FUNNY LADY

Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Ben Vereen,

Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall, Larry Gates

Columbia Pictures; Directed by Herbert Ross

Rated PG; 138 minutes; 1975

A continuation of "FUNNY GIRL", recounts Fanny Brice’s tumultuous marriage to showman Billy Rose in the 1930s and her lingering affection for first husband Nick Amstein. This is one of the rare sequels that are just as good, or at least almost, as the original.