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
Edward S. Feldman Fanny Brice, Feldman handled advertising and publicity for the Broadway production of "Funny Girl" throughout its run. Feldman's first credit as a film producer was the 1971 melodrama "What's the Matter with Helen?" starring Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters. Additional credits include "Save the Tiger", "The Other Side of the Mountain", "Two-Minute Warning", "The Last Married Couple in America", "Hot Dog...The Movie", "Witness", "The Golden Child", "Wired", "Green Card", "The Doctor", "Forever Young", the live-action "The Jungle Book", the live-action "101 Dalmatians" and its sequel, "102 Dalmatians", "The Truman Show", and "". For television, Feldman produced several films and miniseries,