Pat Conroy, the South Carolina author of bestsellers including “The Prince of Tides,” “The Great Santini” and “The Lords of Discipline,” died Friday in Beaufort, S.C. He was 70 and had ...

Our Flick of the Week is ”The Prince of Tides,” an overwrought drama in which Barbra Streisand tackles an important subject-child abuse-with a script less sophisticated than the average… ...

The Prince of Tides is a New York Times bestseller by Pat Conroy. Barbara Streisand directed and starred in the film adaptation to the novel in 1991.

With “The Prince of Tides,” Barbra Streisand confirms herself as a director to be reckoned with, and fulfills the promise of “Yentl,” the first feature film that she directed eight years ago.

The fuss began in the summer of 1991, Columbia Pictures held a test screening for “The Prince of Tides,” Streisand’s second film as a director after 1983’s “Yentl.” ...

But for some strange reason, the Academy excluded Streisand for her direction. “The Prince of Tides” was based on Pat Conroy’s bestselling novel and was adapted by Conroy and Becky Johnston, who ...

The network is developing a series adaptation of The Prince of Tides. I hear the hourlong project is expected to stay closer to Pat Conroy’s 1986 novel than to ...