Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisa Part 68

a leaky boat: Playboy, November 1970.

"Maybe he was crazy": Kaufman Schwartz interview.

"verbalize about it": Sat.u.r.day Evening Post, July 27, 1963.

[>] "You're paying to talk": Kaufman Schwartz interview.

"self-discovery": Playboy, November 1970.

"hit it big": Considine, Barbra Streisand: The Woman, the Myth, the Music.

[>] "each ready and eager": Sloc.u.m was filling in for Walter Winch.e.l.l on his syndicated column, as in the Lebanon (Pennsylvania) Daily News, August 24, 1963.

[>] "What do you really enjoy": Kaufman Schwartz interview.

[>] "like a Zen master": Playboy, October 1977.

"to be friends with him": Kaufman Schwartz interview.

[>] "What am I doing here?": Family Weekly, February 2, 1964.

"It's this kid from Brooklyn": Kaufman Schwartz interview.

[>] There were movie stars: My description of the Cocoanut Grove audience comes from the syndicated columns of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, who both provided firsthand detailed accounts of the evening. Hopper, as in the Altoona (Pennsylvania) Mirror, August 27, 1963, and Parsons, as in the Anderson (Indiana) Daily Bulletin, August 28, 1963.

[>] "would have approved": Sheilah Graham's syndicated column, as in the San Antonio Express and News, August 17, 1963.

the president's autograph: Streisand never gave her mother the autograph; she reportedly lost it. See Considine, Barbra Streisand: The Woman, the Myth, the Music.

[>] "gay as a bird": Hedda Hopper's syndicated column, as in the Anderson (Indiana) Daily Bulletin, August 28, 1963.

[>] "just late enough to get": Notes for McDowall's book, Double Exposure, Roddy McDowall Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University. Accounts that have depicted the audience as hostile and resentful over Streisand's lateness are mythmaking. There is no contemporary mention of any displeasure over the starting time of the show.

"I'm the kind of nut": a.s.sociated Press syndicated article, as in the Florence (South Carolina) Morning News, September 1, 1963.

"If I'd known the place": LAT, August 24, 1963. The line has also been reported as "If I had known you were going to be on two sides of me, I would have had my nose fixed."

"Dodgers won-sixteenth inning": Hedda Hopper's syndicated column, as in the LAT, August 24, 1963. Randall Riese, in Her Name Is Barbra, apparently working from the same source, wrote that Cahn was disruptive and disrespectful. Yet Hopper did not give that impression at all.

"be great as our beloved": Louella Parsons's syndicated column, as in Anderson (Indiana) Daily Bulletin, August 28, 1963.

"I gave up singing": syndicated NEA article, as in the Logansport (Indiana) Press, September 7, 1963.

[>] "didn't care for her": LAT, September 6, 1963.

[>] "I hope the Dodgers": Playboy, November 1970.

"the marriage to Elliott": Sat.u.r.day Evening Post, July 27, 1963.

[>] Bob Hope's show: It is clear that Streisand taped The Bob Hope Show sometime in late August, since the High Point (North Carolina) Enterprise carried a photograph of the two of them together, in their hillbilly makeup, on September 1, 1963. Various articles reported that Hope had signed "red-hot" Barbra Streisand for the show on August 13, so it would seem that the taping was somewhere between those two dates.

"the new pet of the movie crowd": AP wire story, as in the Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent, October 6, 1963.

Rosalind Russell hosted: Louella Parsons's syndicated column, as in the San Antonio Light, September 9, 1963.

Danny Thomas had been: Louella Parsons's syndicated column, as in the Anderson (Indiana) Daily Bulletin, September 11, 1963.

"You two are the luckiest": Gerald Clarke, Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (New York: Random House, 2000).

[>] "I've got a job": AP wire story, as in the Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent, October 6, 1963.

"Where did you get": LAT, October 6, 1963.

"If you want to get away": Evelyn Russell Layton to Tom Higgins, December 11, 1965, Higgins Family Papers, NYPL.

Disneyland, where Barbra got to spend: LAT, September 10, 1963.

"going to great pains": Salt Lake Tribune, August 31, 1963.

[>] Sobol wrote up a description: Louis Sobol's syndicated column, as in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, September 2, 1963.

Bob Fosse, by his own admission: I have based my description of Fosse's problems with Stark on a draft of his resignation letter, written in his own hand, dated September 1963, BFC, LoC.

[>] Fosse ditched the direct cut: I have compared the various scripts in Fosse's collection, including ones dated June 19, 1963, and September 6, 1963, BFC, LoC.

How to Succeed in Business: The show opened on July 29 and ran through August. LAT, July 27, and August 18, 1963.

"a little late for that kind": Draft of resignation letter, September 1963, BFC, LoC.

[>] "h.e.l.lo, gorgeous": Funny Girl script with Fosse's annotations, dated June 19, 1963, BFC, LoC.

[>] erased some of the insecurity": Parade, September 8, 1963.

"shook on it": Life, May 22, 1964. Gould did indeed honor his agreement to fabricate the date and place of the marriage. In the Life article, he said that two days after the wedding, he was pushed onto the plane to London.

[>] "the hottest canary": Parade, September 8, 1963.

"Most newcomers would be": Barney Glazer's syndicated column, as in the Van Nuys News, November 19, 1963.

"A fine new voice": Bakersfield Californian, August 24, 1963.

"The results are best": Brookfield (Illinois) Citizen, September 9, 1963.

[>] "precise phrasing, clarity": Billboard, September 14, 1963.

NOW THERE ARE: Billboard, August 31, 1963.

"when to emphasize": Tom Santopietro, The Importance of Being Barbra: The Brilliant, Tumultuous Career of Barbra Streisand (New York: Macmillan, 2006).