Up the Sandbox (1972)

Barbra Streisand plays a New York housewife who is getting stressed by all the pressures.

Taking an interest in current affairs, she attends a lecture by an unlikely Fidel Castro; his speech is strangely favourable to the feminist cause. Later we see Streisand in a hotel room, with plenty of booze lying around, and Castro is with her privately. He is coming on strong, but he starts to refer to his secret; he pulls open his shirt to reveal two breasts. As he continues to woo Streisand he says, "I am a woman". She ripostes, "You're a dyke!"

HF September 2007

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