06/17/2008
Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand Once Swapped Spit
Joan Rivers tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that she and Barbra Streisand played lovers in a 1959 theatre production of the off-off Broadway play "Driftwood" because the director couldn't find a leading man:
"We played lesbian lovers. That was the first thing Barbra did; soon after that she really got going. Let me tell you, Barbra is a great kisser, but no tongue....I don't really see her anymore. I got an invitation from Barbra asking me to please come see her show when she was in New York. I thought, 'This is a joke,' but it wasn't. I wrote her back, 'I can't come because I'm working that night,' which was true. Barbra is so involved in her own life. When I do see her, she always asks, 'So, are you still in the business?' And she's not making a joke. She has no clue what anyone else is doing."
Rivers also talked about her experiences with Andy Warhol: "Bad wigs, oily skin. He looked like an albino. Not a pretty man. Andy wanted to do me, but Cher said, 'Don't. He charges $40,000 a portrait, and he'll always tell you the first one isn't good.' I wasn't going to make an $80,000 commitment. I said, 'Andy, if you want to do it for free, great,' but he picked Elizabeth Taylor instead."
And Robert Mapplethorpe: "He wouldn't agree to retouch the photos, so I said no."
Rivers is playing a concert in Pittsburgh over the weekend sponsored by the Lambda Foundation.
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Yaaaaaakkkk!!! I'm totally blowing chunks over this...it's like corpse-on-corpse sex....
Posted by: Yeek | Jun 17, 2008 10:50:07 AM
I hope Babs lives forever. Maybe it's a generatonal thing, but she's the last of the great performers--overall performers: stage, recording, live concert, movies, TV....Democratic Conventions. She's the last truly great one.
Do I sound too gay?
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Jun 17, 2008 11:15:56 AM
Joan Rivers looks fabulous!
Posted by: Timothy | Jun 17, 2008 11:22:03 AM
BS is still a great performer, but her voice is showing lots of wear. On some of her recent songs, I can't make out any of the words, and the phrasing has become stiff, like she's concentrating too hard on singing. She's got to have vocal nodules. It's not worth the risk of surgery though, given what happened to Julie Andrews. I still buy her discs anyway.
Posted by: Progression | Jun 17, 2008 11:31:06 AM
Um...I'm gonna let you older chaps savor this one...
Posted by: Chas | Jun 17, 2008 12:37:04 PM
Progression: Don't blame her voice, darling. It's your old ears, grandpa.
Posted by: Mike | Jun 17, 2008 1:06:41 PM
Timothy, I can't imagine you're serious. Joan Rivers looks like a product of physicians trying to discourage plastic surgery. And frankly it's a pretty fair question to ask if Joan IS still the business. She's more a show business leech.
How could they not have found a leading man? Not enough struggling actors in NY?
Posted by: Paul R | Jun 17, 2008 1:52:14 PM
I'm 34 and I love Streisand's 60s and early 70s stuff.
And I wonder why men my age won't date me . . . *sniff*
Posted by: Alex | Jun 17, 2008 1:57:16 PM
Alex, I'm 37 and I love and listen to everything Barbra did before 1980. I'd date you :)
Posted by: Damon | Jun 17, 2008 3:23:39 PM
Joan's still around?
I thought she was replaced by Kathy Griffin....?
Posted by: johnny | Jun 17, 2008 3:47:46 PM
Joan's still around?
I thought she was replaced by Kathy Griffin....?
Posted by: johnny | Jun 17, 2008 3:47:46 PM
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Except I doubt Kathy will ever throw her Gays under the bus like Joan did in the 80's. She got so caught up in herself and started kissing ass with Reagan and Jerry Farwell, forgetting her base.
Not to mention her screwing Johnny Carson. Bad karma I guess leads to bad skin, and if you ever see Rivers in person it is even more of a fright than the pictures you will see.
Posted by: patrick nyc | Jun 17, 2008 8:01:21 PM
Alex, there are plenty of men out there who have the same interests - keep looking. Is 42 too old for you?
Posted by: Ted | Jun 17, 2008 11:38:35 PM
Joan,
It's 2008.
Tammy Faye called she wants his eyeliner back.
Posted by: Dr. Pat | Jun 18, 2008 8:34:52 AM