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...Bank Dick, starring W. C. Fields as Egbert Souse (accent grave over the e), the bank guard. A classic, especially the chase scene at the end. 4:30 p.m. on channel 38. Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, with Omar Sharif and Walter Pidgeon to back her up. Won lots of Oscars, accolades, etc. 7:30 p.m. on channel...
Midler has been compared to everything from Dorothy Parker in drag to the entire chorus line of beruffled hippos in Fantasia, and she shows traces of a dozen other singers: Streisand's nose and extraordinary head tones, Garland's saturation emotions and devoted homosexual following, Fanny Brice's waifish vulnerability, Joplin's floozy eleganza in attire and her tendency to egg audiences on to hysteria. But Miss M's secret is that she is not really like those others: she is acting like them. "I just try to have a good time...
Steve McQueen and Barbra Streisand were there, as were Eugene Carson Blake, former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, and Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein. So were ten Democratic Senators and twelve black members of the House of Representatives, as well as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and (would you believe?) Joe Namath...
...recent Hollywood benefit for Pentagon-papers Defendants Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, even the invited luminaries paid $125 each to get in, and Barbra Streisand agreed to sing to anyone over the phone for $3,000 a song. The resulting $50,000 haul was impressive, but the money quickly evaporated. Ellsberg and Russo are finding out that while the price of liberty may be eternal vigilance, the cost of justice can be astronomical. Their trial, which is now nearing an end, will have cost the defense between $900,000 and $1,000,000; the prosecution tab may reach...
...male actors need a little bit of fascism to make them attractive." She has been seduced by the camera wizardry of Bob Fosse and Bertolucci, and turned off by the supposed machismo of Straw Dogs. She has also gone bananas over movies just because they have been vehicles for Streisand...