Women (almost) universally liked at Datalounge

Tilda Swinton.

I remember a thread in which Sigourney Weaver was praised to the skies.

Suzanne Pleshette.

Cher

VIVIAN VANCE.

Tina Turner.

Tina Turner. Still One of the Living!

Semolina Beaterbars

Jan Hooks

Lucy

Julia Duffy

(see the recent Sheryl Lee Ralph/Designing Women thread)

Jennifer Coolidge

Madeline Kahn

Valerie Harper

R9 I remember after Jan Hooks' death, no one on DL had a bad word to say about her, and someone said, "Does DL actually UNIVERSALLY like someone?"

Brooke Shields

Roz

Princess Di

Helen Lawson

Andrea Martin.

Mary Tyler Moore

Lucille Ball

Kathy Bates

Kathleen Turner

Mink Stole

Bea Arthur

Diana, Princess of Wales

Chaka Khan

Sarah, Duchess of York

She's getting there. More people like her now.

Barbara Walters

Liza Minnelli

Patsy Cline

Barbra Streisand

Dusty Springfield

R28, oh, honey, no.

Elizabeth Short

Fannie Flagg

Princess Alexandra of Kent

Catherine O'Hara

Betty White

Patricia Clarkson

Agnes Moorehead

Ruta Lee

Tracey Ullman

Martha Raye

Nicole Byer

Judy Holliday

Well, the twattish, defensive OP got seven out of nine wrong.

Thelma Ritter

Gladys Knight

Roberta Flack

Rula Lenska

Liz Taylor?

Aileen Wuornos

Claire Foy

Laura Linney

Vera Farmiga

Betty Ford

Ruth Buzzi

Britney

Natalie Wood

Joanne Woodward

Sally Field

Brenda Lee

Richard Simmons

Mama Cass

Elanor Roosevelt

Dinah Washington

Everyone except for the morally corrupt posters who ruin everything agrees that everything Barbra Streisand says or does is perfect.

Ashley and Wynonna Judd

Lynda Carter.

How quickly gay boys forget beloved Vairst Letty!

Cate Blanchette

Alice Pearce & Sandra Gould

Linda Eder

Who the hell likes Sandra friggin' Gould, r62???

Apart from Dolly Parton, I dont even know who any of these women are. I do like Dolly Parton though, terrific singer and all round decent person too.

Is Patty Duke a country and western singer? She sound like she should be, therefore I should recognise her, but I'm drawing a blank. I do know who Barbara Strreisand is, partner had one of her CD's, and years ago I used to flat with a guy who was a big fan. I dont dislike her, just not really familiar with her music.

Apparently Beyonce is popular with some gay men? I've heard of her through other gay forums but her music isnt to my taste .

Cheryl

I was molested.

R64 LOL

She wasn't my favorite Gladys Kravitz, but she grew into the role

I give you the most laughs then you bitches forget me.

Catherine O’Hara

Brenda Dickson

Julianne Moore, seriously.

The SNL alums from the early years:

Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Jan Hooks, Nora Dunn, Danitra Vance

Melinda Dillon

Judge Judy

^ No

Bonnie Franklin

Melissa Manchester

Minnie Riperton

Dr. Rachel Levine

Bette Davis

hee-hee

I’ve never read a bad word about Sigourney Weaver on here, I have to agree. Anjelica Huston is also rather well liked. And Michelle Pfeiffer. There’s a lot of love on Datalounge for movie stars of a certain age from the 70s-80s.

Alison Moyet

Vivian Vance

Jane Goodall

Mary Berry

Allison Arngrim

Grace Jones

Annie Lennox

Catherine Deneuve

Jill Clayburgh

Rosalynn Carter

Linda Ronstadt

“Crisis of Confidence”

the Mitz

Barbara Rhodes

Olivia Newton-John

Jane Seymour

Dawn Wells

Kate Bush

Don't make me get out the shit bra!

^^^Absolutely NOT Melissa Gilbert. Sorry.

Who doesn't love Nita Talbot?

Gladys Knight

Margot Kidder

Doris Day

Gina Lollobrigida

You rang.

Shirley Booth

Crest moi

Celine!

[quote] Cate Blanchette

Do we?

