The Main Event

At an LA party where newly bankrupt perfume exec Hillary (Barbra Streisand), with help from her ex-husband lawyer (Paul Sand) is looking to sell shares in her last asset, over-the-hill fighter Eddie (Ryan O’Neal), who tangles with a pompous guest (John Reilly) in The Main Event, 1979.

Beginning off-camera, playing a double-entendre joke about drugs, we meet Barbra Streisand as perfume entrepreneur Hillary, then visit her workout, early in the aerobics fad, in The Main Event, 1979, produced by Jon Peters (Barbra’s husband), co-starring Ryan O’Neal.

Barbra Streisand is suddenly-broke perfume magnate Hillary, come to an LA gym to find her only remaining asset, the fighter her crooked business manager set up as a tax dodge, Ryan O’Neal as Eddie “Kid Natural” Scanlon, Whitman Mayo his manager, early in The Main Event, 1979.