After first falling for each other half a century ago, King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla’s romance has survived painful divorce, widespread criticism and a string of scandals. Finally marrying in 2005, they proved they are meant to be together, and now command the respect and admiration from millions, both in the UK and overseas.
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was historic, a Jewish actress playing a proudly Jewish character. “The Way We Were”would build on that breakthrough, providing Streisand with her first dramatic role in which being Jewish was again central to the story. With “The Way We Were,” she was going back to the well of “Funny Girl,” only she was delving deeper.
Much deeper.Again, it was the fairy tale of Cinderella, who, falling in love with the handsome Prince Charming, sheds her drab persona and is made to feel beautiful. The fact that Omar Sharif in the movie version of “Funny Girl” wasn’t Jewish, despite playing a character named Nicky Arnstein, diluted the romance’s Semitism to make it more palatable to general audiences. What Laurents delivered with “The Way We Were” would be radically different due to the male lead character.
What he wrote put on display the various tropes of what it meant to be Jewish in America and how different it was to be Gentile in America. He then let his two protagonists, Katie Morosky and Hubbell Gardiner, meet in the most intimate of contexts: love and marriage. Katie, the Jewish political firebrand, represents discrimination, morality and a fraught past.
Hubbell, the gorgeous Gentile jock for whom everything comes “too easily,” represents privilege, aestheticism, and a wide-open future.The political split embodied by the two characters is obvious. More subtle is the aesthetics divide, which has Katie telling Hubbell, “I’m not attractive in the right way, am I? I don’t have the right style for you, do I?” What could go wrong when such a couple fell in love and got married and had a baby?…It was a subject Laurents not only knew well. He lived it, his many male lovers being as Gentile as they were gorgeous.Laurents wrote a lot
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