Oh tell me Where is it written it is I'm meant to be That I dare To have the chance to pick the fruit of tree Or have my Of ev'ry possibility?
are questions that women have been asking for centuries, and incredibly enough, I think they're still asking them today! I think that's what attracted me to yentl, and why I had I had to make the film...yentl, as some of you know, is the story of a girl in eastern europe at the turn of the century, when the world of study belonged only to men. but father, recogn Her thirst for knowledge, taught her secretly. and after his death, in order to continue her studies, she had had no choice, but go out into the disguised as a man...
Papa, can you me? Papa, can you me? Papa, can you see me? Papa, can you find me in the Papa, are you me? Papa, can you me? Papa, can you me not be frightened? at the skies, I seem to see a million eyes Which ones are are you now that yesterday Has waved goodbye and closed door? The night is so darker, The wind is so colder The I see is so much bigger Now I'm alone Papa, forgive me Try to me Papa, don't you know I had no Can you me praying, I'm saying, Even though the is filled with voices? I ev'rything you taught me Ev'ry book I've read Can all the in all the books Help me to face what ahead? The trees are so much And I feel so much The moon is as lonely And the are half as bright Papa, how I you Papa, how I you Papa, how I you me goodnight... To go on with the story, em, yentl then meets a boy whom she falls in love with; but it turns out he's already in love with another girl, but because of circumstances I can't go into now, Vented from getting married. and to make a long story short, he asks yentl, who, of course, he thinks is a boy to marry the girl, so he can still see her - not yentl, the girl! so, the gir The girl get married, and if you want to see how yentl got away the wedding night, you'll have to rent the video! it's just a variation on the boy-meets-girl-meets-girl-story, it's very ni S! anyway, mmm, one night he comes over to the house to study. but it's clear that the only he really wants to study is her...not yentl...her wife, her...get it? his eyes never leave her f .
Will someone ever look at me that See the way gaze at her, slaves they follow ev'ywhere she goes. Do my forget themselves And do I look at him And in such a way That what I'm feeling Sometimes I have the feeling ev'rybody And though it's crazy, Still I help wond'ring if I'll ever live to see that day When by some of miracles, He'll turn around and at me way...
A of sky Oh me where? Where is the someone who will and look at me? And want to My sweet-imagined possibility? The I live - the more I learn. The more I learn - the more I The I know. step I take - (papa, I've a voice now!)each page I - (papa, I've a choice now!)each mile I travel only The more I to go. What's wrong wanting more? If you can fly - soar! all there is - why settle for Just a piece of Papa, I can you... Papa, I can see you... Papa, I can you... Papa, me fly! Papa, me fly!
[speaking]thank you! I'm glad you liked that! thank you! thank you! thank you! oh, that's great! thank you! this current administration has beset by many problems. but, it's had many accomp Ents, a fact that sometimes seems to get overlooked nowadays, you know? I guess it is easier to criticize than to praise! so, I'd like to sing song tonight in celebration of every thing tha Ositive and possible in this great country of ours and the world.