{"id":1840,"date":"2016-04-18T04:54:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T11:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2016-04-18T04:54:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T11:54:13","slug":"everythings-coming-up-babs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/04\/18\/everythings-coming-up-babs\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything&#8217;s coming up Babs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-gestating big-screen remake of <strong><em>Gypsy<\/em><\/strong> starring <strong>Barbra Streisand <\/strong>is back on.\u00a0 The project, which was stalled at <em>Universal<\/em>, has resurfaced at <em>STX<\/em><em> Entertainment<\/em>.\u00a0 Babs brought with her the script by <strong><em>Downton Abbey<\/em><\/strong> scribe <strong>Richard LaGravenese <\/strong>(based on <strong>Arthur Laurents<\/strong>&#8216; original book).\u00a0 <strong>Barry Levinson <\/strong>is slated to direct, and we hear rumors that the film could star <strong>Lady Gaga <\/strong>as Gypsy and <strong>John Travolta <\/strong>as Herbie&#8230;or Mazeppa!\u00a0 Of course, by the time they actually start shooting, Streisand could be playing Grandma Rose and using a walker.\u00a0 But, eh, if we could suspend our disbelief that <strong>Rosalind Russell <\/strong>could sing the score, anything&#8217;s possible.\u00a0 In making the announcement, producer <strong>Joel Silver <\/strong>kinda referred to Barbra&#8217;s age.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s Barbra Streisand doing one more, if not the last, movie musical of her career.&#8221;\u00a0 Something tells me nobody ran that quote by Babs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-gestating big-screen remake of Gypsy starring Barbra Streisand is back on.\u00a0 The project, which was stalled at Universal, has resurfaced at STX Entertainment.\u00a0 Babs brought with her the script by Downton Abbey scribe Richard LaGravenese (based on Arthur Laurents&#8216; original book).\u00a0 Barry Levinson is slated to direct, and we hear rumors that the film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}