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☆ Barbra Streisand Is Ready to Tell All. Pull Up a Seat.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Wesley Morris | More About Wesley Morris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Rick Kot, an executive editor at Viking who oversaw production on the book, told me, “Publishing books in two volumes is difficult just as a commercial venture. Nor does it inspire the “five takeaways” treatment that juicy new memoirs by Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith have. These are my thoughts.” She also considered those other Streisand titles, the ones by other people. Sydney Chaplin (one of Charlie’s kids) played the original Nick Arnstein during her “Funny Girl” Broadway run; they shared a flirtation that Chaplin wanted to consummate and that Streisand wanted to keep professional. It’s that Barbra Streisand endured a parade of harsh workplaces yet never stopped trying to make the best work.

Persons: Rick Kot, “, She’s, you’ve, Britney Spears, Jada Pinkett Smith, Streisand, Christine Pittel, hemming, hawing, ”, there’s, Sydney Chaplin, Nick Arnstein, Chaplin, Elliott Gould, Dolly, Walter Matthau, Gene Kelly, Matthau, she’s, Brando, Pierre Trudeau, Jon Peters, It’s, Barbra Streisand Organizations: Viking, “ Publishing

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Friends” star Matthew Perry, the Emmy-nominated actor whose sarcastic, but lovable Chandler Bing was among television’s most famous and most quotable characters, has died at 54. “Matthew was an incredibly gifted actor and an indelible part of the Warner Bros. Television Group family,” the company said in a statement. As Chandler, he played the quick-witted, insecure and neurotic roommate of LeBlanc's Joey and a close friend of Schwimmer's Ross. I ‘was’ Chandler.”Unknown at the time was the struggle Perry had with addiction and an intense desire to please audiences. But I could sometimes say a line and the audience wouldn’t laugh and I would sweat and sometimes go into convulsions,” Perry wrote.

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☆ Highlights From More Than 50 Years of Glenda Jackson Reviews
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

— Vincent Canby1972: FILMBecause both Miss [Vanessa] Redgrave and Miss Jackson possess identifiable intelligence, “Mary, Queen of Scots” is not as difficult to sit through as some bad movies I can think of. It’s just solemn, well-groomed and dumb. — Vincent Canby1973: FilmMelvin Frank’s “A Touch of Class” is a very patchy movie — enormously funny in bits and pieces and sometimes downright dumb. There are also some fine farcical scenes more or less dedicated to the proposition that maintenance of a love nest is, at best, full of peril. — Janet Maslin1980: FILMMy only reservation is that Miss Jackson isn’t on the screen enough.

Persons: Miss Jackson, — Vincent Canby, Vanessa, Redgrave, “ Mary, Queen, It’s, Melvin Frank’s, George ] Segal, — Janet Maslin, Miss Jackson isn’t, Walter, Matthau, ”, ” — Vincent Canby Organizations: Miss Locations: Swiss

☆ Harry Belafonte, calypso star and civil rights champion, dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Alex Johnson | Diana Dasrath | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Singer Harry Belafonte speaks during a press junket at The Bing Decision Maker Series with the Sing Your Song Cast and Filmmakers on January 22, 2011 in Park City, Utah. American singer Harry Belafonte performing in a recording studio, circa 1957. By the early 1960s, Belafonte had become a force in the civil rights movement. A crowd of over 10,000 civil rights marchers gathers in the Manhattan Garment Center as Harry Belafonte sings at spiritual at a civil rights rally. A capacity audience of civil rights advocates turned out to watch a glittering array of theater personalities perform.

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