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His uncle is John Richardson.
According to imdb he was married to Bond girl Martine Beswick.

Updated On: 3/15/05 at 02:29 AM

Hey, you're up to speed then!

Say hi to my uncle John! I've yet to buy it. I hated it so much; but I really should get it. And, besides, in a world where I find so many things mediocre to lousy, it may look really good to me, now!

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Note of Trivia: ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (the stage version) began as a colloboration between Richard Rodgers and Alan Jay Lerner under the title I PICKED A DAISY.

Production got far enough along that they even signed Barbara Harris for lead, until the ultimate quarrel between Rodgers & Lerner broke up the partnership.

They argued over who had the rights to "reincarnation musical" like a divorcing couple fighting over a summer home.


FINALLY, Rodgers get fed up with the pickering and handed project over to Lerner.

IMO, musical demonstrates Lerner's inability to come up with musicals with well-constructed, well-shaped plots that move show along at proper place.

The only TRUE hits of Lerner (BRIGADOON, MY FAIR LADY, CAMELOT) were based on material from other sources.


And I'm also sorry to rain on everybody's parade, but BOTH the stage and film versions of ON A CLEAR DAY lost money. As a matter of fact, ON A CLEAR DAY was the last time Streisand appeared in a film musical until FUNNY LADY, I believe...

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Updated On: 4/2/05 at 08:53 PM

BIG dissapointment - NO EXTRAS ON THE DVD.

NONE of the cut numbers ("Who Is There Among Us Who Knows?", "Wait Until We're Sixty Five" and "E.S.P."), Jeez!

Oh well. It's Barbra, Beaton & Vincente Minelli and eye-popping Technicolor, so its still pretty fabulous!

Cabaret singer Natalie Douglas (who sang a bunch of "Clear Day" songs in her act last year) notes that "when I was younger, I wanted a bedrtoom just like Daisys with matching wallpaper, bed-covers and pajamas!"

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Much like she does in FUNNY GIRL, I find that Barbra Streisand comes off mentally retarded in ON A CLEAR DAY... A fact, in and of itself, with which I have no issue. However, I don't recall, in either film, that the character is suppose to be mentally retarded. So, her acting that way is somewhat odd. Also, her singing, of the title number in particular, makes my blood run cold. More like screaming and yelling, than actual singing. I find her to be one of the worst actresses and most annoying screen personalities who's ever lived, making it, almost impossible for me to even consider watching this film, again. Can someone explain what it is about her that you find so appealing? Although, as much as I find her miscast in DOLLY, she doesn't, particularly, bother me in that film.

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Well, Glebb, that's true. But since I find her so unappealing, I was just hoping for a more personal analysis of what you or anyone finds appealing about her.

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and.
on.
a.
clear day.

on a clear day

you can see

forever

and

ever

and ever

and

eeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeeer

mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooore!!!!!!

Oy!

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Just leave Barbra at home! Her voice makes me want to drive off the road. Where are we going?

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i really really really really miss the singing of S S Bernard Cohn

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I had a lousy trip.