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When she says that I hear a little voice in my ear saying, 'Hello everybody. This is Mrs Norman Maine.' Maybe Barbra did, too.

The comparison with Aurens is interesting - the long Part One basically deals with a single military event (the attack on Aqaba) while the shorter Part Two deals with a quivering wreck of a hero and the morass of Middle East politics at the time. Both Bolt and Lean thought it 'rushed.'...

Funny Girl is a funny musical. In fact, it’s rather strange. Take Part Two. It’s not a musical at all, just a rather dreary melodrama. You’d never know a master director was behind the camera. I don’t think there’s more than one-and-a-half songs in Part Two and there’s something weird about...

Great news - I never bought the DVD and think I've only ever seen the movie in 70mm. You are very fortunate, RAH, to have seen the Broadway show, presumably with Miss Streisand. I think I've told this story before on the HTF but it's worth repeating - Mr Wyler was once asked if he any...