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Felix (George Segal) opens the door, and it seems as if hell's fire has swept through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. It is the buxom neighbor he has reported to the building superintendent for prostitution. "Hello, pansy!" shrieks Doris (Barbra Streisand). "Hello, fink! Fink pansy! You rat! You fruitcake! Rat fink fruitcake! Creeps as yourself don't have dogs named Wolf. What creeps like you have are little faggy hairy bitty things with names like Pooky and Doodoo...
Clawing Comedy. The film owes much to Bill Manoffs witty and engaging Broadway play (in which the pussycat was black). Director Herbert Ross (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) is a former choreographer who staged Miss Streisand's musical numbers in Funny Girl. He took a considerable gamble in changing the pussycat part, but it has paid off handsomely...
STOCK COMPANIES all over America have been playing Funny Girl since the property was released a couple of years ago. No doubt they all lack something. The elaborate scenery perhaps. Or the audience. And of course they all lack Streisand...
...course the production also lacks a Streisand. But Linda Spohn is good, and got better as the evening progressed. She doesn't try to make you forget Barbra; instead, she honors her memory. And it's interesting to hear at last some of the notes Streisand extrapolated from...
...Jewish mother (Lillian Adams) who chides her son the doctor about the expensive "opticals" on his "fancy-schmancy" Plymouth is bound to offend every Jewish mother from Barbra Streisand to Golda Meir. Winston's "What do you want, good grammar or good taste?" campaign verges on sadism. But then, unless R.J. Reynolds can prove between now and Jan. 1 that cigarette smoking may not be hazardous to your health, all cigarette ads will be off the air. Except for the vignettes showing Benson & Hedges' longer cigarettes forever getting caught in beards, clashing cymbals and elevator doors, none...