Estelle Parsons is 90 years old and still looks amazing on the execrable, rebooted Roseanne

She does not have two Academy Awards. She has one.

She only has ONE academy award OP (for Bonnie and Clyde)......get your facts straight before you post

She has three Academy Awards, you stupid cunts.

I liked her on Grace and Frankie. I will not watch Rosanne.

r3.....list them you imbecile.....

She was originally supposed to play Mrs. Voorhees in Friday the 13th.

It's the four Academy Awards she has that REALLY impresses me :)

I agree op, she hardly aged at all. It's true she looks more like a sister now to Roseanne and Laurie (as pointed out by that old dude from Back to the future?)

R7 Exactly. Her fifth one was a cherry on top.

Estelle Parsons will NEVER be an Oscar winner! What are you dipshits going on about?

Not true R10 I was there when she won her sixth AA.

There ARE roles for old women if they age naturally.

It's funny. at this point, Parson seems younger than "beauty" Jane Fonda.

The lady richly deserves her Oscar wins...that they are in the triple digits speaks for itself!

When visiting friends in the Village, I used to see Estelle on the N train, guess she lives downtown. I told her she was fabulous, I got a huge smile, a Thank You and a laugh. This was over 20+ years ago.

R13 Wins!

Ok queens settle down. One Oscar. She does look good though.

She looks great considering she started her career under the weather.....

The Oscar's use to be so classy.

The Oscar's...............what?

Should’ve invited her back to present this year being the 50 th anniversary of her win. She didn’t get to present the Oscar to Jack Albertson year after she won (nominated this year too) because she was on Broadway.

I thought it particularly classy of her to fight the Guinness World Book of Records people....she REALLY didn't want her record Oscar wins to be noted.

Lovely lady and a hell of an actress.

If she weren't so beautiful she would have had Meryl's career. She turned down August Osage County because she didn't WANT another Oscar.

Now that we have seen the train wreck of the new Roseanne episodes, I have a new appreciation for how amazing of an actor Parsons is. Shelley Winters, another two time Academy Award winner, was also amazing as Nana Mary. Roseanne was lucky to have these two.

[quote]It's the four Academy Awards she has that REALLY impresses me :)

Shut your filthy whore's mouth!

A whore's mouth is never closed but rather always filled with big juicy cock.

One of my rental units is filled with just Estelle's Oscars. I let her store them there as a favor because she doesn't have the space at home.

A little RESPECT! She has taken her name OUT of future Oscar consideration, as she feels it is just not fair to hog so many.

She has 12 Oscars, 8 Emmys, 6 Grammys....yet only 2 Tonys (which is a bit odd.)

She also has 50 Peoples Choice Awards, and nearly won Project Runway All Stars.

I didn't even recognize Crystal in last night's episode. She barely had a line...the Uber passenger had more to say.

She did August Osage county a decade ago and was great.

Nothing will top her Evita, tho.

Bernhard looks like a plastic mannequin that has been sitting in garbage for thirty years.

So what you're saying is she hasn't changed in 30 years?

Her Roxie Hart was the bee's knees.

Her next Playboy photo spread will set another record.

R31 Touché. I want your dick in me (or your faux dick if you are a lezzie). There is enough room in there, along with Estelle's hundreds of Oscars.

It's also well known she's a Rhodes Scholar, and teaches summer courses in Quantum Theory at Cambridge.

Roseanne, Metcalf and Goodman seem borderline decrepit on this reboot. They look tired, winded. The show feels like it takes so much effort for them all. I keep thinking "well, they're old." They aren't that old. Then I see a rerun of the Golden Girls which is zippy and energetic with four old hags and realize there's no excuse.

Laurie Metcalf won a Tony Award last year, and is nominated again this year. She also got her first oscar nomination and has three movies coming out. And she's co-starring in Roseanne. So, R36, no wonder she's tired!

Exactly r37. I think Metcalf is the biggest disappointment on this show.

