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One of the most popular movie musicals ever made, Funny Girl follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice - a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar for Best Actress. As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break at Keeney's Music Hall, her .. Read more

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  Broadway's Funny Girl revival postponed

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 04 Nov 2011

  Lauren Ambrose will have to wait to revive Barbra Streisand's iconic character in Funny Girl - the Broadway stage show she was set to star in has been postponed. The Six Feet Under star beat competition from Glee's Lea Michele to land the coveted part of Fanny Brice, played on stage by Streisand in 1964. The production was due to debut in Los Angeles early next year (12), before moving to New York in April (12), but the show's bosses have now announced plans to halt the revival due to... Read more

  

  Streisand is a 'very lazy' actress

  • 17 Dec 2010

  Veteran entertainer Barbra Streisand considers herself to be a "very lazy" actress because she's only made 18 films in her decades-long career. The superstar reprises her role as Ben Stiller's mother in the new comedy Little Fockers, the sequel to 2004's Meet The Fockers, but Streisand admits she's surprised she hasn't completed more movie projects since making her big screen debut in 1968's Funny Girl, for which she won an Oscar. In an interview with U.S. newswoman Robin Roberts, the 68 year... Read more

  

  Peters pulls explosive Hollywood memoir

  • 25 May 2009

  Hollywood producer Jon Peters has pulled plans to release an explosive memoir detailing Tinseltown's most torrid secrets - after he was threatened by a series of lawsuits from some of the industry's biggest players. The Batman boss had agreed a £462,350 deal with Harper-Collins Publishers for his insightful tome, titled Studio Head, which blew the lid on the behind-the-scenes goings-on of stars including his ex-girlfriend Barbra Streisand. In the book's proposal to the publishers, which... Read more

  

  Over the Rainbow is best movie song

  • 24 Jun 2004

  The American Film Institute has ranked "Over the Rainbow" as the greatest movie song of all time. The bittersweet melody form "The Wizard of Oz" topped a list including efforts from Elvis Presley (Jailhouse Rock - 21), Eminem (Lose Yourself - 93), and Kermit the Frog (Rainbow Connection - 74). There were some notable exceptions from the list, including Bryan Adam's "Everything I Do", which topped the UK charts for 16 weeks. Nor is there room for the iconic "Tim Read more

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    One of the most popular movie musicals ever made, Funny Girl follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice - a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar for Best Actress. As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break ...

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