Diana Ross

LOVE Dolly! She's damn near perfect.

Also:

Sigourney Weaver.

Olivia Newton-John.

Polly Holliday

Catherine Zeta Jones

Moms Mabley

Minnie Pearl

Shelley Winters

Jennifer Lewis

Angela Bassett.

Tracey Ullman.

Vivian Vance, obviously.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Christina Applegate

Katey Sagal

Tracey Ullman

Angela Lansbury

Cassandra Peterson

Margaret Hamilton

Elizabeth Montgomery

Patricia Routledge

Kirsten Dunst

Betsy Palmer

Lucy

Kitty Carlisle Hart. Fucking her way from blue-collar New Orleans to the cream of New York café society! An inspiration to us all.

We love Lucy, r106, but we don't like Lucille.

I think there are maybe 30 of these names that are actually well liked or almost universally liked here.

Barbara Harris Karen Black La Wanda Page Audrey Hepburn Beverly D'Angelo

Dixie Dunbar

Gaga

Inez Velasquez

Sally Field.

Carrie Fisher.

We *really* like her, r114.

Fran Leibowitz

Christine Baranski

Jane Curtin

Princess Anne

Vanessa Williams was absolutely beautiful. Queen Bey reminds me of a more black version of her. Both beautiful black women.

Martika

Karen Carpenter

Lindsey Wagner

Karen Black

Barbara Stanwyck

All the original Charlie's Angels except for Cheryl Ladd

Annie Potts

Julia Louis Dreyfus

Dolly Mae Kilgallen and Arlene Francis

Miss Dunaway

Geena Davis

Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley

Rose

Blanche

Dorothy

Sophia

Carol Burnett

Betty White

Soon Yi Previn.

Katherine Helmond

Mary Wicks

Katherine Mcgregor

Mollie Sugden

Edie McClurg

Beverly Archer

Teri Garr

Connie Francis

Lassie

Michelle YEOH... is at the top of this list. Michelle YEOH... is universally beloved by the entire world. Michelle YEOH... is the Platonic ideal of humankind.

Diahann Carroll.

"Ciao..for now."

Debbie Reynolds

Lily Tomlin

Peggy Cass

Bitches, please.

Anne Meara

Elaine May

Linda Hunt

Bea Benaderet

Gracie Allen

Amy Sedaris?

If not for the Lange Loon, I think Jessica Lange could have achieved this. I never found her to be a great actress but she’s the platonic ideal aging gay favorite - drunk, glamorous, bad surgery, former bohemian…

REBA

Tina?

Fey or Sinatra, R145? Turner has been covered.

Christine McVie, she dead.

Miss Janice (from Mama June).

Bea Arthur.

All the Golden Girls

Parker Posey

Toni Collette

Annie Wilkes.

Zendaya

Oprah

Wendy Williams

Pamela Anderson , Anna Nicole Smith

Sweet, sweet Sylvia Ann from "Intervention."

Kathy Bates

Gladys Knight

Judith Light

Jean Smart

Wendi Jo Sperber

Linda Lavin

Dionne Warwick

Bonnie Franklin

Amy Schumer

Jennifer Aniston

Kelly Ripa

Chrissy Metz

Wendy Williams

Sandy Duncan

LOL R160!

The Singing Nun.

Zara Cully Marla Gibbs Jackie Wanda Sykes Reta Shaw La Wanda Paige Ann Margret Margo Martindale Juliette Lewis Jessica Lange Angela Bassett Laurie Metcalf Edie McClurg Margret Albertson Madeline Kahn Marjorie Main

Janis Paige

Linda Belcher

You've forgotten me already?

No, Betty, you're so well remembered here we don't even have to use your name.

Mink Stole

Angie Dickinson

Dina Merrill

Debbie Reynolds

Helen Lawson.

Pinky Tuscadero

Anjelica Huston was mentioned above but when that Vulture interview came out I remember it being very split down the middle here. I think most people thought she was not being “honest,” just bitter.

Cyndi Lauper

Sarah Jessica Parker

Jennifer Lewis

[quote] Angela Bassett.

She did the thing!

Kate Collins (Natalie/Janet, ALL MY CHILDREN)

If you know, you know.