Considering in the original series Goodman and Roseanne were obese and in generally poor health, it makes sense that now they would both look like shut. Metcalf must have poor genes and like a typical white lady aged like a banana. Gilbert looks weather worn and long in the tooth but Lecy Goranson at least looks really good for all of her 44 years. Must be Goranson's two Oscars that have kept her vital and youthful. Two Oscars have kept Estelle in amazing shape. Better than Betty White even. Betty was OK at 90 but now she is corpsey and is not as fast.

The original ROSEANNE was too tacky for words...and I;m not going to start watching it now.

R39 shut=shit. Fucking god damn predictive text.

I enjoyed the original Roseanne and have been re-watching it on Prime, but the new one is uninspired. I agree Metcalfe is really disappointing, because she was so good in the original.

I'm highly doubting the "filmed in front of a live audience" claim, unless the live audience isn't laughing and they've then added a laugh track.

I wish Jackie was portrayed as being less of a spaz. She excels at it but less is more. All the maternal I hate my mom shit has never been funny.

What happened to Jackies kid? Has that been addressed?

R44 Not till next season. They only had a few episodes this season obviously. Poor DJ has not had a time to shine. Very sad. And Johnny Galecki was made into a loser. They could have made Darlene and David into good successful people but nope, in the Roseanne universe everyone is a fucking loser.

" I agree Metcalf is really disappointing, because she was so good in the original."

I just want to point out. Metcalf was brilliant the first 6 seasons. The show really started to fall apart in season 7, and the last season was horrendous. And that kind of included Metcalf. After season 6, it appeared they didn't know how to further evolve her character, and Jackie became a caricature. All braying and mugging. Metcalf went from brilliant to excruciating. Unfortunately, they have her playing it the same way. Very sad and disappointing.

[quote] in the Roseanne universe everyone is a fucking loser.

Know your audience.

Back to the topic - yes, I agree I couldn't believe Estellle looked and acted so spry for her age. She looks far better than Betty White did in her 'comeback' a few years ago.

HOWEVER - I always thought in the original series Estelle never was able to adapt to television acting. It was too theater - playing to the back of the room like she's used to. Over the top gestures, voice and too theatrical. She seems to do better this time around though.

R48 "Estelle never was able to adapt to television acting"

I agree, but I think it worked within the context. It was easier to understand how/why Roseanne and Jackie couldn't stand her.

When they wrote Christopher Lloyd's line that Roseanne and Jackie looked like Estelle's sisters, it was supposed to be funny but I wonder if they were pointing out how terrible Roseanne and Jackie really do look. And that it was the truth.

R47 Yes dear, everyone knows you are a fucking loser.

It never made sense to me that Roseanns and Jackie’s mother was this grand dame with a snooty accent. Shouldn’t Roseanne have had a white trash mom?

R52 Don't forget that originally Roseanne's parents were just normal working class people. Tom Arnold mentioned to Roseanne that he was sexually involved with his babysitter or some such shit. So then Roseanne had her parents rewrote as horrible abusive people. Roseanne had severe mental illness back then and it was reflected in the writing and also in how awful the show became. Season two to five were stellar in terms of writing and acting but in the middle of six is when Tom Arnold left and the show was horrible after that, all thanks to Roseanne's psychotic control of the series. A bud and I predicted that based on how awful season six to eight were that the reboot would pick right up where they left off. And sure enough the reboot sucks as bad as those. I don't even include the lottery season as part of the original series, it was so awful.

"Poor DJ has not had a time to shine. Very sad."

STOP THIS. Stop talking like Cheetolini. Just STOP IT.

More about my awards, pleaz

Janbot is such a huge monumental cunt, she could fit 10 000 Oscars in her rusted out, persnickety snatch.

She never had to work at all as she was a wealthy ammonia heiress.

r57 Roseanne needs to use a couple of gallons of that on her snatch.

