Streisand: Her Life (124 page)

Some of the details of the production of
The Belle of 14th Street
were gleaned from the October 1967 issue of
Monsanto
magazine and the May 20, 1967, issue of
Business Week
.

Martha Weinman Lear’s observations of the preparations for “A Happening in Central Park” were published in
Redbook,
January 1968. Karen Swenson’s article “The Making of Funny Girl” in
Barbra Quarterly
provided information. Joyce Haber’s article, “Barbra’s Directing Her First Movie,” appeared in
New York
magazine on Apri
l 1
5, 1968. Some of Barbra’s quotes in this section are from “The Kosher Kid from Brooklyn.” published in the London
Sunday Times Magazine
,
January 12, 1969.

Several of Walter Matthau’s quotes are contained in the article “Matthau in Full Flower” published in the December 1968 issue of
Esquire
.
Herb Ross’s observations were shared with the author of this book for
Billboard
December 10, 1983.

PART 4

Major interviews conducted for this section were with Steve Jaffe, Austin Pendleton, Stefan Gierasch, Jerry Schatzberg, Howard Koch Jr., Moss Mabry, Harry Stradling Jr., Bradford Dillman, Viveca Lindfors, and Jack Roe.

The quotes fro
m Rich
ard Perry, Buck Henry, Irvin Kershner, and Peter Yates are from 1980 interviews with the author of this book, as are some of Arthur Laurents’s. Some of the quotes from Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack are from 1976 interviews with the author of this book. Other quotes from Pollack and Laurents are fro
m
the Donald Zec and Anthony Fowles biography
Barbra
.

Background about the
ma
king of
Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments
was obtained from Jerry Parker’s
Newsday
article, “She’d Rather Stay Home,” published October 28, 1973, and from Peter Genower’s profile published in the
London Sunday Times
on December 16, 1973.

Many of Jon Peters’s quotes are from interviews by Julia Orange published in Australia in 1974, Rosalie Shann published in Great Britain in 1975, and Jerry Parker published in
Newsday
in 1976. Some of Barbra’s quotes are from
McCall’s
,
April 1975.

Gary Klein’s quotes about
ButterFly
were published in
Billboard’s
special Streisand issue published December 10, 1983.

PART 5 AND PART 6

Major interviews for these sections were with Jerry Schatzberg, Jonathan Axelrod, Steve Jaffe, Marta Heflin, Ralph Sandler, Joe
Kern,
Trudy Coleman, Ruth White, Leonard Kohn, Richard Gordon, Robert Brown, and David Watkin.

Details of the various court actions against Jon Peters are preserved in the Los Angeles court system’s public archives.

Marie Brenner’s article “A Star Is Shorn” was published in the January 24,

1975, issue of
New Times
.
Frank Pierson’s article “My Battles with Barbra and Jon” was published in
New West
and
New York
magazines on November 15,

1976. Barbra’s
Playboy
interview appeared in the October 1977 issue.

Some of the quotes from Barbra and Jon about
A Star Is Born
were given to a UCLA symposium conducted in December 1976.

The quotes
from Ba
rry Gibb were contained in the December 10, 1983,
Billboard
issue devoted to Streisand and in an interview with Mikki Dorsey published in the
Toronto Star
on October 20, 1980 conducted by the author of this book. A number of the quotes from Marilyn and Alan Bergman were also culled from the
Billboard
Streisand issue.

Barbra’s observations about
Yentl
were gleaned from interviews during the fall of 1983 and the spring of 1984 with Gene Shalit on the TV show
Today
;
Dale Pollack of the
Los Angeles Times
;
Chaim Potok in
Esquire
;
Geraldo Rivera on
20/20
;
Brian Linehan on
City Lights
in Canada; Ian Johnston on the BBC in London; with the French television show
Ala Une
;
and with the Dutch television show
Coupe de Weijden
.

