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...BARBRA STREISAND: MY NAME IS BARBRA (Columbia). On that enchanted evening long ago when she first captured an audience with Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, a little bit of Barbra stayed right there. Many of these songs from her smash TV special are about childhood, and she is at once sophisticated and ingenuous, smart-alecky and enraptured...
...wistful appeal into her spindling role. She has the wide famished eyes of a waif, that vulnerable little-child look of hunger and wonder. Like her mother,Judy Garland, she produces the Big Sound spontaneously, though she phrases her songs with a dramatic intensity more like that of Barbra Streisand. At 19, Liza Minnelli is a star-to-be, a performer of arresting presence who does not merely occupy the stage but fills...
...Barbra made everything work, from a reprise of her Funny Girl hits to a Baby Snooks number evoking how it all began - the gawky gosling from Brooklyn who didn't see Manhattan until she was 14, and when she walked into Bergdorfs in her trench coat, "everyone looked funny at me." Then she came out to show off two other Streisands, one a gamine in slacks and sweater and short hairdo ("like Nureyev"), the other a coolly elegant woman in a simple black sheath that displays the sophistication of 22 going...
...week of Funny Girl have been taxing enough. "It's painful, not boring, painful! It's everything I hated about school. It's become nine-to-five." And sobering. She used to grab last-minute cabs to the theater. "It made for its own excitement," recalls Barbra, especially when she couldn't find a taxi. Once she arrived in a police car; another time she commandeered a truck. "Then I thought, 'What am I going through all this agony for?' All the other stars drive up in cars...
Names flew like a cast of characters. Had CBS paid $15,000 for the leopard coat that Actress Barbra Streisand wears in this week's CBS spectacular? No. Had CBS ordered the firing of Manager Yogi Berra when it bought control of the New York Yankees? No. Did CBS intend to enclose Yankee Stadium with a dome similar to Houston's new Astrodome? Emphatically no. Had CBS bought Comedian Jackie Gleason's $300,000 circular home as "a reducing spa for tired executives?" No, said Paley, it had bought the house to "induce Mr. Gleason to stay...