Word: lovingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FUNNY GIRL. Singing, loving, wheedling, Barbra Streisand is a shower of bright lights as she re-creates Comedienne Fanny Brice's starshoot over Broadway.
But Americans never stop trying, and Bostonians never stop loving it. In Boston the marathon is bigger than the Harvard-Yale game - and certainly bigger than all the Red Sox games strung end to endless. Traffic is banished from streets along the route, and 250,000 spectators line the curbs...
This is the case that some peace-loving rights workers make for the escalatory violence they may provoke if they are pushed into defending themselves. Certainly they have a "right" in the American tradition to defense. The right of defense is not argued, but rather the tactical utility of defense...
For the 21 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...
Ansen's script is clever and pointed; his direction is imaginative even if his pace occasionally drags. Valerie Clark, whose pretty head is on the pillow most of the time, is a wonderful ham, and Roberta Braucher handles a delicate assignment well. Bina Breitner's lust didn't quite convince...