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Neither had as yet learned their Barbra lesson.
Nor had her agent, Sue Mengers, who later tried to dissuade her from directing and starring inYentl.
She made it anyway; Mengers was fired.
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The film found its audience.
She simply covets stuff, as her fans covet her.
She loves both to eat and argue.
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Shes great company and so is her memoir.
She also can calmly relate her failures and embarrassments.
Columbia gratefully released the hit movie.
True to character, Streisand, years later, would fight with studio after studio to getYentlbefore the cameras.
On a Clear Dayin 1970 was an appropriate preview of her brilliant, if embattled, film career.
The movie was only a modest success.
In its review, theNew York Timesworried whether Streisand was too big for movies or even for life.
She managed to succeed on both counts.
