Marc discovers some extraordinary qualities in this scatterbrain who can make flowers grow and sense incoming phone calls. Chabon for help to quit smoking on orders from her boring, careerist boyfriend Warren (Larry Blyden). Marc Chabot (played by a curiously distracted Yves Montand). Exit Audrey, enter Barbra - who seemed just right as Daisy Gamble, a kooky co-ed with paranormal abilities who falls in love with an older psychiatrist, Dr. With a tuneful if not-so-memorable score by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane, On a Clear Day began as a modest-sized Broadway hit best described as " My Fair Lady with reincarnation." When Paramount readied it for the screen during the show's 1965-66 run, they envisioned the property as a grand spectacle starring Audrey Hepburn (who wisely turned it down). Except for a few tweaks to the package design, Warner Archive's recent made-on-demand DVD version appears to be an exact duplicate of Paramount's out of print 2005 edition of this two-hour monument to self-affirmation. It's a relentlessly square, misconceived, bloated affair that nevertheless has had a durability that's escaped other big-budget musicals of the day (do you ever hear people going on and on about how fantastic Darling Lili is? I think not). Streisand's 1970 musical represents the ultimate clash between old-style Hollywood production and "hip" New Age metaphysics. Did director Vincente Minnelli plant subliminal messages in this thing, or what? Whenever this daffy musical comes on, however, I find myself weirdly pulled in by it - exactly like Barbra's character, the easily hypnotized Daisy Gamble. Not being a huge fan of Barbra Streisand, it's hard to explain, but let me try. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is one of those movies which is kind of awful, yet at the same time awfully hard to resist.
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