What a gentle (yentl...) soul he is. And sings great too. Never had any idea that this is the same actor who starred in Yentl, even though I loved that film throughout my childhood.
Really? In Barbra's book, she writes that he told her " I thought we were going to have an affair" and he was upset, and then she told him "I don't work that way" because he was married with a new baby (which his WIFE AND BABY WAS ON LOCATION with him- someone I know was there), and Barbra said that she wasn't attracted to him. Pretty presumtuous that he wanted an affair. Then she writes that later he came to her for a recommendation for something and she said that she could not write that, but that she got the best out of him as an actor, but that he was a PIA to everyone on set, that he was acting like a Prima Dona. But he told her later that he was scared of her as a director, and he was young and it was his first big role.
I always thought it a little odd that Streisand cast someone who was one of Broadway's biggest stars at the time and didn't have him sing a note. Surely they could have managed at least some kind of duet?
In Barbra's book, she writes that he told her " I thought we were going to have an affair" and he was upset, and then she told him "I don't work that way" because he was married with a new baby (which his WIFE AND BABY WAS ON LOCATION with him- someone I know was there), and Barbra said that she wasn't attracted to him. Pretty presumtuous that he wanted an affair. Then she writes that later he came to her for a recommendation for something and she said that she could not write that, but that she got the best out of him as an actor, but that he was a PIA to everyone on set, that he was acting like a Prima Dona. But he told her later that he was scared of her as a director, and he was young and it was his first big role.
A script helper? Not how Barbra's book says it went .. the script had been written and revised a few times before she approached Mandy. Firstly she wanted Richard Gere for the part (Mandy mentioned him briefly).. but he wouldn't accept her as an actor and director .. she wanted Mandy having searched everywhere because he was .. in her words .. a character actor because she thought she wanted the talent more than the looks in the end (she had wanted someone who had a both masculine and feminine face which Mandy doesn't have) . She sent him the seven-volume 'The Legends of the Jews as a crash course in the Talmud and arranged for him to visit a yeshiva to observe the students. He had homework to do before he stepped on the set she says. In the book she also says they were meant to be lying in bed together having made love .. but by that point Mandy had been making her life miserable for months and she couldn't bear the thought. She had to constantly get him to stop overacting which he felt really difficult. This film was Barbra's first in Directing and it seems she was almost an outcaste in the world of Directing .. Steven Spielberg made a nice comment and after that the press said he was Barbra's mentor on the movie when in fact he had nothing to do with it, which he himself said about later (the mark of a true genius). Men always seem to have to be in charge, take the credit etc as Mandy does here saying he helped with the script well it's well done to Barbra for her wonderful effort in bringing Yentl to the screen .. as both an actress and a Director ... she excelled. Pity the men in the industry feel so threatened by her they couldn't give her the true credit she deserved .. guess it says more about them than her .. a true genius doesn't have to belittle anyone to be great themselves .. they just are great (like Steven Spielberg). At least Mandy says here Barbra was wonderful. I have to give Barbra credit she doesn't see criticism as a put down but rather as a learning opportunity .. another mark of a true genius in my opinion.
Thank you, well said! Exactly what I came here to say. He comes across like an arrogant ass to me. And then has to make comments about what Barbra ate and her toilet? He's a jerk as far as I can see. And I too listen to Her memoir.And yeah I totally believe her story.🙄
Richard Gere as Avigdor? Now that would have been something. Yentl would have really been drooling with desire in every scene. Babs might have changed the ending so they live happily ever after. LOL
Amazing movie-the songs, the very best. But what was really strange, to me, was that even though Streisand sings like nobodies business-and who can deny that?, but still, not one song in this movie sung by Mandy, who also sings like no one I have ever heard.
That could be. But he tells the story differently than that. He said he declined the project, then he was invited to meet her. He went on to say that he openly told her WHY he was not comfortable with it as written and that she was extremely open to criticism, and that they sat down and went through it, pretty well line by line, and she encouraged his edits. When finished, he was on board, welcomed by Streisand as a collaborator on the project.
I was thinking that way about Barbra too... But then what I realized was that Yentl is a story about this girl's point of view experience, she only sings when she was thinking in the experience. There are Yentl's thoughts with melodies. Even though I love Mandy's beautiful voice, wishing he had sang in Yentl... if Mandy joined in, it might not feel right.
