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...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...
...CLOWN AND WAIF. This is the particular province of the U.S. musical theater. Every female superstar launched on the American stage in the past decade has been cast as a clown or a waif. Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut as the office-girl clown, Miss Marmelstein. in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, and graduated to the Fanny Brice clown in Funny Girl. Liza Minnelli enjoyed her first solid success as a waif in Flora, the Red Menace, and has now gone on to fame as Sally Bowles, the waif of waifs in the film Cabaret...
...delivered straight to the audience, reminiscent of Lauren Bacall's opening in Applause. She is the continually frustrated joker, reminiscent of Gary Lewis's hit Everybody Loves A Clown. Finally she's stuck with a dramatic role frankly reminiscent of The Edge of Night. Riddle it all with Barbara Streisand and you have The Bull Gets The Matador Once In A Lifetime. For a first production of an original play by a young author and a dewy cast it covers awfully familiar terrain...
Facing the prospect of directing his first American superstar, Barbra Streisand, in a film biography of Sarah Bernhardt, Russell says he finds all his movies equally nerve racking: "There is really no difference between nuns with no clothes on and tap dancers in goggles. It is all material...
Born. To Elliott Gould, 33, Hollywood anti-hero and ex-spouse of Barbra Streisand; and Jenny Bogart, 19, his girl friend; their first child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Molly...