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Not to mention Stella, Ally Sheedy's fairy godmother, in Maid to Order.

I obviously don't know where you live, but I live in L.A. and I've seen Barbra's musicals (and, for that matter, her non-musicals) in theaters like the Egyptian, the Vista, the Tiffany, and the Arclight Hollywood. Even the Funny Girl overture gets applause, and audiences have applauded Barbra's...

>>I remember the audience applauding her in the movie theater after she sang that song...maybe the only time I've ever seen that in a movie theater.<< I'm assuming, then, that you've never seen a Barbra Streisand musical in a movie theater?

Adorable Annie Golden had a solo number too. It's included on the album but was cut from the movie.

Picture quality is improved, at least to my eyes -- and yes, the extras are very much worth the upgrade. Treat Williams is on the commentary along with the assistant director, and the rest of the principal cast (all of whom have great stories to tell) sit for new on-camera interviews, as do...

When the movie version of Torch Song Trilogy first came out, Harvey Fierstein acknowleged in interviews that the film version was pared-down from the play and indicated that the missing material had indeed been filmed and would be re-inserted for the home video version. He never did so, however...

I can actually see both sides of this issue. I never saw the stage productions of Hair or Torch Song Trilogy -- just the movies, both of which I love very much. In both cases I've heard "The play was better." On the other hand, I did see the stage version of A Chorus Line three times and...

I agree 100% -- and I forgot to mention that Twyla Tharp's choreography is awesome.

I just don't get all this hostility toward this film that I have always adored. I do not find ANY of the performances to be "arch or self-conscious" nor do I find anything or anyone in the movie "mannered and studied". I guess I need to keep in mind that everyone is entitled to my...

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We are just going to have to agree to disagree. This is one of my favorite movie musicals and one of my favorite movies, period. Treat Williams is perfect and so are all the other cast members. And Cheryl Barnes is a revelation. Her song "Easy to Be Hard" -- which she nailed in one take --...

WELL!!!!!

Oh yeah, I forgot he directed that one. I saw it just once, eons ago. I would like to see it again because I was recently reminded that Fran Drescher, one of nature's noblewomen and one of my favorite human beings ever, was in it.

I've never seen that many Milos Forman movies. I think Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus are the only other ones I've seen, but he impressed me as a very gifted filmmaker -- and I happen to know he was a cat lover, which definitely elevates him in my estimation!

My friend Chris was drafted when he was living in New York in the late 1960s. When he showed up to the draft board, he told them he was gay -- and they didn't believe him! Seems there had been so many straight guys claiming they were gay in an attempt to be turned away that the authorities...

I never saw the play, but I saw the movie when it first came out. I was 16 and I saw it with my family at the one and only Cinerama Dome. We all loved it without reservation, and I've seen it about a gazillion times since then. I've owned it on home video in every format -- VHS, laserdisc...