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" Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice"
"Best Sound Mixing! Winner: Funny Girl! Nominees: Bullitt Finian's Rainbow Oliver! Rosemary's Baby"
“As a star vehicle, Funny Girl is top of the class, as an actual movie, Funny Girl is a great star vehicle. It’s a towering monument to Barbra Streisand’s reading of Fanny Brice, and there’s more than a hint of Barbra in Fanny and Fanny in Barbra. Not enough good things can be written about Streisand’s performance, which is still her finest hour as a movie star, but this doesn’t cross over into the rest of the film. Like many other musical biographies, Funny Girl plays fast and loose with the accurate details of Brice’s life and romance with Nick Arnstein. The first half, in which the romance takes a backseat to Brice’s career drive, ego, and indomitable vocal talents, is the clearly superior one, as the second half is leaden romantic melodrama. There’s visible sparks b” read more