Word: barbra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...success," Mengers notes dryly. As a vice president of mighty Creative Management Associates, Sue Mengers is, in the rueful words of one of her ex-clients, "more powerful than the stars she handles." An overestimation, perhaps, but Mengers' list of personal clients is largely above-the-title: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Ali McGraw, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Tony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Directors Herb Ross, Peter Bogdanovich, Bob Fosse and Writer Gore Vidal, to name...
RICHARD PERRY, independent producer for Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Harry Nilsson and Carly Simon, among others. At 30, hottest freelance in business. Discovered both Tiny Tim and Captain Beefheart. Conceives albums in manner of Hollywood director. Added drum crescendos that give Simon's You're So Vain special contemporary sound. Has loved pop music ever since he attended one of Alan Freed's rock-'n'-roll shows as a kid in Brooklyn in 1954. Earnings from sales and royalty percentages are well into six figures a year (last year: about $250,000). Sometimes agrees...
...heroine relates to the whole question mostly as a strategic matter of home economics. Barbra Streisand appears as Margaret Reynolds, an intermittently harassed mother of two and wife of an up-and-coming professor of political science at Columbia. For once Streisand dispenses with her ritual mugging and piercing line readings; her performance is generally subdued and rather good. The fact that she is never fully believable in the part is due largely to the mistake of casting a superstar as a woman who ought to be not quite anonymous but no more than average...
...they sent it and I read it and I thought eccccchh." Barbra Streisand was recalling the script of Up the Sandbox, the just-released film in which she plays a daydreaming housewife who flirts with Fidel Castro and blows up the Statue of Liberty. Barbra soon changed her mind, accepted the part and went off to Kenya to film one of the daydreams. While there she had a blue flower painted on her cheek, put together her own Samburu tribal costume and sat for a chat with an African and his two wives. "How would you like Barbra as your...
Playing the part of a girl once hooked on Karl Marx, Barbra Streisand suddenly found herself surrounded by Marxes: Grouchos, Chicos, Harpos...It was a scene in a new film, The Way We Were-a costume party to which Barbra, Co-Star Robert Redford and all the other guests came as Marx Brothers. Among the onlookers: Groucho Marx himself, at 82 the only survivor of the famous trio. Groucho offered suggestions, dropped a few quips, and listened to the others recite some of the lines from his films. Sample: "This morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas...