Word: streisand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Star is Born Barbra Streisand has her usual role of the nice Jewish singer (this time named Esther Hoffman, not Fanny Brice) who falls in love with a rogue. Kris Kristofferson's beard takes the place of Omar Sharif's moustache. Tony Orlando even has a small part, but this time, he did not bring Dawn or Gerald Ford with him. Kris plays John Norman Howard, a raunchy, alcoholic rock musician on the way down. Kris wants to go back to the ranch and leave the pressured world of tours, promotions and shows but with Esther's career rising...
...Star is Born shows the beautiful people in rare form. Not once during the film does either star have a shirt buttoned above the navel. The clothes are mostly of satin, sequins and silk. Such affectations suggest a hairdresser's touch. In fact, Jon Peters, Streisand's hairdresser and husband, produced the film--and her permanent looks great...
This brag may need hedging because, over the long haul, other singers - Barbra Streisand, to name one, and perhaps Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross - may have sold more records than Linda. (Carole King sold 13 million of a single LP, Tapestry.) Nevertheless, Ronstadt is the only female performer to have four consecutive albums go platinum (she made over $3 million from record sales alone last year). "Female" is the important qualifier. Rock is the thumping heart of Linda's music, and the rock world is dominated by males. The biggest stars are male, and so are the back...
When an aspiring songstress nervously faces her nightclub debut, where does she turn for advice? If she happens to know them, perhaps to Jon Peters and Barbara Streisand, producers of that weighty saga of show biz A Star Is Born. Dancer-Actress Lesley Ann Warren has done just that. A veteran of Broadway and such television series as Mission: Impossible, Warren is aiming for bigger fame in a "hot, sexy" song-and-dance act that opens this week in Los Angeles. Streisand has been bolstering Warren's courage with almost daily pep talks ("Get out on that stage, take...
MOST APPALLING ARGUMENT FOR FEMINISM: Barbara Walters, ABC's celebrated anchorperson, who in her first prime-time special led a tour of her own apartment, and then reduced Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter to the level of her other guests, Barbra Streisand and Jon Peters...