Barbra’s quotes about
D
on Jo
hnson are contained in an interview with David Lewin published in the London
Daily Mail
.
Don’s observations about Barbra were shared with Terry Willows and published in
London Today
.

The observations by Barbra, Nick Nolte, Pat Conroy, and Jason Gould about
The Prince of Tides
were gleaned from various sources, including the Criterion laser disc edition of the film and interviews in the
Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Ladies’ Home Journal, Empire
magazine,
US
magazine, and t
elevisi
on interviews aired in London and Amsterdam during the spring of 1992.

The quotes from Amy Moss about her relationship with Andre Agassi were published by the London
Sunday Mirror
on June 27, 1993. Agassi’s “faggot” remarks were reported in the November 16, 1993, issue
of The Advocate
.

Some of Barbra’s quotes about the Las Vegas concerts and her tour are from
Vanity Fair
, Nov
ember 1994.

Jonathan Yardley’s column “Miss Marmelstein Goes to Washington” appeared in the
Washington Post
,
the
Los Angeles Times
,
and other newspapers in May 1993. Robert Scheer’s interview with Barbra in the
Los Angeles Times
was published on May 23, 1993.

People
magazine’s cover story “A Star Is Reborn” ran in the May 31, 1993, issue.

PART 7

Sources include Matt Howe’s BarbraArchives.com, the
London Mail
,
The New York Times
, Wikipedia, BroadwayWorld.com, thesmokinggun.com, washingtonpost.com, barbrastreisand.com, billboard.com, ew.com, Entertainment News Service,
McCall’s, People
,
Us
, rottentomatoes.com,
San Francisco Chronicle
, boxoffice.com,

AmericaOnline, BarryGram, the
Los Angeles Times
,
Genre
, about.com, BarbraNews,
USA Today
, the
Washington Post
, examiner.com,
My Passion for Design
, and the
Hollywood Reporter
.

Funny Girl
(Columbia Pictures, 1968
). Directed by William W
yler; produced by Ray Stark; scree
nplay by
Isobel Lennart; musical numbers directed by Herbert Ross; original music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Bob Merrill; photographed by Harry Stradling. Starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice; Omar Sharif as Nick Arnstein; Kay Medford as Rose Brice; Anne Francis as Georgia James; Lee Allen as Eddie Ryan; Walter Pidgeon as Florenz Ziegfeld.

Hello, Dolly!
(Twentieth Century-Fox, 1969). Directed by Gene Kelly; written for the screen and produced by Ernest Lehman; associate producer Roger Edens; music and lyrics by Jerry Herman; photographed by Harry Stradling. Starring Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levi; Walter Matthau as Horace Vandergelder; Michael Crawford as Cornelius Hackl; Marianne McAndrew as Irene Molloy; E. J. Peaker as Minnie Fay; Danny Lockin as Barnaby Tucker.

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
(Paramount Pictures, 1970). Directed by Vincente Minnelli; produced by Howard W. Koch; screenplay and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; music by Burton Lane; photographed by Harry Stradling. Starring Barbra Streisand as Daisy Gamble/Melinda Tentrees; Yves Montand as Dr. Marc Chabot; Jack Nicholson as Tad Pringle; Larry Blyden as Warren Pratt; Bob Newhart as Dr. Mason Hume; John Richardson as Robert Tentrees.

The Owl and the Pussycat
(Columbia Pictures, 1970). Directed by Herbert Ross; produced by Ray Stark; screenplay by Buck Henry based on the play by Bill Manhoff; music by Richard Halligan performed b
y Bloo
d, Sweat & Tears; photographed by Harry Stradling and Andrew Laszlo. Starring Barbra Streisand as Doris Wilgus; George Segal as Felix Sherman; Robert Klein as Barney; Roz Kelly as Eleanor; Allen Gar
field
as Dress Shop Proprietor.

