Streisand's Guilty Pleasures
 

did anyone pay this album a listen?
i donnow yet whether i'm too lazy or just too embarrassed to try the rest of it, but i find Night Of My Life to be completly irresistible, so i guess i'm gonna have to try the whole thing. i fear that if i find the album decent, my parents may respect my musical taste....brrrrrr......... :p

I thought we were going to talk about her reading the tabloids and eating chocolates or something by the title of this thread. :sorry: :laugh:

She enjoys angel food cake with Cool Whip. That's what she told Martha Stewart anyway. :p As long as she still sounds terrific, I will buy her albums. :nod:

I'm afraid I'll have to pass, Tommer.

But I did just buy a batch of CDs at Tower:

Tallis - Spem in alium, Oxford Camerata (Naxos)
Ravel - Works for Solo Piano, Jean-Philippe Collard (EMI)
Carter - Symphony No. 1, Piano Concerto, Mark Wait & Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Naxos American Classics)
Martin Denny - Quiet Village & The Enchanted Sea (Scamp)
Mystic Moods Orchestra - One Stormy Night (HDS)

The Naxos American Classics series is outstanding, by the way, & I recommend all of you look into it.

It's a very good album, Barry and Barbra are some combination!

You know, I love Barbara's voice, if only she wasnt such a MEGA-BITCH. :( I remember when I was in Vegas for Stevie's millenium show, Barbara was playing the MGM acroos the street, and someone told me she actually had it written into her contract that any employee of the hotel that looked her in the eye was to be fired. I dont have proof of this, but I heard it from several people that day. If it's true, that tops anything else I've heard.

I've been a huge fan since 94 and just got this album last night and it is pure BUTTAH! I love it. There are also remixes for Night of My Life coming out. I have them and they are awesome. My favorites are Above the Law, Hideaway, Stranger In A Strange Land and All the Children. A superb album. I've listened to it nonstop today at work.

I'll have to get the remixes to you if you like the album version. They are awesome.

I wouldn't mind having those too.

I'll see if I can put them on YOUSENDIT later tonight or the weekend.

your sig is so beautiful. Don't know if its new, or if I just never noticed it before.

I wonder if among the Gulity Pleasures listed as songs are :

Gold Plated TP stand in my trailer

Belittling film crew members

Terrorizing stage crews in Vegas

:laugh:

I kinda feel sorry for Mrs Babs, Jimmy Brolin. But he's the perfect mate for her. Whata wuss. :laugh:

I highly doubt Babs feels guilty about taking pleasure in any of those things. :laugh:

Yeah, but Barry Gibb might....... :laugh:

I'd add firing one of the best living cinematographers cause he didn't want to use pathetically obvious filters to film her in The Mirror Has Two Faces.

Even if I liked Yentl (yes, also her surreal choice to play a twenty-something :p ) and I think when she wants she can be a very good actress besides an amazing (but sometimes too technical for my tastes) singer.

Romy

If I remember right, referring back to her New Year's Eve 1999 appearance at MGM in Vegas, I believe her tickets were a uniform $1,500 for the entire arena and it sold out alomst immideately. I dont care if I like her personally or not, that's impressive. :nod:

K, thanks. :)

No one has lived until they've seen her Oscar-baiting, over-the-top turn in "Nuts." She was acting for those in the nosebleed section of the theater in that flick.

I really enjoyed her last album, The Movie Album, although some complained that it was to "dull". I guess you just have to be able to appreciate the soothing arrangements and style of that album.

Here's a question for al you Barbara fans out there. Did she really rig the system in '68 so she could share the best actress oscar with Kate Hepburn. I havent heard too much about this, and would appriciate some info.

It was a rather strange picture; I guess the title describes it well. I did find her performance to be wonderful. I just could have gone for a better ending.

Fug, she stunk up the screen in that movie. Dreyfuss and Streisand, the gruesome twosome of overacting, in a movie together. Have mercy. I saw the theater version of it and it's much better in that from than on the screen; a filmed version gives the actors too much leeway to delve into hysterical hyperacting.

