The First Wives Club
Just saw this for the first time.
(Turn in my gay card, I know.)
EVERYONE is in it. Goldie, Bette, SJP, Victor Garber, the child molester from 7th Heaven, Diane Keaton, Ivana Trump, Timothy Oliphant, the Saved By the Bell / Showgirls girl...the list goes on and on.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 21, 2020 10:48 PM
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and Heather Locklear and Stockard Channing
by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 8, 2015 8:21 PM
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It is so much fabulousness, OP!
by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 8, 2015 8:24 PM
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Don't forget Bronson Pinochet.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 8, 2015 8:24 PM
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I freaking love this movie so much. And Goldie Hawn looks delicious.
I know, Mary!
by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 8, 2015 8:26 PM
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Annie Lennox sang "sisters are doing it for themselves" in a montage of female empowerment.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 8, 2015 8:27 PM
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It's funny how they had to dub-out the line "She got the whole Ivana!" once Ivana agreed to a cameo.
Goldie Hawn changed her mind about being in this because she realized it made her look like a has-been and she hated working with uber-cunt Bette Midler.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 8, 2015 8:28 PM
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GIRLFRIEND: Your husband is wrong. You are NOT Satan!
GOLDIE: Oh, stop.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 8, 2015 8:29 PM
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And DAME MAGGIE SMITH!!!
How could you forget her, OP.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 8, 2015 8:36 PM
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Don't forget Seattle Slew, er, Sara Jessica Parker AND Dan Hedaya.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 8, 2015 9:07 PM
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That scene with Elise walking down the street with her lips inflated and she can't talk to the paper guy, Mohammed, is hilarious.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 8, 2015 9:09 PM
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It seemed odd to me that they cast Sarah Jessica Parker as the "hot young girlfriend."
Even at that age, I didn't buy her in that role. She could have played Bette Midler in flashbacks.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 8, 2015 9:14 PM
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"Is she a gift?" spoken by Keaton's character when Morty brings Shelly to the Bar Mitzvah.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 8, 2015 9:18 PM
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And Pedo Stephen Collins, who had the privilege of playing Diane Keaton's husband slash love interest twice!
by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 8, 2015 9:52 PM
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Marcia Gay Harden as the two timing therapist.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 8, 2015 10:52 PM
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I met Goldie and I told her how great a character Elise was and she signed my DVD... Elise is me! She talked fondly of it.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 8, 2015 10:58 PM
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Shelly: [of her salad dressing] Normally I bring my own. You know that fat free ranch stuff. But this, this is restaurant quality.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 8, 2015 11:00 PM
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I'm gay and have barely heard of the film, let alone seen it.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 8, 2015 11:01 PM
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F.O.R.K!-forcibly uttered by Gunilla to social upstart Shelly
by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 8, 2015 11:20 PM
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If you get another facelift you'll be blinking your lips!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 8, 2015 11:23 PM
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Elizabeth Berkeley is actually great in this. She should have stuck to (intentional) comedy.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 9, 2015 4:21 AM
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Yes, R7, Bette and Goldie hated each other. But both of them liked Diane, and still do. She seems to get along with everyone.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 9, 2015 4:27 AM
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R23 yes that's a large part of why she still works regularly. Very professional easy to work with reputation.
She happens to be the LVP of this movie, though.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 9, 2015 4:33 AM
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[quote]Goldie Hawn changed her mind about being in this because she realized it made her look like a has-been and she hated working with uber-cunt Bette Midler.
Why would she have regrets? The movie was a huge hit ($181 million on a $30 million budget). Her other movie that year, Woody Allen's EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU, was a bust. Bitch hadn't had a hit in six years, since 1990's BIRD ON WIRE ($138 million on a $20 million budget).
by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 9, 2015 4:40 AM
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R24 well Woody Allen's movies aren't expected to be hits so it's ok. And she actually got some acclaim for that - and rightly so, she was the best thing in the movie.
1996 was the last good year she had.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 9, 2015 4:44 AM
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jon Stewarts scenes were deleted. Her played Goldie's love interest after she took the part in the play and Stewart was he costar in it.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 9, 2015 4:58 AM
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"I had guests!!!"
"WHO? Guns and Roses?!?!"
