Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisa Part 67

the security guard at the Studio 50: Sat.u.r.day Evening Post, July 27, 1963.

"which may star Barbra": Billboard, June 1, 1963.

to an "ovation": NYT, May 31, 1963.

[>] "practically at the contract-signing": Earl Wilson's syndicated column, as in the Idaho Falls Post-Reporter, June 13, 1963.

Barbra had already been: Mike Connolly's syndicated column, as in the Pasadena Independent, June 6, 1963.

14. Summer 1963

[>] Liberace wanted his fans: My account of Liberace introducing Streisand, and their time together in Vegas, comes from Bob Thomas, Liberace: The True Story (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), as well as memories of several Streisand friends. Many of the stories of Streisand being hostilely received at the Riviera in previous accounts seem exaggerated since, with the exception of one snide Hollywood Reporter review, contemporary coverage of her time in Vegas was glowing. Still, friends recalled that Liberace did help prepare his audience for Streisand. My account attempts to reconstruct that experience as accurately as possible.

[>] two nights were "disastrous": Considine, Barbra Streisand: The Woman, the Myth, the Music.

thirty thousand souvenir postcards: Oakland Tribune, July 26, 1963.

"By far the hottest singer": Oakland Tribune, July 26, 1963.

"the edge in experience": Van Nuys News, July 5, 1963.

"a.s.sembly-line singers": Variety, July 8, 1963.

[>] "If you haven't heard": Evelyn Russell Layton to Tom Higgins, July 8, 1963, Higgins Family Collection, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, NYPL.

[>] "burst to astonis.h.i.+ng life": LAT, June 28, 1963.

"a one-woman recovery": Oxnard (California) Press-Courier, June 26, 1963.

"the year of Barbra": Undated, unsourced AP wire story, clipping in Streisand file, NYPL.

"enigma of a gown": Mike Connolly's syndicated column, as in the Pasadena Independent, August 20, 1963.

"I don't want to wrinkle": AP wire story, as in The Derrick (Oil City, Pennsylvania), October 11, 1963.

she had found a new place: Some reports have said that Gould found the place on Central Park West. But he was in London through the second week of July, and it's clear from the Kaufman Schwartz interview that Streisand had the apartment by then. Perhaps Gould made the final arrangements once he returned home.

"some of the best acting": Playboy, November 1970.

[>] The lukewarm review: The Times, May 31, 1963.

"switch into certain inner": Playboy, November 1970.

"After reading a zillion": Dorothy Kilgallen's syndicated column, as in the Salt Lake Tribune, July 22, 1963.

[>] "What do you want": Walter Winch.e.l.l's syndicated column, as in the Eureka (California) Standard, July 4, 1963.

"A refugee from Flatbush": Sat.u.r.day Evening Post, July 27, 1963.

his partner, Harvey Sabinson: The reason I've suggested that it might have been Sabinson is that Hamill later admitted to Streisand that he had spoken to Sabinson for the piece and that Sabinson may have been the source of a quote she objected to. Streisand revealed this in a "Truth Alert" on her own official website.

[>] "where people really lived": Look, April 5, 1966.

"The personality of Anne": Ray Stark to Jerome Robbins and Jule Styne, October 25, 1961, JRC, NYPL.

"suggestions, ideas, and material": Floria V. Lasky to Ray Stark, May 1, 1963, JRC, NYPL.

[>] "no creative contribution": Albert da Silva to Floria V. Lasky, May 17, 1963, JRC, NYPL.

"Make it like B.": Script for Funny Girl dated June 19, 1963, BFC, LoC.

"become a caricature": NYT, July 26, 1963.

"I'm not approaching it": Kaufman Schwartz interview.

[>] "certain natural characteristics": NYT, July 26, 1963.

[>] They seemed to be very much: NYT, July 26, 1963.

"an animated yet balanced": Steven Ruttenbaum, Mansions in the Clouds: The Skysc.r.a.per Palazzi of Emery Roth (New York: Balsam Press, 1986).

[>] a rather storied history: My account of the Ardsley's history was drawn from a digitized search of the New York Times.

Lorenz Hart had rented: Notice of Hart's rental was published in the NYT, August 5, 1939.

[>] "the h.o.m.os.e.xual elite": NYT, May 28, 1999.

In those few days: Streisand closed in Las Vegas on August 4. She then appeared on Long Island on August 9 and in the Catskills on August 10. She gave the interview to Marv Schwartz on August 14 in Los Angeles. At the most, she would have had six nights free in New York to deal with her move, and maybe less, depending on when she returned from Las Vegas and when she left for Los Angeles.

Liberace had left a night early: Van Nuys News, August 2, 1963.

a fifty percent raise: Earl Wilson's syndicated column, as in the Uniontown (Pennsylvania) Evening Standard, August 9, 1963.

TO FLO FROM f.a.n.n.y: Van Nuys News, August 9, 1963.

[>] "torn the place apart": Robert Towers quoted in Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer, It Happened in the Catskills: An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Others Who Lived It (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2009).

"My mind reverted": Van Nuys News, August 16, 1963.

[>] "Without flats": Playgirl, May 1975.