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...SECOND BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM (Columbia) is just as good as the first, which is saying plenty. Lapses in pitch and occasionally blunt imitations of Lena Home can be quickly forgiven in eleven unusual interpretations by the most intelligent young singer around...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Season premiere of a new Bob Hope series. Guests are Dean Martin, James Garner, Barbra Streisand, Tuesday Weld and Les Brown and his Band of Renown...
...waterfall, a whip-cracking villain, a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman tied to a tree, and the heroine (Mary Martin) fighting off savage coolies with a baby in her arms (Oct. 17). The life of Fanny Brice has also been turned into a musical called Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand singing a score by Jule Styne...
When Barbra Streisand talks, she gets lost in the trackless deserts of her burgeoning vocabulary. "Creativity is like a part of perversion," she will begin, "like a thing that goes inward for emotion, not responsively, because intellect is bad for what I do." Such thoughts always bring her to a helpless "Know what I mean?" And no one ever does. But when she sings, everyone knows exactly what she means; even with a banal song, she can hush a room as if she really had something worth saying...
Playing a garment-district secretary named Miss Marmelstein who has all the sex appeal of an eight-day-old bagel, Actress Barbra Streisand, 20, is about the only bargain in the Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale. So having arrived at star status, she felt compelled to utter a few words on her Method that would make Stanislavsky spin. "It has to be a little false to show the truth," she told a New York Post reporter. "Like I used to wear my hair down for a show, and they couldn't see my eyes, they...