Barbra's birthday luncheon /

I expect to have nightmares tonight after seeing that pic.

And just to be clear, Barbra looks better there than some of her friends.

A PLANET WHERE APES EVOLVED FROM MEN?

Is that Carol Bayer Sagar in that photo?

What a bunch of cadavers

R3, yes that's her.

I wondered the same thing r3. Can it be her? Her head isn't tilted back like in those old Columbia Records ads. (Was she trying to look smug and laid back?) Who was she anyway? I know she was married to Burt Bacharach but did she sing? Write anything?

R6 She wrote so many; you won’t believe. Just found out.

Astonishingly steady career.

Carole Bayer Sager is married to the very rich Bob Daly.

Thanks r7. I really never knew.

Grandchild? The [italic]faygeleh[/italic] had a kid?

Someone wrote about her obsession with food. Did Louis Kind lock her in a closet at mealtime or something?

There is the infamous tale of Louis Kind taking the family out for ice cream except for Barbra. He said she was too ugly for ice cream.

Good for Barbra. It looked lovely.

Who is the tall blonde in the middle? Rosalyn looks very pretty. Donna needs to STOP with the pulled-back hair.

Is that Vanessa Redgrave in the back?

R16 whoever she is, she's a real beauty

Joanna Gleason needs to stop with the red hair dye.

Donna Karan is turning into Robert Evans.

Irena is Irena Medavoy, the blonde behind Barbra. She is married to Mike Medavoy, a film producer/exec. Red is Red Barris. She is behind Donna Karan.

We had a thread a while back poking fun at some of Carole Bayer Sager's memoir.

It was sort of interesting but also way over the top.

Doesn’t Babs know any colored folx?

Having recently finished reading Barbara’s approximately 950-page autobiography, the first things I asked myself about the photo in OP’s post were: 1) Why is there a plateful of broccoli on the table at someone’s place left of center; 2) Why is there a used napkin that has not been refolded properly at someone’s place at the center; and 3) Why is someone’s purse strewn carelessly on the table at the right of center? I spent countless hours reading about Barbra’s visual perfectionism, and here’s a table that looks disheveled. Was Renata not there to clean up and arrange everything?

Why is Rosyln seated while Barbra is standing?

It’s not her granddaughter, it’s Jim’s

Did they push together several tables in the mall food court to accommodate everyone?

Bunch of old dried out plastic slags.

I hope they had male strippers & half-naked sword swallowers!

Just half-naked?

"Come in, come in, the girl made soup! Please, enjoy a white beverage of your choosing and keep the kindelah off my 200-year-old Aubusson carpet!"

R18 That´s not Joanna Gleason. It´s Maxine Smith, wife of producer Gary Smith who worked with Babs on all her TV-specials.

She´s an artist. Well ,a painter.

I don’t see Coffee Talk’s Linda Richman in the photo. Forget about verklempt, she’s going to be pissed when she finds out she wasn’t invited.

Why have just one centerpiece bouquet when you can have three?

Well, actually they added up to 42

Which one is Renata? She is supposed to be in the pic.

And the catering staff now all have PTSD

Is this the follow-up season to "Coven" on American Horror Story?

That's a lot of fuss for Bab's 37th birthday...

Was James Brolin not invited?

Are all those "arrangements" vegan?

Was it sponsored by Tab?

R20 Irena Medavoy used to be Irena Ferris, a Price Is Right model, and Tammy on Dallas. She stayed over night at the White House during the Clinton era, and her actual age was almost 10 years older than she claimed.

Was there an empty chair and cup of wine in honor of her late Father?

[quote] her actual age was almost 10 years older than she claimed.

And what's wrong with that? I can still pass for 85.

Just imaging the collective cost of all the plastic surgery and Botox represented there!

Lainie is outside going through all their cars..

Jaws: The prequel. "Bruce" as a baby shark

Anne Francis sent her regrets.

R16, No, Vanessa is in a wheelchair chair now.

I see Sweet'N Low.

Apparently, my invitation was lost in the mail.

Jesus Christ- Its like looking a Plastic Surgeon's Website with the "Afters"...

And the only person I want to see is Diane Lane! Where is Diane!!??

