Word: streisand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clothes count among their adherents Shirley MacLaine, Barbra Streisand, Sally Quinn, Lola Redford, Diane Keaton and Lauren Hutton (who once said that she wears only jeans and Lauren...
...Barbra Streisand drove costume fitters to the brink during the filming of Funny Girl by continually changing the padding in her bras. Playing Julius Caesar in Cleopatra, Rex Harrison allowed his own skinny frame to be beefed up with foam rubber, so much that the daggers kept bouncing off him during the death scene. So reports Oscar-Winning Designer Irene Sharaff, 64, describing the care and costuming of actors in a new memoir titled Broadway and Hollywood, Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff. Stars are like "anyone else in underwear," she insists. In The Bishop's Wife (1948), for instance...
...will open at New York's Whitney Museum next March. IBM has offered $500,000 to help pay for a multimedia exhibit, "The World of Franklin and Jefferson," that is now touring Europe. But these projects are vastly outnumbered by the kind described by Robert Freedman, president of Streisand, Zuch & Freedman, a New York ad agency. Says he: "I don't know how many clients have called and said, 'O.K., come up with a Bicentennial promotion,' when they have nothing to do with the Bicentennial and are just trying to sell more...
Sometimes there are interruptions. At work on Up the Sandbox, Goldenberg received daily phone calls from Leading Lady Barbra Streisand. Since shooting sessions lasted far into the night, the actress rang punctually at 2:30 a.m. "Hum me the music for tomorrow," she would request. During one predawn chat, Streisand asked Goldenberg if the movie's final measures could be extended into a song. "Sure," he replied. "Have it by 4," purred La Barbra. "I wrote like mad," Goldenberg recalls. "When she called, I hummed her the tune. She liked it, and the next day we got the word...
...screen rights to the ribald bestseller and will start filming the movie version in August. Phillips, 31, who co-produced The Sting with her now estranged husband Michael, shares her rented Beverly Hills home with Actor Gregory Johnson and her daughter Kate, 1%. She is considering Actresses Barbra Streisand, Brenda Vaccaro, Goldie Hawn and more than a dozen others for the leading role of Isadora Wing, but has not made up her mind. She and Screenwriter Jong are tempted to give the story a women's-lib climax. "We both want Isadora to get on a plane, fly without...