Word: barbra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes there are interruptions. At work on Up the Sandbox, Goldenberg received daily phone calls from Leading Lady Barbra Streisand. Since shooting sessions lasted far into the night, the actress rang punctually at 2:30 a.m. "Hum me the music for tomorrow," she would request. During one predawn chat, Streisand asked Goldenberg if the movie's final measures could be extended into a song. "Sure," he replied. "Have it by 4," purred La Barbra. "I wrote like mad," Goldenberg recalls. "When she called, I hummed her the tune. She liked it, and the next day we got the word...
...bought the screen rights to the ribald bestseller and will start filming the movie version in August. Phillips, 31, who co-produced The Sting with her now estranged husband Michael, shares her rented Beverly Hills home with Actor Gregory Johnson and her daughter Kate, 1%. She is considering Actresses Barbra Streisand, Brenda Vaccaro, Goldie Hawn and more than a dozen others for the leading role of Isadora Wing, but has not made up her mind. She and Screenwriter Jong are tempted to give the story a women's-lib climax. "We both want Isadora to get on a plane...
...ought not to have been. The movie is a continuation of Barbra Streisand's first starring vehicle. Like Funny Girl (1968), Funny Lady is gaudy and inane. As before, the star cuts up and camps up a revamped biography of Fanny Brice, here and there belting out a tune as if the lyrics were marching orders. Streisand is still more the enthusiastic personality than dexterous actress. She changes costumes faster than moods, and usually tosses off her lines like a rich girl rummaging through a drawer full of last year's clothes...
...sister is the real spark plug of the family," cracked Ted Kennedy after Eunice Shriver had assembled a crowd of 1,350 at Washington's Kennedy Center. Eunice's guests had come to see some song and dance by Barbra Streisand and James Caan, stars of the new movie Funny Lady, and to help boost the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation's Special Olympics for retarded children. The program provided one misstep after another for Today show Empress Barbara Walters, who stumbled on her way up to a stage and grabbed the first helping hand in sight. "When...
...throwaway lines that can bring People items to life are also sought over lunch and by telephone. Calling up Barbra Streisand or Paul Newman can be difficult. "It's not easy to get that one good quote from a celebrity," says him up at Macintosh, noon." "especially if you wake To illustrate the section, Assistant Picture Editor Michele Stephenson scans hundreds of photos for offbeat images of "name" names. "We're not just looking for any old king or billionaire," Stephenson says. "People have to have qualities that have captured the imagination of millions, like Jackie...