I saw heri in the frozen food aisle at Ralphs last week and asked what’s her secret to young skin and she replied “why, Oscar gold dust masks, darling!”

I love Estelle Parsons. She was terrific in August: Osage County. She really did deserve all 78 of her Oscars.

She also was great on an episode of Frasier.

As much as I loathe Orca Winfrey, Estelle here shows how she maintains her youthful glow whilst holding her two Oscars no less.

She did discover Jessica Chastain but I’ll forgive her.

Speaking of looking terrible, white people age like bananas.

They dry up, like a banana in the sun.

Then there is this.

And pass on their generational wealth.

Estelle Parsons may look good, but she didn't age "naturally." She had a face lift during the original Roseanne show,

[quote] Estelle never was able to adapt to television acting

Mm, don't agree. She played just fine on Grace & Frankie.

I just watched R62's video of Estelle at 87. Not only does she look great for her age - she's in fantastic shape for anyone over 70.

Dear youngsters, if you're fortunate enough to live to the age of 87 and still be able to walk, see, hear and have most of your mind, you'll be lucky. That's not the way it works for 98% of the population.

Estelle Parsons looks good at 90 because she has ALWAYS looked old. Homely and old.

I never liked the original "Roseanne" , so I'm not going to watch this desperate reboot. I did watch a few clips of it on YouTube, including the one where Grandma Roseanne shoves her granddaughter's head under a faucet and drenches her with a spray nozzle (how charming). The actress who plays Darlene's awful daughter Harris looks the same age as her mother.

ALL the characters on this show look embalmed for some reason. I know the show is supposed to be "realistic" but I don't think I could stomach watching a bunch of people this ugly week after week.

Plastic surgery is good if done right. Obviously. Unless you end up looking like Joan or Janet.

A classic working actress.

It seems like only yesterday when she and Erin Moran both took home Oscars for Watermelon Man.

I worked behind the scenes on Broadway. I've seen older actors come to work on and look decrepit and ready to die only to watch them come alive on stage. Such a mind fuck. But I have to say everyday Parsons was full of energy and still starred in "August, Osage County" . Spent two hours running up and down a three floor house set and I don't know how she did eight times a week, all the while giving a great performance.

[quote]Laurie Metcalf won a Tony Award last year, and is nominated again this year. She also got her first oscar nomination and has three movies coming out. And she's co-starring in Roseanne.

Met her last weekend and I congratulated her and her daughter on a fabulous year in their careers and she genuinely seemed touched. She was warm and sweet, so I didn't kick her in the ass for colluding with Roseanne.

I love that set.

So similar yet so very different from Barbie Townhouse The Boys in the Band one.

[quote] She was warm and sweet, so I didn't kick her in the ass for colluding with Roseanne.

I don't blame her, really. A few seasons of Roseanne 2.0 is her retirement account, and I don't begrudge her that. I think Barr needs to be muzzled or be under psychiatric care, but that's not her fault.

For Metcalfe especially, I will watch her in almost anything.

[quote]A few seasons of Roseanne 2.0 is her retirement account

Maybe she'll set aside some money to finish law school.

I love Estelle on Roseanne but her Oscar performance in "Bonnie and Clyde" was horrific. She was also 40 years old playing a 22 year old. The real Blanche Barrow was really angry about her portrayal. "That movie made me look like a screaming horse's ass."

In R1 clip at the Oscars how times have changed, they didn't announce the nominees alphabetical and there was no applause until the winner was announced. So dignified.

The first alien abduction movie starring Estelle and James earl Jones based on a true story.

I never knew the real Blanche was kind of attractive. Thanks, r78.

Estelle's grandson Eben Britton used to play professional football

Her other grandson Gus Britton is an actor, writer, model

R78, she had to pretend to be married to Gene Hackman, so she could have been 60.

Older women who are of average to thin frame always look much better with a pixey hairdo. It makes them look younger and more vibrant.

