I’m about to watch NUTS (1987) for the first time

of someone watching a movie? Perhaps you don't know what "jealous" means.

Babs as a high class whore. Suspend every shred of your disbelief OP.

It was just okay. Barbra’s voice sounded lovely, although it’s a bit jarring to hear her sing lyrics like “Yes it’s true, I am a whore, on the mattress, on the floor.”

I saw this at a theater years ago. It was like watching a made for TV movie. Babs trying drama and the whole things not terribly impressive.

Barbra cast as someone who rich men paid to have sex with?

Oh! My! Sides!

Would you like that, baby?

It was a very obvious attempt by Streisand to get an Oscar nomination, but the Academy wasn’t buying.

“I’m not nuts.” —Barbra

No, but we were for paying to see this claptrap.

From Janet Maslin's NY TIMES review:

"Miss Streisand, who produced NUTS, didn't direct it. And Martin Ritt, who is the director of record, didn't either. The film is almost entirely adrift."

It's laughably bad. Babs tries to play mentally unstable while at the same time trying to convince us she's also a high end escort. I'm sure she thought she was gonna get an Oscar nomination for this one.

Barbra was one of the most talented singers ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood.

Isn't there a scene with Leslie Nielsen in black bikini briefs?

You will never forget Leslie Nielsen's sagging tits. You have been warned.

I have only seen bits of it on TV in my childhood, but I will never forget a comment DLer overheard in his cinema:

“Oh my god, she even fucks to world music.”

Leslie Nielsen has turned up to his dinner with Barbra!

Do many out of town Johns want to hook up with a Jewish MILF, and not a hot 25 year old? She is a very specific type.

I don’t know how relevant the main character’s age is, and Barbra actually looks good, but if a high class hooker in her mid-40s was required, why not cast Cher? She was regularly pulling 20-something tail, ie Val Kilmer in his prime, at this point.

Barbra is one hot sexy piece of tail, and totes fuckworthy in NUTS.

He’s in his bikini briefs! And saggy titties or not he looks great for 61.

And yes, there’s a sitar playing.

And now he’s dead.

[quote]Barbra was one of the most talented singers ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood.

What pain and struggle? She was a superstar by the time she was 30.

Nope

Ok, the judge just referred to her as young lady, she is supposed to be like 30.

[quote]What pain and struggle?

No one understood her! And they kept wanting to film her from the wrong side!

I can't recall - was there a "Love Theme from Nuts" that played over the end credits, written by the Bergmans and sung by the star herself?

[quote]I can't recall - was there a "Love Theme from Nuts" that played over the end credits, written by the Bergmans and sung by the star herself?

If not, it should have been Barbra's rendition of "I've Never Been To Me."

She's not nuts, she's obnoxious. Friend and I walked out of the theater after 30 minutes. Awful, miscast movie.

Barbara is way too ugly to play a high end prostitute.

They should have re-set the location of the movie to a truck stop. Then it would have made sense. Truck drivers would tap that in a second.

Mentl Rentl.

A good parody thread for this would be "I'm about to nut for the first time since 1987. Jealous, bitches?"

OK, Maureen Stapleton is on the stand and clearly Babs was molested by step daddy Karl Malden.

Is this woman thick or not? How was it not blindingly obvious?

And I'm just 16-17 years older than Babs, but sure, whatevs.

I already played Dick Van Dyke's mother in BYE BYE BIRDIE, and he's 6 months younger than I am.

Did someone say there was a bar near here?

For reference, here's Anne Twomey, who originated the role on Broadway and earned a Tony nomination.

I have a feeling OP has watched this movie far more than once...

Cher turned the part down. She thought it was too vulgar.

Joan Rivers was hoping to direct Melissa in it.

Are you NUTS, OP?

Karen Austin won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and a Dramalogue Award for Lead Performance for the Los Angeles production.

She has the Alexandria Quartet by Laurence Durrell on her shelves.

"I ain't nutsh!"

Anne Twomey is a criminally underused and unsung actor with a beautiful rich voice. She’s mazing in two excellent episodes of “Law & Order.”

Another 20 minutes has passed and Richard Dreyfus still hasn’t asked if she was moelsted.

I saw this at the theater when I was 16. I still remember the line she said about being so turned on, she was sliding off her seat. Ick

Ok, he’s picked up on the bath. Finally.

Richard Dreyfus really wanted an Oscar.

Anne Twomey looks like Isabelle Adjani in that shot. Damn.

