Stockard Channing Billed A “Comeback Queen” in Daily News

This Daily News article caught my eye, and not only for the obvious reason that it’s about Stockard Channing. Tina Turner, Liza Minelli and Stockard Channing are, you have to admit, pretty amazing (over-60) women who aren’t intimidated by a show biz world full of young hotties. They just keep on doing their thing, and doing it as well as ever. I do, however, have a problem seeing them labeled as “comeback” queens, as that implies they were once “gone”.

Here is an excerpt from the Daily News article titled:

Comeback queens Tina Turner, Liza Minelli and Stockard Channing to play NYC shows
BY Patrick Huguenin
DAILY NEWS Staff Writer

Tina Turner, Stockard Channing and Liza Minnelli - each in her 60s - will play concerts in New York City this holiday season.

…On Broadway, Channing gets in cougar character for “Pal Joey,” a revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical, now in previews, that opens Dec. 11. She plays money honey Vera Simpson, a rich older woman courted by the title character (Matthew Risch) with the hope that she’ll finance his nightclub.

The actress famous for belting as Rizzo in the movie version of “Grease” hasn’t tuned her pipes on Broadway since 1984, when she took over for Minnelli in “The Rink.” But, she says, the sexy role caught her eye.

“She’s a complicated woman,” she’s said of Vera, “probably a little ahead of her time. Very composed on one level, but clearly deeply passionate on another. And that passion is awakened by Joey.”

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