What’s Up, Doc?
(Warner Brothers, 1972). Directed and produced by Peter Bogdanovich; screenplay by Buck Henry and David Newman & Robert Benton from a story by Peter Bogdanovich; photographed by Laszlo Kovacs. Starring Barbra Streisand as Judy Maxwell; Ryan O’Neal as Howard Bannister; Madeline Kahn as Eunice Burns; Austin Pendleton as Fred
erick La
rrabee; Kenneth Mars as Hugh Simon; Mabel Albertson as Mrs. Van Hoskins.

Up the Sandbox
(First Artists, 1972)
.
Direct
ed by Irvin Kershner; produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff; screenplay by Paul Zindel based on the novel by Anne Richardson Roiphe; photographed by Gordon Willis. Starring Barbra Streisand as Margaret Reynolds; David Selby as Paul Reynolds; Ariane Heller as Elizabeth; Terry and Garry Smith as Peter; Paul Benedict as Dr. Beineke; Jane Hoffman as Mrs. Yussim.

The Way We Were
(Columbia Pictur
es, 1973)
. Directed by Sydney Pollack; produced by Ray Stark; screenplay by Arthur Laurents based on his novel; music by Marvin Hamlisch; photographed by Harry Stradling Jr. Starring Barbra Streisand as Katie Morosky; Robert Redford as Hubbell Gardiner; Bradford Dillman asJ.J. Jones; Patrick O’Neal as George Bissinger; Lois Chiles as Carol Ann; Viveca Lindfors as Paula Reisner.

For Pete’s Sake
(Columbia Pictures, 1974).
Direct
ed by Peter Yates; produced by Martin Erlichman and Stanley Shapiro; screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin; photographed by Laszlo Kovacs. Starring Barbra Streisand as Henrietta Robbins; Michael Sarrazin as Pete Robbins; Estelle Parsons as Helen Robbins; William Redfield as Fred Robbins; Molly Picon as Mrs. Cherry; Vivian Bonnell as Loretta.

Funny Lady
(Columbia Pictures, 1975). Directed by Herbert Ross; produced by Ray Stark; screenplay by Jay Presson Allen and Arnold Schulman; original music by John Kander and Fred Ebb; photographed by James Wong Howe. Starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice; James Caan as Billy Rose; Omar Sharif as Nick Arnstein; Roddy McDowall as Bobby; Ben Vereen as Bert Robbins.

A Star Is Born
(Warner Brothers, 1976). Directed by Frank Pierson; produced by Jon Peters; screenplay by John Gregory Dunne & Joan Didion and Frank Pierson; based on a story by William Wellman and Robert Carson; music supervision by Paul
Williams; photographed by Robert Surtees. Starring Barbra Streisand as Esther Hoffman
; Kris Kristofferson as John Norman Howard; Paul Mazursky as Brian Wexler; Gary Busey as Bobby Ritchie; Joanne Linville as Freddie Lowenstein; M. G. Kelly as Bebe Jesus.

The Main Event
(Warner Brothers, 1979). Directed by Howard Zieff; produced by Jon Peters and Barbra Streisand; screenplay by Gail Parent and Andrew Smith; photographed by Mario Tosi. Starring Barbra Streisand a
s Hillar
y Kramer; Ryan O’Neal as Eddie “Kid Natural” Scanlon; Paul Sand as David; Whitman Mayo as Percy; Patti D’Arbanville as Donna Rochester; James Gregory as Leo Gough.

All Night Long
(Universal Pictures, 1981). Directed by Jean-Claude Tramont; produced by Leonard Goldberg and Jerry Weintraub; screenplay by W. D. Richter; photographed by Phillip Lathrop. Starring Gene Hackman as George Dupler; Barbra Streisand as Cheryl Gibbons; Dennis Quaid as Freddie; Kevin Dobson as Bobby Gibbons; Diane Ladd as Helen Dupler.

