The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1973 Page: 7 of 8
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Streisand meets Redford in Hollywood's latest bomb
by H. DAVID DANGLO
The first late-season block-
buster film to hit Houston —
The Way We Were starring
Barbra Streisand and Robert
Redford — will open at the Del-
man Theater on Halloween. It
is scary to think that this may
be the best Hollywood has to
offer for the encroaching
Christmas season.
Streisand fans will undoubt-
edly be pleased. In this ram-
bling tale of politics and plea-
sure in the Thirties and Forties,
Streisand plays an activist nut
who throws her hat in any ring
that's fashionably anti-estab-
lishment at the time. She's a
Communist in college, a pushy
Roosevelt fan who puts in most
of her hours for the War Ef-
fort later, and a "Ban the
Bomb" go-getter at the end.
She's still the "nice Jewish
girl", but here she turns in a
performance that turns over
many subtle angles of a very
wise, very adept characteriza-
tion. She is beautiful to watch
throughout, and even honors
her audiences with her music of people will see it — a sneak Way We Were is obviously too her performance here; other-
by singing the title song dur-
ing the credits.
Robert Redford is beautiful,
too, but evidences little more
than good looks in the role of
a rich Protestant jock-stud who
marries Streisand because she's
one of the few people who likes
his novel (called A Country
Made of Ice Cream). Redford
evidences as much flair for
comedy as one of Barbra's ear-
lier co-stars, Ryan O'Neal, who
was really deadbeat in What's
Up Doc? The happy couple,
truly in love, move to Holly-
wood, where Redford writes
screenplays and Streisand gets
mixed up with the Hollywood
Ten (a group of top talents in
the Industry who were arrested
for protesting the McCarthy
witch-hunt). Finally she gets
too heavy into politics, he into
Hollywood, and they split; the
film has a verv touching final
The Way We Were is a very
important film because a lot
preview last Friday attracted
an SRO crowd (the ad said
"Streisand and Redford to-
gether in a new movie"). Un-
fortunately, this is all the
movie has going for it. The
editing is sloppy, and often con-
fusing and vague, especially to-
ward the beginning, where they
seemed to have a hard time
working with flashbacks. Art
direction, set design and loca-
tion shooting, and costuming
are all pseudo-Forties; extras
wear modern dress, outdoor
footage is too obviously Seven-
ties (they do throw in some old
cars driving around, but they
look like the ones in American
Graffiti - Fifties) and the two
stars don't age a bit (only
Streisand's hair changes every
so often.)
Especially disappointing is
director Sidney Pollack's work.
A few years ago he directed a
most remarkable masterpiece
about the Thirties called They
Shoot Horses, Don't They with
Jane Fonda and Gitr Younsr. The
sweeping a statement for him;
he has managed almost no con-
tinuity, and in general his
directorial efforts are tired and
careless. Funny Girl producer
Ray Stark re-teams for this one
with Streisand, who won an
Oscar in her film debut in that
picture.
The Way We Were is a rath-
er muddled vehicle for the two
stars, and star-watching is the
only good reason for seeing
this show. Streisand may even
be Oscar-nominated again for
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Gray is beautiful at Rice Museum
"Gray Is the Color," is the
first, if not exhaustive, his-
torical survey of the uses of
the color gray in art. If will be
on view at the Rice Museum
from October 19, 1973 to Jan-
uary 16, 1974.
Organized by the Institute
for the Arts at Rice, the ex-
hibition brings to Houston some
110 works in grisaille, including
stained glass and illuminated
manuscripts, and ranges from
the 13th to the 20th centuries.
Most are on loan from museums
and private collections in
France, the United States, and
Canada. The works were se-
lected by J. Patrice Marandel,
Chief Curator of the Museum of
Art, Rhode Island School of
Design, whose introductory es-
say appears in the fully illus-
trated catalogue.
Among the artists represent-
ed are Rubens, Moreau, Gus-
tave Dore, Redon, Remington,
Gerome, Eakins, Rouault, Car-
riere, Steinlen, Fautrier, Mag-
ritte, Picasso, Max Ernst, Jas-
per Johns, Warhol, and Albers.
Included also is the Metropoli-
tan Museum's much discussed
Odalisque in Grisaille.
"Grisaille, indeed a limited
medium, provides a rigorous
test of talent. Stripped of color,
deprived of any sensuous
charm, the art of painting ap-
pears in its nakedness," ac-
cording to Mrs. John de Menil,
director of the Institute. "It is
reduced to the subject, the com-
position, the authority of the
brushstroke and the style."
Whatever its use. whether
rhetorical or spontaneous, gray
challenges the highly skilled
and invites the visionary.
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wise, The Way We Were is a
bomb, but a bomb in the true
Hollywood-styl: a big box-of-
fice bomb that will probably
draw every casual film-goer in
Houston at one time or another
during the next few months.
But standing in line for this one
is a waste of time.
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Fred Hofheinz' race for Mayor is a tough one.
He needs all the help he can get. If you'd like to pitch
in, call us today.
This time, like his race in 1971, Fred Hofheinz
is the only candidate to take a specific stand on every
major issue.
Given the opportunity, Fred Hofheinz will help
make Houston an even better place to live.
Let's give him a hand.
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Jackson, Steve. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1973, newspaper, October 18, 1973; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245174/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.