Barry Manilow at 80

He looks like a cadaver.

But a youthful cadaver!

Nice article on Barry, but why the photo of Lady Elaine Fairchilde from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood? She looks good butched up like Barbara Stanwyck from Big Valley.

The hair! WTH. They have better options now than synthetics, Barry. It's wadded up and stringy both!

I write the songs, they do the surgery.

So life like!

I remember his tour rider on The Smoking Gun stipulated that a Frau Squad would receive keys to decorate Barry's dressing room.

I wonder what kind of pickling brine they store him in at night

He looks fab for 80

Mandy is a fucking great song.

His fans are wild. Like SERIOUS devotees.

It's nice that he still has fanilows.

That shake and go wig is terrible

[Quote] why the photo of Lady Elaine Fairchilde from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood?

Lmao!🤣

OP is a Fanilow

I just found out he was gay.

Who was Mandy? Mandy Pantakin?

He's STILL doing his show in Vegas???

At 80?

@r16, "Barry Manilow Was ‘Always Worried’ About His Sexuality Being Made Public"

But not the least bit concerned about what a hideous plastic monster-face he was developing? 😳

I feel like we're going to lose him soon.

From the Taylor Swift thread...

"I haven't seen this much hatred over a musician since I wrote "Barry Manilow" on my notebook in junior high school."

😂 This is going to be my favorite sentence of 2024

"I just think that boy is GORGEOUS!"

On the positive side the man is 80 years old and freely admits to it. Seems to be in good health . He has full mental faculties, he is a a multi-millionaire, and he is still working albeit not to the level of 40 years ago. I too find his facial cosmetic procedures questionable but if you have the money you go gurl. I would venture the say all the negative comments are coming from the elderly data loungers who are seated in their La-Z-Boy recliners 12 hours a day watching OTA TV. Despite the wigs and the plastic surgery I think Barry sets a standard for being an aging Eldergays.

^ I agree with everything you said, it's just too bad that ego gets in the way of a lifetime of good work and becomes the focus of what you are today. Madonna is an extreme example of this, Barry is not nearly as bad, but holding on to your youth to this point is borderline mental

He's a great performer for being 80. Him and Rod Stewart should duet.

Bette Midler had a feud with Barry Manilow? For forty years?

Bitch.

We prefer the term "Bee-atch".

He's not ugly.

Barry and Wayne Newton are preparing a Vegas show for “the ages”. Or for the aged.

I don't even want to think what he looks like first thing in the morning before he puts his face on.

Did you know he was gay? I didn't sense it.

Fairchilde!

I saw him live in London yesterday.

I've never been surrounded by so many fraus before. It was fucking scary.

When Barry took his jacket off, or thrust his groin or humbled bragged about being a "sex god at 80" they screamed with menopausal lust.

They were doing this for an 80 year old gay man. It was bizarre.

Can't fault the guy for entertainment value though.

Another Brooklyn blond..

R22 = Barry

HE’S HOT!

sexy sluts

We should all be so lucky to find ourselves at 80 being as active and content as Barry.

He looks like one of the marionettes from The Thunderbirds.

r10 Too bad he didn't write or have the original record of it. And it wasn't even called "Mandy," originally.

Barry, with a trunk of unrecorded originals is the Gay Dolly Parton, an old Prince. His estate will be worth hundreds of milly. Good for Gary.

Last Christmas, I was in the living room with my dad watching the Barry Christmas special - and when he sang "I've been alive forever, and I wrote the very first song" I said "Yes! He has been alive forever!"

My dad couldn't stop laughing.

Was the bit about Mandy being a dog an urban legend?

Why do so many elderly people move to the blisteringly hot desert?

Does it preserve them better?

It is the isolation. It is easier to live safely in less densely populated areas.

Why Montana?

I actually met him twice (briefly, professionally) about 25 years ago. He looked like a wax figure then, so I can only imagine...

R43 - The older you get, the colder you feel. My parents (mid/late 80s) think room temperature is 80 degrees. And turning on an overhead fan is tantamount to attempted murder.

I used to like Barry Manilow. Id kinda like to go to a concert were it not for the screaming fraus. I have a friend who is one of them. She’s been to so many concerts that he knows her name. He’ll waive yo her ftom stage. My friend is a highly educated computer tech engineer, but she has issues fer sure that I wont go into here, and I seriously fear for what will happen when Varry shuffles off this mortal coil. She will MOT be able to handle it.

We've seen much worse.

[quote]Why do so many elderly people move to the blisteringly hot desert?

Their circulation is shot, they don't feel the heat like younger people do.

At my last two high school reunions, an alumna was accompanied by her husband, a Barry Manilow impersonator. It never occurred to me there would be a demand for that.

He's just NEVER done it for me outside of "Copacabana", and MAYBE "Looks Like We Made It". And I love that easy listening shit. Mandy who?

I saw him at a Bette Midler concert in 1973, when he was the musical director. In addition to being the pianist, he performed a solo set.

Mick Jagger is 80, and last Friday night he played to a 60,000+ audience at Mercedes Benz stadium in Atlanta. Singing, running up and down the catwalk, the whole nine....it's on you tube.

I really enjoyed the Hollywood Reporter article and including Bette with those extensive and expansive quotes? I think she's reached an age where she's starting to apologize to those she hurt over the decades becuase she's (as it has beeen rumoured) truly an insecure and self-centered person.

I'm pleased they reconnected; Barry did a lot of the producing and arranging on her CD's of Rosemary Clooney and other "girl" singers.

He's a very talented man who I think has battled his own insecurities for decades... hence the extensive plastic surgery. I wish him all the best and if I were in Palm Springs and Manilow showed up for a karaoke or sing-along evening, I'd be thrilled to participate.

R43, I’m not sure about the desert in general, but Palm Springs is very gay friendly and elderly friendly. I would love to retire there one day, but will likely never be able to afford it.