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...wistful appeal into her spindling role. She has the wide famished eyes of a waif, that vulnerable little-child look of hunger and wonder. Like her mother,Judy Garland, she produces the Big Sound spontaneously, though she phrases her songs with a dramatic intensity more like that of Barbra Streisand. At 19, Liza Minnelli is a star-to-be, a performer of arresting presence who does not merely occupy the stage but fills...
Wednesday, April 28 "MY NAME IS BARBRA" (CBS, 9-10 p.m.)* The first of Streisand's long-awaited specials - and as close to compulsory viewing as TV showbiz ever gets. Highlights include a madly chic fashion number in deserted Bergdorf Goodman, introduced by Fanny Brice's old song Second-Hand Rose. For those who lamented its exclusion from Funny Girl, Barbra belts out My Man. The show has everything -namely, Barbra Streisand...
...like Mata Hari, or suddenly taking a Spanish caprice to dance all over Bergdorf's minks. It sounds like Breakfast at Bergdorf's but its real title is My Name Is Barbra, an hourlong, one-girl, CBS-TV special this week. The taped show is also Barbra Streisand's way of saluting her first year in Broadway's smash hit, Funny Girl, and her own 23rd birthday. It is the most enchanting, tingling TV hour of the season...
Names flew like a cast of characters. Had CBS paid $15,000 for the leopard coat that Actress Barbra Streisand wears in this week's CBS spectacular? No. Had CBS ordered the firing of Manager Yogi Berra when it bought control of the New York Yankees? No. Did CBS intend to enclose Yankee Stadium with a dome similar to Houston's new Astrodome? Emphatically no. Had CBS bought Comedian Jackie Gleason's $300,000 circular home as "a reducing spa for tired executives?" No, said Paley, it had bought the house to "induce Mr. Gleason to stay...
Whatever happened to Barbra Streisand, 22, the girl in the feather boa, the late suffragette dress, and whatever else was handy to "match"? For one thing, she's making about $5,000 a week in Funny Girl, which is enough to enrich anyone's tastes. Then CBS decided to show her all dressed up in its TV musical My Name Is Barbra late in April and marched her off to Manhattan's Bergdorf-Goodman for fitting and filming. She tried on a $15,000 Somali leopard coat-and liked it! Next came a mink-lined velvet robe...