Word: brice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILLIAM BRICE-Alan, 766 Madison Ave. at 66th. The son of Broadway's Funny Girl Fanny Brice seems to have inherited his mother's fancy for art but not her sense of humor. His tragic nudes used to flower like human vegetation in a symbolic embrace with nature; now they languish outside the bleak windows of the artist's studio. Oils and drawings. Through April...
Drawing on Kennedy's biography and on his own impressions, Show Business Writer John McPhee went to work on his cover story about the remarkable girl who impersonates the remarkable Fanny Brice. Meanwhile, Senior Editor A. T. Baker wanted to know what ever happened to Nicky Arnstein, Fanny Brice's former gangster husband, who was last heard of years ago somewhere in Los Angeles. TIME'S Hollywood Reporter Joyce Haber mobilized the help of three police departments, the Nevada Gaming Control Board, the intelligence unit of the Treasury Department, lawyers, nightclub owners, columnists and several helpful hoodlums...
...hours that follow, she is all but the whole show. Funny Girl is a biographical evening about the late Fanny Brice, and ostensibly Barbra Streisand is re-creating her rise to fame and her ill-starred marriage to Nicky Arnstein, the gambler-sport. But Streisand establishes more than a wellrecollected Fanny Brice. She establishes Barbra Streisand. When she is on stage, singing, mugging, dancing, loving, shouting, wiggling, grinding, wheedling, she turns the air around her into a cloud of tired ions. Her voice has all the colors, bright and subtle, that a musical play could ask for, and gradations...
...what she wants, and hints at the perils that might befall her, such as A Cockeyed Optimist from South Pacific and Wouldn't It Be Loverly from My Fair Lady. In Funny Girl, Barbra Streisand is to some degree playing herself as well as Fanny Brice, and it is something more than a statement in a show when she stands under the marquee of a theater and declares in her first song...
...grit is polished into great talent and the price that is paid for that pearl of success. This familiar story failed in Sophie (about Sophie Tucker) and Jennie (about Laurette Taylor), but it is surprisingly successful in Funny Girl. The difference is partly that Barbra Streisand's Fanny Brice is driven by the heat of desire rather than the cold of ambition, has spasms of panic as well as mountains of spunk. The usual standbys are unusually appealing. Kay Medford's stage mother is more loving than shoving, and her chopped-liver-on-wry dialogue is a deadpan...