Mandy Shortchanged
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ijones-9 — 19 years ago(April 20, 2006 01:25 PM)
OK, I think you took my post a little too seriously. First of all, I wouldn't consider the chance to sing a duet in a big budget movie musical with Barbra Streisand "exploiting" my musical talents. I think that's a really bad way of putting it. And no, I don't think Bette Midler has to sing in all of her movies and I didn't expect Fred Astaire to tap in all his movies either, I'm just saying that it is really difficult to cast a musical in this day and age and I would think that when Babs found herself a leading man with the musical abilities of Patinkin, it would have been nice to see her take advantage of that. Yeah, I understand she didn't want it to be a musical, but that stuff about Yentl being the only one allowed to sing was purely an ego thingas a previous poster said, Havigdor had his share of secrets and musical inner dialogues about his inner secrets and his confusion about Yentl would have been just as effective as "Papa can You Hear Me?". As much as I love Barbra and her work, this, to me, was clearly an example of her ego run amok.
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yogacat10 — 19 years ago(May 02, 2006 03:15 PM)
So.was Clint Eastwood guilty of an 'ego run amok' for having starred, directed, and produced "Unforgiven"?
No? Guess Steisand was right when she said "In Hollywood, a woman can be an actress, a singer, a dancer..But don't let her be too much more." -
joelovesbabs — 18 years ago(December 10, 2007 12:48 AM)
Barbra was casting a nonsinging part, and she used a singer for that. Once again, you are being blind, ignorant, a walking cliche and the main reason of what is wrong with today's moviegoer.
"NOTHING'S IMPOSSIBLE"
BARBRA STREISAND AS YENTL -
joelovesbabs — 18 years ago(December 10, 2007 02:04 AM)
Mandy was also very supporting of every decision his director made, did it ever cross your mind that he was thrilled to be asked to play a dramatic role in a movie where the script only demanded singing from its main protagonist?
THINK before posting negative comments.
"NOTHING'S IMPOSSIBLE"
BARBRA STREISAND AS YENTL -
tiggerwill — 18 years ago(March 06, 2008 10:13 AM)
Has Mandy sung in a movie? Because for years I thought he had sung in Yentl. Just the other day I watched Yentl for the first time since I was a kid and at the end I said, "Hey, what happened to Mandy singing?" I guess I was remembering him from something else, but I can't recall what it was. It's funny because for years I've had this memory of beautiful Mandy Patinkin singing in this movie.
I must say even though he didn't sing I still love this movie. -
tpcorless — 17 years ago(January 24, 2009 07:03 PM)
In her directorial career, I think Barbra gets a bad wrap. If you look at the three films she directed, Yentl, Prince of Tides and Mirror Has Two Faces, Barbra elicited Oscar-nominated performances in ALL three films. So, obviously she was doing something right and was giving good material to her stars/co-stars.
The performances of Amy Irving, Nick Nolte, Kate Nelligan and Lauren Bacall are all excellent, in addition to the performances of Mandy Patinkin and even her son Jason Gould in POT. -
Isaac5855 — 16 years ago(October 08, 2009 11:06 AM)
In her directorial career, I think Barbra gets a bad wrap. If you look at the three films she directed, Yentl, Prince of Tides and Mirror Has Two Faces, Barbra elicited Oscar-nominated performances in ALL three films. So, obviously she was doing something right and was giving good material to her stars/co-stars.
The performances of Amy Irving, Nick Nolte, Kate Nelligan and Lauren Bacall are all excellent, in addition to the performances of Mandy Patinkin and even her son Jason Gould in POT.
I don't think it's so much a bad rap to her directial career, as it is a swipe to Barbra personallythe Academy and Hollywood in general has always had a strong love/hate relationship with Barbra. I think they resented the way she became an instant superstar after FUNNY GIRL and how she is now able to wield so much power in Hollywood, a town that has never been kind to women in power. Yes, all of those performances you mentioned were nominated, but how many won? None. They lost because they were in a Streisand film. PRINCE OF TIDES received SEVEN nominations including Best Picture, but in which category was the film ignored? Best Director. The film was good enough to earn seven other nominations, including the best movie of the year, but she didn't deserve a directing nomination? The film directed itself?
