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...store's business still permitted Goodman and his Spanish-born wife Nena to lavishly entertain special customers, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Barbra Streisand, in their 14-room penthouse atop the store. But recently profits have sagged; in 1970 Bergdorf earned well under 4% on sales of $32 million. Convinced that only a bigger company could borrow enough capital to expand the business beyond New York's midtown area, Goodman began searching for somebody to buy him out. Unless a buyer could be found, he said sadly, the store would probably close, and its valuable...
...Barbra Streisand, her macaw manner and self-congratulatory cuteness are displayed here to the usual excess...
...action rebounds off a totally deranged romance between a muddled musicologist (Ryan O'Neal) and a dizzy perennial student (Barbra Streisand...
...There is this prejudice against actresses," fumed Barbra Streisand. "They're supposed to look pretty and read their lines, then shut up and go home." Filming a movie called Up the Sandbox, Barbra got herself deeper into her role of an identity-searching housewife by offering some qualified support for Women's Lib: "Job opportunities, yes. Abortion, yes. But there should also be a time for mothering. If a woman chooses to stay home and be a wife and mother, she shouldn't be put down for that. A good mother is a fantastic creation." That said...
...Miss Minnelli is simply another victim of a double standard that remains anachronistically true of today's movies: while actors who aren't conventionally handsome--Alan Arkin. Dustin Hoffman. Eliot Gould--are permitted to admit to a certain degree of sexual attractiveness, actresses who aren't conventionally beautiful--Minnelli. Barbra Streisand--must play it strictly for laughs. (And meanwhile, the irony of it is that the "conventionally" attractive actor or actress is no longer in particular demand...