"I wash moleshted!"

Now you can suffer through all those horrible Barbra movies as I did. While you're at it, watch "Prince of Tides" twice. Then "Owl and the Pussycat," "Up the Sandbox," "What's Up, Doc?", "The Main Event," "All Night Long," and "The Mirror Has Two Faces." If you don't want to shoot yourself, you're a stronger man than I am.

Karl Marlden did not “make his daughter his lover”.

She’s a [italic]victim[/italic].

And I forgot to sign my post at r47.

The Prince Of Tides is really good, r46.

Thus far, this ain’t no Prince of Tides.

I’m at Barbra’s interrogation scene.

I’m sad to say she has a faint moustache.

OMG after her speech the director cut to a shot of a black security guard looking horny and licking his lips.

I can’t believe what I’m seeing.

[quote] What pain and struggle? She was a superstar by the time she was 30.

30? She was a star when she was 21!

Richard Dreyfus is looking kind of hot in his 1980s-grey haired era.

Babs ego really knows no bounds. Get over yourself, Yentl- you were never beautiful and you will never be beautiful.

She gets $100 more for a blowie than for regular sex.

Barbra is walking down 5th Avenue, in her bathrobe, braless.

The End. Credits roll.

She has received sole credit for composing the score (!).

The director Martin Ritt made some good movies, but he was the tail end of his career and couldn't pull "Nuts" together.

Got any bath salts? Lmfao 😂😂

r57, Ritt was totally out of his wheelhouse with Nuts. Who thought a filmmaker whose greatest achievements were rural melodramas like The Long Hot Summer, Hud, and Norma Rae was right for an NYC-set courtroom drama?

Later in her career Barbra was "very emotionally devastated" that she wasn't offered the role of Nomi in "Showgirls".

You guys are all sick. I love Barbra in this and she looked beautiful. Barbra “tried a drama”? She’s always been able to effortlessly do both comedy and drama, wtf.

And she was like 40ish

Babs pipes in at r61.

Oscar, Emmys, Tony, Grammys, Golden Globes, ,Medal of Honor (France), and virtually every lifetime achievement and national award available… record breaking tours, success in every area of show business, humanitarian awards, honorable doctorates… funded a women’s heart disease center at Ceder Sinai, just funded a progressive think tank at UCLA, champion and patron of gay rights for decades, most consistent and long term fund raiser in Hollywood for the Democratic part. This thread and the Funny Girl thread seems inhabited by some very angry and unhappy trolls. MAGA loonies, a few anti Semites and some very very stupid or just plane unhappy people. No one has to like anyone or pay to see their work. I really do believe the combination of Jewish, woman, great talent and success, progressive advocacy and philanthropyis a toxic brew for some.

R23 The lyrics were put to it later. There is no connection between the lyrics and the movie.

r64 - Thank you for sharing Mr. Brolin.

If Ingmar Bergman directed this film with Liv Ullmann, it would've been called "Galen Fitta".

You bitches. What r64 said.

Still, point taken on some of the criticism.

Not one of her better ones. She overacts in the courtroom scenes. (Picture Bonnie Franklin playing the role, and you get an idea of how over the top she is.)

Had the premise just stayed to her being an average call girl it could have been reasonable. But as usual her vanity and ego got in the way. She had the be the highest priced call girl in the city. And that pointless scene where Richard Dreyfus stumbles upon her high gloss, professional cheesecake photos of her ass and legs was laughably out of place.

I just think she's hammy and won't let anyone else share the screen. I do like the furniture in her movies. In one of them, the cute starter apartment had Stickley furniture painted white. Who but you Babs?

Babs gave it the old college try but by the time she made this movie she was about 44 years old and not quite believable as a youngish, high priced hooker. It was a vanity piece for her in more ways than one.

I wish I knew editing because the scene where Leslie attacks her and she throws everything at him, including baby powder, needs to be reset to that music from Benny Hill.

I vaguely remember commercials for the Broadway production as a kid.

It was the star saying "I love you to the moon and back" and other quotes.

I always thought it was odd that such a flop on stage made it to the movies with a major star.

Debra Winger was supposed to do it first at a lower budget.

Why didn't they cast Madonna?

[quote] Barbra was one of the most talented singers ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood.

This was the battle cry of the “YOU AND YOUR NAME” Judy Garland troll.

Poor Barbara. Always casting herself as the sexy desirable Jewish woman chased by handsome goyim. She always will be the ugly duckling, never the swan.

