Word: streisands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...horror flick and the private-eye caper have been dusted off with success, screwball comedy was hardly likely to escape. All in the name of homage, Peter Bogdanovich ripped off Bringing Up Baby, called it What's Up Doc? and made himself a hit. Doc also represented Barbra Streisand's initiation into the realm of frenetic comedy...
Certainly no questionable operation has ever matched the star quality of Home-Stake's investor list. Singer Andy Williams' stake ($538,000*) was among the largest, but he had plenty of celebrity company: Alan Alda ($145,000), Mia Farrow (amount unknown), Barbra Streisand ($28,500), Barbara Walters ($28,500), Bob Dylan (who now has $78,000 more reason to sing of capitalist exploitation). New York Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson put up an unknown amount; Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York, $28,500; Federal Judge Murray Gurfein, who wrote the decision in the Pentagon-papers case...
...City, The World's Greatest Athlete), working up to an annual income of $80,000. The total is now soaring like the strings in a climactic moment from one of Hamlisch's scores, as royalties pour in from his own album of Sting music and Barbra Streisand's recording of The Way We Were...
That song was almost scrapped. Hamlisch had written it before the film was shot. When Streisand was ready to make the record four months later, says Hamlisch, "she asked me to compose something more complex." It took lyrical persuasion by the composer to convince the star that simplicity counts...
...first the Caines went their charming, moderately gilded social ways. "Aren't we classy?" they giggled to each other as if they were starring in a movie. When Hollywood did make the movie, Lynn liked to say to her shocked friends, she would absolutely refuse to let Barbra Streisand play her part. In short, Lynn Caine would probably have been the last person to read the book she has now written about the death of her husband and her own survival...