Jennifer Lawrence IS Sue Mengers!

This is actually great casting.

The physical resemblance is there, and they share a reputation for vulgarity.

r1 Michelle Williams looks much more like her.

Michelle Williams is too delicate and classy.

Jennifer Lawrence is a foul-mouthed, titty-shaking slattern. She was blowsy at 27. Perfect for Sue.

I was certain this one was mine...

Oh well, I guess I'll go ahead and do "Sharknado 7".

Sue should be a fun scene-stealing supporting character (she's rumored to be a character in the new Paul Thomas Anderson film). Does she really need to have a whole film based around her? Was "I'll Eat You Last" any good?

But Sue Mengers was fat.

It won't take much for Jennifer to get there. She has genetic fatface.

I don't know, Sue Mengers was fun, a lot of fun, and bitchy and funny and really quite intelligent. Sure, she can put on a fat suit but I have my doubts about JLaw's ability to play this part well.

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe she'll be great.

Another step down for bargain basement discount Jennifer Lawrence.

Cue the stretch pants

With Margot Robbie as Barbra Streisand.

Jennifer doesn’t have that Jewish quality that used to flourish in Hollywood (but is on the way out now that the idiot Jews of Hollywood are obsequiously bending over backwards to give all their jobs to unqualified poc and tranny lunatics).

I turned down the role. Too busy. Ta!

Could be fun, but then I’m an elder. Who today cares about Sue Mengers?

I didn't know Jennifer Lawrence was still a thing

Another gentile playing a Jewish person?

There is the little matter of acting ability, of which Jennifer Lawrence has none. The promise she showed in Winter's Bone disappeared within a couple of years and she's been thoroughly mediocre since.

This requires Mayim Bialik.

Who is Sue Mengers?

If rumors are true and JLaw is preggers, she could step right into the role.

Scarlett Johansson would be better

I wouldn't wanna do it.

R5, I’ll Eat You Last was NOT good. Part of it was the staging, of which there wasn’t any. I think Mantello directed? Bette sat on the sofa for the entire show and never moved. It was horribly static and made it difficult to focus at times.

I was at an early preview and Bette had to call for a few lines.

When she didn’t receive a Tony nom, the producers pulled all of the Tony voters’ free comps!

To go from Bette to JLaw is quite the wild ride for Mengers.

She definitely has to gain like 30 pounds.

How does she this cum covered slut get work.

She was only good in "Winter's Bone". They'll grab for any meaty, Oscar type role regardless of suitability. Greedy, mean bitches.

She has a discernible, bitter beer face. It's like she's always smelling a foul odor.

I'm fat. I can play Sue.

Jen still smells like Harvey's "Baby batter"

Hollywood doesn't have characters like Sue Mengers anymore, and that's a shame.

I read R9's comment as "bargain basement dismount Jennifer Lawrence."

Too bad the actress who played Kristy McNichol's "best friend" on Family isn't bankable.

Kirtsen Dunst or Anna Paquin or Julia Stiles could play Sue, but JLaw must play Babs!!!

J Aniston must play Babs. Who will play crazy Faye Dunaway?

Emily Blunt could channel Faye channeling Joan.

Barbra would totally want some beauty playing her. A more realistic-looking actress will piss her off to no end.

Just to piss Barbra off they should cast Bette's daughter Sophie as Barbra.

[quote] Barbra would totally want some beauty playing her.

I don't see what the issue is. I still don't get what the problem was with Halle Berry not being able to sing.

My favorite Sue Mengers anecdote...

"Sue decided to get a running machine. As she was trying one out in the store, Jean-Claude turned from his wife, who was dressed in a caftan and scarf and puffing on the treadmill, to the salesman and asked, not too quietly, if the store carried “the Isadora Duncan model.”

Dyan Cannon's character in the camp classic The Last of Sheila was based on Sue Mengers. I don't see JL doing this part justice. SM was a riot.

Wow, the bitterness amongst the J.Law haters is real.

Surely a Swifty Lazar biopic will be next, no?

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^ Lol, I'm not sure Jenny from the block could handle Babs from Brooklyn

[quote]Wow, the bitterness amongst the J.Law haters is real

No bitterness. JLaw made her bed...

