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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 Anonymousreply 51May 21, 2020 10:48 PM

and Heather Locklear and Stockard Channing

by Anonymousreply 1April 8, 2015 8:21 PM

And Kathie Lee Gifford!

by Anonymousreply 2April 8, 2015 8:22 PM

It is so much fabulousness, OP!

by Anonymousreply 3April 8, 2015 8:24 PM

Don't forget Bronson Pinochet.

by Anonymousreply 4April 8, 2015 8:24 PM

I freaking love this movie so much. And Goldie Hawn looks delicious.

I know, Mary!

by Anonymousreply 5April 8, 2015 8:26 PM

Annie Lennox sang "sisters are doing it for themselves" in a montage of female empowerment.

by Anonymousreply 6April 8, 2015 8:27 PM

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 Anonymousreply 7April 8, 2015 8:28 PM

GIRLFRIEND: Your husband is wrong. You are NOT Satan!

GOLDIE: Oh, stop.

by Anonymousreply 8April 8, 2015 8:29 PM

Eileen Heckart too!

by Anonymousreply 9April 8, 2015 8:33 PM

And DAME MAGGIE SMITH!!!

How could you forget her, OP.

by Anonymousreply 10April 8, 2015 8:36 PM

Don't forget Seattle Slew, er, Sara Jessica Parker AND Dan Hedaya.

by Anonymousreply 11April 8, 2015 9:07 PM

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 Anonymousreply 12April 8, 2015 9:09 PM

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 Anonymousreply 13April 8, 2015 9:14 PM

"Is she a gift?" spoken by Keaton's character when Morty brings Shelly to the Bar Mitzvah.

by Anonymousreply 14April 8, 2015 9:18 PM

And Pedo Stephen Collins, who had the privilege of playing Diane Keaton's husband slash love interest twice!

by Anonymousreply 15April 8, 2015 9:52 PM

Marcia Gay Harden as the two timing therapist.

by Anonymousreply 16April 8, 2015 10:52 PM

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 Anonymousreply 17April 8, 2015 10:58 PM

Shelly: [of her salad dressing] Normally I bring my own. You know that fat free ranch stuff. But this, this is restaurant quality.

by Anonymousreply 18April 8, 2015 11:00 PM

I'm gay and have barely heard of the film, let alone seen it.

by Anonymousreply 19April 8, 2015 11:01 PM

F.O.R.K!-forcibly uttered by Gunilla to social upstart Shelly

by Anonymousreply 20April 8, 2015 11:20 PM

If you get another facelift you'll be blinking your lips!

by Anonymousreply 21April 8, 2015 11:23 PM

Elizabeth Berkeley is actually great in this. She should have stuck to (intentional) comedy.

by Anonymousreply 22April 9, 2015 4:21 AM

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 Anonymousreply 23April 9, 2015 4:27 AM

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 Anonymousreply 24April 9, 2015 4:33 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 25April 9, 2015 4:40 AM

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 Anonymousreply 26April 9, 2015 4:44 AM

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 Anonymousreply 27April 9, 2015 4:58 AM

"I had guests!!!"

"WHO? Guns and Roses?!?!"

That line still cracks me up.

by Anonymousreply 28April 9, 2015 6:17 AM

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 Anonymousreply 29April 9, 2015 7:41 AM

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 Anonymousreply 30April 9, 2015 7:56 AM

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 Anonymousreply 31April 9, 2015 12:01 PM

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 Anonymousreply 32April 9, 2015 12:08 PM

Dr. Morris Packman: If I give you one more face lift you're going to be able to blink your lips!

by Anonymousreply 33April 9, 2015 1:14 PM

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 Anonymousreply 34April 9, 2015 3:05 PM

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 Anonymousreply 35April 9, 2015 3:18 PM

[quote]Don't forget Bronson Pinochet.

And who might that be? The wayward nephew of a deposed Cuban dictator?

by Anonymousreply 36April 9, 2015 3:20 PM

Chris Paradis: Oh, Daddy. I'm a lesbian, a BIG one.

by Anonymousreply 37April 9, 2015 4:03 PM

Great opening credits....

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by Anonymousreply 38April 9, 2015 4:06 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 39April 9, 2015 4:19 PM

STOP IT! You're BOTH ... SELFISH ASSHOLES!

by Anonymousreply 40April 9, 2015 4:27 PM

Duarto: She looks fabulous; do you think she's had work done?

Brenda: Honey, she's a quilt!

by Anonymousreply 41April 9, 2015 10:56 PM

"Spill, Elise, what's in those lips? Is it wax?"

"Do you get to keep the parts they take off?"

by Anonymousreply 42April 10, 2015 2:18 AM

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 Anonymousreply 43May 8, 2020 10:33 PM

Why is this thread from 2015 being resurrected?

by Anonymousreply 44May 8, 2020 10:42 PM

Is resurrect by horse-face Rahshan spook with restaurant-quality wageenie

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by Anonymousreply 45May 8, 2020 11:15 PM

A horse is a horse, of course, of course

by Anonymousreply 46May 21, 2020 3:46 PM

We need a Let’s Be

by Anonymousreply 47May 21, 2020 4:20 PM

Tries hard to be camp. Fail.

by Anonymousreply 48May 21, 2020 4:52 PM

That photo of Katya makes everything better.

by Anonymousreply 49May 21, 2020 5:26 PM

[quote] Don't forget Bronson Pinochet.

[quote]And who might that be? The wayward nephew of a deposed Cuban dictator?

Chilean, not Cuban.

by Anonymousreply 50May 21, 2020 6:28 PM

WHET to Bronson Pinchot. He was popular in that sitcom about 2 cousins, the other being played by that fat-dicked actor.

by Anonymousreply 51May 21, 2020 10:48 PM
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