No. The whole idea of the film was that the narrative ( point of view) was singular & coming from the main protagonist (Yentl). If Mandy or any other characters had sung then it would have thrown the narrative into a kind of dissolution. It would have taken away the focus without adding anything other than melody.
Is this the show where MP sings "Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious" in Yiddish? Do you have that clip? There is one on YT but it stops short after only ten seconds.
He's being so nice. Streisand is a complete narcissist. She hires the most beautiful voice on Broadway and doesn't give him a single song to sing. Oh and look at Rosie when she put in the effort to pretend she was nice.
He comes across as an arrogant ass, imo.. Criticizing her decor, talking about her toilet, her snacks. And he did not help Barbra write the script. Why did he feel he had to knock Barbra down? Men are so threatened by strong brilliant women. Seems he only spoke niceties when Rosie prompted him too. Read her book.🙄
My Lord, does she love Barbra or what?! I mean, Mandy is right there in front of you, (do you know what I'd give to be able to talk to him?) and you want to talk about BARBRA?
Evita was his show when I saw it in previews. This guy is so intense. Yentl was beautiful, but streisand is unwatchable in it. She needs strong directors to get rid of her affectations.
That movie went against everything Hollywood believes and practices. No one honestly talked about the message of that movie. Great lines like the one he was about to say before they cut off the clip. *"There's nothing more beautiful in the* *world then being able to give birth to sons, being a wife and a* *mother, ...it's a gift"* or when Barbara was explaining to Avecdore in the last scenes when she revealed herself and they were talking about her marrying Hadass. *Avedore: "It's* *valid Rabbi's witnessed it"* Yentyl: *"Witnessed what? a* *marriage between two women? it's null and void"* Then he pushes the point of the Rabbi's Testament, and she says * Avecdore, according to *God* it was not a marriage"!* Yeah stuff like that, right in their own faces and yet they gloss over it with these stupid interviews talking about any and everything else but the obvious... By the way they never play this movie. You always have to go and seek it out.
Actually, the main message of the story is how sexist and illogical the rules of religion are: Excluding women from even the opportunity to learn their faith's literature, then claiming that women aren't intelligent enough to understand it all. The basic refrains are: "You can't because you're a woman," and "Because it's written in our holy book" (which is written by men who are presumably transcribing G-d's laws).
My appreciation of Streisand was permanently lessened by her enormous, fragile ego that would not allow a vocal artist such as Patinkin to sing in her ego trip of a movie. Such a shame.
![GEEK TIMË [OFFICIAL AUDIO]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ry-6RvkH880/mqdefault.jpg)
Went to see Mandy and Patti in Evita on Broadway 5 times...phenomenal..
I really feel like Streisand got robbed this film was a masterpiece should have gotten some awards
I wish there is a way the Academy award can correct their mistakes!
She was phenomenal in the film!
Agreed!
I agree. Yentl was a peice of Gold.
Totally, that's why there were the big protests in the US in front of the AA that night.
Really liked Yentl. Just wish that Mandy had a song or two to sing in it.
He was hot as hell in this movie ❤️. Js😘
Damn right - what a hunk!
Agreed 👍
I'm so glad he decided to do the film.
Barbra was not.
I saw Mandy in his one-man show (not Mamaloshen) and he was excellent. He gives 100% to his performance. It was a treat to watch him work.
What a gentle (yentl...) soul he is. And sings great too. Never had any idea that this is the same actor who starred in Yentl, even though I loved that film throughout my childhood.
Really? In Barbra's book, she writes that he told her " I thought we were going to have an affair" and he was upset, and then she told him "I don't work that way" because he was married with a new baby (which his WIFE AND BABY WAS ON LOCATION with him- someone I know was there), and Barbra said that she wasn't attracted to him. Pretty presumtuous that he wanted an affair. Then she writes that later he came to her for a recommendation for something and she said that she could not write that, but that she got the best out of him as an actor, but that he was a PIA to everyone on set, that he was acting like a Prima Dona. But he told her later that he was scared of her as a director, and he was young and it was his first big role.
I'm watching this video because they are talking bout Yentl and Barbra Streisand. Mandy was so proud of himself!
i love him!
One of my favorite romantic movies. Mandy looks better than ever now.
I heard that its coming out on DVD in Febuary of 2009. Im so excited!
OMGosh, Mandy! I disn know you had it in ya!
His RUclips channel is HILARIOUS.
