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Felix (George Segal) opens the door, and it seems as if hell's fire has swept through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. It is the buxom neighbor he has reported to the building superintendent for prostitution. "Hello, pansy!" shrieks Doris (Barbra Streisand). "Hello, fink! Fink pansy! You rat! You fruitcake! Rat fink fruitcake! Creeps as yourself don't have dogs named Wolf. What creeps like you have are little faggy hairy bitty things with names like Pooky and Doodoo...
Appearing in her first nonmusical, Barbra does not sing a note, but her feline yowling is pure musical comedy. Even George Segal, a fine dramatic actor with minimal comic talents, here displays glints of honest humor. When Doris cannot fall asleep without the television going, Felix gets behind a goldfish bowl and does an uproarious series of sketches. Occasionally, the film tries to take itself seriously, which is ludicrous. But when Streisand and Segal stick to their clawing comedy, watching the fur and feathers fly is high entertainment...
...course the production also lacks a Streisand. But Linda Spohn is good, and got better as the evening progressed. She doesn't try to make you forget Barbra; instead, she honors her memory. And it's interesting to hear at last some of the notes Streisand extrapolated from...
...Jewish mother (Lillian Adams) who chides her son the doctor about the expensive "opticals" on his "fancy-schmancy" Plymouth is bound to offend every Jewish mother from Barbra Streisand to Golda Meir. Winston's "What do you want, good grammar or good taste?" campaign verges on sadism. But then, unless R.J. Reynolds can prove between now and Jan. 1 that cigarette smoking may not be hazardous to your health, all cigarette ads will be off the air. Except for the vignettes showing Benson & Hedges' longer cigarettes forever getting caught in beards, clashing cymbals and elevator doors, none...
PEIRRE Elliott Trudeau is the dashing, elegant, liberal Prime Minister of Canada. He dates Barbra Streisand, wears wxhite carnations on his pin-striped lapels, and kisses girls as well as babies when he shows himself in public...