Yonkers, New York

Gypsy (1993)

Actors: Bob Mackie (costume designer), Andrea Martin (actress), Craig Zadan (producer), Lacey Chabert (actress), Robert Halmi Sr. (producer), Neil Meron (producer), Elisabeth Moss (actress), Michael Jeter (actor), Tony Shalhoub (actor), Peter Riegert (actor), Bette Midler (actress), Edward Asner (actor), Christine Ebersole (actress), William Reynolds (editor), Cynthia Gibb (actress),

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical,

Quotes:

Gypsy: [to audience] My mother, who got me into this business, always told me, "Make them beg for more and then don't give it to them!" But I'm not my mother!

Gypsy: Some men have called me an ecdysiast. Do you know what that means? An ecdysiast is one who, or that which, sheds it's skin. In vulgar parlance, a stripper. But I'm not a stripper. At these prices, I'm an ecdysiast!

Louise: You really could have been something, Mother.::Rose: If I could have been, I would have been. And that's show business.

Bugsy Malone (1976)

Actors: Jodie Foster (actress), Scott Baio (actor), Alan Parker (writer), Alan Parker (director), David Puttnam (producer), Gerry Hambling (editor), Julie K. Smith (actress), Dexter Fletcher (actor), Paul Williams (composer), Phil Daniels (actor), Robert Stigwood (producer), Bonnie Langford (actress), Kay Fenton (miscellaneous crew), Alan Marshall (producer), Monica Howe (costume designer),

Plot: A gangster movie where all the gangsters are played by children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream. The story tells of the rise of "Bugsy Malone" and the battle for power between "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan".

Keywords: 1930s, all-child-cast, audition, backstage, barber-shop, barbershop, bootlegging, boxing, boxing-gym, car-accident
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Family, Musical,
Taglines: Every year brings a great movie. Every decade a great movie musical!

Quotes:

Tallulah: I like my men at my feet.

Dandy Dan: Okay fellas, this is our moment. Keep a cool head and keep those fingers pumpin', 'cause remember, it's history you'll be writin'.

Bugsy Malone: Have you eaten?::Blousey Brown: Ever since I was a kid.::Bugsy Malone: Then how come you're so skinny, wisey?::Blousey Brown: Because I watch my weight.::Bugsy Malone: Yeah, I do that when I'm broke too.

Bronx Charlie: Your name Robinson?::Roxy Robinson: [nods nervously]::Shoulders: Roxy Robinson?::Roxy Robinson: [nods nervously again]::Benny Lee: You work for Fat Sam?::Roxy Robinson: [nods once final time before being splurged to death]

[first lines]::Fat Sam: Someone once said, "If it was raining brains, Roxy Robinson wouldn't even get wet." Roxy had spent his whole life making two and two into five, but he could smell trouble like other people could smell gas. But believe you's me, he should've never taken that blind alley by the side of Parido's Bakery. Whatever game it was everybody was playing, sure as eggs is eggs, Roxy the Weasel had been scrambled.

Fat Sam: [as the speakeasy is closing down for the night and everyone is leaving] Tallulah! How much longer you want us to wait?::Tallulah: [sweetly yet slightly sarcastically] Coming honey, you don't want me to look a mess, do you sweetheart?::Fat Sam: Snap it up, will ya?::Tallulah: Put your flaps down tiger or else you'll take off.::Fat Sam: [annoyed] You spend more time prettying yourself up then there is time in the day!::Tallulah: [pointedly] Listen honey, if I didn't look this good, you wouldn't give me the time of day.::Fat Sam: [rejectedly] I'll see you in the car!

Fat Sam: [becoming aggravated as Knuckles is cracking his knuckles repeatedly] Don't do that, Knuckles!::Knuckles: It's how I got my name, boss.::Fat Sam: Well knock it off or else change your name!

Reporter 1: Have you located the splurge gun yet, sir?::O'Dreary: I'm afraid I can't answer that.::Reporter 1: You're not at liberty to say?::O'Dreary: [annoyed] No, I don't know the answer.::Reporter 2: Do you know where the guns are coming from, Lieutenant?::O'Dreary: Eh, I'm not at liberty to say. You'll have to ask Captain Smolsky that question.

Bugsy Malone: [noting the solemn look on Matt the Barman's face] You know what, you look like you put your face on backwards this morning.::Matt The Barman: You've got too much mouth, mack.::Bugsy Malone: So, tell my dentist.

Bugsy Malone: Me and Fat Sam, we're like this. [crosses fingers]::Blousey Brown: You mean you're real good friends?::Bugsy Malone: [shakes head] Nah, it's just that every time I see him, I cross my fingers, and hope he won't hit me.

Gypsy (1962)

Actors: Rusty Wescoatt (actor), Herb Vigran (actor), Frank Sully (actor), Harry Shannon (actor), Jack Benny (actor), William Fawcett (actor), Harvey Korman (actor), Eddie Foster (actor), Ben Frommer (actor), Karl Malden (actor), Marcel De la Brosse (actor), Parley Baer (actor), Thomas E. Jackson (actor), Gail Bonney (actress), Dick Winslow (actor),

Plot: Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, ambition, audition, backstage, based-on-book, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-book, boy, burlesque
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical,
Taglines: Let this tuneful Broadway classic entertain you. The Magnificent Musical Where "Everything's Coming Up Roses." ...The Girl Who Became The Greatest Show In Show Business All The Heart and Happiness of The Broadway Play

Quotes:

Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: You really would have been something, Mother.::Rose Hovick: Think so?::Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: If you had had someone to push you like I had.::Rose Hovick: If I could've been, I would've been. And that's show business.

Baby June: Hello, everybody. My name is June. What's yours?

Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: [singing] Little cat, little cat, why do you look so blue? Did somebody paint you to look like that, or is it your birthday, too? Little lamb, little lamb, I wonder how old I am.

Rose Hovick: Here she is, boys! Here she is, world! Here's Rose!

Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: I said, turn it off! Nobody laughs at me! Because I laugh first. At me! Me, from Seattle! Me, with no education. Me, with no talent, as you kept reminding me my whole life! Well, Mama look at me now. I'm a star! Look! Look how I live! Look at my friends! Look where I'm going! I'm not staying in burlesque! I'm moving, mabye up, maybe down! But wherever it is, I'm enjoying it. I'm having the time of my life! Because for the first time, it is my life! And I love it. I love every second of it! And I'll be damned if you're gonna take it away from me! I am Gypsy Rose Lee! And I love her! And if you don't, you can just clear out now!

Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: [singing] Let me entertain you, Let me make you smile, Let me do a few tricks, Some old and then some new tricks, I'm very versatile, And if you're real good, I'll make you feel good, I want your spirits to climb, So let me entertain you, And we'll have a real good time; Yes, sir!, We'll have a real good time.

Rose Hovick: [on remarrying] After three husbands, it takes a lot of butter to get you back in the frying pan.

Rose Hovick: [singing] You'll be swell, you'll be great. Gonna have the whole world on a plate! Starting here, starting now. Honey, everything's coming up roses.

Rose Hovick: [contemplating an unneeded wig] You know, we could get a nice refund on this... if we'd ever paid for it.

Rose Hovick: You need something to remind you your goal was to be a great actress. Not a cheap stripper.::Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: My sister's the actress, mother. And I'm *not* a cheap stripper. I'm the highest-paid in the business.::Rose Hovick: You won't be ready for vaudeville when it comes back.::Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: No, I'll be *dead*.