Description: Yes we combine shipping for most multiple item purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1969 Barbra Streisand Funny Girl - 2-Page Vintage Hollywood Gossip Article Original, vintage magazine articlePage Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each pageCondition: Good Before she ever stepped foot on a sound stage,Barbra was considered the greatest new star of thedecade. She was a smash on records, in night-clubs,in concert, on TV specials. Her Funny Girl played toSRO on Broadway and in London. But it wasn’tenough. No matter how famous she was before shewas signed to play Fanny Brice in the film version ofFunny Girl, she wasn't satisfied with her fame. “Beinga movie star,” she said repeatedly, "is what beinga star is all about.” And after the gala New Yorkpremiere of Funny Girl, she was indeed a movie star.Critics were unanimous in heralding her performance.Life magazine raved: “She is a remarkable phenome-non and she makes Funny Girl work, single-handed.She’s always going for a personal triumph and there-fore runs the risk of person failure. The thrill of herperformance derives from watching her pursue thisgoal by taking leaps into what may be an unknownas invisible to her as it is to us. I have no doubtshe calculates these effects as a high-wire walkercalculates those nonlethal missteps that bring gaspsfrom his watchers below. But who cares? The point isthat the thrill is there—and so are the laughs. Sheis one of the few genuinely funny girls at work today—not in the funny-dumb screwball tradition that hassustained most comediennes but in an earthier tra-dition, shrewder, more sentimental, more human.”Unfortunately some of Barbra's co-workers onFunny Girl considered her anything but human.According to Joyce Haber, writing for New YorkMagazine, Barbra was a “full-fledged girl monster whoall but took over her first movie, rewriting the dialogue,walking off the set to register displeasure and treatingdirector William Wyler, 65, and a three time Oscarwinner, 13 time nominee, like 'a butler' when shewasn’t battling with him.”Wyler, himself, played it cool. “Barbra can do any-thing,” he said. And she does it a half-dozen differentways which makes my job easier. She's not the mostrelaxed person in the world, but neither am I. Sheworried about everything. I think that’s fine. Lots ofpeople don't worry about anything, but I’d rather haveher worry too much than too little.”While waiting to see if Funny Girl would indeedmake her "the greatest star” Barbra was kept occu-pied in the multi-million dollar production of Hello,Dolly! Once again there were reports of her tempera-ment. For a time there was a full-fledged feud betweenher and co-star Walter Matthau. But once again whatmatters most to her was what came out on film.Still she was hurt by the scathing press reports.“It upsets me,” she admitted, “to be judged bypeople who don’t even know me. It confuses me. I’mdeeply disturbed at the thought that the public mayget a distorted idea about the kind of person I am.I am afraid they may think I’m some kind of terriblemonster. I’m not. If I were it would show on thescreen. But when you are a star you are an opentarget—and the bigger the star, the bigger the target.”This was the year that Barbra took her place highamong the biggest stars on the screen. And an Oscarnomination is a certainty. After Hello, Dolly! there’sslight chance that she’ll topple from her lofty position.As a target, she’ll simply have to endure the slingsand arrows of outrageous good fortune... 13480-AL-1969-55
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