[quote]Wow, the bitterness amongst the J.Law haters is real

Hon, this is DL. Bitterness when discussing the rich, famous and spoiled is a way of life.

jen lawrence is jinxed.....it willl be yet another belly flop fer her

Jennifer would have to play Barbra with a prosthetic nose. She seems really miscast as short, chubby, Jewish Sue.

[quote] Was "I'll Eat You Last" any good?

I didn't see the show but I read the script and thought it was pretty good. It could be Bette couldn't put it over for the same reason she couldn't put over Rose, because her need to be liked overrided the necessity of playing the character as at least a bit of an arsehole. The thing about Mengers is that (a) the people she repped are A-listers from a time that people aren't that fascinated by, and (b) she was actually a shitty agent--she was good at poaching established talent from other agencies, but what services she provided for them was questionable. Especially in the case of Barbra, whose film career she sabotaged in a selfish, careless fashion. Maybe you could use Mengers to tell a timely story about a celebrity con artist who claws their way to the top, only to wreak havoc on the people who trusted them.

Meredith Baxter would have KILLED this part twenty years ago. Ann Jillian as well.

Lawrence is campy in a Southern white trash way. Mengers was upper class echelon, goofy. Kind of like an Auntie Mame of Hollywood.

Clearly, we're off to the wrong start.

R49, Meredith Baxter (Birney)?! LMAO!

Lens Dunham would have killed it.

It really is R40

To R51...Dunham would have Killed it& then put Bar-B-Q sauce on it and eaten it

Ah when I read the thread title I thought this was going to be about “The Big Goodbye,” which I recently read. They’re turning that into a movie and Sue represented Faye.

I don’t see how this movie could work unless Barbra was a major character. That means you have a movie with multiple celebrity impersonations.

I don't think some of the posters here are familiar with Sue Mengers. Lawrence is all wrong for the role.

Sue and Barbra really is the whole story.

I mean, she had other clients, but Barbra was her cherished possession.

They should cast the actress from Bridgerton/Derry Girls. She's short and stout.

They need a Jennifer Coolidge type for Sue.

Shue Menshersh.

Mengers wasn't a young woman - or didn't read as one - when she had her greatest success. Can Zelwegger play Noo Yawk?

Jennifer Lawrence= cum splattered asshole and face photos. She’s unwanted by the public. The older crowd will adore a film about Mengers. Don’t ruin it. Try Beanie Feldstein.

What was that joke re Mengers? "Ryan O'Neal for The Godfather?"?

Mengers wasn't "fat" by today's Standards. Doughy perhaps but some of you are acting like she was an obese Brooklyn yenta. No. She wasn't. She was a German Jew. She was pithy, a bit catty and glib. But her style was more of a dry, quick-witted German snappiness kind of thing and not the campy Jewess some of you queens here are trying to frame her as.

With DL fave Tony Perkins.

Sue was NOT upper class. Her family was quite poor. They moved to the US just before the war. Her father committed suicide and her mom was a bookkeeper. I've been pissed at JLaw since the "I'm mean to my fans" thing but she has the trashy who thinks she's better than everyone else thing Sue had. If she gains 30 lbs the Oscar is hers.

r48 Exactly, but you know this is just going to be some "slayyy Girlboss" shit. 🙄

Sue’s 60-Minutes piece with Mike Wallace. Decide for yourself if JLaw could play her well.

Bette didn't work as Rose not because she needs to be liked, but because her tendency toward camp comedy infected even numbers like "Some People."

I don't think Babs needs any help at self sabotage. Streisand bounced back from "All Night Long" easily. Can we blame "Nuts" on Sue Mengers? Or course not.

Was the husband gay?

[quote]Especially in the case of Barbra, whose film career she sabotaged in a selfish, careless fashion.

After having read the Mengers biography by Brian Kellow, the only one I felt sorry for was Lisa Eichorn. Her reputation was destroyed with that stunt Sue pulled. Barbra knew what she was getting into (She even got a better salary than Eichorn). Barbra just got pissed that the movie flopped.

I do wonder if Sue was bisexual, because the way she treated Streisand and basically made her the center of her universe speaks to some unrequited love on Sue's end. And packing it all up because Barbra left? As the book said, Sue had numerous clients come and go without a blink, but what made Streisand that special that Sue ended her own career when she departed? She even went into a depression for a number of years afterwards.

