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In 1989, news began spreading of Streisand starring in a new film version ofGypsywith Madonna as Louise. The show's Broadway creators addressed it in the press.

After the 1962 film, “the show was dead in stock,” Jule Styne explained. “It took almost 30 years to offset that lousy picture.” Writer Arthur Laurents said, “Not for all the money in the world will we let them make another film version ofGypsy.”



In his memoirThe Rest of the Story, Laurents wrote about the conversation he had with Streisand around 2009 about making a movie ofGypsy.

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He recalled that when Streisand asked if he thought she could play Rose, he replied, “No.” “Too old?” Streisand asked. “No,” he replied, “But you'd play for sympathy.”



He explained: “She said she knew Rose because her mother was Rose.

She went into details. Her mother made Rose look like Mother Teresa. That Barbra survived was