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...most with-it hostess (the last party ran from Vanessa Redgrave and John Huston to the Henry Fords), awaits this Saturday's guests. There are shrieks of "darling!" and elaborate embraces for Marlon Brando, Prince Stanislas Radziwill and Lee, Roddy McDowall, Terry Southern, Francoise Sagan and Barbra Streisand (who opens in Funny Girl this week). Dame Margot Fonteyn is due. Warren Beatty, Caron's most recent co-star (in Promise Her Anything), is there. After an excellent dinner of chicken, claret and Chablis, the 28 guests dance till dawn...
...gerbil was brought to the U.S. for medical research eleven years ago, moved into the pet world only in the past year. Word spread through the kiddie grapevine with the help of once-a-week TV appearances on NBC's Birthday House and a plug from Barbra Streisand (who owns two) on her recent CBS special. Today gerbils are in demand from New York to Alaska. In La Grange, Ill., the Parkway Pet Store sold 16 after putting a sign in the window. In Atlanta, the Ark Pet Shop has already sold 125, has more orders than...
...Barbra Streisand's second television special, and the publicity buildup made it sound like the Second Coming. "The most electrifying entertainer in the world," pealed a CBS advertisement on air day last week, "has a new hit on her hands . . . even more exciting than the first." The morning after, many a critic looped ecstatically through the hoop. Color Me Barbra, the show was called, and one reviewer exclaimed, "Color her magnificent." "She is the only younger superstar around," cried another. "The show of this year," declared a third. Yet for all the press raves and the excessive bravos...
TELEVISION Flip-Side Streisand...
...anything, the show proved that one full hour of Streisand's peculiarly nasal voice is about 45 minutes too much, and that her choice of songs-Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long; Animal Crackers in My Soup-can be appalling. The Streisand talent is considerable, but it is getting lost in a myth...