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I finally caved and watched this film for the first time a few weeks ago. Weak in every department. How I missed Barbara Harris every time Streisand opened her mouth. Though the stage show is pretty much just as uneven, scriptwise, as the film, the score has its delights, especially as heard on the OBCR. The film was overlong, poorly written, and Streisand's British accent had me bewildered.

I thougt I read a few years back that someone like Paula Vogel was working on revising it. Or was she just doing work on the ENCORES concert version?

I really think the show is salvagable. Did Burton Lane ever write a bad score?

Blasphemy darling!

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Loved it, too, Glebb. Didn't you once name a pet for one of the characters?

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My opinions:

1. As with many films in this period, its creators were past their prime: Alan Jay Lerner, Vincente Minnelli.
2. No one cared about traditional musicals in 1970
3. Barbra was wonderful considering what she was given. Instead of Yves Montand her costar should have been Richard Burton.
4. The scenes where she is at the orphanage are wickedly funny.
Her ability with accents is just as good as overrated Meryl. And her perfs of the title song, He Isn't You, and What Did I Have are great. The latter suffers from poor staging.

And any film with Elaine Giftos is worth the price of admission. :)

I blame Barbra though re the DVD; why couldn't she and Liza find the cut scenes, put them in, and for fun, talk about them. But 'fun' is no longer in Barbra's vocabulary.

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how did i miss Elaine Giftos?!!!?
Elaine Giftos rules!

In my storage space I have some LP's . I have a series of 3 which feature cut songs from obscure & not so obscure musicals. On one of them is a cut song sung by Jack Nicholson in On A Clear Day. Next time I am over there I will take a look & tell one & all the title of the song - not sure if part of the original score or a new one written for the movie & not used.

While on the subject of Nicholson in a Babs movie, how about a musical retelling of The Shining with Babs doing the Shelly Duvall part? She could break into song while Jack tries to take a meat cleaver to her

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Welcome back Millie Lammoreaux!
I've miss you!
Please don't stay away for long.

The film is great.
The Pavillion at Brighton scene is gorgeous.
Vincent was best at decorating sets.

Oh yes Millie, I did name that poor little dog after Lord Percy.

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Assume the song in question was written for the film. I really have to pull these 3 LP's out & see what else might be on them

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