#Billy Rose

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Billy Rose 🇬🇧

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Mayor Walker married Fanny Brice and Billy Rose on February 9, 1929, at City Hall.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[oldshowbiz]

June 1962.

The Tonight Show with guest host Steve Lawrence and featuring Billy Rose, Mort Sahl, Jim Backus, and Frankie Avalon.

[unwelcome-ephestion]

I’m currently watching Funny Lady, which is the film sequel to Funny Girl. It’s not regarded as as strong as the original - it certainly lacks the tragic propulsion that gives Funny Girl its magnetism. But it’s good, and has a strong score by, of all people, Kander and Ebb, mixed in with a lot of early 20th century popular songs.

It’s only a film (so far), and just like it lacks Styne and Merrill who composed and wrote lyrics to the original, it also lacks William Wyler, the original director, who is replaced by Herbert Ross, who staged the original film’s musical numbers. Streisand finally agreed to do it after seeing the script, thinking it was more than a half-baked sequel, and she’s right - Fanny feels more mature than the original, like it’s real character development.

It’s an underrated gem, I think! Maybe not a knockout, but Streisand is great, and the Kander and Ebb score is better than most. Fred Ebb in particular finds the maturer, more cynical, sarcastic voice of Brice in his lyrics . It also has pretty much all diegetic music, unlike the original, possibly because in the seven years between the films, musicals were out and music films were in. Streisand does a Brice impression that is much more recognisable as the late era Brice who was captured on film and tv than her early, more innocent years, which most people are unfamiliar with, and it really feels like she’s making an adult performance in the role, and shows her talent for comedy maybe even better than the original. A shame that so many songs are montaged, but Spotify gives you them in full!

This song, I Found A Million Dollar Baby (in a five and ten cent store), sees Barbra absolutely radiant in a top hat and tails, but was also originally written by Harry Warren, Mort Dixon and Billy Rose - the latter one of the characters in Funny Lady!

[nipuni]

Bad Wolf Bay

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Rose Tyler’s Interstellar Nokia 3205

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DOCTOR WHO (2005) 1.10 The Doctor Dances

[sentientsky]

how could anyone hate rose tyler. the woman ran around starting unions, killing FUCKING SATAN, travelling between not only time and space, but dimensions, and becoming LITERAL FUCKING GOD. and she’s a symbol of irrepressible guilt and agony and love and light and resilience and courage. all rose haters can go eat mud

[yousharknotpass]

edition 2005.

i knoooooow Rose collects all the alien vogue and cosmopolitan (guess WHO'S buying)

[lonelygodinthetardis]

Doctor Who The Unquiet Dead | 1.03

[queeenpersephone]

honestly the power and influence of billie piper playing rose tyler. she had both chris eccleston and david tennant wrapped around her finger. her chemistry with both of them is to this day insane. the other actors in doctor who long after her bring her up in conversation and she continues to be brought up in the show. on a zoom reunion, she was snatched up as ‘companion you’d want to travel with’ instantly. she’s an ordinary girl but there’s no one like her. her arc is so good that they regularly try to recreate or deconstruct it. some of the episodes she’s in are terrible but it doesn’t matter. the doctor loves her so much it both saved him and killed him. multiple times. she lives rent free in every doctor who fan’s mind. love her, hate her, or indifferent to her, she’s the basis for comparison. she’s at the tip of the tongue of people who gush about the show and people who complain. billie piper still affirms her unpopular (correct) opinions about rose and the doctor. she was the consistency, the heart, and she redefined the entire fandom.

[shutbhubs]

not totally finished but didn’t feel like working on this much more 😓 so yeah here’s the one and only rose tyler‼️

[crowleysno1fan]

wyd when i pull up in this

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Billie Piper filming Doctor Who in Wales 2005

[chaoticrosesimp]

The empire of the wolf commited so many crimes , specially to my Rose.

Someone pay me to fix them all , please BBC Give me your money.