Barbra Streisand
Director, Musician, and Actor
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at last, hollywood pays homage to its grand dame...Health, and had smaller roles in films like Misery and Dinner at Eight. In 1996, she delivered a memorably salty performance in Barbra Streisand's otherwise unremarkable romantic comedy The Mirror Has Two Faces. She won a Golden Globe, and... In this article: Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Oscar, Howard Hawks, Cancer, How to Marry a Millionaire, To Have and Have Not, and Juliette Binoche |
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washingtonpost.com | 1 day ago
Taylor Swift's dream year brings out naysayers
...note but because it connects with me in some profound emotional way. While it may not be a Celine Dion or Barbra Streisand voice, whatever she's got is something that people are really connecting to," he said. Swift will not be at the AMA's...
In this article: Taylor Swift, Auto-Tune, Fearless, Circus, American Music Awards, and Entertainment Weekly
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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | 1 day ago
Hoffman May No Longer Make A FOCKing Appearance, But Streisand Will!!
...Hoffman was to reprise his "Bernie Focker" role in the new FOCKERS movie - albeit in cameo form. This may not be happening now. Barbara Streisand, who played Hoffman's wife/Stiller's mother in MEET THE FOCKERS will have a "prominent" part in...
In this article: Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Streisand, Meet the Fockers, Ben Stiller, and Meet the Parents
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Reuters | 1 day ago
Top Jazz Albums for the 11/28/2009 issue
Now Last Weeks Peak 1 1 6 1 Crazy Love - Michael Buble (/Warner Bros.) 2 2 5 2 Love Is The Answer - Barbra Streisand (/Sony Music) 3 1 3 Letters To Santa: A Holiday Musical Collection - Various Artists () 4 3 9 1 Your Songs - Harry...
In this article: Sony, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Harry Connick, Jr., Diana Krall, and Madison Square Garden
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Entertainment Weekly | 1 day ago
Dustin Hoffman out of 'Little Fockers'?
Those of you looking forward to seeing Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand reunite as Bernie and Roz Focker, you may have to just rent Meet the Fockers again. It's looking like Hoffman isn't returning to the third installment in the Meet...
In this article: Dustin Hoffman, Meet the Fockers, Meet the Parents, Universal, and Ben Stiller
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L.A. Times - Books | 2 days ago
'Open' by Andre Agassi
...autobiography, was taken by Martin Schoeller, an Annie Leibovitz disciple. The book begins with a quote from Vincent van Gogh; Barbra Streisand is thanked in the acknowledgments. The ghostwriter is J.R. Moehringer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
In this article: Andre Agassi, J.R. Moehringer, Pete Sampras, Nick Bollettieri, Bjorn Borg, Steffi Graf, and Las Vegas
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washingtonpost.com | 4 days ago
Composer Legrand spinning windmills of his mind
...on to win another Oscar for "The Summer of '42" (1971), featuring the song "The Summer Knows," and in 1983 won a third for the Barbra Streisand movie "Yentl." His true passion though, is jazz, which he first heard while growing up in...
In this article: Michel Legrand, The Thomas Crown Affair, Norman Jewison, Oscar Peterson, Hal Ashby, The Windmills of Your Mind, Paris, NEW YORK, and Hollywood
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Guardian | 6 days ago
Diamonds are forever … and so it seems in Shirley Bassey's career
...stage put younger acts to shame. Leonard Cohen has played to the biggest audiences of his life, aged 75, and when 67-year-old Barbra Streisand's 63rd album climbed to the top spot on the UK charts last month she became one of a handful...
In this article: Shirley Bassey, Official UK Charts Company, Zavvi, Woolworths, Arctic Monkeys, UK, Vera Lynn, and Coldplay
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BBC News | November 13, 2009
Reynolds returns to the West End
...three marriages. "It's a variety show," said Reynolds, the mother of Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher. "I get to do impressions of Barbra Streisand, Mae West, Katherine Hepburn - even Jimmy Stewart." The actress, who was nominated for an...
In this article: Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, London, Oscar, Bobbi Adler, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Taliban, US, and Mae West
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Chicago Tribune | November 12, 2009
Mother love the theme of Kazan's recent career
...from a glamour girl playing hookers to a madam to a mother. QI'm not sure it's well known that your big break came when you were Barbra Streisand's understudy in "Funny Girl" on Broadway. AI went on for two performances in one day. The...
In this article: Bette Midler, Chicago, Escrow, and Adam Sandler
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Stuff | November 04, 2009
Barbra Streisand set for capital show
By DAVE BURGESS - The Dominion Post Barbra Streisand looks set to perform a concert at Westpac Stadium next year. Music Ian Brown held for 'wife assault' Fat Freddy's Drop announce summer tour Aguilera's son to watch 'Dirrty' Sick...
In this article: The Dominion Post, Westpac Stadium, Stage fright, Memory, You Don't Bring Me Flowers, Kelly Clarkson, and October
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Description from Wikipedia:
Barbra Joan Streisand (pronounced: /ˈstraɪsænd/ STRY-sand; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, liberal political activist, film producer, and director. She has won two Academy Awards, nine Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, and is one of the very few entertainers to have won all of these honors, although she has yet to win a competitive Tony Award. In 2008 she was inducted as a Kennedy Centre Honoree. Streisand received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2001.
She is one of the most commercially and critically successful female entertainers in modern entertainment history and one of the best selling solo recording artists with over 71 millon albums sold in the US and 140 million albums sold worldwide. She is the highest ranking female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list.
According to the RIAA, Streisand has a total of 29 Top Ten albums to her credit since 1963. Streisand has the widest span (34 years) between first and latest Top 10 albums of any female recording artist. Streisand also holds the record for most Top 10 albums of any female recording artist. Her RIAA tally shows she has released 50 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums. Currently, Streisand appears at #7 on the RIAA list of Top Selling Artists, with over 70 million albums sold, right behind Billy Joel and Pink Floyd. She is currently #1 in all-time sales among female artists.
- Name At Birth:
- Barbara Joan Streisand
- Birth Date:
- April 24, 1942
- Birthplace:
- Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Occupation:
- Singer, actress, producer, director
- Record Label:
- Columbia
- Years Active:
- 1957–present
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