24 Friday, September 30, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Barbra Streisand Wears Many Hats in Film By HERBERT LUFT (Copyright 1983, JTA, Inc.) • EXPRESSION 8 works by ISRAELI Artists & Artisans EXHIBITION AND SALE Oct. 8-16, 1983 • sculpture • fiber works • ceramics • jewelry • weaving • enamel • glass • prints • clay • wood • soft sculpture • stoneware • mosaic • metal • archeological antiquities Open to Public: No admission charge SHOW HOURS: Oct. 8-16, Sunday thru Thursday 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Oct. 14, Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sponsors' Champagne Preview Oct. 8, 1983 Saturday 8:30 p.m. $12.50 per person Works by: Gelis Saper Tajer Bilderman Ben Kalifa Tangi Tenenbaum Zarfati Tadmor Itamar Friedland Linger Bernstein Israeli Glazer Lamdon Cadmor Levenson Shavir Schlezinger Zamir Rimon Aronson Shukrin Doull Bahral Schneuer Eisemann Streichman Schloss Lifshitz Gerstein Zammy Yalin Katz Lubin Yohanan Stern Heinberg Kryger Scharf Shalev Shoham Ben Shalom Liron Ben-David Avigdor Israel Hillel Yoelli Etgar Wes Sarel Klineman Agron Yahia Katz Thompson Levy HOLLYWOOD — Barbra Streisand had dreamed for 14 years of making a motion picture based on Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer's novella, "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy," with herself portraying the central character of a girl posing as a young man in order to study the Torah. When the picture went before the cameras in April, 1982 at Lee International Studios in England, she had achieved her goal and more so her desire to direct and produce for her own com- pany. By talent, passion and determination, Ms. Streisand achieved what only few individuals in the cinema dared to do, combine the key elements into one single personality thereby making a film completely of her own design. The motion picture con- tinued on locations in Czechoslovakia where the Polish setting of the yarn, Yanev, in the period of 1904, was duplicated. With pre-production, principal photography, editing, scor- ing? and dubbing, plus planning the release corn- pany, Ms. Streisand has been occupied with this sin- gular project for almost 20 months. As she says now, she took on this task be- cause "I'm tired of saying, 'I could have done this.' I wanted to do it." Though basically a Jewish story, "Yentl" has universal aspects; dealing with a young woman's struggle to achieve what she feels is her right within a repressive society. Her love grows out of her search to find her own identity. Yet, she is unable to come to terms with Avigdor because of ultimate differences of ideologies, passions and compassion. Mandy Patinkin co-stars as the mature Avigdor who is infatuated with another woman portrayed by Amy Irving (most recently seen in the Broadway production of "'Amadeus.") Patinkin himself came into promi- nence when portraying Che Guevara in the musical, "Evita." On the screen, we viewed him as the Russian Jewish silent film director in "Ragtime"; he stars in the current motion picture "Daniel," in the fictional role of Julius Rosenberg (who was executed with his wife in 1952). Character actor Nehemia Persoff, a native of Israel, has the role of Yentl's father. The screenplay for "Yentl" was written by Ms. Streisand in collaboration with British playwright Jack Rosenthal. The music is by Michel Legrand and the lyrics to the eight songs by Marilyn and Alan Bergman. David Watkin was the cinematographer. The picture will be re- leased in the U.S. and Canada by MGM/UA En- tertainment towards the end of the year. * * GEORGE BURNS, at 87, still goes strong having just completed a "live" en- gagement at Caesars Tahoe appearing with Bernadette Peters. Now in his eighth decade in show business, Burns shows no sign of let- ting up, adding to his credits as comedian, TV and motion picture personality, the dis- tinction of being an author, adding to two prior bestsel- lers his current, autobiog- raphical "How to Live to Be 100 — And More!" In 1903, Burns formed a group of child singers called "The Peewee Quartet" and began a show biz career that has seen him reach the pin- nacle in vaudeville, night clubs, concerts, radio, TV and movies. 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