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Funny girl movie stiller6/27/2023 "We paid for our tickets and sat there and watched." "We used to go to the cinema together," Sharif said. In video clips, Robert Redford - her "The Way We Were" co-star - spoke of how he'd been warned before making the movie that Streisand was "a pain," but discovered that she was "totally engaging to act with, beautiful, thorough and skilled." And Omar Sharif, who played Nick Arnstein in "Funny Girl," gave perhaps the most moving video tribute, talking about how incredible it was that he, an Egyptian actor, played a New York Jew in the 1968 film, and how she had become such a good friend. Also appearing onstage to praise their friend and colleague were Michael Douglas, Catherine Deneuve (last year's honoree), Amy Irving, Blythe Danner, George Segal, Ben Stiller, Pierce Brosnan and Kris Kristofferson. But she was not attracted to the actor, she said, so she placed a piece of chocolate cake nearby - so she could stare at that longingly, instead.įor the awards gala, which raised $2 million for the film society - twice the previous high amount for the annual event - Streisand was serenaded by Wynton Marsalis on trumpet, by Liza Minnelli, and by Tony Bennett, who closed the show with the song, "Smile," fittingly a Charlie Chaplin song. At age 16, she recalled, she had to show in a scene that she was in love with a man. Not that acting was so easy in the early going. ![]() "Thank God I was given a good voice," she said, explaining how her singing opened the doors to acting. But nobody really wanted "a 15-year-oldMedea," she noted. Although she is perhaps most loved for her beautiful singing voice, she told the audience that as a young child, what she wanted most was to be an actress. Streisand, who turns 71 this week, is one of the few entertainers to have won Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards. "It's funny how things always come back to music," she said. ![]() It was only when Streisand agreed to turn the movie into a musical - and most importantly, sing in it herself - that she was able to go ahead with the project. Producers, it seemed, weren't as passionate as she was about the tale of a Jewish girl in Eastern Europe who so longed to study the Talmud that she disguised herself as a boy. Streisand spoke of how hard it was to get funding to make the film.
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