I always thought it a little odd that Streisand cast someone who was one of Broadway's biggest stars at the time and didn't have him sing a note. Surely they could have managed at least some kind of duet?
You are breathtaking...German my first language. I was born in Bethlehem. Gott is Everything
It's my pleasure! I am glad that you are enjoying them. It would be a shame if I wasn't able to share these clips with other Mandy fans.
In Barbra's book, she writes that he told her " I thought we were going to have an affair" and he was upset, and then she told him "I don't work that way" because he was married with a new baby (which his WIFE AND BABY WAS ON LOCATION with him- someone I know was there), and Barbra said that she wasn't attracted to him. Pretty presumtuous that he wanted an affair. Then she writes that later he came to her for a recommendation for something and she said that she could not write that, but that she got the best out of him as an actor, but that he was a PIA to everyone on set, that he was acting like a Prima Dona. But he told her later that he was scared of her as a director, and he was young and it was his first big role.
Rosie thank you. Many, awesome.
Why court a Broadway and Tony award winner - but give him no songs in Yentl?
So when will he star in Fiddler On The Roof?
Elliott Gould should do fiddler as well.
A script helper? Not how Barbra's book says it went .. the script had been written and revised a few times before she approached Mandy. Firstly she wanted Richard Gere for the part (Mandy mentioned him briefly).. but he wouldn't accept her as an actor and director .. she wanted Mandy having searched everywhere because he was .. in her words .. a character actor because she thought she wanted the talent more than the looks in the end (she had wanted someone who had a both masculine and feminine face which Mandy doesn't have) . She sent him the seven-volume 'The Legends of the Jews as a crash course in the Talmud and arranged for him to visit a yeshiva to observe the students. He had homework to do before he stepped on the set she says.
In the book she also says they were meant to be lying in bed together having made love .. but by that point Mandy had been making her life miserable for months and she couldn't bear the thought. She had to constantly get him to stop overacting which he felt really difficult.
This film was Barbra's first in Directing and it seems she was almost an outcaste in the world of Directing .. Steven Spielberg made a nice comment and after that the press said he was Barbra's mentor on the movie when in fact he had nothing to do with it, which he himself said about later (the mark of a true genius).
Men always seem to have to be in charge, take the credit etc as Mandy does here saying he helped with the script well it's well done to Barbra for her wonderful effort in bringing Yentl to the screen .. as both an actress and a Director ... she excelled. Pity the men in the industry feel so threatened by her they couldn't give her the true credit she deserved .. guess it says more about them than her .. a true genius doesn't have to belittle anyone to be great themselves .. they just are great (like Steven Spielberg). At least Mandy says here Barbra was wonderful. I have to give Barbra credit she doesn't see criticism as a put down but rather as a learning opportunity .. another mark of a true genius in my opinion.
Thank you, well said! Exactly what I came here to say. He comes across like an arrogant ass to me. And then has to make comments about what Barbra ate and her toilet? He's a jerk as far as I can see. And I too listen to Her memoir.And yeah I totally believe her story.🙄
Yep! Mandy is taking all kinds of credit for something he never did! I know people who were there!
WOW
He did a great job on Jason Gideon Criminal Minds
I met him all the time after the concerts and he took a picture with me
Richard Gere as Avigdor? Now that would have been something. Yentl would have really been drooling with desire in every scene. Babs might have changed the ending so they live happily ever after. LOL
Amazing movie-the songs, the very best. But what was really strange, to me, was that even though Streisand sings like nobodies business-and who can deny that?, but still, not one song in this movie sung by Mandy, who also sings like no one I have ever heard.
Absolutely my thoughts as well. Maybe Streisand is as selfish an egomaniac as is claimed by many.
That could be. But he tells the story differently than that. He said he declined the project, then he was invited to meet her. He went on to say that he openly told her WHY he was not comfortable with it as written and that she was extremely open to criticism, and that they sat down and went through it, pretty well line by line, and she encouraged his edits. When finished, he was on board, welcomed by Streisand as a collaborator on the project.
I was thinking that way about Barbra too... But then what I realized was that Yentl is a story about this girl's point of view experience, she only sings when she was thinking in the experience. There are Yentl's thoughts with melodies. Even though I love Mandy's beautiful voice, wishing he had sang in Yentl... if Mandy joined in, it might not feel right.
