LEONA HELMSLEY

Pure Evil. The biopic with Suzanne Pleshette is a total campfest.

Why is there no Young Leona series on Netflix, showing us her origin story?

Nora Dunn played her to perfection on SNL.

There was a great sketch where Tammy Faye and her busted out of Jail and went on crime sprees across the country. With Jim and I think Zsa Zsa Gabor. Jan Hooks played Tammy Baker, Phil Hartman played Jim and Victoria Jackson Zsa Zsa.

We've overdone Leona.

[quote]We've overdone Leona.

If they're still making movies about 100-year-old comic book characters, I think there's still a little more drama to be mined from Leona's story. Who hurt her? Who loved her? What did she need?

If only Leona could somehow magically have lived into the Trump era. Would she have been an ambassador? press secretary? secretary of state?

Leona and Trump absolutely hated each other. If she had lived longer she would be a Datalounge icon.

The true DL icon is little Trouble.

Leona once threw a glass of red wine on Trump's suit and he sent her the dry-cleaning bill. She sent him back the exact same suit, but all in red. I hope on Christmas Eve, she pulls a Jacob Marley and haunts him.

Taxes are for the little people

She was the most egregious example of a face that matched the personality. You couldn't make up a face that screamed "nasty, evil bitch" any more than the reality.

I have to say that while she was excessive, I've often dreamed, after experiencing horrible customer service, of buying the hotel, store, restaurant, etc... and going around and firing employees who are bad at their jobs and that do not do things correctly.

R12, I bet those employees dream of their evil fat cat employers going to prison

She looks like Martin Landau in his Oscar-winning performance as Bela Lugosi.

That looks like a very haggard Eddie Izzard at r11 Holy fuck.

R13 Excuse for thinking, that the owners of customer service focused businesses, should care more about their customers than mollycoddling their employees. Leona knew people were paying high prices to stay at her hotels and that therefore they deserved the best service.

Her eyebrows were a bit much.

Her pussy stank.

She did love her son, and made her grandchildren agree to visit their father's grave once a year in order to inherit (they had to sign in at the cemetery office).

She disinherited two of the grandchildren for not complying.

R16, she cared more about herself than the employees AND the customers. You sound like a Republican

This must have been a riot.

Second thought, maybe not.

She was so damn ugly. No wonder why she was so nasty.

Tovah looks more like Imelda Staunton then Leona Helmsley. Either way, it's scary.

Tovah looks like Amy Sedaris as "Patty Hogg"

I thought that was Julie Andrews in OP's picture.

I need to be more like her without the racism.

That woman had a face which could wilt an erection from a mile away!

The Big Bitch Bull Dyke Breakout of ‘89.

Both Ginger Rogers and Carol Channing mentioned Leona in their autobiographies and and not a flattering way. Ironically, I saw Leona in person at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood California (as opposed to Hollywood South Dakota) outside the theater talking to Anne Jeffreys when I went to see "Miss Saigon". She was all smiles and charm, and that changed her facial features drastically. Younger pictures of her are quite flattering, but her meanness was very evident in her face as she got old.

If you look up the term "resting bitch face," you'll find Leona's picture as an example.

She was basically the female version of Trump. But unlike Trump, leana was actually a billionaire and competent in business. And not like Trump who filed business bankruptcy 6 fucking times.

But both people are trash with money.

R27 She was racist?

Her skin was wretched. Craters for days.

I remember a series of commercials - or was it newspaper ads. or both? - that ran in New York in the 80s. The gist was Leona saying, "I wouldn't settle for a lumpy mattress/fill in the blank complaint in my hotel room, why should you?!"

In my mind, Leona is forever intertwined with Spy Magazine and Donald Trump. Here’s a link to the Spy Archives.

Helmsley left his demure, Quaker wife for Leona. Go figure.

That bitch makes me quake.

Leona Helmsley rests forever in her masoleum, under this stained glass window. I'm a jealous bitch.

Fuck her!

The only Palace in the world where a CUNT stands guard

Did she die in jail?

LOL

I wonder how many heads rolled because of the typo in the ad at R41 ? (Does instead of doles)

struggling to see her charms, how'd she land hh?

Quite the mugshot.

I wonder why we never got to see Martha Stewart's mugshot? The only one I can find is a parody.

Adweek article about the poor woman entrusted with her ad campaign

The last 30 seconds of this video gives a tour of Leona's private rooftop pool. Allegedly she'd have her staff serve her shrimp cocktail as she swam. She lived in the suite shown. It's for rent, but there is no longer access to the rooftop pool. There's old posters of the Empire State building, which she owned.

Miss Suzanne Pleshette in the role (and the dental prosthetics) of a lifetime

I love those ads. I'm glad Miss Leona wanted me to have everything as good as she had it. She's right, why settle?

