Brenda Vaccaro is having a good time

Brenda...One of the good ol' broads.

LOVE ME some Brenda! She is (should be) a MAJOR gay icon!

Damn, she looks fantastic! How does Mo Rocca look older than her?!

Mo Rocca should have his own talk show.

Anyway, Brenda Vaccaro makes Jane Fonda with her gruesome plastic surgery look ridiculous.

Love her -- and Michael Douglas did, too.

We're cracking open a box of Playtex tampons in her honor!

Like a moose with sinus problems

Even though the movie was crap, I loved her as Fay Dunaway's sidekick in 'Supergirl.'

Damn, Michael Douglas was keee-yute!!! She is a great broad. Love me some Brenda. Too bad Mo didn’t ask her about GG.

I think Brenda is friends with Streisand.

Regular or deodorized R6?

Streisand gave Brenda a job in The Mirror has Two Faces, R10. She also co-starred with Elliott Gould in I Love My Wife in 1970.

Brenda and Babs may have been friendly acquaintances in the 60s when they were both in the New York theater, but don't kid yourself, Brenda does not have a key to the Inner Circle.

I thought her name was Big Sally?

Love her

Bamburgas!

Should have had a much bigger career.

"Once is Not Enough".....surely there's a DL thread on this film, which I haven't seen in decades. I had no idea Brenda got an Oscar nomination for it. She looks fantastic. Italian genes, baby!

She was terrific as Nicolette Sheridan's mother in the late, lamented Paper Dolls.

Inspired by this thread, I'm halfway through "Once Is Not Enough." It's terrible, of course. Starring Kirk Douglas - if Brenda was dating Jr at that time, I wonder if Kirk helped her get cast, or if she helped convince him to take the role.

I loved the book (so help me, my mother had ALL the Jackie Susann novels laying around when I was a kid), and so am enjoying the film in a weird way. For me, Deborah Raffin is actually the best in her role. She was gorgeous, and the right mix of innocent and arch, exactly as I pictured January. Kirk is okay. Alexis Smith acts too butch as Dee Milford Grainger; I would have preferred Dina Merrill. I respect Melina Mercouri but she's off-putting as Karla, far too vibrant, no mystery. Brenda did well with what she was given. George Hamilton as the society playboy has some funny lines that he delivers well. David Janssen is hilarious as the drunk author, even though it doesn't work.

Any other fans of the book/movie?

Is there a David Janssen nudie scene?

R20 I’ve heard there is, I’m not there yet. January has just met his character. I’ll watch the rest later tonight.

Brenda Vaccaro seems like a good broad. I mean it as a compliment...earthy, a little bawdy and fun.

I loved Alexis Smith. Cold and frigid except when she was with her lover. And seeing her lover at her funeral not really being able to mourn brought a tear to my teen gayling eyes when I first saw it.

In the book, Dee was more ladylike and fashionable, darling, at least in public. Uptight, even. I felt Alexis played her just a little too tough and offhand.

[quote] Too bad Mo didn’t ask her about GG.

Makes you wonder if Mo is really a 'mo.

R19 YES! My mother had all the JS books too.. I loved VOTD and OINE so much that in Jr high I read them over and over again

At the risk of losing some kind of card, I’ll bravely ask: who is GG? Greta Garbo? Greg Gutfeld? Gary Gilmore? Who?

R19, Dina Merrill would not have been good because Dina Merrill would not put her lips on another woman's breast!

Wasn't Alexis Smith just playing herself?

r27 Golden Girls.

R30 oh, uh, gee. I was thinking of a person, hoping it was some unmentionable scandal.

Does she still sound like she's been sucking on a tailpipe?

R28 That’s EXACTLY why Dina would have been good!