[quote] Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood.

I once sat with Shirley MacLaine on a plane. I lulled her into talking to me by asking metaphysical questions. (She was actually pretty interesting and seemed to trust me that I was open to what she was saying and not going to think she was crazy.)

Anyway somehow Streisand came up. I said something like was that a shock to you when Streisand didn't get a Best Director nomination for The Prince of Tides when the film got so many. She guffawed and said the way Streisand treated directors? Nah. That branch would never vote for her. (and she seems to be friends with Streisand.)

I saw that when it first came out. I was high as a kite. It had so many closeups and histrionic scenes…I’m still recovering.

If she had just trimmed her nails and learned to type and take shorthand, she could've avoided that... lifestyle.

She was 45 when she made that film. Isn't that a little old for a high class hooker?

"She was 45 when she made that film. Isn't that a little old for a high class hooker?"

How old be me?

I am very disappointed! When gay men talk about a movie called “Nuts” I expected to see several men in the throes of passion, not some ugly chic with a big honker pretending she gets paid to fuck men.

You be married at 34 r81 and only 51 now.

You saw the writing on the wall (and the green jacket) and got out while you could.

Lucy was offered the part first, but Gary….well you know.

Debra Winger turned down or was too pregnant for 3 great roles that year. (Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction and Nuts.)

Goodness me, Barbra is ugly isn't she.

[italic]“They call me nuts / Cuz I won’t kiss butts / ‘less they’re on Wall Street clients/ And the sphincter shuts…”

She's Eileen Wuornos with a beauty dimmer and a good side.

[quote] And that pointless scene where Richard Dreyfus stumbles upon her high gloss, professional cheesecake photos of her ass and legs was laughably out of place.

He added the image of her, legs crossed in pale fishnets, on the bottom left to his “personal case file”. Barbra teased him and told him to consider it payment.

[quote] Debra Winger turned down or was too pregnant for 3 great roles that year.

She, Signourney Weaver (too tall?), would have been perfect.

[quote]Babs as a high class whore. Suspend every shred of your disbelief OP.

Bet you think all Hollywood Blvd streetwalkers look like Julia Roberts, don't you?

....

At midnight on Halloween 👻!

I made it through twenty minutes before I turned it off. The judge and her parents kept referring to her as "young lady" and "a girl." Babs was about forty-five when this movie was released.

I've never made it through one of her movies without smirking through at least one scene of Barbra's obsessive need to be considered beautiful (or young, in this case). It's pathological.

She never names a price for anal.

A long time ago, I made it a point to avoid all Streisand films after "Yentl". Beforehand, I actually bought "The Prince Of Tides" blindly, because I was sure I'd love it. It turned out to be the worst Streisand film (w/"The Owl & the Pussycat" being second), AND one of the overall worst films I've ever seen. And I say that as a Barbra fan. So...I've never seen "Nuts". I can't bring myself to do it. And I even like Richard Dreyfuss.

My most watched are "On A Clear Day", "For Pete's Sake", "What's Up, Doc?", and "The Way We Were".

THE OWL & THE PUSSYCAT is a curiosity: an overly talky filmed play, and very much stuck in its era.

But Streisand and Segal are terrific together: funny, very sexy, and sweet. It's one of my top George Segal performances, and I'm a fan. It's a shame they never worked together again (except for his teeny role in MIRROR HAS TWO FACES, which barely counts). But I think Babs preferred more silent, WASP-y hunks like Redford and Jeff Bridges. (Or James Brolin, in real life).

R96. It’s not THAT bad. Barbra’s casting is ridiculous but she acts well and looks pretty good. It’s merely TV movie level.

My mom upon watching it for the first time, "Christ she's got a filthy fuckin' mouth on her!"

I just took a look at her IMDb movie list. She only made 32 movies in 53 years. And the only 3 that I think are watchable are Funny Girl, What's Up Doc?, and The Way We Were. The rest are just either forgettable mediocrity or pure crap.

No, your TV screen isn't dusty.

Just lots of gauze over the lens during those flashback scenes.

It's a shame Barbara spent so much of her film career trying to convince people she was pretty. The Mirror Has Two Faces is the funniest--you spend the whole movie thinking it's a "Beauty lies within" tale, but then since Barbara is directing, she has to force that sexy makeover scene on us. Suddenly, everything is resolved, because her students want to fuck her! Yay!

I'd just come to NYC that season for school. I remember the commercials for the play on Broadway, and was curious. School gave us free tickets! I saw it. Anne Twomey was terrific, the play itself was okay. The movie is not so good.