That Bacharach chick looks like her makeup is applied with a trowel and spray can.

They all look blood related. Except the little girl.

Who is the blonde lady sitting prominently in the front with all the spilt hair? Looks like Mia Farrow though I know it's not her.

R54, Her sister Roslyn.

Babs looks better with a little curl in her hair. Straight hair makes her look too severe.

Carole Bayer Sager looks like the Ecce Homo fresco.

I didn’t know Barbra let dull giggly Roslyn into her inner circle.

Only Barbra would wear sunglasses to an inside brunch.

Who is the lady-man with the religious medallion? Is that her guru? And the blonde on the far left...is that Rob Lowe's wife?

[quote] Babs looks better with a little curl in her hair. Straight hair makes her look too severe.

Try as she might, Babs in her mind can never appear too severe. JUANITA! That dog shit on the lawn isn't going to pick itself up!

[quote]He said she was too ugly for ice cream.

The truth hurts.

Renata is the one with glasses between Barbra and Roslyn, and, yes, Donna Karan is Barbra's fashion guru, James was invited, but had a golf date and sent his regrets.

Wonder if Roslyn gets a monthly allowance from Babs Brolin.

Anyone notice that Roslyn had her nose done? It must have come with the facelift.

She was probably rankled by a report she had no female friends. She's always rankled...

No transwomen of color at this luncheon, shameful.

No fags neither.

R64, she’s on payroll for a phantom job, like custodian of the mall.

We wait all year for the afterparty.

Meghan Markle is still waiting for her invitation.

Did the guests get to choose one item from the mall as a party favor?

Carole Bayer Sager (and Burt Bacharach) wrote this beautiful song for Barbra. "Love Light" is one of her best latter day ballads.

Pussy sure must feel good.

How do men fuck these old puffy faced pigs?

In James Brolin's case, he has to in order to get his monthly allowance R74. By the way, most of these women look like something out of a horror film, but Donna Karan looks like the ugliest MTF trannie in history. Whomever her plastic surgeon might be, surely hates her with the force of a thousand skin pulls.

Donna has weird combo of 'I don't give a FUCK NOW" but "I did 15 years ago and got bad work"..

She actually is owning it. I just don't know what she is owning. I don't hate her like the others-

The songwriter is 80 going on 30.

Barbara (Barbra) looks like a lion.

[quote]Whomever her plastic surgeon might be

That's whoever, dear.

[quote]R58 I didn’t know Barbra let dull giggly Roslyn into her inner circle.

It’s her only sibling, [bold]you vicious cunt[/bold], and they’re both going to die sooner rather than later.

(ON THE OTHER HAND…. it would have raised a lot of questions and eyebrows if Babs blackballed her sister from attending. So maybe she okayed the invite just to avoid tsuris.)

Is Ross Lawn the aging tart to the right with the shaved down schnoz?

I am more obsessed with shellack and pumped up face of Carol- Bing-Bong- Singer- Bacharach - what a floozy.

Do you think Roz was asked to sing, after the cake plates were cleared?

Ross Lawn looks like Barbara without the schnozz or the voice (which was gone by 2018)

R78 (Roslyn) get the fuck out of here.

OT: whenever I see or read about Donna Karan, I remember this amazing dress Demi Moore wore in an ad.

I recently saw that Karan herself considers it her favorite of her own designs.

[quote] Renata is the one with glasses between Barbra and Roslyn

R63 In that case, there’s no excuse for the layout on the table being such a mess!

Sanctimonious R78, Barbra has another sibling- her older brother Sheldon. So there, anus face!

R22 She doesn't seem to know any Orientals or Indians either.

Of course if I had a birthday party you wouldn't see anybody of any color.

They count as coloreds, gramps. Do try to keep up.

It looks like a setting at Madame Tussaud's.

With the thermostat turned all the way up.

That's the A table. Who is at the B table? James? Josh? Fran Drescher?

Poor Jim thought he’d have her money by now.

Meanwhile, Diane Ladd, mentioned above, is in an old folks facilitator with Connie Stevens and Lainie Kazan, according to Joeky Fisher.

BS's obvious wig at r7 is pretty funny.

Sorry, that should be CBS's wig at r7.

