{"id":461,"date":"2022-04-15T16:09:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T16:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/?p=461"},"modified":"2022-04-15T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T16:09:22","slug":"singer-to-actress-barbra-streisand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/04\/15\/singer-to-actress-barbra-streisand\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer to Actress: Barbra Streisand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WARNING:<\/span> <\/strong>This Article May Contain Spoilers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a long time I wasn\u2019t aware if Barbra was a singer or an actress first. In a way, if you look past \u2018on-screen\u2019, she was technically both at the same time. She recorded her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, <\/em>in 1963 \u2013 well at the same time she was on stage on Broadway from 1961-1963 playing Miss Marmelstein in I Can Get it for You Wholesale. <\/em>Well, let\u2019s move to her on-screen acting career\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owl and the Pussycat<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                This is possibly the most annoying character I have ever seen in a film. I\u2019m sorry Barbra but I completely understand where Felix\/Fred is coming from and why he finds her so annoying. I\u2019ll be honest, I didn\u2019t quite understand the film in the beginning \u2013 it just came across as two people that were continuously arguing with each other – but as the film goes on and their relationship develops you can actually see them realising how much they truly care about each other. However, I feel unbelievably sorry for Barbra\u2019s character of Doris at the end because Fred turns into what seems like a mean person as he pushes her to the floor in the middle of the park and treats her like some sort of animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Way We Were<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Yes, Barbra sings the title song but that doesn\u2019t count. Her character doesn\u2019t sing and that\u2019s what\u2019s important here. I\u2019m not sure if the curly brown hair, when we go back to Katie and Hubble\u2019s college days, was supposed to make her look unattractive but if it was I think they failed. I\u2019ll be honest, and I\u2019m possibly being a little bit harsh on Robert Redford\u2019s character of Hubble here, but it comes across as such a one-sided relationship. It\u2019s clear from the moment she sees him in the bar for the first time in years that she loves him but to me it\u2019s like he is in love with the fact that she loves him instead of actually being in love with Katie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little Fockers<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love Barbra Streisand. So much so that I wish I had been able to get hold of Meet the Fockers <\/em>because at least I would have had more to talk about but here we are. She has around 4 scenes \u2013 including the closing one \u2013 but they all feel very much like they are there to move the plot along. If it wasn\u2019t for her scene saying that Gaylord has intimacy issues, Jack wouldn\u2019t have been so suspicious that he was having an affair, meaning that he would never follow him and the fight at the end would never happen. Her role of Roz Focker in this is so small, it\u2019s harder to comment on it than her roles in the other films mentioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorary Mentions<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                I\u2019ll be honest, I thought Barbra had a lot more acting credits than she did. It explains why I struggled so much with this article as a lot of those are singing roles \u2013 like Yentl <\/em>and Funny Girl <\/em>for example. It also seems that she has decided to turn away from acting as her last film role was in 2012 with The Guilt Trip.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers For a long time I wasn\u2019t aware if Barbra was a singer or an actress first. In a way, if you look past \u2018on-screen\u2019, she was technically both at the same time. She recorded her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, in 1963 \u2013 well at the same time … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-if-music-be-the-food-of-love-act-on","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}