Originally published at: Selena Gomez to play Linda Ronstadt in new biopic - Boing Boing
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If any entertainer deserves a biopic, it’s Linda Ronstadt. An amazing voice, an amazing person.
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Squeeeee!
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What a great choice. I wasn’t familiar with Gomez’s acting (I mean, I knew she was on a Disney kids show, but I’d never seen it) until I saw her in Only Murders in the Building, and she is fantastic in that. And she can sing, obviously, so that’s a plus.
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Please don’t hurt me, Mama!
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Wow, perfect casting.
Oh my god, who’s going to play Emmylou Harris and Dolly?
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Jenna Ortega and Miley Cyrus. (I’m fancasting…I have no idea)
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… and Jerry Brown 
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My wife said Miley last night, but for Emmylou I have…
Weyes Blood! I think she’d be perfect and she’s a musician like Miley and Selena. Plus, I absolutely adore her music and would love to see her act occasionally like Sharon Van Etten.
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I’m definitely going to see this. Gomez is a great choice.
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Linda Ronstadt, featuring Andrew Gold, was the first concert I ever attended. It was at Syracuse University in either late 1976 or early 1977 and, IIRC, cost $4, possibly $6.
I wonder if the biopic will include her dating Steve Martin; he mentioned dating her in his autobiography when they were both working clubs in San Francisco before either hit the big time.
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Selena Gomez?!? Oh, dear god, no!
Hmm. Ok, I’m probably going to regret asking, but why not?
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Ariana Grande doesn’t much look like Dolly, but with the wig, make-up, and er, costuming, she would look enough like her. I’d guess they are close to the same height. Plus, I am willing to be that Ariana Grande can sing so that she sounds like Dolly Parton if she practiced a little. I saw Grande mimicking other singers quite well once. She could probably make herself sing like Ronstadt, too, if it came to that.
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Oh, don’t be worried - I just think that she would be about as suitable playing Ronstadt as Joseph Fiennes was playing Michael Jackson.
And why is that?
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Was he bad?
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Looking it up I see his name is Joseph Alberic Twistleton Wykeham Fiennes and I defy you or anyone to not step back in awe at such a name.
It’s…. Quite the flex.
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Terrible.