Where was Liza?????

I wash in the kitchen whipping up shomething shpecial for all the ladiesh!

As much as I’m happy that Babs is still with us, I can only imagine how much botox and cosmetic surgery most of those women (including Barbra) in that picture had put together. Yikes!

Seeing this photo reminds me of this hilarious clip of Joan Rivers talking about her plastic surgeon and all of the guests that showed up to Joan’s plastic surgeon’s 50th birthday party. The joke starts at 01:48. Too funny!

Who is the redhead on the far right of the photo?

See R31

...and who is the blonde in the center of the photo (red V-neck blouse) behind Barbra?

see R20

I think the other woman holding the hand of the little girl is Kathryn Brolin, Josh's wife.

That's millions of Dollars of plastic surgery staring at that camera.

Second-Hand Hoes

DKNY Women Donna Karan fragrance is a great scent and nowadays a guy can pull it off.

Renata is in back to Barbra’s left. Wealthy CA women, except Donna, mostly older-looks like a very nice time.

Where was this held?

The Cheesecake Factory in Barbra's Mall

Carole's birthday luncheon with Bette Midler, Diane Keaton and Sherry Lansing. She sings "Come in From the Rain" which she wrote.

Bette and Barbra look so old and frail in real life without the proper glamour and lighting.

Michael Feinstein is probably seething that he wasn't invited and is stuck at home putting alcohol in Liza's baby bottle and changing her Depends.

R109, Jewish women do not, as a rule, age well.

Maxine Smith could pass as a relative of Barbra's - they look very much alike.

Barbra's older brother Sheldon turns 90 in a couple of weeks. I never see him in any photos of family gatherings with Barbra (a couple were floating around from the 1970s).

I'm surprised Oprah and Whoopi weren't there. I'm sure Sunny will bring this up for discussion on Monday's episode of 'The View'.

On the other hand, I'm not surprised Dionne Warwick and Diana Ross weren't there.

R112, What about Molly Brolin, the daughter Jim had with Jan Smithers, who Babs is reportedly close to?

Was that Maxine Smith or Joanna Gleason at CBS' party?

I am disappointed Liza wasn't there as Barbra has referred to Liza as a friend, and Liza performed at Barbras tribute at the Film society of Lincoln Center some years ago.

Barbra is wise to Michael "Crypt-keeper" Feinstein. .

R115, Liza has serious mobility issues.

Between caring for Liza and Mitzi Gaynor Michael is super occupied.

Carol likes the big hair.

Carol Bayer Sager is still trying to look like 1980's Joan Collins. No matter how she tries, she can't pull it off.

I bet Liza (and Feinstein) were at Shirley MacLaine's 90th birthday luncheon. It sounded like a better time - so they ditched Barbra and accepted MacLaine's invite.

Where is Josh brolin?

Bette still smokes! This pic is from just a few months ago.

I think Carole's BFF Elizabeth Taylor is her fashion role model, not Joan. In her book, I think she mentions that someone told her how much she looks like Taylor...

She’s a midget Jewess Liz Taylor…

I DECLINED the invitation!!!

Wasn't Carole hired as a decoy for Liz' wedding?

[quote]Jewish women do not, as a rule, age well.

Since when is that a rule?

R123 Liz was a convert, so you could technically say she was a Jewess as well.

I was Jewish, aged well, and Carole was my mini-me, bitches!

Needless to say Melissa Manchester wasn't at CBS' birthday...

Wow!  You don't cross Carole!  I didn't realize the snub from Melissa Manchester happend in 1975!

quote below is from 2016 LA Times article

"Sager doesn’t limit herself to the hard times with Bacharach. She also describes wounds inflicted by her mother and by the singer Melissa Manchester, an early writing partner whom Sager says snubbed her when she was thanking people onstage during an important gig at Carnegie Hall in 1975."

Mondo beyondo Heeb soiree

Melissa's best album...

Don't Cry Out Loud was used to hilarious effect in Drop Dead Gorgeous.

Carole should keep it inside and learn how to hide her feelings.

[quote] Renata is in back to Barbra’s left.

Renata Adler? She looks GREAT without her Pocahontas braid!

Is her cute son with Burt Bacharach gay?

