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A flick about the life of Judy Garland in the works! The Weinsteins GET HAPPY!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Looks like the Weinsteins want to get into the Judy Garland business. They've optioned a book called GET HAPPY: THE LIFE OF JUDY GARLAND written by Gerald Clarke, whose Truman Capote biography was optioned and turned into CAPOTE a few years back. Variety has the story!
That was a solid movie and I have no doubt that Garland's notorious high ups and low downs life will make for an incredible vehicle for an actress.
I'm wondering if this trend will continue. There's already a Steve McQueen biopic in the works. I wonder how many vintage stars' life will be retold if one of these movies gets made and does well, either with Awards or hits big at the Box Office.
Now the casting ideas begin. Who could play Judy Garland? I'd insist the actress can sing in that gorgeous baritone that Garland hit. I'm drawing a blank trying to think of someone known. Who could be youthfully innocent, but also play the older, haunted Garland? Thoughts?
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mmHmmm.
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CURSE YOU WHITE RUSSIANS! CURSE YOU AWESOME BAR OF THE GODS FOR HAVING WIFI!
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She could probably do anything, and she already knows age make-up inside and out. You're not going to get anything better with someone who looks more like Garland.
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Read that somewhere. Insane. As for Garland, they should cast a new face.
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Feb 04, 2009 12:48:21 AM CST
Sam Jackson if you can get him, otherwise Zooey Deschanel
by badmrwonka
or maybe Casey Affleck? maybe they can fold this into Oceans 14...
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With Judy Davis and Tammy Blanchard. (I think that's her name.) I think biopics need a rest. Cadillac Records was a pretty good movie, but I still felt like I'd seen it a bunch of times. It's the same story over and over. Just like how all the "Behind the Music"s fell into a few categories. Someone stole all their money, they were on drugs/OD'd, or someone turned out to be gay, etc. I think Elton John was the only one who had all 3. What is it with those musicians/entertainers and their patterns?
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Both can sing. Blunt because she's a good actress, Wood because she's batshit crazy, rather like Garland.
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Feb 04, 2009 1:27:43 AM CST
All I can think of is Quentin Crisp's comment's on Garland
by sepulchrave
How amazed he was when her first saw her on the big screen. Her staring eyes and fat neck.
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We all know that this "bitch of a movie" is the best biopic for an actor/actress ever made! "Don't fuck with me, fellas! This ain't the first time I've been to the rodeo!"
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Winslet will campaign like a whore for this shit.
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EVER. worst actress i have ever seen. EVER!! id fuck tho
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"Lions and Tigers and Bears, Aw Hell NO!"
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C'mon, he needs the work...Have you seen those scary infomercials where he looks like an animatronic skeleton? PATRICK DUFFY!!!
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Feb 04, 2009 6:23:01 AM CST
get Kristin Wigg from Saturday Night Live- seriously!
by cotton mcknight
She played Judy Garland opposite Bill Hader's Vincent price in one of those Thanksgiving special skits. Funniest damn thing I have seen on that show in forever.
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I think she would knock it out of the park.
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She's been playing Judy for years.
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I know you're just causing trouble, but could you possibly exaggerate more? C'mon, even if you don't like her, there are lots of horrible actresses out there.
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in fact i just recently saw tin man and was shocked how bad everyone was in that
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Great actress, Strong resemblance, can already sing and is very good at playing drug addicts. Also experienced in bad relationships...hehe
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Duh.
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She's already played her before in the ABC Miniseries "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows" go to IMDB and look her up. No that's not pics of Judy Garland, that's Judy Davis! Eerie as all get out, you'd swear it was her ghost.
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I would choose Zooey Deschanel. Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway are good choices too. In reality they'll probally cast reese Witherspoon. Either way who cares! I wanna see biopics of Hendrix and Joplin! Who would you all choose to play Hendrix? What happened to the Joplin movie with Zooey? Deschanel anyway.
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Feb 04, 2009 11:06:06 AM CST
Who would want to watch this film other than drag queens?
by blackmantis
Seriously. You think Joe Six Pack is going to race down to the multiplex to see a Judy Garland biopic. Joe Fudge Pack maybe.
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They are currently running with a Janis Joplin biopic storyline on '30 Rock' and it is hilarious. Universal doesn't have the rights yet, so until they do it is the "Janet Joppler Story" with songs like 'Take Another Little Chunk of my Lung'. Jane Krakowski is funnier than she's been in the whole show's run as the actress desperate to play Joplin even though she knows nothing about her. "Take a note from Janis, she knew when to say when. I'm only halfway through the book, how does it end?"
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His comeback movie directed by QT. It's got Oscar written all over it
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for Hendrix. Course he's too old now; shame.
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La Winslet would be a good choice. She's already had a hit single and belted out tracks elsewhere so her pipes could handle the tunes (though her natural pitch is a little higher than Garland's), and she can do both young and older pretty well. Plus she'd have no problems with any of the darker stuff. And, finally, she'd look damn sweet wearing one of those pointy conical bras they used to wear ...
But the hell with that question - for the inevitable scenes where she's shooting "A Star Is Born" who the hell is going to play James Mason? And Mickey Rooney in one of those "Andy Hardy" movies for that matter ... ? -
That's my pick.
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She needs her Best Actress Oscar now.
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He did a great job on SNL. And Mickey Rooney should be played by Mickey Rooney. Unless you can find a troll.
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Where are you and what can you see Anne Hathaway pulling off? If it is a dress, I'll be there in 5 minutes.
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Because she's, you know, pulling off her dress...and she's hot. And I would like to see something like that.
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Quint, do you know anything about music? Judy Garland isn't a baritone. Howard Keel is a baritone. Judy is an alto. You could also call her a belter.
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They should just dub it. Judy Garland is the best singer that ever lived. There isn't a person on earth that can sing like she can. The closest anyone's ever come is her daughter, and Liza's even got a totally different tone quality.
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Probably why Liza is so weird.
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Amy Adams all the way.
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"Dey tol' me go over da rainbow and I say no...no...no."
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Why not? he's in everything else and equally shitty in them
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And here is why:
This is what you said (word by word) you're looking for in the actress that will play Judy:
-"Actress can sing": Anne Hathaway is a trained Soprano and kicks butt on stage (without going to far, and without trying to hard, she stole Jackman's thunder in that intro of them at the oscars).
-"I'm drawing a blank trying to think of someone known": Annie is America's sweetheart, or isnt people calling her the new "Julia Roberts"? We love her and Critics love her, everybody loves her (something she has in comun with Garland)
-"Who could be youthfully innocent, but also play the older, haunted Garland? Thoughts?" Yeah, Anne Hathaway looks youthfully innocent, and earned her first oscar nom doing just what you are looking for as the dark side of Garland.
That kid will blow people away as Judy Garland....
And just as a bunus: She kinda looks like Judy, and is able to carry a movie by herself.
I tell you she wont dissapoint and even tho she already proof she can act, and sing, people will be surprised by her. That kid is pure magic on screen. -
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