Kathleen Turner

Chelsea Handler

R180 what and r181 double what? I don’t hate Chelsea Handler but she sure is hated on here.

What about me?

I was molested!

Kathy Bates

Olivia de Haviland (RIP)

I haven't read all 185 responses, I hope that someone said Lee Remick.

This is a poll/list that we do from time to time on the DL. Many years ago we did one and Lee Remick was universally liked by the Datalounge.

Kim Cattrall. (Not so much that we all love Kim, though she's fine....but more that she ain't SJP.)

Jennifer Saunders

Joanna Lumley

R174 Most gay male posters liked it. I certainly found it hilarious and honest. One doesn't have to be "bitter" to see acting in things like POMS is trash.

You can tell whenever it's straight women posting on DL because they always talk about how celebrities are "mean" or "disrespectful" as if it's some kind of major moral evil.

As opposed to the Klan Grannies who bitch about straight women and think it's "cancel culture" to criticize anything you don't like

Constance "Dishrag" Ford

R188 I think many would have had a lot more respect for her was this coming from an actress marketable/A list enough to be offered those (admittedly) crap roles in the first place. But when you trash people that don’t want you to begin with , you just sound bitter (“well yeah? Well…well…I wouldn’t take that part anyway!)

Judy Garland

Constance Bennett

Eva Gabor

Pat Benatar

One of the only non-Divas who still has a huge gay fallowing.

Lindsay Wagner - Bionic woman with a secret.

Ty Ty Baby

Don't forget me. I love you all!

Mercedes Ruehl?

Joey Heatherton.

Olympia Dukakis

Rosalind Russell

Linda Lavin is NOT universally liked here, IIRC.

Joan Crawford. For reasons well known to Dataloungers.

Michael Yanni aka Mrs. Trevor Donovan.

Colleen Dewhurst; we have a current thread on her. Are there people in the world who don't like her?

Laura Nyro!

I posted a thread about her one time and expected no one would even know who she was, and it turned into an absolute love fest. I was so happy that so many people know her music and appreciate her talents.

Mindy Cohn - nothing less than sublime

Dana Plato - RIP, she should have stayed with Natalie and Mrs G at Eastland

Eve Plumb - as much for Dawn the teenage runaway as for Jan the middle child

Alison Arngrim - Nellie was a spirit animal for so many here

Bernadette Peters

Parker Posey

Patricia Neal

Florence Henderson

Bai Ling!

Mrs. Milburn Drysdale.

Joanne Lumley

All the gang at MR. CUNT'S.

Jane Fonda Michelle Visage

Lucy.

Please try to keep up dear r214 I left that misogynist behind and now have a chair at Supercunts

Take that Patty Duke outta there and put an Angela Lansbury where she out to be!

Justine Bieber

Michelle Pfeiffer

Carol Burnett

Dawn French

Delta Burke

Betty Crocker

Sarah Lee

Dolly Madison

Lily

Dolly

Jane

R218 Patty Duke is universally loved both on datalounge and the world ♥️

Martha Stewart.

Though I like Martha because she has excellent taste and did time, points are deducted for her crap products and mediocre recipes. Every time her name is mentioned, I feel an obligation to remind the world of her shitty product line.

Iman

Who gives a shit, OP? I'm into guys.

But they're not into you.

I love Martha and her Snoop connection. She also took all the deserved ribbing at a celebrity roast for going too prison, and never batted an eyelash. And her recipes are 'just fine'.

Yep, there's nothing wrong with Martha's recipes. Love some of Big Martha's as well- especially the meatloaf and stuffed cabbage.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Julia Child

Julia Collins

Judy Collins

Grayson Hall

Hello

THere are several here I don't like but I don't dare say so.

Eleanor Roosevelt

R65 Patty Duke is an award-winning actress. She has won an Oscar, three Emmys, two Golden Globe awards and she did have a hit single that went to number eight. The single is called PLEASE DON'T STAND THERE but it was not a country western song

Julie Christie

[quote] Jennifer Lewis

It's "Jenifer", bitch!

The other 2 GG - Rue and Estelle.

You’d think a movie directed by Vincent Minnelli starring Gene Kelly’s butt would be the preeminent “an American in Paris” around these parts, but the real American in Paris to datalounge will always be House Hunters International’s Adrian Leeds.

