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        <title><![CDATA[How Patti LuPone became the biggest trash talker in Hollywood]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Patti LuPone is the reigning queen of the ladies who punch.</p><p>When she’s not <strong>scolding audiences</strong> for <strong>disruptive behavior</strong>, the 71-year-old Broadway legend — &nbsp;currently&nbsp;<strong>starring in</strong> Ryan Murphy&#8217;s “Hollywood” on Netflix —&nbsp; is serving shade to other stars in her orbit.</p><p>Whether <strong>sizing up</strong> composer and <strong>oft-nemesis</strong> Andrew Lloyd Webber as “a jerk” and “a sad sack” last fall, <strong>suggesting</strong> Uma Thurman’s 2017 Broadway debut helped “lower the standard” for theater or <strong>declaring</strong> Madonna a “movie killer” who “cannot act her way out of a paper bag,” she’s always ready to spill some tea.</p><p>The diva of dish doesn’t hold back — and we’ll drink to that.</p><p>In her latest pokes at her peers, the irrepressible LuPone humorously savaged Meryl Streep, Audra McDonald and Christine Baranski for their <strong>booze-swilling, bathrobe-wearing rendition</strong> of Stephen Sondheim&#8217;s “The Ladies Who Lunch” during the <strong>virtual 90th birthday tribute</strong> to the musical theater legend. It’s a song near and dear to LuPone, who <strong>was performing</strong> the tune in a revival of Sondheim&#8217;s “Company” this spring until the <strong>coronavirus</strong> pandemic shut down Broadway.</p><p>In an interview with LGBTQ publication Between the Lines last week, LuPone said — <strong>with a cackle</strong> — that their rendition ruined the song for her, proclaiming that she’ll never be able to perform it again because “they trashed the number!”</p><p>“I say that with great humor, but I’m not going to be able to sing it without thinking of them doing it,” she said, with a laugh.</p><p>And when asked how she would change the movie industry for the better, she went on to diminish the flurry of popular superhero movies that have taken over Hollywood.</p><p>“I would greenlight films and television shows that I thought were going to be beneficial for education and for parents, as opposed to, ‘Well, that was a big hit; let’s make 9,000 more of those Marvel comics,’ ” she said.</p><blockquote class="pullquote right"><p>&#8216;I hate ABBA. I have always hated ABBA.&#8217;</p></blockquote><p>LuPone also would not approve of a third “Mamma Mia!” film, throwing particular venom at the singing group behind the song that spawned the movie franchise and Broadway show.</p><p>“I hate ABBA. I have always hated ABBA,” she said. “I will not go see “Mamma Mia!” because I hate ABBA. And I’ve hated ABBA since I was a kid.”</p><p>LuPone&nbsp;also threw shade on other targets in an appearance on <strong>“Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen”</strong> last week.</p><p>LuPone, the 2008 Tony Award winner for Best Actress in a Musical in “Gypsy,” suggested Barbra Streisand, 78, <strong>would be “too old”</strong> to star in a movie adaptation of that show, while conceding that she thinks that Streisand “maybe 50 years ago she would have been a brilliant Madame Rose.” And <strong>when asked</strong> whether Joanna Gleason deserved to win the 1988 Tony Award for Lead Actress in a Musical for &#8220;Into the Woods&#8217; over LuPone&#8217;s competing turn in &#8220;Anything Goes,&#8221; she dropped an emphatic &#8220;No,&#8221; then adding, &#8220;I thought I was pretty damn funny, and I had a lot to do.&#8221;</p><p>She also let the fur fly about the box office bomb “Cats,” saying she&#8217;ll &#8220;never&#8221; see the film adaptation of Webber&#8217;s musical. She said she already hated it as a stage show and even walked out of the recent London revival after the first act. Her final assessment of &#8220;Cats&#8221;: LuPone rated it a “zero” on a scale of one to 10.</p><p><em>Meow!</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
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