Posted on 11/28/2021 2:06:17 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Reviewing a lavish new Hollywood musical in the Sept. 29, 1968, issue of The New Yorker, Pauline Kael wrote, “Barbra Streisand arrives on the screen, in ‘Funny Girl,’ when the movies are in desperate need of her. The timing is perfect.” I’m tempted to say the same thing about Lady Gaga. Suddenly, she’s ruling the movies like no one else this year.
... She’s earning her buzz the old-fashioned way, by giving a performance that has to be seen, in a movie that’s being talked about the way movies used to be talked about...
I’ve never claimed to be too refined, but I take “House of Gucci” seriously. It’s a fantastic movie...Gaga plays Patrizia Reggiani, the middle-class social climber who married into the Gucci fashion dynasty and did all she could to take it over, not as some operatic villainess, eyes flashing with dollar signs, but as a real-world diva who is as ruthlessly practical as she is ambitious.
There’s no doubt that Gaga is the film’s commercial spark plug. People want to see her; she’s driving the conversation in Hollywood. And who thought that a movie — not a Marvel movie but an actual movie — could drive the conversation anymore? But, of course, Lady Gaga had already done that — in “A Star Is Born,” the film that linked her, almost karmically, to Streisand, the last woman to drive a remake of “A Star Is Born” ...
Gaga, I think, has the chance to become a movie star on that rarefied level. It’s not just that she’s as good as Cher (who at her best, in “Moonstruck” and “Mask,” was a powerhouse of an actress)...It’s that she has the potential to do for movies what Streisand did: give them a human center of gravity....
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Didn’t they assert the same about Madonna? /s
The NY Post review didn’t have a good thing to say about this movie.
Id hit it
No comparison.
I’ve seen A Star Is Born and GaGa is a natural.
Well Madonna did perform at the Super Bowl when they had it here in Indiana. My buddy’s kid who was in a high school band the was part of the show said Madonna really worked her butt off in the rehearsals.
once in a generation - NO
pop star - yes
good material - yes
actress - don’t know, don’t care
Decent singer but I prefer Floor Jansen.
The woman who met the demon who told her she’d be a big star?
Lady Gagme.
Yeaahh... I’m going to go ahead and disagree with you there.
No. Critics/Hollywood never warmed to Madonna except maybe for her performance in Evita, which is a musical and for which she won a Golden Globe. Personally, I liked Madonna’s turn to directing in her film, “W.E.”— about King Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson. But didn’t get much buzz.
Lady Caca.
Cyndie Lauper, Tracy Lords (not sure if she would be considered same generation.. but she was in non-porn movies, and also made a music CD)..
Never liked the Diva Streisand. But I did really like LG in A Star Is Born. And she has a great voice too.
Most singers sing what they can. Floor Jansen sings whatever she wants.
Lord Gaga, come get your wife.
Never heard her sing.
She does write her own material, which is a giant leap from madonna.
Pink writes her own as well and she’s a helluva athlete.
My hats off to the Lady G and Pink.
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