Word: streisands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just may be that Lainie Kazan,* 24, was. When Brooklyn-born Lainie signed on as understudy to Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, she was unsure it would last, and promptly developed an ulcer. But she set to work sandwiching in acting lessons, music lessons and a few TV appearances whenever possible. Twice each week she did the show in the understudy rehearsal, but for ten long months Lainie's opening-night shivers had to wait. Healthy and unhoarse, Streisand never missed a performance...
...Kazan. At the close of each of her two performances, the audience roared its approval. And so a star was born? Not on your tinpanalley. To begin with, though Kazan's looks and style are remarkably similar, she is a lot of work away from being a second Streisand...
...started. That day Manhattan's Basin Street East booked her for a 2½-week run in April. And Colpix Records signed her to do four songs. By last week two or three other offers were in the talk stage. After Kazan's two fill-in stints, Streisand had wired: WE WERE TOLD TREES GROW IN BROOKLYN BUT WE KNOW BETTER. STARS DO. Maybe yes and maybe no. GROW is the operative word. Trees are not simply born either...
...hour variety spectacular featured Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Johnny Carson, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Carol Burnett, Julie Andrews and Carol Channing. Harry Belafonte, wearing one of his custom-made undress shirts, knocked out a Michael Row the Boat Ashore, slipping in a few lines about Mississippi and Alabama. Barbra Streisand belted out Happy Days Are Here Again and People for the folks listening without loudspeakers in Baltimore. Dame Margot Fonteyn and fiery young Rudolf Nureyev stopped the show with a magnificent pas de deux. Singer Bobby Darin dedicated a little number he had just turned out on the train coming...
...Observatory Hill. Barbra Streisand, Doris Day and George Burns stuck to traditional toys, trees and reindeer, avoided writer's cramp by having their signatures engraved within. Playwright Edward Albee, who selected a 16th century woodcut, signed his cards by hand, as did New York Herald Tribune Publisher John H. Whitney, Newsman Chet Huntley and Actress Joan Crawford. Hedda Hopper was even more personal about it all, sent cards bearing her own portrait. Mother Jolie Gabor sent photographs of herself and her daughters, included a lengthy message: "Come and have a glass of champagne with me at my fabulous pearl...