R115, Liza is a friendly acquaintance, never a Streisand FRIEND. Remember that. You too, Liza.

[quote] Jewish women do not, as a rule, age well.

[quote] Since when is that a rule?

I protest!

who cares about this egotistical dried up old cunt? she's lost her voice and she has nothing else to go on. I say - go fuck yourself Barbara - your in God's waiting room - and good for you

When did Lucie Arnaz turn into such a hag? Yikes!

Did you know that Carole wrote the musical "They're Playing Our Song" with Marvin Hamlisch?

It was based on their relationship.

R135, Christopher Bacharach’s cuteness has nothing to do with Burt or Carol, he was adopted.

Carole has been wearing the same ratty-ass "Dynasty" wig for 40 years.

R137, So do I.

I wonder if I will live long enough to see elderly women with short hair again

I'm surprised Carole still allows comments on her Instagram. The snark could put DL to shame.

R139, That photo of Carole and Lucie is older than 2023. Lucie let herself go gray during the COVID lockdown and has kept her hair gray since.

CBS has shark fins on her nose!

Who is the little girl?

R139, Lucie is 73 years old.

CBS looks like a cross between Joan Collins and Lisa Rinna.

Scrolling through Datalounge, you come across a pic of pair of ladies who have plainly had some 'work' done, meh no biggie.

But here's a group portrait, and they all appear to have followed the same script, regardless of whether they have a Hollywood career or not. The fact that these ladies all ended up looking so identical speaks much about the pressures society places on older women.

R139, R140 -every gay knows that.

Did Lucille Ball ever go to see Lucie on Broadway?

Is that Glenn Close applauding in the audience at the end of the video?

R152 This is about me and my birthday luncheon, not Lucille Ball. Stay on topic !

R108 - Carole's attempt to sing here is pathetic. That Bette Midler didn't make a joke about it shows what a friend she is.

I don't think society expects or wants older women to look like uncanny valley clones; it's just a status symbol for those who can afford it. At least Joan Rivers was open and honest about it.

#Barbata’s birthday so white.

Did they hire a bunch of male strippers and a cameraman to record the strippers fucking them all three ways from saturday?? Something to add to the private home movies collection.

It was a lot of work getting those faces to the table

R158 There were trowels in the Ladies’ Room on the counter in front of the mirror in case anyone needed to freshen up their makeup.

Women (and men) have to be careful with anything involcing the eyes and forehead.

Bar-bore-a looks like an aggressive lion.

Men look like old lesbos when their eyework is bad- which s 50% of the time.

Carole gets her roots touched every three weeks on the dot.

Carole's maid touches up the roots on Carol's wig in the kitchen sink.

Seriously, girl needs a new wig. The one she's been wearing for forty years is a dated 80s mess.

Good point about the wig. I know a 70yo very nice lady with the pitch black hair of her youth. A miracle, it is.

R163

When I first saw OP's photo I thought it was a still from The Dark Crystal

Lord, that wig CBS is wearing at R129 looks like a dust mop!

where's the Free Palestine posters🤔

But did they condemn Hamas?

Did they consume hummus?

what a bunch of psychos😵‍💫... imagine working for these clowns as domestic help - having to wash their dirty socks and underwear, cleaning their toilets and getting yelled at all the time or even being their PA, putting up with their BS, catering to their whims for fear of getting fired... a nightmare situation

That clip someone posted of Carol Banger Stinger's birthday party was dreary as balls. Even Diane Keaton was extremely restrained.

Their parties look like a BORE. All of these rich Hollywood lumiaries sitting around a table, old as balls, quiet and respectful as church mice.

Depressing and lifeless. (Some may say that THIS is wealth and class)

Its suffocating.

R171, To be fair, they know they can count their remaining birthdays on one hand. All of their friends and colleagues are dropping like flies. Barbra's Instagram is 50% posts about friends who have just died.

r134 "Get thee gone, Pocahontas braid!" I love that you remember that Paul Rudnick article from SPY! One of his best.

You get big props from me for posting that.

Before fading out, that magazine was SO smart.

Is that Ted Kennedy in a ratty wig at r164?

They don’t wear socks, you fool R170.