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FUNNY GIRL. A one-woman burst of starfire named Barbra Streisand illuminates the rise, the love life and the heartbreak of another great and funny girl, Fanny Brice...
...mother's bedroom, crowning a marriage proposal to the girl whose favors can be had for the price of an espresso, he generously covers her nude body with some of Mama's 10,000-lire banknotes. The door opens. In sails Bette, rococo-eyed, jewels ajangle, a one-woman spectacular. She sees her darling at play, drops into her deep-fried Southern drawl and issues what must be the last word in ultrapermissive Momism: "Please put the money you don't want back in the safe-I don't want the maid to find the room...
...spite of De Gaulle, the Alphands still have one of the busiest numbers on the party line. They are as sought after as ever for the best parties. At the drop of an engraved invitation, Nicole still can draw what one official calls "the whole damned decision-making apparatus of the Government" to her table. One admiring Frenchman describes her as "our secret weapon." And if good food and wine and conversation count for anything in the realm of politics, she is a one-woman force de persuasion...
...curtain on a new Broadway season, but the play is haunted by the tired ghosts of seasons past. To Love is still another family comedy, the sempiternal soap opera of the theater. This time, the family is British, part tea cozy and part zany. Mama (Claudette Colbert), a one-woman S.P.C.A. who identifies with small fur-bearing animals, has just done an eight-month stretch in jail for blowing up two fur shops with homemade bombs. Daughter is going to have an illegitimate child by an accountant who apparently lacks the caution proper to his vocation. Son is a bearded...
...Human Voice (Caedmon; $5.95), with Ingrid Bergman, is a brilliant one-woman tour de force written by Jean Cocteau and originally released in 1960. The woman is alone, talking to her lover on the phone. He is about to marry someone else and she is desolate. Intimate, anguished, yearning, tender, this is a portrait of a woman desperately trying to breathe life into a dead love. As one critic put it, "Had the piece been played in the barren Sahara, the dunes would have moved closer to listen...