Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Streisand Sucks - The way we were

"Barbara Streisand is the sort of thing that starts Pogroms."

Censored line from Simon's New Leader review of "The way we were"

Other comments/reviews:

When Miss Streisand labors to appear sensitive and vulnerable, she cannot conquer our impression that, were she to collide with a Mack truck, it is the truck that would drop dead. And, as always, I am repelled by her looks; by the receding brow and the overcompensatory nose, which, unlike Cleopatra's in Pascal's famous dictum, would not, even if it were shorter, change the face of the earth — merely blot out a smaller part of it. Only very plain women, in their wish-fulfillment fantasies, could accept without flinching the dashing Robert Redford's passion for, and bedroom scenes with, Barbra Streisand.
(John Simon, National Review)

The Burt Lancaster Award that goes to the actor or actress whose performance most completely depends upon hair styling. This award is to be shared by Miss Streisand's hairdresser for The Way We Were.
(Vincent Canby, New York Times)

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