND & SILVER’S GYPSY IN DEVELOPMENT AT UNIVERSAL PICTURES

LOS ANGELES, CA, March 13, 2012—Producers Barbra Streisand and Joel Silver have set Academy Award®-winning writer Julian Fellowes to pen the screenplay adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ Tony Award winning musical, Gypsy, which Ms. Streisand and Mr. Silver are currently developing for Universal Pictures. Ms. Streisand will portray “Momma Rose” in the new version, her first musical film since Yentl in which the Oscar®-winning actress and iconic singer starred, produced, co-wrote and directed in 1983.

Fellowes won the Original Screenplay Academy Award® for Gosford Park and most recently earned the Emmy and Golden Globe for creating and writing the acclaimed miniseries, Downton Abbey. His musical theatre work includes adapting the script for Disney’s stage production of Mary Poppins.

Gypsy has exhilarated audiences on both stage and screen since its first Broadway run in 1959 with Ethel Merman. Since then, the compelling story based on the memoirs of the famous striptease artist, Gypsy Rose Lee, has spawned numerous reincarnations including the 1962 film starring Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood, four Broadway revivals, as well as a made-for-television movie.

A celebrated artist, Streisand has gathered Oscar®, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America and Golden Globe awards, winning Oscars® for both, Best Actress (Funny Girl) and Best Original Song (for her composition of “Evergreen” from her production of A Star Is Born).

Gypsy marks Silver’s first foray into Broadway movie musicals after a career of producing several commercially-successful films including the Lethal Weapon, The Matrix, Die Hard and Sherlock Holmes franchises.
Posted by Craig - BarbraNews.com

[rick]

Thank you, GUEST, for posting this. I had read about this earlier in March when it was announced on Deadline.com.
Of course, before the cameras roll on "Gypsy," Streisand has another film in the can set for release later this year. Previously titled "My Mother's Curse," the film "Guilt Trip" co-stars Streisand and Seth Rogen as a mother and son embarking on a cross-country trip together.

From BarbraArchives.com

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" Paramount is screening My Mother's Curse again this week in the L.A.-area ... and it's titled The Guilt Trip on the invitation! I can't figure out if they're using a “decoy title” or if they're seriously considering renaming the picture. It's due out in theaters November 2, 2012. [Description: A young inventor feeling guilty about not spending enough time with his widowed mother, invites her on a business sales road trip as he attempts to sell a new organic cleaning product he invented to marketing outlets. She agrees to come - but both seem to have ulterior motives - and they aren't about selling cleaning products! He hopes to reunite his mother with a man she loved earlier in life, while his mother hopes to use this time together to help him overcome his "curse" of non-commitment in relationships.
[Paramount] is changing the name of the previously titled Seth Rogen-Barbra Streisand comedy My Mother's Curse to The Guilt Trip. The film's release date of Nov. 2 remains the same. "

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[the Scribe]

This role sounds perfect for Barbra. She could become the perfect character actress in her later years.