I'm not like you mother. I'm not going to sit back and let the poverty wash over me. Not in a fourth floor walk-up!

Still stylin' and smilin'

Back in the day I stumbled across a video of Suzanne Pleshette's funeral. Trump was interviewed outside and he said he told her she was too nice in her portrayal of Leona.

I still miss Suzanne.

Wretched, miserable cunt.

Why does she resemble Lady Elaine Fairchilde from Mister Roger's Neighborhood?

I'm not greedy at all!

The TV movie about Leona is one of the few films where I did not laugh at seeing the aging Lloyd Bridges. I thought he was very touching, and I would have loved to have seen more of his first wife or found out more about her. There is little to none about her available, but it is very clear that once Leona set her sights on Harry, there was no turning back. I love Suzanne as she's feeding Harry and says "just like buttah", and I believe this was even before "Linda Richman" made that comment famous on SNL. I hope both Suzanne and Leona are in heaven together, with Leona only allowed there if she works as Suzanne's maid.

Heaven wasn't good enough for Leona -- insufficient fluffy towels, and the pool was unheated.

Leona's hotel where she lived, The Park Lane probably isn't long for this world. They've already tried to demolish it once, but the economy put a stop to it. There's already a new tower lined up to be built, but it's on hold.

My feelings are mixed. It's hideous, but I think it does have it's place on the Central Park South skyline. If they do tear it down I won't be too upset.

If I had the money or talent. I'd write and produce a musical on Leona starring Patti Lupone

Cast Christine Ebersole as Brooke Astor, R65. Call it War Paint II.

Greed is good.

LuPone would be a great Leona. Tovah Feldshuh has played her I think.

Suzanne Pleshette said she and Leona had mutual friends but she refrained from offering any opinion of how those friends viewed Leona. She and Trump also had many friends in common although Pleshette was a major Clinton supporter and was at every Democratic fundraiser in Beverly Hills. Then again I think Trump was still a Democrat back then. Lol.

Leona has crossed my mind many times in the last few years as I wished she had been the one with political aspirations. I wouldn’t want to work for her but I wouldn’t mind her as my president.

"In the alleys where roaches and rats congregate, throw me a listing, I'll make it look great."

"It's ancient, Prewar. The wallpaper's peeling, Lovely retro decor."

"These are really low ceilings, It makes it feel wide. Washington Heights, Just say Upper West Side!"

I want this Leona musical.

She was so pretty!

Was Leona Helmsley Jewish?

Yes r71, apparently she was self hating and didn't want anyone to know. The jews of NYC certainly didn't want to claim her either...

Leona Helmsley was born Leona Mindy Rosenthal in Marbletown, New York, to Polish-Jewish immigrants, Ida (née Popkin), a homemaker, and Morris Rosenthal, a hatmaker.[3] Her family moved to Brooklyn while she was still a girl, and moved six more times before settling in Manhattan. After dropping out of Abraham Lincoln High School to seek her fortune,[2] she changed her name several times over a short period – from Lee Roberts, Mindy Roberts, and Leni Roberts – before finally going by Leona Mindy Roberts[4] and having her surname legally changed to Roberts.[5]

She earned the face she deserved.

R72 well good luck with that lol.

People have eyes & ears don’t they?

I have to say to sink my teeth Into a role like that must be every actor’s dream. Lucky Suzanne.

Queen of Bitches Leona was a HUGE story in the late 80s. People loved hearing the details about how awful she was to everyone.

When I was a kid, we were in the same hospital elevator numerous times with her husband who was just an old mess. My mother described him as "defeated."

Hell was made for her:

[quote]Helmsley was known for "tyrannizing her employees".[47] Alan Dershowitz, while breakfasting with her at one of the Helmsley hotels, received a cup of tea with a tiny bit of water spilled on the saucer. Helmsley grabbed the cup from the waiter and smashed it on the floor, then told him to beg for his job.[48] In another account of Helmsley's behavior, she had a barbecue pit constructed for her home.[49] The work was performed by Eugene Brennan, a personal friend of Jeremiah McCarthy, the chief engineer of Helmsley-Spear.[49] When the final bill came to $13,000, she refused to pay, citing shoddy workmanship.[49] When McCarthy pleaded with her to honor the bill, citing the favor done on his behalf and informing her that Brennan had six children to support, Helmsley replied, "Why didn't he keep his pants on? Then he wouldn't need the money".[49]

I wonder if she ever crossed paths with Marge Schott? How'd you like to be a waiter and have those two show up in your section?

She hired managers for the hotels who resembled her deceased son.

[quote]I wonder if she ever crossed paths with Marge Schott? How'd you like to be a waiter and have those two show up in your section?

Guarantee their entrees were more spit than food.

would be* more

She was pretty much just as awful as her rep- through and through- and dishonest too.

This thread stinks! All of you are fired!