LET'S TALK ABOUT BARBRA...... Barbra Streisand (pronounced /ˈstraɪsænd/ STRYE-sand; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, nine Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards,a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award,and a Peabody Award.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Barbra To Attend Wedding Of The Year?
I'm sure it's no surprise to hear that Barbra may attend the wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky on Saturday in Rhinebeck, NY. While there have been no official statements released from Barbra's people -- just about every press report has listed Barbra as an attendee.
We'll let you know if any photographs are released of Barbra at the wedding, but knowing how press-shy Chelsea Clinton is, it's likely to be private family and friend affair.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Hamlisch about Streisand
Marvin Hamlisch gave an interview to BroadwayWorld.com and there's a Barbra mention,
"PC: Could you tell me about working with Fred Ebb? Didn't you consider doing half of THE ACT with him and John Kander? Then you worked on that great TV movie SAM FOUND OUT with Liza Minnelli.
MH: All I can remember is that working with Fred Ebb was a lot of fun. You know, John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote as a team. So, most of the songs that were written when we usually worked with Liza were written by them. However, when it came to doing arrangements and working on the act and putting things together, I loved working with Fred Ebb. We had the best time. He and I were really good friends. It was just delightful. He was a very, very smart man. And he was very funny. And he was very caustic. I think he probably wrote for her better than anyone in the world could have written for her. He just understood her so well.
PC: It's similar to your relationship with Barbra Streisand when you conduct for her - like in The Concert in 1994 - it's almost like a dance. Did you find you brought something out in her no one else ever did?
MH: I'm not sure if that's entirely true, but I will tell that what I enjoyed about Barbra was - well, of course, I would say she has the best voice there is.
PC: I agree.
MH: And I love her desire for perfection.
PC: Of course.
MH: And I also love trying to make her laugh. I think one of the joys of life is trying to make Barbra Streisand laugh. Because when she laughs she's like a little child and it's just wonderful to watch. We had a very, very good time. Then and now."
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/InDepth_InterView_Marvin_Hamlisch_20100722#ixzz0uRSmNQl6
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Barbra Streisand's Quotes
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
Barbra Streisand
Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
Barbra Streisand
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra Streisand
I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
Barbra Streisand
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
Barbra Streisand
I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
Barbra Streisand
I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
Barbra Streisand
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
Barbra Streisand
I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
Barbra Streisand
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
Barbra Streisand
I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
Barbra Streisand
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
Barbra Streisand
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
Barbra Streisand
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
Barbra Streisand
I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
Barbra Streisand
I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
Barbra Streisand
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand
I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
Barbra Streisand
It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
Barbra Streisand
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
Barbra Streisand
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
Barbra Streisand
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
Barbra Streisand
My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
Barbra Streisand
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
Barbra Streisand
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
Barbra Streisand
There is nothing more important in life than love.
Barbra Streisand
They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
Barbra Streisand
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Barbra Streisand
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
Barbra Streisand
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
Barbra Streisand
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
Barbra Streisand
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
Barbra Streisand
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
Barbra Streisand
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
Barbra Streisand
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Sunday, 11 July 2010
Barbra in Aspen
Barbra was in Aspen to attend the 'Aspen Ideas Festival'.Entering its sixth year, the Aspen Ideas Festival is a conversation-packed exploration of some of the most important ideas and pressing issues we face. Presented by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic magazine, the Festival strives to highlight the ideas of experts at the forefront of their fields and of leaders whose actions are changing the world.
Funny Girl- is a 1968 American musical film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart was adapted from her book for the stage musical of the same title. It is based on the life and career of Broadway and film star and comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein. The film was produced by Brice's son-in-law, Ray Stark. The score is by Bob Merrill (lyrics) and Jule Styne (music).
Barbra Streisand, reprising her Broadway role, won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, an honor she shared with Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter.In 2006, the American Film Institute ranked the film #16 on its list commemorating 100 Years of Musicals. Previously it had ranked the film #41 in its 2002 list of 100 Years ... 100 Passions, the songs "People" and "Don't Rain on My Parade" at #13 and #46, respectively, in its 2004 list of 100 Years ... 100 Songs, and the line "Hello, gorgeous" at #81 in its 2005 list of 100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes.
Musical numbers
- "If a Girl Isn't Pretty" - Funny, Rose, and Mrs. Strakosh
- "I'm the Greatest Star" - Funny
- "I'd Rather Be Blue Over You (Than Happy With Somebody Else)" - Funny
- "Rollerskate Rag" - Fanny and the Rollerskate Girls
- "Secondhand Rose" - Funny
- "His Love Makes Me Beautiful" - Funny and Follies Ensemble
- "People" - Funny
- "You Are Woman, I Am Man" - Nick and Funny
- "Don't Rain on My Parade" - Funny
- "Sadie, Sadie" - Funny and Nick
- "Funny Girl" - Funny
- "My Man" - Funny
This is me..
I am Barbra's fan maybe 6-7 years.....she is my heart and soul..
-she is my life's Queen-!
when I started to be her fan I knew that this will be for a very very long time..
first time when I saw BABS It was in very popular movie
THE MIRROS HAS TWO FACES.I was young but I knew that she is the only one whom I admire..and I love for real..she changed my life -radically and she change all around me.. I started to believe in ME that I am strong,free and good enough to choose what I want from this life!
I am in love with her not just because she is a singer or actress BUT BECAUSE she is a simply person..she is not like all celebrities going to make everything just because they are STARS!! SHE IS A DIVA!
Barbra's life.... is one big movie.. and we are watching this movie without any brake!
So.. now! tell me your BARBRA'S story! :) I'd like to know!..
Mother's Curse Barbra offered role?
Hi everyone
According to Playlist.com Barbra and Seth Rogan have been offered the roles of Joyce and Andy Brewster in the movie Mother's Curse.
Bit more about the movie and stuff on our blog.
Nothing official yet - but sounds good!
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