Sue didn't pull that stunt. Gene Hackman did.

After watching the interview at R68, I'm looking forward to seeing this movie. Should be fun. Based on her performance in American Hustle, I think J Law can play this role. I have no opinion about her as a person, but she's a decent actress. Scarlett Johansen would be even better.

Sue was open about not having a nose for scripts. Streisand movies tended to make money even if they weren't good... It's seems pretty plain why Mengers went into depression. She lost her Sure Thing.

My favorite thing about Sue Mengers is that in the days after the Manson murders, she told her nervous clients, "They're not killing stars. Just featured players."

La Lawrence sucks the fun out of everything with her dull acting and dead eyes.

And then they're the Constance Bennett billing quip - Bennett wanted her Madame X billing to feature her name within a black rectangle. When Constance popped her clogs, Sue remarked that "Connie got her box."

^^ this

*there's not they're

It's a pity Dyan Cannon didn't get to play Mengers in her own vehicle.

If Dyan Cannon, of all people, could nail Sue Mengers at age 35, I think Jennifer Lawrence can handle it at 31.

Dyan Cannon is a great "Neely" in one of the follow up Jacquie Susann screen adaptations. I can't remember the character's name.

Meghan Trainor could play Sue and she can sing too. But JLaw must play Babs. It's non-negotiable!!!

I don’t think I’ve seen an interview with Sue Mengers before just watching that 60 Minutes clip linked here. She’s not the fat troll I’ve always heard she was. She was actually kind of….cute. I can see Jennifer Lawrence playing her.

She once said, “I was so driven I would have signed Martin Bormann.” LMAO

Here is Sue at the premier of "On a Clear Day..."

She looks ill here, not simply fat. This was 1977, so not even ten years after "Clear Day."

I’m able to play young and willing to wear a runner nose.

Rubber nose. I need this part!

This movie better be very very gay if its going to portray the Mengers reign.

Did Mengers rep Perkins or just beard for occasions?

This film getting made is yet another capricious act by capricious people to tell the story of a capricious woman.

The one the right is playing Babs in a movie with Bradley Cooper. I suspect it's just a cameo.

r94 Alana Haim isn't playing Streisand. I think she's one of the main characters. I don't think Streisand will be a character in that. Probably just mentioned. Bradley Cooper is only a small role in it as well.

Apparently Charlie Day's wife Mary Elizabeth Ellis is playing Sue (or the character based on her).

She has a good look for the role, 96. Sue was average looking.

@r68, "Sue Mengers is the highest paid female agent in the world."

"Sue Mengers is rumored to be making up to $200K per year"

Hahahahahaha! 1975

Yeah, $200K in 1975 was worth about $1 million now adjusted for inflation … but still, that’s nothing compared to what a top agent handling A-list talent makes today.

Truly have no idea who Sue Mengers is, and I pride myself on knowing a lot about pop culture from 40-55 years ago.

[quote]Dyan Cannon is a great "Neely" in one of the follow up Jacquie Susann screen adaptations. I can't remember the character's name.

Dyan Cannon was in The Love Machine, playing the socialite wife of a television network president. The character was obviously supposed to be Babe Paley. When Jacqueline Susann was told that Cannon was cast, she was not happy because she didn't think Cannon was "classy" enough to play that character.

Sue was what politely used to be called "zaftig."

Wasn’t Jennifer going to play Elizabeth Holmes and that fell apart?

The star and director on this project do not inspire confidence.

WTF with Apple bidding $80 million on this project plus agreeing to pay Lawrence $20+ million?

Bidding up to $95 million.

FYI this is the new normal for projects like this - what previously would be called the “adult mid budget picture.” Studios only want what Scorsese called “theme park ride pictures”.

The streaming companies will throw money at anything!

It seems like a folly to me. Jennifer is not exactly hot anymore. Stupid hype.

Didn’t she flop as the mop lady? This seems even worse.

[quote]The star and director on this project do not inspire confidence.

ROFL at some eldergay expecting a Sue Mengers biopic delivered in the cinematic style of a late 80s Bette Midler pic for Touchstone Pictures.

