Word: streisands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Barbra Streisand, her macaw manner and self-congratulatory cuteness are displayed here to the usual excess...
...action rebounds off a totally deranged romance between a muddled musicologist (Ryan O'Neal) and a dizzy perennial student (Barbra Streisand...
...There is this prejudice against actresses," fumed Barbra Streisand. "They're supposed to look pretty and read their lines, then shut up and go home." Filming a movie called Up the Sandbox, Barbra got herself deeper into her role of an identity-searching housewife by offering some qualified support for Women's Lib: "Job opportunities, yes. Abortion, yes. But there should also be a time for mothering. If a woman chooses to stay home and be a wife and mother, she shouldn't be put down for that. A good mother is a fantastic creation." That said...
What's Up, Doc?, Bogdanovich again, this time directing Ryan O'Neal and Barbara Streisand. Sack 57, 10:15, 12, 1:45, 3:30, 5:15, 7, 8:45, 10:15, Sundays...
...Minnelli is simply another victim of a double standard that remains anachronistically true of today's movies: while actors who aren't conventionally handsome--Alan Arkin. Dustin Hoffman. Eliot Gould--are permitted to admit to a certain degree of sexual attractiveness, actresses who aren't conventionally beautiful--Minnelli. Barbra Streisand--must play it strictly for laughs. (And meanwhile, the irony of it is that the "conventionally" attractive actor or actress is no longer in particular demand...