‘What’s up, Doc?’: Sultry Streisand’s screwball meshugas

Welcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use.

This week, as Borschel-Dan continues to read Hoffman’s recommendation — “My Name Is Barbra,” Barbra Streisand’s verrrrry long autobiography — we turn to an audience favorite, the 1972 screwball comedy, “What’s Up, Doc?”

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Directed by Peter Bogdanovich, the film is a cleverly stylized updated homage to the golden era of Hollywood. It features Streisand playing a wacky vagabond and hunky Ryan O’Neal as a nerdy musicology prof, plus a slew of then-unknown Jewish stars, including Madeline Kahn. But the real star of the show is the 1970s fashions and cars.

Let’s hear who gave it an “oy,” “meh” or the prized “not bad” this week on The Reel Schmooze.

The Reel Schmooze is produced by Ari Schlacht and can be found wherever you get your podcasts.

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