Blanche Barrow was young and very good looking, much better looking than Bonnie Parker. Estelle Parsons was such an odd choice to play her; ugly and much too old. And what was up with all that screeching and screaming?I guess they wanted the character of Blanche to be hysterical and overwrought all the time, but Parson's performance made her seem like a retard. I didn't think it was deserving of an Oscar. Faye Dunaway was much more deserving of the Oscar.

Melissa Gilbert looks like Corey Feldman with a vagina.

I saw Estelle Parsons in August Osage County. It seemed like she was on stage for the entire play which was more like three than two hours long. At 80 her energy was phenomenal. What is the secret? Genes, clean living??

Her "secret" is probably genes and taking good care of herself, not drinking, not drugging, getting enough sleep and looking after her health. A profession in the the theater demands a lot of energy and stamina; I guess she took care of herself in order to keep doing it. And indeed she must have come from good stock to still be going strong at her age.

Whoops. I meant Sara Gilbert looks like Corey Feldman with a vagina.

She does look great. Had hardly changed. To be fair Barr, Goodman and Metcalf all are holding up pretty well.

Goodman looks terrible. Metcalfe clearly had a facelift but didn’t do her neck.

Estelle was only 89 when she shot these episodes. Not 90.

Laurie didn’t get anything done. She’s needs to.

R90 made me choke on my morning coffee. It’s funny because it’s true.

R94, Laurie had more than enough done.

R86, Estelle Parsons and Faye Dunaway were not nominated in the same category you idiot. If you don't like Parson's hysterical performance, try blaming director Arthur Penn and producer Warren Beatty. They obviously wanted it that way.

And for everyone else, Estelle Parsons is a character actor. She will not be able to fulfill your queeney glamor fantasies because that's not her job.

Has the new show made mention of Nana, the great-grandmother played by the late, great Shelley Winters?

Shelley Winters! It's a shame she never won an Oscar.

No mention, R97. Just a small picture of her in the background.

[quote]Shelley Winters! It's a shame she never won an Oscar.

She wasn't even NOMINATED! (Go to 36:15)

^ That interview is a hoot. I will go back later to watch the whole show.

Shelley is a very funny guest. I am not sure how much she is playing herself or how much is the real her.

R97, DJ's kid is names Mary, so that's her representation. Little Mary is played by an 8-10 year old and is supposed to be 4.

Getting an "Oscar" is NO guarantee of quality.

They gave one to Loretta Young.

[quote]Speaking of looking terrible, white people age like bananas.

But they live longer.

After 20 or so, the Oscars are so ordinary

r104

No, the last oldest living person was Japanese who recently died and she was replaced by another Asian, and the prior oldest living person to them was a black Jamaican. There are lots of really old people of all races.

R106 In the US whites on the whole far outlive blacks. On a world-wide scale whites and the Japanese live the longest.

For fuck’s sake, could we stay on topic or are you bitches starving for more race-baiting and the endless back and forth that it invites?

You never know where these threads are gonna go lol.

Parsons was a two time NOMINEE, her win and another for "Rachel, Rachel." Or maybe the OP has her mixed up with the late Shelley Winters who was also on the show in its day -- and indeed had two Oscars (should've been more).

R110 Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Everyone on the cast of Roseanne 2.0 has two or more Academy Awards.

I don’t really care much about how she looks, but I agree her performance brings a lot of life that has been missing from the show. IMO Gilbert has been the star so far in all ways, including her performance that stands out from all her costars’—including Goodman and Metcalf. But she’s still a sitcom-caliber actor, and her character is so dour that she robs more energy than she lends. Roseanne has been VERY good at being the Roseanne character, which is that of a sassy domestic comedian, and Jackie is good ol’ Jackie—watching her at 60 is like watching Will and Grace at 50...how did they get so much older without maturing at all?

Parsons doesn’t seem any older energywise or line-deliverywise than she was 30 years ago, which is truly remarkable. The show would be wise to keep her on set for as long as possible.

