Video Clips: March 2008 Archives

Patti Lupone is wowing 'em on Broaday in "Gypsy" and her final big number, "Rose's Turn," is said to be astonishing. I decided to surf around Youtube for some of the previous versions to share with you. Take a look then vote for who you think is best through the comments section. I'll post the results if enough people participate!

Bette Midler in the 1993 television production of "Gypsy" which aired on CBS as a three-hour special. Bette was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance and later admitted to being "pissed off" that she didn't win since she had showed up at the ceremonies and even sang!

Bernadette Peters performed the number at the 57th Tony Awards and, I think, silenced the critics who thought she was miscast. She is absolutely fantastic. She didn't win the Tony that year but already had two at home.

Here is Tyne Daly who won a well-deserved Tony in 1989 for her Rose. Wow! I had only heard her on the soundtrack and she was kinda hoarse when they recorded that. In this clip, filmed by an audience member, she is in full voice and really is stunning. She's the best actress of all the Rose's, I think, and it really sells this number even if she doesn't have the singing voice of some of the others.

Angela Lansbury won one of her four Tony Awards for her version of Rose in "Gypsy." For anyone who knows her only from TV's "Murder She Wrote," these clips show that her greatest triumphs have been on the Broadway stage.

Ethel Merman may have triumphed on Broadway as the original Rose but when the show was made into a film, Merman was passed over in favor of Rosalind Russell who certainly has the acting chops but not Merman's singing range. She sort of yells her way through the final number.

And finally, here is the reigning Rose herself, Patti LuPone, singing "Rose's Turn." I'm not sure when the video was taken but it has to be recently. I think it gives you a good indication of why Patti is born to play the role.

Cast your VOTES!!!

Maude as Carrie Bradshaw! The rest of the girls are played by Charlotte Rea, Sally Struthers and Katherine Helmond. This gem was found on A Socialite's Life! I guess Rue McClanahan and Betty White weren't available. Rue is a natural for Samantha and Betty was born to play Charlotte...

I skipped the HRC dinner this year, wasn't really feeling it for some reason. But one part of last Saturday's gala that seems quite touching is the speech made by "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Devil Wears Prada" star Anne Hathaway who talked about being the younger sister of a gay man: "In my household, being gay was, and is, no big deal. When my brother came out, we hugged him, said we loved him, and that was that."

My friend, Karen Ocamb, was not too impressed with the event and writes about it on The Bilerico Project. I have a lot of respect for Karen and consider her to be the best at covering politics related to the LGBT community. Here are a few snippets:

I was completely flummoxed by the Human Rights Campaign's gala in Los Angeles last Saturday - lots of tuxes and spots of inspiration but no real take-away message, except something about The Big Picture.

This is a critical election year but no one waltzed out jazzed about who's doing what to win the presidency or congressional races. And the critical effort to stop an antigay marriage constitutional amendment from making the California ballot this November only got a fleeting mention.

...Even the honorees - local heroes - didn't seem to know why they were being honored. Sweet Anne Hathaway said as much in her remarks, noting that being gay in her family was no big deal. And the others did not seem to have any direct connection to HRC or actually anything overtly political.

The conversation is good, but the real highlight is the dancing...

Enjoy!

What I get from watching this interview is that if you are as goodlooking and buff as Robert Buckley, good things happen for you.

Duh.

This is a visit he had on an LA entertainment show when he was doing all those MyTV soap operas like "Fashion House." The season finale of "Lipstick Jungle" is tomorrow night b ut I reserve the right to post one more picture of Robert (shirtless, of course) just to remind you!
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Did you catch "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend? If you did, you saw how funny Jonah Hill was from the opening musical number on through. But the sketch that had the most tongues wagging - so to speak - was when he plays Andy Samberg's best friend and is carrying on an affair with Andy's much-older father. It was an absolute riot and the two actors did not hold back during the make out scene. I mean, there was tongue! See for youself!

The April issue of Instinct mag features 27-year-old Seattle native Jesse Brune, the chef extraordinaire from Bravo's "Work Out."

In the cover piece, Jesse shares a coming out episode that happened when he was 15: "I had a total fascination with New Kids On The Block. Mariah Carey too. It was all right there in [my] journal."

His sneaky kid sister read the journal and figured things out: "I so knew then," Bethany Brune says. "When I read NKOTB and Mariah Carey? C'mon! Plus, kids would say little things about Jesse being gay at school. I totally beat up all the boys!"

Jesse also talks about shedding weight he gained after enrolling in the Le Cordon Bleu program at the California School Of Culinary Arts: "With all of the cooking culinary school requires, I started noticing all my friends -- myself included -- gaining, like 50 pounds. Not cute!"

Here is some video from his photo shoot: