Word: prompters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TelePrompTer matter. During her show, a video screen hangs high above the audience, displaying not only the lyrics to her songs but most of the patter in between them. Critics who caught her first concerts in London were derisive. Streisand claims that she hardly ever looks at the prompter but needs it to relieve the stage fright that kept her away from live performing since a 1967 free concert in New York City, when she forgot some song lyrics. "I couldn't be doing this ((touring))," she says, "if I didn't have it as my security blanket. Some people...
...star once tried to alternate boozy evenings. When Ethel's memory failed, he covered for her; when he forgot his lines, she proceeded glibly, "I know what I would say in your position," and delivered his reply. One night when both were drunk, the voice of the prompter filled the air. "We know the line," Ethel growled. "We want to know who says...