We still don't want to talk about your mom, Jason.

[quote] Anne Twomey was terrific, the play itself was okay. The movie is not so good.

Anna Nicole Smith should have hit the dinner theater circuit with this.

Second Choice: Debbie Reynolds.

In "Nuts" Barbra plays a $500 an hour hooker

What’s that adjusted for inflation?

Anna Nicole would have fetched more.

Barbra's abusive stepfather constantly ridiculed her looks. One time he took the family out for ice cream but Barbra had to stay home. He told her she was too ugly to get ice cream.

[quote] He told her she was too ugly to get ice cream.

As any of us would.

It is now one of my life aspirations to tell somebody they are too ugly to get ice cream.

Roslyn, enough.

Roslyn now works in the Ice Cream Shoppe in my mall.

Seriously - does Roslyn live in poverty? Is that worthy of its own thread?

I wonder if she goes to Babs’ Malibu monstrosity for Thanksgiving and such. Does she even get a card on her birthday?

[quote] I just took a look at her IMDb movie list. She only made 32 movies in 53 years

And she could have spend some of that down time devoting herself to the American Songbook instead of Rod Stewart, but where we are.

[quote]I wonder if she goes to Babs’ Malibu monstrosity for Thanksgiving

As if you wouldn't.

Who dusts all those clothes in the Olde Worlde Shoppes?

Did no one ever think, hey maybe we shouldn't call a movie about a whore "nuts". If it weren't for nuts, she'd be out of a job.

Which of you bitches shelled out for the 13 minute Minimax soundtrack CD featuring "Claudia's Theme and Variations"?

R64 = CHARLIE SPEAKS!

charlie, don't you understand that your defense of Babs doesn't matter at the Datalounge? They haven't mattered for almost 20 years, you'd think he's get the hint. We're NOT TROLLS, fool.

[quote]What pain and struggle? She was a superstar by the time she was 30.

30? She was a star when she was 21!

CORRECTION: She was a Star by age 22, a Superstar by age 25, a has been at age 35

Charlie, if you're such a big fan, did you ever buy Barbra an ice cream cone? Can she only eat vanilla, because that's her color?

I saw it in the theater and I liked it.

I liked it. I LIKED IT!

[quote]I saw it in the theater and I liked it.

I don't know. First I thought Pennywise was really creepy, but then it just got kind of silly.

Who would win in a fight: Roslyn Kind or Lorna Luft?

As practically an unknown, Roslyn has the FIRE!

Plus she was forced to slave in a bakery for years (even as dear, tight-fisted sis was at the height of her fame) so her arms are probably really strong from rolling out dough.

Roslyn rolled dough while I rolled in dough!

Please don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

I know you're joking, but Roslyn Kind is a passive non-ambitious individual. She's lucky sis Babs pays for everything in her meager existence.

[quote]R129 She's lucky sis Babs pays for everything in her meager existence.

Does she? Does she.

Roslyn is not Streisand's CHILD, Joan R130

R131=Jason getting territorial

I think Rosalyn sang at Barbra's Hollywood Bowl concert a few years ago.

(I don't remember really. Jason sang. As did a bunch of other people. Barbra would sing like three songs then take a break. I was crabby and self-conscious because the rest of my party who bought the box seats got stuck in traffic and I sat there alone in a box for four for most of the show.)

[quote]I sat there alone in a box

The depressing eldergay sequel to Born in a Trunk!

Nuts is bananas!

" I sat there alone in a box for four for most of the show"

I can not stop crying. This is so sad.

No need for sadness Darfur Orphan.

It was more shocking than sad. The critic (for a major outlet) didn't want to go. So they sent me, a copy clerk, to take copious notes of the performance so he could write a review based on them!

So odd that my judgements (of a singer I knew little about) were published as opinion for a major outlet.

Sitting there by myself only made it more absurd. I mean I had to judge what was a "hit" song by quickly googling or gaging the crowds response.

R115 - is that water mill a guest house?

A bit too Marie Antoinette for me.

More of the property, that view.

She should have pumped out more movies in the 80s and 90s.

I forgot that in Nuts, Barbra was wolf-whistled at in the jailhouse.

I’m Claudia the nuts!

I can’t decide whether or not I like Theme From Nuts

I wonder if Babs wrote wrote the Love Theme from ‘Nuts’ or did she Beyonce it…

I wasn’t aware she was a songwriter.