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This is one of my very favorite movies.....


I saw this movie in a theater when I was 12 years old when it came out in '72. I LOVED Barbra Streisand (still do) and wanted to sing like her (still can't). My mother let us sit through it twice. It's difficult to see if you watch it on TV or video, but in most of Streisand's scenes she's wearing a small gold chain with what looks like a gold baby ring on it. I wanted a necklace like that so badly but couldn't afford or find one. So I got a small cheap goldtone chain necklace from the drugstore and bought one of those Bic ballpoint pens from back then that came in different colors and had a clicking retractable point in it. These Bic pens also had a silvertoned ring in the middle where you unscrewed the pen to replace the ink when you needed to (I haven't looked, but maybe they're still in existence). I took that ring from the pen and put it on the cheap chain I bought and wore it proudly to school for months until it got gross, discolored, and black. I think I'm even wearing it in my 6th grade school picture.

Yes I know; I was pathetic. But it was okay back then.

I've always wondered if that necklace she wore in the movie had a story behind it, or meant something special to Streisand.

By the way, when I watch this movie today I now see how hysterical Madeline Kahn is. I guess I identify more with her at this point in my life. I started out a Barbra Steisand wanna be and ended up a Eunice Burns.

I'm still pathetic.

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It's one of my all time faves as well. Never get tired of watching it. Both Babs and Ryan were funny as heck, as well as Madelyn Kahn and the rest of the cast.

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I LOVED this movie when it first came out, too (and I still do). I can remember going through boxes of Nabisco Chocolate Stars while glued to my seat, watching all the crazy antics and the wild chase scene near the end. I also got my Mom to sit through it with me many times, sometimes twice in one visit!

I had an absolute puppy love crush on Barbra Streisand when I first saw her in this movie. I couldn't stop thinking about her back then. Times have certainly changed.

Speaking of which, as goofy and "unrealisitic" as this film is, it's entertaining, more so than the majority of the fare that Hollyweird cranks out these days. Maybe it's time to get goofy again?

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I love this movie too. Saw it in the theaters when it first came out. I was 13 at the time. Went back to the theater and saw it three more times and I don't know how many more times I watched it on TV after that. It's one of my favorite Streisand performances, no matter how much Barbra hated making the movie, I loved her performance. And yes, it is easy to overlook how good Madeline Kahn was as Eunice. This was her first film and I read somewhere that Kahn was so funny that Streisand felt a little threatened by her and kept a close eye on her dialobgue, closeups, dailies, etc. to make sure Kahn was not upstaging her.

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This is also one of my favorites. mainly because of Ms. Streisand. *lol* She was very adorable (still is) and I loved her character Judy. My favorite thing about Judy is that she was very smart although she was a college drop-out and that she caused chaos everywhere she went. :)I think I have a bit of Judy in me, mabey that's why I like her so much. *lol*

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