I love Babs as much as the next fellow, but these clockwork press agent-posted "announcements" about Gypsy are hilarious. Whenever she's been out of the news for a year up they pop, with some new person attached. Like anyone in their right mind would let Barry Levinson direct a movie of Gypsy. This movie is not happening, was NEVER happening and never WILL happen. When it was first "announced" which was about four years ago, Ms. Streisand was newly in her 70s. It was a howler then that she'd play the mother of little kids, and guess what - it's four years LATER. There's no deal in place to make the movie so how exactly has Barry Levinson signed on to anything? And let's say a miracle happened and somehow they went into production later this year, as they say they would - which they won't because, wait for it, there is no DEAL. That means shooting next year. Someone post Ms. Streisand's age as of next year.
So by the time they actually shoot (which they won't) she'd be seventy-five. I don't think so unless they want to make it great grandmama Rose.
