Word: barbra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slopes high above the winter resort of Vail, Colo. For the most strenuously physical man to occupy the White House since Teddy Roosevelt, the exercise was pure tonic. The setting, however, was slightly incongruous. Vail is an elegant winter resort, the place where John Lindsay, Jackie Onassis, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford and numerous Kennedys come to play. Carved out of a wilderness twelve years ago, Vail is a high-priced retreat where the après-ski attractions include continental restaurants, 28 heated pools and smart boutiques for snow bunnies. Vail is sometimes called the "Dallas Alps," a reference...
...horror flick and the private-eye caper have been dusted off with success, screwball comedy was hardly likely to escape. All in the name of homage, Peter Bogdanovich ripped off Bringing Up Baby, called it What's Up Doc? and made himself a hit. Doc also represented Barbra Streisand's initiation into the realm of frenetic comedy...
Certainly no questionable operation has ever matched the star quality of Home-Stake's investor list. Singer Andy Williams' stake ($538,000*) was among the largest, but he had plenty of celebrity company: Alan Alda ($145,000), Mia Farrow (amount unknown), Barbra Streisand ($28,500), Barbara Walters ($28,500), Bob Dylan (who now has $78,000 more reason to sing of capitalist exploitation). New York Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson put up an unknown amount; Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York, $28,500; Federal Judge Murray Gurfein, who wrote the decision in the Pentagon-papers case...
...City, The World's Greatest Athlete), working up to an annual income of $80,000. The total is now soaring like the strings in a climactic moment from one of Hamlisch's scores, as royalties pour in from his own album of Sting music and Barbra Streisand's recording of The Way We Were...
...first the Caines went their charming, moderately gilded social ways. "Aren't we classy?" they giggled to each other as if they were starring in a movie. When Hollywood did make the movie, Lynn liked to say to her shocked friends, she would absolutely refuse to let Barbra Streisand play her part. In short, Lynn Caine would probably have been the last person to read the book she has now written about the death of her husband and her own survival...