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Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes Will Write Barbra Streisand’s Gypsy Movie

Actress Barbra Streisand attends Chanel's benefit dinner for the Natural Resources Defense Council's Ocean Initiative
Actress Barbra Streisand attends Chanel’s benefit dinner for the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Ocean Initiative at the home of Ron & Kelly Meyer on June 4, 2011 in Malibu, California. Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images

Downton Abbey mastermind Julian Fellowes will write the on-again Barbra Streisand Gypsy movie, the parties announced today. That is … strange! Streisand will star as Mama Rose, and she’ll produce the film alongside Joel Silver; there’s no director attached yet, and there is neither a Louise nor a June, so don’t get too excited. (Or too worried.) Streisand announced her plan to make a Gypsy movie early last year, but then Arthur Laurents changed his mind about giving the show his blessing, and it seemed like the movie wasn’t going to move forward. A few months after Laurents’s death, Streisand said the film was still happening, and now here we are, with a writer attached and everything. Somewhere, Lea Michele is flipping the hell out.

Julian Fellowes Will Write Barbra Streisand’s Gypsy