A Paolo Sorrentini film is ART.

Zzzzzz

[quote]A Paolo Sorrentini film is ART.

Ryan Murphy in meat sauce judging by the clip at R110. PRESTIGIOUS with a capital P!

Besides Sue Mengers is not the property to try and turn a whore into a housewife. Let JAW get classy somewhere else.

I feel like this would work better as a miniseries than a film.

My SO and I saw Midler in the limited run Broadway show based on Mengers and she fucking KILLED IT.

Sue was a chubby girl (permanent munchies?) and had an acid tongue and amazing comedic timing. Lawrence is a SNOOZE. Pork up Kate Hudson and throw a caftan on her. She'd be a better choice. Or Emily Blunt. Or make La McCarthy lose a gunt and a chin and she could get the comedy camp into it, at least.

This is a terrible idea. The flop will be so LOUD. Lawrence was NEVER box -office outside the franchises, her fanbase have out-grown her, they still haven't forget the pics of her face full of Harvey's cum floating around the net, and the younger crowds don't know her. She should have waited a good 20 years before attempting a comeback, perhaps as a survivor of breast cancer or something similar, with a sob story the endear the fraus who liked her romcoms. I'm embarrassed for her. She's just setting herself up for more humiliation. Some people really can't read the room.

Paolo Sorrentino's films are hollow crap that THINKS it's art. "Youth" was laughable.

The Great Beauty is magnificent. FFS

Why hasn't anybody contacted me, I can play Babs in my sleep. Find me a blond wig that hasn't been shit in, I'm on my way.

Because this is a film dear @ R118. Yours is a face for plays only. From the back row. And you've been cancelled. Bye bye

It seems like HW is hoping Jennifer is still a big star. From screenings of Don’t Look Up, Meryl and Leo are standouts and she is ... in the room.

r117 Nope. Extremely overrated.

Is this or is this not a Sue Mengers type?

If there's a bidding war for this, I assume it's because they see it as a "Woman Kicks Ass In a Man's World" type of picture. It can't be because of Lawrence, whose career is pretty cold.

Will JLaw be putting on the pounds for this or wear a fat suit?

The streaming companies pay a lot in hopes of buzz and new subscriptions. I really don’t understand the economics. I would never sign up for Apple+ just to watch a JLaw film on Sue Mengers.

Will they include the stuff she said to Tatum about her going out with Michael Jackson?

I can't wait to watch this! I'm obsessed with Sue, Barbra and Faye. She also managed Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw.

I would cast Rosamund Pike as Faye Dunaway, and Chris Pine as O'Neal. Ewan McGregor would make a good Robert Evans.

Why would they want cameos? Is this the love boat?

[Quote] they still haven't forget the pics of her face full of Harvey's cum floating around the net, and the younger crowds don't know her.

There aren't any photos of her involving cum. And the younger crowd don't know who Sue is so it makes no difference.

Jen Lawrence needs to be cast in the Kellyanne Conway biopic. Made in the style of Mommie Dearest.

R129 = frau ashamed of the many, many facials she's got

give the part to a decent actress......lawrence is merely a producers ho.

That's what they said about Kate Jackson.

To R129, Jwhore cum pics are all over the internet, maybe u were on a "different internet" I saw at least 30 different pics of Jwhore wearing man gravy on her fat whore face.

Her butthole has been seen by even young children.

R134 sure Jan.

Ari Graynor is not well known but she's be perfect as the young Sue Mengers

Screwed up. This is Ari Graynor

There was a blind item that Bette Midler was miffed that no one asked her to play Sue in the movie (even though she is 50 years too old).

As her friend David Geffen puts it, “She had the greatest client list of any agent in Hollywood.” Her stable included most of the top-of-the-line actresses of the era, first and foremost among them Barbra Strei­sand in her glory days, when her voice could make strong men weep; but also Ali MacGraw in hers, before Steve McQueen put her in front of a stove; Cher; Cybill Shepherd; Candice Bergen; Faye Dunaway; and Dyan Cannon, as well as a handful of important male stars such as Ryan O’Neal, Burt Reynolds, Gene Hackman, Tony Perkins, Michael Caine, and Nick Nolte. She also represented many of the blue-chip auteurs of the director’s dec­ade, men such as Arthur Penn, Peter Bogdanovich, Mike Nichols, Brian De Palma, Sidney Lumet, and Jonathan Demme. “You couldn’t do a movie without Sue,” says John Calley, who was a top Warner executive throughout the 70s and today heads Sony Pictures Entertainment. “When you’d have a problem, you’d go to her, and she would make it go away. She was the Man.”

