The Way We Were

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by David

Matters are not helped by Barbra Streisand's performance. Sydney Pollack, the director, has tried to tone down her brashness & shrillness, but has hardly made a dent in that basic pugnacious charmlessness that is beyond redemption. The difficulty is that even when Miss Streisand labors to appear sensitive & vulnerable, she cannot conquer our impression that, were she to collide with a Mack truck, it is the truck that would drop dead. And, as always, I am repelled by her looks; by the receding brow & the overcompensatory nose, which, unlike Cleopatra's in Pascal's famous dictum, would not, even if it were shorter, change the face of the earth -- merely blot out a smaller part of it.

--John Simon reviewing "The Way We Were," January 1974

Hew missed the point, which was KKKKattie could not overcome these very faults, though she tried in an effort to make her realtionship with Hubble work, which failed. Interestingly and IMO brilliantly, though still a politicla advocate, when she interacts with Hubble in the last scene, KKKAtie was finally subdued, but not enough and in anyu event it was too late, which I think was the point of the story.