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Barbra Streisand: Funny Girl
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During her extensive film career, Barbra Streisand has taken on many roles both in front of and behind the camera. She served as a producer on A Star Is Born (1976) as well as co-starring with Kris Kristofferson. She even wrote some of the music for the film and won an Academy Award for “Evergreen” along with Paul Williams for Best Original Song. Stretching her talents even further, Streisand produced, directed, co-wrote, and starred in Yentl (1983), the tale of a girl who pretends to be a boy to study religion. She ... directed, produced, and starred in Prince of Tides (1991) with Nick Nolte as well as The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) with Jeff Bridges and Lauren Bacall.
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Boisterous call girl Barbra Streisand moves into the apartment of her neighbor, shy bookstore clerk George Segal, after his complaints about her "practice" get her evicted. Fast-paced romantic comedy, scripted by Buck Henry from the hit Broadway play... stars Robert Klein, Alan Garfield; look for porn star Marilyn Chambers (aka Evelyn Lang) as Klein's girlfriend. 96 min. Standard and Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai; filmographies; theatrical trailers.
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Barbra Streisand can lend the proper panache to just about anything, from a presidential inauguration bash to a Brooklyn bris. On Friday she was given the unenviable task of ushering in the largest hotel in the world in a venue about as singer-friendly as a boxing ring. In a historic concert, the Funny Girl forced herself through opening-night jitters to show why she can still enthrall an audience even with a sub-par perf.
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Legendary singer and entertainer Barbra Streisand performs before an adoring crowd of 150,000 in Central Park in this concert that originally aired on CBS. Filmed in 1968 -- the same year Streisand earned the Best Actress award at both the Oscars and Golden Globes for her role as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl -- this concert showcases the diva performing such signature songs as "He Touched Me," "People" and "Second Hand Rose."
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In addition to her singing career, Streisand won an Academy Award in 1968 for her first film, Funny Girl. And more recently she co-starred in Meet The Fockers with Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman. She’s won Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, Tonys, Golden Globes and a whole bunch of other awards you’ve probably never heard of. And if you want to see her in concert, Gotickets has your Barbra Streisand 2006 tour tickets.
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With these performances Streisand became respected and sought after for work in film and television, while still being the number one female singer throughout the '60s and '70s. Her first starring film role was a 1968 adaptation of Funny Girl, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. From there she went on to do more comedies, musicals and dramas. Her directorial debut came in 1983 with the film Yentl, winning the Golden Globe for Best Director and Best Picture.
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