Hilarious scene in "These Old Broads"

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I'd never heard of this t.v. movie, was mildly intrigued with the line-up of Debbie REYNOLDS, Shirley MacLAINE, Joan COLLINS. Tuned in a half hour late, and there was a scene with REYNOLDS confronting what I thought was a Liz TAYLOR lookalike, thought it was whassername (insert Stockard CHANNING here), over the lifelong scandal for all of us, the real Liz & Eddie thing. So then IMdB says it was the real Liz in the movie!1

And it was written by Carrie FISHER and dealing with all these real life divas with all of their baggage, and it's saying something when MacLAINE is the one with the *least* baggage?!1 COLLINS's real life rap was that her career was tagged as the Liz Wannabe, 2nd stringer. And a newspaper review of this project from 2001 says it was a bust. Carrie is quoted as saying it was a chore dealing with all of them, each one badgering her with "suggestions" (read, "DEMANDS&quot for more lines, "If she said that to me I wouldn't just leave it, I'd say this or that." She said they all wanted the last word and that "the scenes had to end at some point..."

Anyway, so the hilarious scene is the Debbie-Liz confrontation where they rehash the old scandal, back and forth about its being in the distant past, forgiven, did-you-a-favor, sent an apology-never-received, blah blah. Then the Debbie calls Liz a nympho, and Liz says, "Me?!1 A nympho?!1 I consider sex to be a language, and I'm fluent in it. While for you, it's a second language!1"

Bwah-ha-HAH!1


ON MULTI-EDIT: Never enough proofreading - more grammar and spelling: MacLainE and its/not-it's.

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1. Can't think of the name of that actress (not in this movie) that I thought was playing Liz here

She's bigger on Broadway than in movies, chipmunk cheeks... ON EDIT: O.K., the one I thought was playing Liz is Stockard CHANNING. Google and Wiki are the stopgaps to broken brain synapses.