Yentl
(MGM/UA, 1983). Produced and directed by Barbra Streisand; screenplay by Jack Rosenthal and Barbra Streisand based on the short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer; music by Michel Legrand
; lyri
cs by Marilyn and Alan Bergman; photographed by David Watkin. Starring Barbra Streisand as Ye
ntl/A
nshel; Mandy Patinkin as Avigdor; Amy Irving as Hadass; Nehemiah Persoff as Papa; Steven Hill as Reb Alter Vishkower; Alan Corduner as Shimmele.

Nuts
(Warner Brothers,
1
987).
Directed by Martin Ritt; produced by Barbra Streisand; screenplay by Tom Topor and Darryl Ponicsan and Alvin Sargent based on the play by Tom Topor; music by Barbra Streisand; photographed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. Starring Barbra Streisand as Claudia Draper; Richard Dreyfuss as Aaron Levinsky; Karl Malden as Arthur Kirk; Maureen Stapleton as Rose Kirk; James Whitmore as Judge Stanley Murdoch; Eli Wallach as Dr. Herbert Morrison.

The Prince of Tides
(Columbia Pictures, 1991). Directed by Barbra Streisand; produced by Barbra Streisand and Andrew Karsch; screenplay by Pat Conroy and Becky Johnston based on the novel by Pat Conroy; music by James Newton Howard; photographed by Stephen Goldblatt. Starring Nick N
olte as
Tom Wingo; Barbra Streisand as Dr. Susan Lowenstein; Kate Nelligan as Lila Wingo Newbury; Blythe Danner as S
allie W
ingo; Jason Gould as Bernard Woodruff; Jeroen Krabbé as Herbert Woodruff; Melinda Dillon as Savannah Wingo; George Carlin as Eddie Detreville.

The Mirror Has Two Faces
(Columbia/TriStar, 1996) Directed by Barbra Streisand; produced by Cis Corman, Barbra Streisand, Ronald L. Schwary, Arnon Milchan; written by Richard LaGravanese, based on the screenplay Le Miroir a Deux Faces, by Gerard Oury. Starring Barbra Streisand as Rose Byrne; Jeff Bridges as Gregory Larkin; Lauren Bacall as Hannah Morgan; George Segal as Henry Fine; Mimi Rogers as Claire; Pierce Brosnan as Alex; Brenda Vaccaro as Doris; Austin Pendleton as Barry; Elle Macpherson as Candy.

Meet the Fockers
(Universal 2004 Directed by Jay Roach; produced by Robert De Niro, Jay Roach, Jane Rosenthal; screenplay by Jim Herzfeld, Tim Rasmussen and Vince DeMeglio. Starring Robert De Niro as Jack Byrnes; Ben Stiller as Greg Focker; Dustin Hoffman as Bernie Focker; Barbra Streisand as Roz Fucker; Teri Polo as Pam Byrnes; Blythe Danner as Dina Byrnes; Owen Wilson as Kevin Rawley.

Little Fockers
(Universal 2010) Directed by Paul Weitz, produced by Robert Deniro, Jay Roach, Jane Rosenthal, John Hamburg, Ryan Kavanaugh; screenplay by John Hamburg, Larry Stuckey. Starring Robert De Niro as Jack Byrnes; Ben Stiller as Greg Focker; Dustin Hoffman as Bernie Focker; Barbra Streisand as Roz Fucker; Teri Polo as Pam Byrnes; Blythe Danner as Dina Byrnes; Owen Wilson as Kevin Rawley; Jessica Alba as Andi Garcia; Laura Dern as The Headmistress.

The Guilt Trip
(Paramount, 2012) Directed by Anne Fletcher; produced by Lorne Michaels, John Goldwyn, Evan Goldberg; screenplay by Dan Fogelman. Starring Barbra Streisand as Joyce Brewster; Seth Rogen as Andy Brewster; Yvonne Strahovski as Jessica; Adam Scott as Andrew Margolis, Jr.; Colin Hanks as Rob.