One of Mengers’s clients was Constance Bennett, Joan’s sister and a fading star in her own right. Mengers knocked herself out to get Bennett into her “comeback” film: Madame X (the umpteenth remake of a 1908 French melodrama), which starred Lana Turner and Ricardo Montalban and was produced by Ross Hunter. Instead of being grateful, Bennett complained about her billing below Turner, demanding that her name be set off by a box on the ads and posters. It ­wasn’t. Bennett, who had gotten a hefty salary, refused to pay her commission to the agency. Then, just before the mov­ie came out, she died. Mengers sent Hunter a telegram that said, Constance finally got her box!

Mengers thought it would be good for Paula Prentiss if she worked with Alan Pakula—who had had a big hit with Klute—and insisted she woo the director for a part in The Parallax View, the 1974 political thriller starring Warren Beatty. Recalls Prentiss, “Sue said, ‘Hon-eee, go to lunch with him and wear very, very tight pants,’ which I did. She said it was the way they do it at MGM, which is that they sew them to your underwear.”

Joan Collins was turning middle-aged, with children, a broken marriage, going through a bad patch. Sue said to Joan, ‘Give it up. You’ve got enough money to live on, you’ve got children to raise, just settle down, forget the business.’ With that, Joan left Sue and got Dynasty, I think just to show her up.”

Three months later, on Oscar night, after her former client Faye Dunaway’s performance in Network brought her the Academy Award for best actress, Sue was standing near Dunaway outside the Beverly Hills Hotel, about to go to a victory party Sidney Lumet was throwing. Sue walked over to Dunaway’s agent, Joel Dean, and, within earshot of Dunaway, said, “Don’t let this little trophy make Faye think she’s a movie star. She’s not. The only movie star in the whole town is Barbra Streisand.”

BUT STREISAND NEVER DID A KUSTURICA FILM!

Sorry if this was posted upthread, but the following is to me the funniest Sue Mengers story:

[quote]When the Manson family murders took place, Mengers reportedly reassured Streisand: "Don't worry, honey, stars aren't being murdered. Only featured players."

Sue was all heart.

Barbra & Sue had a falling out over "All Night Long", which Sue's hubby directed.

Bette slayed the Sue character and I think she could still do the picture! She gets the Yiddish words and inflections perfectly, and has the comedic timing and sophistication for the role.

[Quote] Sue was all heart.

I can well believe she had an enlarged heart.

Fat or thin, I'd like to kick JLAW right in the pussy.

R12 for the racist home run!

R16 = Sarah Silverman

sue was a mean grouchy old biddy who secretly no one could stand.

How about Natasha Lyonne? Although born in Germany, Mengers was essentially a New Yorker like Lyonne.

lol #152

[quote]Meredith Baxter would have KILLED this part twenty years ago. Ann Jillian as well.

And Jennifer Coolidge.

Bette Midler could still do it.

Jennifer Coolidge would have nailed the part.

Lala Kent could do it as well

R160 how high are you??

Rumour has it that JLaw is angling for a Marvel role to keep her hand in as a name actress since she’ll soon be a mom in her 30s.

Considering that her acting in The Hunger Games became progressively more indifferent with each film - hey, if Woody Harrelson and Julianne Moore can show up and give their all, what makes her so special she brags about doing scenes on Ambien? - I don’t know that she’ll be worth it.

The Hunger Games and Twilight franchises are a snooze. An Ambien-induced performance is appropos.

R162 I don't understand why since she seemed miserable filming the X-Men movies.

R163 no, fuck that. Far more critically acclaimed actors managed to not be uppity and put in good performances. One Weinstein-sponsored Oscar and she’s too good to take the money and so her damn job.

R164 money and caché.

Did Sue Mengers brag about being an asshole to her fans? Assuming she had any.

R166 makes sense.

Will Jennifer have to gain 100 pounds? Sue was FAT.