I feel terrible for Leci Goranson. She is trying so hard to act.

"Estelle Parsons and Faye Dunaway were not nominated in the same category you idiot. If you don't like Parson's hysterical performance, try blaming director Arthur Penn and producer Warren Beatty. They obviously wanted it that way."

I didn't say they were, you dumb fuck. And I've never heard anywhere that Arthur Penn and Warren Beatty "wanted" her to scream her lungs out all through the movie. I think that was just the way she wanted to play it, And it was indeed over the top and not worthy of an Oscar, you stupid shit.

It’s the era of Donald Trump, and you queens are really fighting about a 90 year-old sitcom actress?

R113, what's the problem, mommy didn't let you stay up past your bedtime?

[quote]And I've never heard anywhere that Arthur Penn and Warren Beatty "wanted" her to scream her lungs out all through the movie. I think that was just the way she wanted to play it, And it was indeed over the top and not worthy of an Oscar, you stupid shit.

Only a stupid shit thinks an actor just gets to play a role any old way they want. There wouldn't be a frame of Estelle Parsons in "Bonnie & Clyde" if Arthur Penn and Warren Beatty hadn't approved or directed her that way.

[quote]R114 you queens are really fighting about a 90 year-old sitcom actress?

She is a 12-time Oscar winner, dammit!

And she was fabulous in CAMILLE.

Listen dumb fuck at R116, there are a lot of directors and producers who give the actors in their films free rein to play a character the way they want to. They figure the actor knows what they're doing. Warren Beatty and Arthur allowed Estelle Parsons to play Blanche Barrow as a "screaming horse's ass" because they let her do her own thing, not because they "wanted" her to do it like that. Boy, you are really one stupid shit.

R118 There’s also the fact you don’t tell a multi-Oscar winner [italic]how[/italic] to play a role!

R118 Needs to shut the fuck up. Maybe huge stars like Brando can do whatever the fuck they want but a virtual unknown like Parsons is not gonna be given free reign. Do you have any intelligence at all? Get off the stage, you're embarrassing yourself.

My favorite of her Oscar-nominated performances is in the movie-of-the-week Terror on the Beach as the matriarch of a family that has to face an onslaught of hot delinquents in dune buggies.

She was robbed that year by Liza in Cabaret.

Be careful what you wish for, r120.

"Needs to shut the fuck up. Maybe huge stars like Brando can do whatever the fuck they want but a virtual unknown like Parsons is not gonna be given free reign."

It's "rein", you dumb twat. And Parson wasn't exactly "unknown." Before "Bonnie and Clyde" she was an actress of note; she'd won a Theater World Award and an Obie. No doubt Penn and Beatty considered her an accomplished actress, which is why they cast her and let her play the role the way she wanted. They LET her chew the hell out of the scenery but they didn't TELL her to do it. And if anyone is embarrassing himself it's you, you silly dipshit. You're dumb as a bag of hammers.

R123 is the biggest cunt who ever cunted. Yuck. Blocked. No arguing with a mental case. And it is free reign, you stupid fuck.

R123 R124 Girls, [italic]girls,[/italic] you’re BOTH the biggest cunts!

Anyone who thinks D list actors have free reign, and can do whatever the fuck they want in a movie, is a fucking moron.

R124 is retarded. "Free rein" means "freedom of action or expression." "Reign" means "royal authority", or "the period during which a sovereign rules.What a pitiful, illiterate retard.

R126 is the illiterate retard who thinks it's "free reign." Estelle Parsons was definitely not considered a "D-list actor", you poor dumb retard. She was hired because her talent was noted and admired. And indeed there are directors who give actors freedom to interpret a role the way they want to. You are an imbecile. You have shit for brains, you poor thing.

Keep at it. This is veering into “bread in the fridge” levels of venom.

Well, actors do audition, and you’re usually cast because they like what you did at the audition.

Probably Parsons auditioned in that style, with that take on the character...so both she and the director liked her going in that direction with the character of Blanche.