Delilah Judith

Miriam Margolyes

R236 thanks for that

Lucy Lawless (Xena)

Debra Winger

oh, hell no, R245.

If no one in your biz wants to work with you, it often says "misunderstood genius" less than "narcissistic, unprofessional troublemaker."

Sometimes the asshole is YOU.

Julia Child transformed American cooking... but she was a documented homophobe who genuinely hated gay men. (Some suspect it was her own internalized homophobia.)

You can look it up.

Alfre Woodard

R247 just drops that and thinks no one will challenge that spurious charge, the first I've ever heard about Julia Child, a known liberal and progressive. So yeah, receipts.

Otherwise, I call some serious bullshit.

Waiting on those receipts. Otherwise: BULLSHIT.

Okay, I did look it up, and R247 is apparently not wrong. But she came round in her older age. I found this:

Julia’s tangled sensibility about sex, gender, and food relaxed a good deal in the warmth of her friendship with James Beard, whom she loved and admired above anyone else in the American culinary world. Beard, a gay man who neither hid nor flaunted his orientation, was widely recognized as the nation’s leading authority on good cooking when Julia set out on her career. She never forgot how generous he was when she arrived on the scene in 1961, a potential rival whom he greeted enthusiastically and introduced to everybody. “I think he has done much to set the tone of friendliness among cooking types, which is so different from that sniping and backbiting that goes on in France,” Julia told her friend, food writer M. F. K. Fisher. “Jim is such a hard worker, has such a vast store of knowledge in that enormous frame. There is outwardly some bluff in him, but I think that is because he is very tender inside.” She used to say he was “cozy”—one of her favorite qualities in a man. Julia rarely commented on Beard’s homosexuality; she was far more concerned about the various health problems associated with his weight. Yet her homophobia came and went during their long friendship, apparently at random. “Good that people are out of the closet at last!” she noted in her journal in 1974, upon learning that an acquaintance was openly gay. “Makes things easier all around.” A year later, she was agitating to keep “them” out of the culinary business.

But by the 1980s, when the AIDS crisis began to unfold, the horror of what was happening to people she knew, and people she loved, dealt a significant blow to her longtime prejudice. “Last year my husband and I stood by helplessly while a dear and beloved friend went through months of slow and frightening agony,” she told a crowd at the Boston Garden in 1988 during an AIDS benefit sponsored by the American Institute of Wine and Food. “But what of those lonely ones? The ones with no friends or family to ease the slow pain of dying? Those are the people we’re concerned about this evening. And food is of very special importance here. Good food is also love.”

Tracey Ullman

Mary Wilson

Me! That Flo Henderson stole Carol Brady from me!!

James Garner. 100%. Even Paul Newman would get dragged here occasionally but no one had a bad thing to say about JG.

Olivia Newton-John

More on Julia Child. She was a complicated piece of work.

Sure enough, just as OP predicted:

Have rhis shit show on now, and heard the line 'Victor why do you continue to live with odors?', and thought, yeah Nikki's mussy must be rank, then realized it was a commercial. I told a friend about the 'bomb' that is supposed to go off, and he asked when, and I said 1:30.

Kristin Chenoweth.

R254 I didn't realize he was a woman.

I love Kristen, R259: she's talented and a hard worker and a genuine sweetheart (if a little... emotionally unstable).

But universally liked? Not in the DL Theatre Gossip threads she's not.

oops, Kristin with an I not an E!

Siouxsie Sioux

Nicola Walker

Sarah Lancashire

Tori Amos

I don't like any of these sluts.

Stockard Channing

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Queen Elizabeth II

Nancy Walker

Thelma Ritter

Dame Judith Anderson

RBG is villified here, rightfully so. She overstayed her welcome and ushered in the new conservative majority.

Simply Sara

I aagree about RBG. A nasty Jewess.

Mrs Patsy Ramsey, formerly of Boulder, Co.

RBG makes me sad. A real pioneer, but a classic case of being undone by one's pride. And so much damage as a result of her decisions to hold on.

Her rep is irrevocably tarnished as far as I'm concerned.

Everyone's entitled to one mistake in life.

/s/ Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Andrew Windsor