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Holy Sh!t Snacks!

I ordered them yesterday and they are here today! That was fast! I guess I'm having a Babs night, tonight!

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^^^She's also wonderfully warm in the film. I can't think of many other performances in musicals that stand out so well WITHOUT singing, dancing or doing broad comedy.

Updated On: 5/8/13 at 06:00 PM

I only know who she was because of FUNNY GIRL, best12. That's pretty memorable for a role that was chopped to bits. But this is just my impression. Obviously, we can and should agree to disagree.

Oh, I don't blame Francis for suing either. I'm just saying she stood out to me in a show where all the supporting roles were pretty much eliminated from the screenplay or cut to bits in the editing bay.

(I was too young to see HONEY WEST and I've only seen FORBIDDEN PLANET once, on black and white TV. I realize the latter is a travesty.)

Updated On: 5/8/13 at 08:10 PM

Really allthatjazz. is that what it says to you? Because to me it screams of someone who was extremely insecure and threatened.

If someone is sure of themselves they don't stoop to those kind of tactics.

You need to re-think your definition of "fierce" and "driven" because those are not the actions of someone who is "fierce" and "driven". Insecure, immature, paranoid and threatened maybe, "fierce" and "driven"...no.

Updated On: 5/8/13 at 08:16 PM

"If someone is sure of themselves they don't stoop to those kind of tactics."

Now Carlos... what is wrong with tactics? She did win a Oscar and the movie was a hit. Whatever she did... it worked. Ms Thing don't tell me you wouldn't have clawed your way to a Oscar either.

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SMDH...Oh lord. You've got to be friggin' kidding me with this, right?

"let her rest in peace as I will this thread."

She'll always be part of the midnight movie crowd, thanks to her mention in the chorus of "Science Fiction Double Feature."

^ PATHETIC. That is all. Good night!

Updated On: 5/8/13 at 08:52 PM

Oh come on Papi. Don't be that way. I love me some Anne Francis. And I love me some Babs. Showbiz is not for pussi*es. LOVE FOR ALL.


"Sadly, you don't make it on talent alone, you also need malice. "

Who said anything about malice?

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Updated On: 5/8/13 at 09:10 PM

So my comments last night did not show up in a lot of threads (thanks, iPad) but my comment was about Barbra's performance in hindsight versus the other nominees. We forget that she and Hepburn for The Lion in Winter tied. Babs took the stage as Hepburn did not show up so it was just her show. Even in hindsight, you can understand why the Academy zeroed in on just those two performances as despite a good field of actresses only Fanny Brice and Queen Eleanor endure as characters (and little to do with the fact they are dramatized versions of real people). Hepburn was in a most stronger movie overall but Streisand needs to be credited with carrying a picture. There are plenty of Best Actress who win for not entirely great movies, credited with the notion that without them the movie would sink. That distinction is almost thrown around too liberally (mostly because of what passes as Oscar-worthy performances) but this is a textbook case of a movie without such a performance sinking to the bottom.

I agree that Hello, Dolly! was a much stronger, more enjoyable movie to watch. That and The Way We Were (followed by A Star is Born, that I found tedious at the age of 8 years old) was my gateway into Barbra Streisand.

As far as those tactics on Streisand and Anne Francis, to me that is an Old Wives tale and I have heard various incarnations of the same story (note it is the star ACTRESS and the supporting player ACTRESS that are always at the center of these rumors). Here are a few I have heard in the same instances:

Kelly McGillis' part in The Accused was cut down in The Accused thanks to Jodie Foster

Christine Lahti's part in Swing Shift was cut down by Goldie Hawn (truth be told everything got cut down with Hawn as a driving force but oddly, Kurt Russell and Holly Hunter both got the short ends of the stick in that case)

Beverly D'Angelo in Coal Miner's Daughter cut down by Sissy Spacek because D'Angelo's turn as Patsy Cline supposedly was the one turning heads in the making

The circumstances of Anne Francis' part being cut are simple. The movie was LONG and SLOW as molasses. How could a newcomer in Streisand have that much sway in an era where the studios knew musicals were popular commercially and critically? Why are we all buying the actually pretty sexist notion that an outspoken female artist was out of control on set and intimidated by any other woman on-screen? Why are we actually believing that William Wyler of all people got pushed around and that he accepted that? Wyler and Editor Raymond Swink denied any charge that Streisand had any say in the final cut.

Updated On: 5/8/13 at 09:25 PM

Agreed. Old wives tales.

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