Streisand's Guilty Pleasures - Page 2

Serrart · #16 09-22-2005, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by sparky

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

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

) 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

DavidMn · #17 09-22-2005, 05:31 PM

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.

Brwn_eyes0511 · #18 09-22-2005, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

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

K, thanks.

dissention · #19 09-22-2005, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Serrart

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

) 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

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.

Brwn_eyes0511 · #20 09-22-2005, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

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 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.

DavidMn · #21 09-22-2005, 05:36 PM

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.

Brwn_eyes0511 · #22 09-22-2005, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

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.

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.

dissention · #23 09-22-2005, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511

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.

Brwn_eyes0511 · #24 09-22-2005, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

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.

Serrart · #25 09-22-2005, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511

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.

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.

Romy

Brwn_eyes0511 · #26 09-22-2005, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Serrart

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

Romy

Oh GOD not Busby Berkley, that man was horrible!

Serrart · #27 09-22-2005, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

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.

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.

dissention · #28 09-22-2005, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Serrart

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

Romy

Oh, Romy.

dissention · #29 09-22-2005, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511

Her acting in The Prince of Tides IMO is her best on screen, not to mention her best as a director.

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?

Brwn_eyes0511 · #30 09-22-2005, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

Ah, but Yentl, now that is a guilty pleasure of mine.

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!