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...allowed to see President Streisand's right profile...
Summer is the season, it seems, for hawking history's private treasures. Up for bid this month are knickknacks from the estates of Kate Hepburn and Doris Duke, as well as some 400 items from Barbra Streisand's collection of costumes and memorabilia from her career. And for boat buffs, a New York City auction includes the biggest lot of Titanic remnants ever assembled, plus relics from other sunken ships like the Lusitania and the Andrea Doria...
...Encores! "Carnival" two seasons back. Pinkins was a sensaysh as the lead in the 2001 "House of Flowers." Of the two "Wicked" witches, Chenoweth (who plays Glinda, the blond one) had two splendid Encores! turns, in "Strike Up the Band" in 1998 and in the Barbara Harris-Barbra Streisand role in "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" two years later; and Menzel (Elphaba, the green one) belted out "Easy to Be Hard" in the "Hair" revival of 2001. As for Murphy, she headlined Encores!' 2000 revival of "Wonderful Town," and is repeating her role on the Hirschfeld Theatre...
...many as 50 musicals might open each year; now the typical number is five. Performers thus have few opportunities to be employed, let alone become stars. Nobody these days graduates from Broadway musicals to mainstream celebrity, as Fred Astaire, Bob Hope, Julie Andrews, Streisand and dozens of others did. Why would any young person would want to be part of this antique, dead-end genre? It's like dreaming of becoming a hat blocker or a Yiddish scholar. What kid in the hinterlands would even know that a clear, crisp Broadway vocal style exists, when "American Idol" teaches that...
...male actors need a little bit of fascism to make them attractive." She has been seduced by the camera wizardry of Bob Fosse and Bertolucci, and turned off by the supposed machismo of Straw Dogs. She has also gone bananas over movies just because they have been vehicles for Streisand...