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...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...
Hello, Dolly! (1969). Barbra Streisand sang and danced her heart out, but the film's four Oscars went for art and set decoration, musical scoring, and sound. Ch. 7,8 p.m. Color, 3 hours...
...Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy Jr., in a blazer, escorted his aunt Lee Radziwill, in black and gold striped lame, to a ringside seat after exchanging gentle warmup jabs with the fighter in his dressing room. Then...
...become the Madame de Sévigné of the supper clubs. Seated in a Louis XV armchair, Mercer held the kind of wry musical conversation on affairs of the heart that has made a minor art form of ballad singing and influenced singers from Billie Holiday to Barbra Streisand. Aware that it is her phrasing and timing rather than her voice that turns the most banal ballad into a timeless vignette, Mercer says cryptically, "It's all in the punctuation...
...specifically left-wing popular-front politics in the 1940s. The script by Playwright Arthur Laurents (Time of the Cuckoo) posits an improbable, if not preposterous relationship between a WASP jock-frat man (Robert Redford), who is, on the side, an incredibly sensitive writer, and a Jewish Stalinist campus radical (Barbra Streisand), who is, on the side, a novice earth mother. A great deal of pushing and hauling gets them from college to marriage to Hollywood in time for the anti-Red witch hunts. The purpose, one imagines, was to have the apolitical Redford's screenwriting career unfairly victimized because...