So here are five of my favorite Lily moments in the movie. Bette's broadness - that word goes in several directions, all of them apt - always gobbles up in hindsight the very funny work Tomlin's doing here. This post is devoted to Lily Tomlin's sly double performance in the movie, because it's one I never give enough credit to, and it's her that was weirdly on my mind when I woke up this morning. Outrageous Fortune! Down and Out in Beverly Hills! That one where Danny Devito has her kidnapped! (Oh right Ruthless People is what it's called.) It's been a very long time but I worshipped them all when I was a kid.Īll that aside, now that I'm actually doing a post focused on Big Business, I'm not actually even focusing on Bette. Lily Tomlin on Big Business: I had a big falling-out with the producers because they had the gay characters calling Bette Midlers character a âdouche bag.â I said, âYou cannot have the gays calling her a douche bag, it makes them seem like woman haters. I need to go revisit all of Bette's big comedies from this period - that sound you hear is my boyfriend packing my belongings and throwing them into the street - for some posts is what I need to do. Two sets of identical twins are mismatched at birth. Forty years later, their paths cross amid the hustle and bustle of Manhattan, and the result is unrestrained pandemonium. All actors Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Edward Herrmann. Big Business 6.4 1 h PG Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin are two sets of identical twins who are mismatched at birth. But save one brief instance I've never said much about Big Business, which is weird. Big Business quotes: the most famous and inspiring quotes from Big Business. How odd that my waking thoughts today would be devoted to the 1988 Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin comedy Big Business, right? Off the record (ha), it's a comedy I've seen dozens of times, I was addicted to it when I was a kid and I could quote it from start to finish at you if I was backed into a corner and the only way to save myself was to quote lines from a 1988 Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin comedy, which could obviously happen.Īnyway I've laid bare my love for 80s Bette Midler movies before, once in an epic post devoted to Stella - still one of my favorite posts I've ever done - and several times I've coughed up the truth about my embarrassing devotion to Beaches.
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