Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magazine which presumably hopes to appeal to a college audience, The Free Student's articles are intellectually disappointing and occasionally insulting to the intelligence of the reader. One piece titled "Repression and Rebellion at Brooklyn College" begins, "Students at Brooklyn College are about to rise up in mass protest against new dress regulations which forbid girls to wear slacks on campus at any time, and which forbid boys to wear dungarees...
...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller's ten-year-old tragedy of a Brooklyn longshoreman with an incestuous fixation for his niece may be more Freudian than Greek, but it pulses with the fury, pity and seeming inevitability of obsessive self-destruction...
...show was Kelly, based on a legendary jump from the Brooklyn Bridge, and several would-be producers, looking before they leaped, had earlier dropped their options. Undeterred by the fears of other angels, Susskind and his Talent Associates-Paramount, Ltd. rushed in, somehow found $350,000 lying around. To round out the nut, they talked Columbia Records into ponying up $50,000 and got the remaining $250,000 from Producer-Plunger Joseph E. Levine...
...just may be that Lainie Kazan,* 24, was. When Brooklyn-born Lainie signed on as understudy to Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, she was unsure it would last, and promptly developed an ulcer. But she set to work sandwiching in acting lessons, music lessons and a few TV appearances whenever possible. Twice each week she did the show in the understudy rehearsal, but for ten long months Lainie's opening-night shivers had to wait. Healthy and unhoarse, Streisand never missed a performance...
...booked her for a 2½-week run in April. And Colpix Records signed her to do four songs. By last week two or three other offers were in the talk stage. After Kazan's two fill-in stints, Streisand had wired: WE WERE TOLD TREES GROW IN BROOKLYN BUT WE KNOW BETTER. STARS DO. Maybe yes and maybe no. GROW is the operative word. Trees are not simply born either...