No. The whole idea of the film was that the narrative ( point of view) was singular & coming from the main protagonist (Yentl). If Mandy or any other characters had sung then it would have thrown the narrative into a kind of dissolution. It would have taken away the focus without adding anything other than melody.
@@peterdavino4408 Right. All songs are inner monologues from Yentl.
Is this the show where MP sings "Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious" in Yiddish? Do you have that clip? There is one on YT but it stops short after only ten seconds.
I had no idea he'd been on Shalom Sesame Street, very cool!
He was in the pilot, and some footage from the pilot ended up in one of the episode.
Excellent!
L'chaim from Jerusalem...my Hebrew name is Jacova...God is Avra...I am Azra.
You'd think he would have pooped before going into her house.
Issac looks like his Mom
What the name of the host
Rosie O’Donnell, I believe.
Well, the title displayed is “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” so that would be a huge clue.
@@Elizabeth-rq1vi my kind of humour!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤
Is this Barbra's worst movie? Hardly.
Daisy gamble, the main event, the mirror has 2 faces….so many crappy films. Not the same talent as streisand of the 60’s.
He's being so nice. Streisand is a complete narcissist. She hires the most beautiful voice on Broadway and doesn't give him a single song to sing. Oh and look at Rosie when she put in the effort to pretend she was nice.
He comes across as an arrogant ass, imo.. Criticizing her decor, talking about her toilet, her snacks.
And he did not help Barbra write the script. Why did he feel he had to knock Barbra down? Men are so threatened by strong brilliant women. Seems he only spoke niceties when Rosie prompted him too. Read her book.🙄
My Lord, does she love Barbra or what?! I mean, Mandy is right there in front of you, (do you know what I'd give to be able to talk to him?) and you want to talk about BARBRA?
You either get the Barbra obsession or you don't
To us it is all about Barbra, lol.
Evita was his show when I saw it in previews. This guy is so intense. Yentl was beautiful, but streisand is unwatchable in it. She needs strong directors to get rid of her affectations.
i know somewhere who worked with mandy...
let's just say......he's not a very kind person....
That movie went against everything Hollywood believes and practices. No one honestly talked about the message of that movie. Great lines like the one he was about to say before they cut off the clip. *"There's nothing more beautiful in the*
*world then being able to give birth to sons, being a wife and a* *mother, ...it's a gift"* or when Barbara was explaining to Avecdore in the last scenes when she revealed herself and
they were talking about her marrying Hadass. *Avedore: "It's* *valid Rabbi's witnessed it"* Yentyl: *"Witnessed what? a* *marriage between two women? it's null and void"* Then he pushes the point of the Rabbi's Testament, and she says
* Avecdore, according to *God* it was not a marriage"!*
Yeah stuff like that, right in their own faces and yet they gloss over it with these stupid interviews talking about any
and everything else but the obvious... By the way they never play this movie. You always have to go and seek it out.
Actually, the main message of the story is how sexist and illogical the rules of religion are:
Excluding women from even the opportunity to learn their faith's literature, then claiming that women aren't intelligent enough to understand it all.
The basic refrains are: "You can't because you're a woman," and "Because it's written in our holy book" (which is written by men who are presumably transcribing G-d's laws).
@@sole_to_soul Just please read what I wrote once again...
@@atlasshrugged2u I already read your opinion, and then I offered mine.
@@sole_to_soul Ok then.
@@atlasshrugged2u Read what you wrote once again? You can´t even spell Avigdor, Barbra or Yentl.
Barbra ate all of them. That's a real Jew for you. :D ♥
StreisandLove dude wtf
??
and barbra repaid his kindness by allowing him to sing nothing in her film!
The movie is called Yentl not avigdor.
Yentl is the first person narrator. She’s the only one who sings. It’s not a traditional musical sadly.
@@cecilyerker well said
My appreciation of Streisand was permanently lessened by her enormous, fragile ego that would not allow a vocal artist such as Patinkin to sing in her ego trip of a movie. Such a shame.
What about Funny Girl? Yentl is a story of Yentl. Streisand knew exactly how to tell it on the screen. Patinkin singing would be a distraction, sorry.
To be absolutely fair, no other characters sing either
The studios made Barbra sing to get the movie made! I don't think she wanted a musical.
Too bad he was such an a-hole to Streisand during the filming of the movie.
yes, exactly, great book!@SamuelM.-iz1un
Gold-durned resbians!!!