‘What’s up, Doc?’: Sultry Streisand’s screwball meshugas
Welcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use.
This week, as Borschel-Dan continues to read Hoffman’s recommendation — “My Name Is Barbra,” Barbra Streisand’s verrrrry long autobiography — we turn to an audience favorite, the 1972 screwball comedy, “What’s Up, Doc?”
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Directed by Peter Bogdanovich, the film is a cleverly stylized updated homage to the golden era of Hollywood. It features Streisand playing a wacky vagabond and hunky Ryan O’Neal as a nerdy musicology prof, plus a slew of then-unknown Jewish stars,........
