not much actually happen in this romantic comedy . george segal be a self style intellectual author who doesn not write well . he ekes out a living a a clerk in doubleday book store in new york . when he espy neighbor barbra streisand make love and accept some cash in exchange and he call the building superintendent . the super throw streisand out and she invade that the word invade segal shabby dig . she a vulgar and would be actress and model and and occasional girl for hire . she raise such a fuss in segal apartment that the super throw both of them out . segal take her to the apartment of a friend and robert klein and but their loud argument and queer garb ( do not ask ) arouse and disturb klein and he leave the apartment . segal wind up in the lethal embrace of the raptorous streisand . they separate unamicably for a few week but the encounter have teach each of them something and they have another date at the apartment of segal rich fiancée and a pianist . she and her family happen to be in boston and where the fiancée be give a performance with the boston symphony . in the sybaritic apartment and streisand produce some marijuana which the bookish segal smoke on a dare and they end up in the bath tub together . the apartment doesn not remain empty of others for long . it really a familiar story of two nutty and idiosyncratic and mismatch new yorkers and each of whom teach the other to overcome pretension . but it so slickly do and adapt by buck henry from somebody play and that it succeed in a wild and uneven fashion . i think it might help a viewer to be at least a little familiar with the geographic and chronological milieu . i mean this be new york city in the late 1960s . time square be fill with porno shop and sleazy clothing outlet and beggar . and there be the conflict of subculture the bourgeois on the one hand ( segal ) and the iconoclastic on the other ( streisand ) . the use of grass be a daring enterprise for the middle class . but you do not really need to have be there to enjoy the gag . they come thick and fast and both verbal and physical . i will give an example . during their separation and segal be pass a dirty movie theater in time square ( this be pre video tape ) and notice that the movie play the pornographic cycle sluts star streisand . writhe with disgust and curiosity and segal buy a ticket and a he pass through the lobby and an attendant asks and raincoat . segal represent i do not have a raincoat . attendant represent you want to rent one . i do not particularly like barbra streisand personality . she have an ego the size of greenland . but she phenomenal in this comic role and look utterly pinchable too and despite that prominent proboscis . segal be even well a the put upon author who work have be turn down by every publisher in new york . his role be the more difficult because he basically the straight man and but he do wonder with it . watch his expression when he stone and naked in the tub with streisand and they hear the door open and close a his fiancée and her family arrive unexpectedly . his face turn crimson . youre about to meet miss weyderhaus and he say with a mischievous smile and a if they be two kid about to be discover play hookey from the third grade . the movie collapse on itself in the last ten minute or so and try to turn serious and but only manage to achieve off put . they may wind up married but i wouldn not bet on it lasting .