Word: barbra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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YENTL directed by Barbra Streisand...
Screenplay by Jack Rosenthal and Barbra Streisand...
...Jews have a word for what it took to make this movie: chutzpah. Barbra Streisand-the producer, director, co-writer and star of Yentl-spent 15 years turning Isaac Bashevis Singer's 20-page story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy into a 2-hr. 15-min. musical extravaganza. At 41, she dares to impersonate a Lithuanian girleen. She has twisted Singer's story-of a studious imp who dresses up as a boy and contrives to marry her best friend's fiancee-into a moral tale about three victims of circumstance and prejudice. She has found in this...
Forget that Yentl is set in Eastern Europe. The film's true locus is the mind of Barbra Streisand, where the familiar conventions of the musical mix easily with the private compulsions of a born-again Jew who happens to be a Hollywood hot shot. On the evidence of Yentl, she has been other women as well: the adoring child listening to her papa, and now telling him what she has learned; the gawky teen-ager eyeing her less gifted rivals; the budding artist stretching the limits of craft and ego; the novice director showing tact and assurance behind...
...they'll go by car, get out and walk, knock on doors. It'll be worse." While continuing their lawsuit, the companies have rerouted their buses to nearby Bel Air to allow the star-struck to look for such celebrities as Burt Reynolds, Barbra Streisand or Gregory Peck...