Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-09 (Thursday) Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 17:16:16 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 19:16:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="242b6682f4d6545f5c3df8d169b99dc8"; logging-data="1552519"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+JdWqIGm0MOmrYsMFl4dX2JNMRhkPX4TU=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:0/1p1C1A0qggpkPkptsBqVhRtZw= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2791 Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >On 5/10/2024 8:40 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >>>Funny Girl (TCM) 1968 musical starring Barbra Stresand as a real life >>>singer who rises to fame while falling in love with Omar Sharif. >>While Fanny Brice could sing, she's best known as a comedienne, and on >>radio variety programs (and eventually her own program) later in her >>career as a sketch comic, especially the Baby Snooks character. In the >>sequel movie Funny Lady (1975), they have one brief scene with her radio >>program, which was ridiculous. She had an enormous nationwide audience >>and that's what she was famous for. The sequel was disappointing but has >>a few good songs in it. Barbra didn't want to do the sequel but she was >>already contracted for it. >I rented both movies from Netflix in 2008. I really didn't remember >them, but at the time I rated them 2 stars. >>The "real life singer" is Barbra herself, given that the Broadway >>production (developed by Brice's son-in-law) made Barbra a superstar. >The TCM host mentioned some of this. Apparently the studio didn't want >Barbara but the director fought for her. The son-in-law controlled the rights and got the final say. I think it was the top-grossing movie of 1968, so maybe there was an audience for a very ethnic-looking Jewish girl who could sing and really sell the entertainment while she's performing. It's amazing how little studio executives know about finding an audience. >>. . . >>So, who is playing Barbra, er, Fanny? >Katerina McCrimmon is doing the US National Tour: >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy8_xZ0Lj6g >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia6zsnnfsmc >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3O-HomMpE I hope you have a nice time.