![]() ![]() One can only assume that “E.S.P.” was cut before it was ever filmed. It will take five days to shoot and is timed down to the costume changes and hairdressing.” Times story on producer Howard Koch: “ Donnenfeld wants $250,000 trimmed out of the budget … The trim is accomplished by a slight reshuffling of the schedule and re-planning of a complicated song sequence in which Miss Streisand, as a clairvoyant, appears as all the historical figures she claims to have been in her other lives. The biggest clue about “E.S.P.” was in a 1968 L.A. ![]() Minnelli is on record about cutting this out: “We did … cut out a scene at the Central Park Zoo, because she was wearing a very high-fashion outfit. The audio playback is clearly “Come Back To Me” – Barbra was to have worn that outfit for a mere two lines of the song as she heard the llamas mouthing Chabot’s vocal part. However, Barbra Archives has seen newsreel footage of Streisand wearing the zebra suit, filming this scene at the Central Park Zoo. For years, Streisand bios and fanzines stated that this was an actual “futuristic costume” from one of Daisy’s future-lives featured in “E.S.P.” The “E.S.P.” urban myth gets murkier when one looks at photos of Streisand dressed for the film in a gaudy, yellow, zebra-striped outfit designed by Scaasi. I saw her in distant lands and in distant times.” This line, of course, was cut as well. Later in Lerner’s script, he wrote another curious line for Chabot: “One day in the office she asked me if I had been thinking of her around four o’clock that morning. ” At the conclusion of the song, Chabot suddenly sat upright in bed. Without referencing an actual song title, Lerner wrote: “ Song by Daisy in which she drifts back in time from lifetime to lifetime, changing languages as she goes. Then there is the curious stage direction in Lerner’s final draft that occurs in scene 113 where “Go To Sleep” now resides. #BARBARA STREISAND ON A CLEAR DAY MOVIE#There was a song written for the movie titled “People Like Me (E.S.P.)” – but upon reviewing Lerner’s actual lyrics (see below), the song was intended to be sung twice, with a reprise, by Yves Montand. Recently researchers have been able to look at Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane’s papers and deduce the truth. One week alone was allocated to filming the scene …” Kimbrell wrote: “ was a fascinating production number in which Daisy would appear as all her previous lives, singing in a montage of five languages, French Italian, Spanish, German and English. ![]() Over the years there has been some inaccurate information repeated about a song that was supposedly sung by Streisand and cut from the movie called “E.S.P.” The imprecise story was repeated in James Kimbrell’s otherwise excellent Streisand bio. ![]()
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