Barbra Streisand, Penpal

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I AM looking 4 a penpal maybe uk/dutch punx; girls welcome . i learned this one the bad way"

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I AM looking 4 a penpal maybe uk/dutch punx; girls welcome . i learned this one the bad way"

ralpie in rotterdam at hotmail dot com

looking for ht punx and acool meetup sight

― ralph, Monday, August 6, 2007 3:12 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

Yentl. this fucking movie.

Starbucks partnership.

Feels more right to post here than on a William Wyler thread...Saw Funny Girl for the first time ever tonight. Theatre was 2/3 full, so that was nice. (Two-thirds minus the one guy--obviously dealing with mental illness--who was removed five minutes into the film.) I enjoyed it--dragged a bit the last half-hour, but the final number was good. I knew many of the songs from Streisand's first best-of; I assume they to came to her via the musical, not that the musical was based around cover versions she'd already made famous (if that makes sense). I've always loved "People," but in the context of the film, I'd say "Don't Rain on My Parade" was the highlight. (Made me think of Annette Bening's version in American Beauty.) I don't expect to be a late-in-life convert to musicals--not going to happen--but I did like it. Felt a weird nostalgia...not for Fanny Brice's time, but but for that moment in the late '60s that's pitched between the world that's about to become really important to me (rock music, the New Hollywood--I was seven) and the world I was actually born into: big-budget Broadway adaptations, Nat King Cole and Jackie Gleason and Red Skelton, the last gasp of the pre-Elvis world.

i’m reading Barbra’s memoir & it is really something else

i am really enthralled by the way it’s written the combination of a strong, undeniable voice with such an intense sense of self blended with her almost quite dotty asides & digressions, self deprecation, humor, anger, regret

i just recently read Shelley Winters memoirs and the way she shields herself from difficult memories is obvious, and aggrandizes her motivations - v common & almost expected in a memoirs

but Barbra seems to welcomes the negative at times: like the long & quite cruel letter that Arthur Laurent wrote her about her first album - she includes huge sections of it, and even says she agreed with him on parts of it, but that it still hurt her.

or the details of how Sydney Chaplin treated her onstage during Funny Girl after she broke off their affair & how it started her stage fright.

anyway… barely 200 pages in but it is pretty fucking magnificent & i highly recommend to anyone curious about it. i’m only a very casual fan and am already won over completely.