I suppose so; I guess it just depends on how you look at it. Her acting in The Prince of Tides IMO is her best on screen, not to mention her best as a director.

You mean her return to the world a la Tony Manero? Martin Ritt should have put some kind of Busby Berkeley number there with Richard Dreyfuss, the judge and the jury dancing at her feet while she was rising to the sky singing. :D

Romy

Oh GOD not Busby Berkley, that man was horrible!

My favourite scene is when she's stoned in her jail and Richard Dreyfuss goes to speak to her, and for the first tme they don't shout for the whole time, that's beautifully acted IMO. By the way, I don't hate Nuts, Leslie Nielsen playing the bad guy is fun to watch.

Oh, Romy. :lol: :lol: :lol:

I've never seen another movie dripping with so much self-love and ego in my life. Every frame is laboriously set up to make her, a frumpy Jewish woman under the impression that she's a walking goddess, appear as if she's the most glamorous of movie stars; as if the heavens parted just so that a ray of light could shoot down upon her being, illuminating her for the world to see. The gauze shots are enough to make one think that they downed a few bottles of heavy liquor that they never actually did, and the heavy-handed treatment of the subject matter coupled with her insatiable quest for mass adoration make one feel as if they're being conned, emotionally and aesthetically.

Never mind that Nick Nolte was anally raped as a child, no, she doesn't care about any of that; it is not essential to the story being told. The only thing that she wants to get across, and does she ever hammer into your head, is that she's a complicated character. Yes, Babs is complicated. She has enormous wealth, a fabulous career, and Elliot Gould's spawn. Of course, we already know what a complicated character she is, anyway. We're simply confused about which character while we're watching it: Barbra Streisand or the one she's playing in the movie?

That's one of the ones that I can't stand! I actually fell asleep halfway through.

Papa Can you Hear me?...

I wanted him to just shout down from the heavens...

YES ALREADY I CAN HEAR YOU! NOW SHUT UP!

As far as I know there were big pressures but I'm not sure she was directly responsible of them, or the studio that was anxious to create an international star. But Garson Kanin (director of Funny Girl theatre version and one of the best Hepburn's and Tracy's friends, till he wrote the infamous book about the two actors' love story that made Hepburn furious), played a strategical role to make Kate Hepburn accept the split Oscar, even if she didn't go, but that was mainly for the too recent Spencer Tracy's death. At least that's how I know the thing.

Romy

Pauline Kael did NOT retire. She lives in Boston. She is masquerading as a young interior designer who calls himself Josh.

:laugh:

Now THAT is one whopping compliment. I'm blushing.

this is one of her best, most underappreciated roles

Barbra is amazing. Funny Girl and Prince of Tides and The Way We Were...she is a one-of-a-kind and her talent is endless. No one can sway me otherwise.

shes on primetime right now....candid interview

I think she's an incredibly gifted singer, but as an actress? Blech. I don't care for her much. I was half expecting her to grow feathers and squawk in "Nuts."

I don't like to see things with her in them because I don't like to look at her. :) I've never heard a song by her that I like, either. Nice review, by the way, Diss. :wavey:

Awwww! I am kinda sorry to hear that. I would recommend seeing "What's Up Doc?" with Ryan O'Neal and Babs. It's utterly hysterical and she's at her most beautiful in it. I do say, she's NOT ageing well, and yet, she got her HUNK. She got Brolin! YUM! And my 2 favorite albums of hers are "Songbird" and "Superman." Maybe you'll give these a try sometime?!

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LOVE "What's Up Doc?"!!!!

Yeah, no. about the albums. Maybe the movie. I thought she looked okay cute with the curly hair in that one movie. Yes, Brolin is a hunk. Hmm...I'd probably be way more inclined to watch her in a movie then listen to the music. And you can forget me watching a musical right now. :)