Fanny Brice as an opera diva
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Corny? Maybe. Dated?, Certainly. Funny?, I laughed. Isn't that what Ms. Brice was all about? She made people laugh with her and she had talent. Corny? yeah, but isn't that because we've become so jaded that unless we're hearing 4-letter words, we don't think anything is funny. True comedy starts with pain not attitude.
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Theres only on Fanny!! She was great!
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Watch Brice's "It's Gorgeous to be Graceful", then Streisand's "The Swan", the Funny Girl number loosely based on it. I doubt you could then say that Brice is funny & Streisand not. Brice epitomised "low comedy" - obvious jokes and loads of mugging - that was right for her work in burlesque and later on radio. Streisand's renditions of similar routines is actually more subtle and sophisticated, necessarily so because she was working on film in cinemascope. One is not better than the other.
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@Bobolink03 "The funniest thing you have ever seen"? Seriously? In the world of funny things, this get a very low rating. Corny is more apt a description.
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What you have to realize about the movie "Funny Girl," is that it is very loosely based on the life of Fanny Brice. There is very little historic fact used in the movie. Much "creative liscense " is used in this version of Brice's life.
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One of my best memories as a child was listening to Fanny Brice as "Baby Snooks" on the radio. What a great talent.
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@crabtree35 Sticks and stones.... can't compare one talent to another....
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@Bobolink03 Bite your tongue...no it doesn't.
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I love this! She does have a really great voice. <3
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Talinted but insaine!!!
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Streisand has a beautiful voice, but she does not have Fanny Brice's sense of old comedy timing and technique, learned the hard way in vaudeville.
Caocao8888 4 years ago 10
The funniest thing I have ever seen.. wonderful! Makes Streisand look unfunny.
Bobolink03 4 years ago 6