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...Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at vozick@fas.harvard.edu
...Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached vozick@fas.harvard.edu...
...hair and convert to Judaism, preferably Orthodox, though not before heading to Mexico with that muscular ex-con from the tattoo parlor. Which is how she ends up in Tijuana, knocked silly on OxyContin and slumped in a pool of her own vomit. The Best Awful (Simon & Schuster; 269 pages) can be a very funny book, but generally the laughs come hard...
DIED. RAY STARK, 88, powerful Hollywood producer who had long associations with Barbra Streisand and Neil Simon; in West Hollywood. For his first film, Funny Girl, based on his real-life mother-in-law, Fanny Brice, he chose Streisand over established stars after hearing her sing in a New York City nightclub. His long career included more than 125 films, among them The Goodbye Girl, Annie and Steel Magnolias...
...stage musical and 1968 film Funny Girl; in Los Angeles. Stark, who started out in Hollywood writing captions for publicity photos at Warner Bros., made more than 125 films, including Night of the Iguana, The Way We Were, and 11 movies in close collaboration with playwright Neil Simon, among them The Sunshine Boys. Stark considered several actresses such as Mary Martin and Eydie Gorme before choosing the then unknown Streisand to play Funny Girl's Fanny Brice. Her performance in the film won an Oscar. "Sure enough," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1967, "she and the play blended...