It was a meeting of minds, as it were.

When I used to watch Roseanne as a kid I thought both her and Winters were absolutely horrible. It wasn't until rewatching as an adult that I got what they were doing. I liked her over the past two episodes. She looks fantastic.

I thought it was "free rain".

Free rhaen.

I prefer free Lo Mein.

R118/R123 way too stupid and arrogant to be using the "internets." And defiant too! I'm thinking either curmugeon of 85 or sensitive darling of 12 with mommy issues.

Btw: It's "rein", you dumb twat.

The comma goes INSIDE the quotation mark, dumb twat. i.e. It's "rein," you dumb twat.

It wasn't a documentary. Parson's character was written to be hysterical to counter Bonnie's coolness in all the mayhem.

estelle as brilliant as she is as an actress, , A real cunt to deal with. I have

I felt sorry for her role as Roseanne's mother especially the 'outing' episode. It illustrated Roseanne's hatred of gays which I believe exists to this day.

R137 Isn't it a given that everyone in NYC is a cunt. You can't use that against her.

Xactly.

Her four Oscars really shone through on her recent Roseanne performances.

She won an Emmy* for playing Sally Field's evil mother in "Sybil".

Unfortunately, her juicy role as Mrs. Gardenia in "Rosemary's Baby" was left on the cutting room floor- some say due to the campaigning of Ruth Gordon (who went on to win the Oscar*).

Her fifth Oscar was divine.

You might wanna be careful about tossing around the world "bananas," nonwhite person at R64 . . .

Saw her on stage in Chicago in "Miss Margarida's Way" a million years ago. There was quite a bit of controversy over it at the time, but I, personally, think she TOTALLY deserved those Sarah Siddons, Pulitzer and Nobel prizes she took home that year.

R145 Awesome. Meryl has nothing on Estelle's 200 Oscar noms.

In addition to her 37 Oscars, Nobel Peace Prize and 9 Olympic gold medals, she is my favorite winner of both RuPaul’s Drag Race AND RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars.

R147 haha! I love you. Truth.

Bump.

Hello Ms Parsons.

Parsons is eternally awesome, she will dance on Betty White's grave. Full stop.

Haha no doubt.

We love you Estelle Parsons. Almost 100 and looks amazing! Your 5 Oscars make you a national treasure.

She is 97! Why oh why?

[quote] Parsons is eternally awesome, she will dance on Betty White's grave. Full stop.

She be a pallbearer.

Love her. She my queen fo sho.

Eventual headline: Actress E. Parsons dead, won an oscar every year of her long career.

90 and she can still work? How lucky for her.

97 and can still work.

Still looks amazing? She didn't look amazing when she was 22.

R160 Fuck you. Your whore of a mother probably tried to abort you several times but her demon seed somehow survived. I can only imagine how horrid you look.

Love Estelle and her 5 Oscars.

[quote]r153 We love you Estelle Parsons. Almost 100 and looks amazing! Your 5 Oscars make you a national treasure.

She will definitely beat out Lady Gaga this year. It is her 30th nomination, and she is due.

R153 I love you! Your so funny.

Lol.

[quote]Estelle Parsons is 90 years old and still looks amazing

Fuck you! Our EGOT Estelle is[bold] 90 years YOUNG!

I wonder how she is doing with her 7 Oscars. I hope she doesn't slum it and do The Connors.

[quote]r162 Love Estelle and her 5 Oscars.

It's really kind of 4 1/3 Oscars ... because one year she had that 3-way tie with Kath Hepburn and Babs (?)

Oh god, I hope she isn't #3. I feel like we are jinxing her.

R169 you and your fat ass and clogged arteries will go before Estelle. Estelle is eternal.

How much would all her Oscars be worth, if she suddenly had to auction them off ... or melt them down?

Estelle at 91 is more with it and lucid than most DLers over 50.

Estelle was marvelous in For Pete's Sake with Barbra!