Funny Girl (film) What infuriated me was the way they did things—never telling me, never talking to me, just cutting. I think they were afraid that if they were nice to me, Barbra would have been upset." In her book "Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture", Joyce Antler writes that Streisand has created several rich images of a Jewish woman within film, "Funny Girl" being one of them. In "Funny Girl", Antler writes, Streisand is able to portray a character that is obviously Jewish, and in this role she creates a space for the intelligent Jewish woman to be
Opening Night (Glee) Opening Night (Glee) "Opening Night" is the seventeenth episode of the fifth season of the American musical television series "Glee", and the 105th episode overall. It was written by Michael Hitchcock and directed by Eric Stoltz, and it aired on Fox in the United States on April 22, 2014, and features Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) opening as Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl" on Broadway. Archive footage of Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) is used in this episode. Out-of-town visitors arrive for Rachel Berry's (Lea Michele) official Broadway opening night in "Funny Girl", including Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch),