Word: streisands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love and hate a city so crazily go-go that three different, colossally theme-park-like casino-hotels (the $375 million Luxor, Steve Wynn's $475 million Treasure Island and now the $1 billion MGM Grand, the largest hotel on earth and the venue last weekend for Barbra Streisand's multimillion- dollar return to live, paid performing) have opened on the Strip in just the past three months? How can you not love and hate a city so freakishly democratic that at a hotel called the Mirage, futuristic-looking infomercial star Susan Powter and a premodern Mennonite family can pass...
...Aladdin." In deciding on a persona for the housekeeping job Miranda advertises, he and his make up-wizard brother (Harvey Fierstein) run through a list of accents and outfits in a ridiculous procession a la "Aladdin" 's "Friend Like Me." After ranging from a Russian babushka to Barbra Streisand, he settles down as the matronly, English accented Euphegenia Doubtfire, and the movie's triumph is that Williams is convincing in this role. While it is still rather odd that Miranda experiences deja vu only at the film's outset, and the children never suspect him, the complete transformation that Williams...
...Mind." The fact that these two songs are out-and-out `torch singing' shouldn't come as too much of a surprise considering the amazing blend of influences Adams mixes. Hers is a rich sound, drawing on the legacies of people from Billie Holiday to Anita Baker and Barbara Streisand...
...became the moviegoing teenagers of the '60s and '70s, however, Hollywood's output of musicals shrank radically, and the genre had its last hurrah as an effectively two-woman industry: there were Julie Andrews musicals (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Thoroughly Modern Millie), and there were Barbra Streisand musicals (Funny Girl, Hello, Dolly!, Funny Lady), and that was about it. Grease, a distant 15 years ago, was the last traditional movie musical to become...
...wrong for Janet Reno to have dinner with Barbra Streisand? Do celebrities only support causes as an attempt to boost their popularity...