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What's Up, Doc?

Movie Review/First Published: April 1972

   

My High School Reviews
 
Reviewing What's Up, Doc? was my first effort as a journalist and the Radio City Music Hall program was my first Streisand collectible.
   

   
From April, 1972

I've been a fan of Barbra's since 1970. As a reporter for my high school newspaper, I was able to get my personal reviews of several Barbra Streisand movies printed, regardless of whether or not my classmates were interested. Here, re-published some 37 years later is the first of those reviews from my perspective as a very young and overly enthusiastic fan.

I had recently seen my first Barbra Streisand movie, "What's Up, Doc?" at Radio City Music Hall in New York and couldn't wait to get my zestful review in print. And despite how many times I told the printing staff how to correctly spell her name, they just couldn't get it right.  It was my first review and they botched it.  I felt as though I had personally let Barbra down and suddenly knew of her frustrations.