Posted for Allison (we’re going to see The Long Goodbye this weekend at the Film Forum.) So this is for her. (And also for Mitchell. and Alex. And Babs lovers everywhere.) I particularly ADORE her beehive. The beehive and the bikini.
Barbra Streisand and Elliot Gould
Ever see “I Can Get It For You Wholesale”? A bad movie with great performances (go figure). It’s a shame they didn’t last. They would have been such perfect Fockers.
LOVE this photo. The beehive. Her chin lifted for a direct gaze into the camera. How her belly is a little white. Her fingers splayed across his face. And they are both so incredibly young.
Excellent.
Marisa – I know, right?
The nails!!
The whole photo has just has such an innocence and fun about it.
I always forget that they were married at one time…
I can just hear her:
“You’d BETTER not drop me and mess up my hair!!”
Hee.
I know!!! She’s such a girl. I love it.
It also just reminds me of the hairdos my mom and her sisters wore – these old family photos from the early 60s, my parents on a date in high school – my mom with her hair pouffed like that, etc.
Elliot Gould was sort of cute back then. In a quirky way. But I like quirky.
i love “girly” Barbra…she seems to know, in that look of “faux” haughtiness, what her future holds..ya know..The Tao of Barbra..the major tenet of which is “know thyself and then make it happen!”…she understood that early!!!
Mitchell – ha! Aren’t her nails proof positive of that sense of destiny?
An act of rebellion towards her mother who wanted her to be a secretary?
“Ma, how can I type with THESE NAILS???”
Such an unconventionally beautiful face and yet so attractive and sexy. Too bad she’s become so shrill and unpleasant in recent years.
Scaramouche – “shrill and unpleasant” is in the eye of the beholder.
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thank you Sheila…Nancy Grace is shrill and unpleasant! Babs is just …well…opinionated! And i can’t get enuf!
I loved your description of seeing her in concert recently – I’m so jealous!!
and hahahaha Nancy Grace
And Babs as the Fokker mother. Genius – with the bad perm, and being all new agey and intrusive – but always in a “loving” way – like asking her son if his fiance has orgasms … like, lovingly, concerned … about her “yoni” – hahahahaha It’s like: mom, back OFF!!
Mitchell – by the way – Allison and I are seeing Long Goodbye today – have you seen it?? I’m sure yes – it’ll be my first time seeing it, and I’m really excited.
yes..and there is an Altman festival all summer at the Music Box..so i will see it again!!! have fun!!!…also re: Fockers…when Babs chastises Ben for being a hypocrite to please DeNiro..its the only really human dramatic moment in the movie..its beautiful…but mostly she’s hilarious!! i lvoe it when she’s rubbing Blythe Danner’s ears…so freakin funny! they are old friends..so cute!
I love the shot of her and Dustin Hoffman in bed, rubbing whipped cream on her gorgeous rack … and Ben Stiller has to go in and tell them to keep it down … I’m laughing out loud thinking of how much fun she and Dustin must have had – they’ve known each other since they were, what, 18? That would be like you and me playing a scene like that now! So funny!!!