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Wednesday, April 28 "MY NAME IS BARBRA" (CBS, 9-10 p.m.)* The first of Streisand's long-awaited specials - and as close to compulsory viewing as TV showbiz ever gets. Highlights include a madly chic fashion number in deserted Bergdorf Goodman, introduced by Fanny Brice's old song Second-Hand Rose. For those who lamented its exclusion from Funny Girl, Barbra belts out My Man. The show has everything -namely, Barbra Streisand...
...knickers. And then she's grabbing all those crazy hats, or vamping around the showcases like Mata Hari, or suddenly taking a Spanish caprice to dance all over Bergdorf's minks. It sounds like Breakfast at Bergdorf's but its real title is My Name Is Barbra, an hourlong, one-girl, CBS-TV special this week. The taped show is also Barbra Streisand's way of saluting her first year in Broadway's smash hit, Funny Girl, and her own 23rd birthday. It is the most enchanting, tingling TV hour of the season...
...watch the show, 30 million will be watching someone they've never seen before." Such gloom about a girl whose five record albums all shot over the magic $1,000,000 mark in the past year - but it was catching. "The men in suspenders will never watch it," Barbra predicted, which led her to worry about "this family called Nielsen. Everyone asks, 'What are the Nielsens watching?' They think the whole country is watching what this one family is watching. I mean, nobody ever asked me what I'm watching." But after her two-show Saturday...
Whatever happened to Barbra Streisand, 22, the girl in the feather boa, the late suffragette dress, and whatever else was handy to "match"? For one thing, she's making about $5,000 a week in Funny Girl, which is enough to enrich anyone's tastes. Then CBS decided to show her all dressed up in its TV musical My Name Is Barbra late in April and marched her off to Manhattan's Bergdorf-Goodman for fitting and filming. She tried on a $15,000 Somali leopard coat-and liked it! Next came a mink-lined velvet robe...
...song can do the trick, too. I think back just three years to I Can Get It for You Wholesale, in which Barbra Streisand had one solo, "Miss Marmelstein," the only redeeming feature of a tawdry show. And look where it landed her! If there is any justice, Gilbert Price will be the talk of Broadway the day after the show opens there on May 16, and from that time forward the name of Price in musical circles will no longer automatically mean Leontyne...