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...CLOWN AND WAIF. This is the particular province of the U.S. musical theater. Every female superstar launched on the American stage in the past decade has been cast as a clown or a waif. Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut as the office-girl clown, Miss Marmelstein. in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, and graduated to the Fanny Brice clown in Funny Girl. Liza Minnelli enjoyed her first solid success as a waif in Flora, the Red Menace, and has now gone on to fame as Sally Bowles, the waif of waifs in the film Cabaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Faces of Eve | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

Facing the prospect of directing his first American superstar, Barbra Streisand, in a film biography of Sarah Bernhardt, Russell says he finds all his movies equally nerve racking: "There is really no difference between nuns with no clothes on and tap dancers in goggles. It is all material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Russell: Spoofing the Spoof | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

Born. To Elliott Gould, 33, Hollywood anti-hero and ex-spouse of Barbra Streisand; and Jenny Bogart, 19, his girl friend; their first child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Molly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 29, 1971 | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...seekers (including many bolsheviks and "hippies"), was demonstration perhaps that he is rank only on film, and might live happily and successfully as ice cream man or door-to-door stockbroker. To betoken our good will, we have deleted from paragraph five a particularly gratuitous and leering reference to Barbra "Color Me Barbra" Streisand...

Author: By Jeff Bergelson, | Title: The Touch | 11/10/1971 | See Source »

...sound stages; a typical conversational aside begins "Wasn't it Orson who said . . . ?" and a favorite Bogdanovich recreation at parties is doing imitations of Jimmy Stewart and Gary Grant. He disagrees with friends who think that What's Up Doc?, a frenetic, '30s-style farce starring Barbra Streisand, may be a project too frivolous for his talents. Says he: "I want to make movies like the ones I used to like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festival Prize | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

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