That line still cracks me up.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 9, 2015 6:17 AM
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R28 that's easily the best, funniest scene in the movie. Unfortunately after that it goes way downhill, because of course in mainstream 90s comedies everyone had to reform for their assholic behavior. Noble, maybe, but that doesn't make for great comedy.
That's the problem I always had with something like Groundhog Day (although Im a Murray fantard so I still enjoy it a lot). But it's really become overrated over the years.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 9, 2015 7:41 AM
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Hawn doesn't "reform her assholic behavior" in Death Becomes Her! An even better film and performance IMO. God I miss her in films. :(
by Anonymous | reply 30 | April 9, 2015 7:56 AM
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I'm gay and have barely heard of the film, let alone seen it.
How sad for you.
Elise: I drink because I am a sensitive and highly strung person.
Brenda: No, that's why your co-stars drink.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 9, 2015 12:01 PM
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Ned (the practical joker) from Friday the 13th is in too. He's one of the partners Diane Keaton buys out from her ex's firm.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 9, 2015 12:08 PM
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Dr. Morris Packman: If I give you one more face lift you're going to be able to blink your lips!
by Anonymous | reply 33 | April 9, 2015 1:14 PM
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Elise: You think that because I'm a movie star I don't have feelings. Well you're wrong. I'm an actress. I've got all of them!
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 9, 2015 3:05 PM
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Probably, once the movie was a huge hit, Midler and Hawn probably made up right quick...
Wasn't there going to be a sort-of-sequel called "Avon Ladies of the Amazon" but the studio refused to give the three of them raises.
I vaguely remember an interview with the three of them years after complaining that men in the same situation (coming off a huge hit) would have been paid at least twice what they made on the first.
Probably true.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 9, 2015 3:18 PM
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[quote]Don't forget Bronson Pinochet.
And who might that be? The wayward nephew of a deposed Cuban dictator?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 9, 2015 3:20 PM
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Chris Paradis: Oh, Daddy. I'm a lesbian, a BIG one.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 9, 2015 4:03 PM
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Great opening credits....
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 38 | April 9, 2015 4:06 PM
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[quote]That scene with Elise walking down the street with her lips inflated and she can't talk to the paper guy, Mohammed, is hilarious.
You fhhhhink fhhhhat funny?
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 9, 2015 4:19 PM
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STOP IT! You're BOTH ... SELFISH ASSHOLES!
by Anonymous | reply 40 | April 9, 2015 4:27 PM
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Duarto: She looks fabulous; do you think she's had work done?
Brenda: Honey, she's a quilt!
by Anonymous | reply 41 | April 9, 2015 10:56 PM
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"Spill, Elise, what's in those lips? Is it wax?"
"Do you get to keep the parts they take off?"
by Anonymous | reply 42 | April 10, 2015 2:18 AM
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This is currently on Netflix and my mother loves this movie so I've seen pieces of it growing up. After watching it I give it a hard pass. It's pacing is off. Some scenes just go on way too long. The comedy is decent to dull, perhaps it was a 90s thing. I do like that it captures the dullness of NYC winters, not many movies are willing to show off the city in less favorable lighting, same gloomy NYC I see in Seinfeld. Goldie Hawn looked absolutely great with that wig or hair & weave combo. Everyone in Diane Keaton's family was annoying.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | May 8, 2020 10:33 PM
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Why is this thread from 2015 being resurrected?
by Anonymous | reply 44 | May 8, 2020 10:42 PM
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Is resurrect by horse-face Rahshan spook with restaurant-quality wageenie
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 45 | May 8, 2020 11:15 PM
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A horse is a horse, of course, of course
by Anonymous | reply 46 | May 21, 2020 3:46 PM
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Tries hard to be camp. Fail.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | May 21, 2020 4:52 PM
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That photo of Katya makes everything better.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | May 21, 2020 5:26 PM
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[quote] Don't forget Bronson Pinochet.
[quote]And who might that be? The wayward nephew of a deposed Cuban dictator?
Chilean, not Cuban.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | May 21, 2020 6:28 PM
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WHET to Bronson Pinchot. He was popular in that sitcom about 2 cousins, the other being played by that fat-dicked actor.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 21, 2020 10:48 PM
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