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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough with approximately 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area.
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Fort Lauderdale
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Hungry i
The hungry i was originally a nightclub in North Beach, San Francisco. It was launched by Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, who sold it to Enrico Banducci in 1950.
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Las Vegas Valley
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Malibu, California
Malibu is an affluent, beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 12,575. Malibu consists of a strip of Pacific coastline. The community is famous for its warm, sandy beaches, and for being the home of most movie stars and others associated with the entertainment industry. Signs around the city proclaim "27 miles of scenic beauty", referring to Malibu's original length of before it was incorporated in 1991.
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MGM Grand Hotel
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia () is the largest city in Pennsylvania, sixth-most-populous city in the United States and the fifty-first most populous city in the world.
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Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton is the capital of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. As of 2008, the United States Census Bureau estimated that the city of Trenton had a population of 82,883.
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than sixty percent of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers (a point now commonly known as The Forks).
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Acker Bilk
Bernard Stanley "Acker" Bilk MBE (born 28 January 1929, Pensford, Somerset, England) is an English clarinetist. He is known for his trademark goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style.
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Al Kasha
Al Kasha (born 22 January 1937) is a Brooklyn–born composer, songwriter and arranger, as well as businessman. He is most noted for his years of collaboration with songwriter Joel Hirschhorn. The two wrote and collaborated many successful songs for many musical groups such as The Peppermint Rainbow's "Will You Be Staying With Me Sunday" .
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Al Pacino
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Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. In 1956 he became an American citizen while remaining a British subject.
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Amanda McBroom
Amanda McBroom (born August 9, 1947) is an American singer, song-writer and cabaret performer. One of the songs she has written is "The Rose," which Bette Midler sang in the movie of the same name. She is also known for writing some of the songs in The Land Before Time film series with Michele Brourman.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer of musical theatre. He started composing at the age of six, and published his first piece at the age of nine.
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Andrew Rosenthal
Andrew Rosenthal (born 1956 in New Delhi, India) is an American journalist and editorial page editor of The New York Times. Rosenthal is in charge of the paper's opinion pages, both in the newspaper and online. He oversees the editorial board, the Letters and Op-Ed departments, as well as the Editorial and Op-Ed sections of NYTimes.com. The New York Times maintains a separation between the editorial department of the paper and the news department. Rosenthal answers directly to the publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
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Andy Gibb
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Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She became famous for her starring roles in Bye, Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid, Carnal Knowledge, and Tommy. Her later career includes character roles in Grumpy Old Men, Any Given Sunday, , and The Break-Up. She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. On August 21, 2010, she won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on .
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Anne Bancroft
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Anne Fletcher
Anne Fletcher (born May 1, 1966) is an American film director and choreographer.
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Anne Murray
Morna Anne Murray CC, ONS (born June 20, 1945) is a Canadian singer. Murray has performed in pop, country and adult contemporary styles. So far, her albums have sold over 54 million copies.
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Anthony Quinn
:For other people named Anthony Quinn see Anthony Quinn (disambiguation)
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as The Queen of Soul. Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B; and gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Franklin No. 1 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time.
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Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller, OC (born 22 November 1923) is a Canadian film director. His filmography includes 33 major studio releases, including the 1970 film Love Story.
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Arthur Rubinstein
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short stint as a stage actress, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television.
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
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Barry Dennen
Barry Dennen (born February 22, 1938) is an American actor, singer, and writer.
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Barry Manilow
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Barry Sadler
Barry Sadler (November 1, 1940 – September 8, 1989) was an American author and musician. Sadler served as a Green Beret medic and Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Most of his works have military themes, and he billed himself under his military rank as SSgt Barry Sadler.
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Ben Stiller
Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, writer, film director, and producer. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.
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Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers.
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Bette Davis
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Bette Midler
Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress and comedian, also known (by her informal stage name) as The Divine Miss M. She has starred in live-action films such as Ruthless People, Beaches and Hocus Pocus, as well as featuring in animated films such as Oliver & Company and Fantasia 2000.
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Betty Box
Betty Box (25 September 1915 - 15 January 1999) was a prolific British film producer. She is considered one of the best of her generation, with a flair for making films that captured the spirit of the English working class.
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) is the former 42nd President of the United States and served from 1993 to 2001. At 46 he was the third-youngest president. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and was the first baby boomer president. His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is currently the United States Secretary of State. Each received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Yale Law School.
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Bill Evans
William John Evans, known as Bill Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John Taylor, Steve Kuhn, Don Friedman, Marian McPartland, Denny Zeitlin, Bobo Stenson, Michel Petrucciani and Keith Jarrett, as well as many other musicians world-wide. The music of Bill Evans continues to inspire younger pianists like Marcin Wasilewski, Fred Hersch, Bill Charlap, Lyle Mays, Eliane Elias and arguably Brad Mehldau, early in his career. He is considered by some to be the most influential post World War II jazz pianist.
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Billy Crystal
William Edward "Billy" Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes When Harry Met Sally... and City Slickers. Additionally, he has hosted the Academy Awards eight times.
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Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (22 June 190627 March 2002) was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people who have won three Academy Awards for producing, directing and writing the same film (The Apartment).
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Blythe Danner
Blythe Katherine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow.
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Bob Newhart
George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929), known professionally as, Bob Newhart, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery, Newhart is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s sitcom Newhart.
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Bobby Lewis
Bobby Lewis (born February 17, 1933, Indianapolis, Indiana) is an African American rock and roll and R&B; singer.
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Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, California) is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group.
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Bruce Johnston
Bruce Arthur Johnston (born Benjamin Baldwin on June 27, 1942) is a member of The Beach Boys and a songwriter, remembered especially for composing "I Write the Songs". Johnston was not one of the original members of the band. He joined the band on April 9, 1965 after Glen Campbell (who was substituting on stage for the group's chief song writer Brian Wilson) decided to embark on a solo career. Johnston's first vocal recording with the Beach Boys was "California Girls."
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of Heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
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Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams, OC, OBC (born Bryan Guy Adams, 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and photographer.
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Burton Lane
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Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedienne, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she debuted on television. After successful appearances on The Garry Moore Show, Carol moved to Los Angeles and began an eleven-year run on The Carol Burnett Show which was aired on CBS television from 1967 to 1978. With roots in vaudeville, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show combining comedy sketches, song, and dance. The comedy sketches ranged from film parodies to character pieces which featured the many talents of Burnett herself who created and played several well-known and distinctive characters.
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Carole King
Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two-dozen hits during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King's album Tapestry topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks, in 1971, and remained on the charts for more than six years.
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Carrie Snodgress
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Celine Dion
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Charles Jarrott
Charles Jarrott is a British film director, born in 1927. He is best known for costume dramas he directed for producer Hal Wallis, among them, Anne of the Thousand Days, which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Director in 1970.
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Cher
Cher (; born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American recording artist, actress, director and record producer. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes, a Cannes Film Festival Award and a People's Choice Award for her work in film, music and television.
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Chevy Chase
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Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera (born January 23, 1933) is an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award (December 2002). She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
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Christian Bale
Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor. In addition to starring roles in big budget Hollywood films, he has long been heavily involved in films produced by independent producers and art houses.
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Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.
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Clint Eastwood
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Cloris Leachman
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Céline Dion
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Dana Carvey
Dana Thomas Carvey (born June 2, 1955) is an American actor and stand-up comedian, best known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for playing the role of Garth in the ''Wayne's World'' movies.
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Dave Brubeck
David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (born December 6, 1920) is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.
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David Ellison
David Ellison is an American actor and producer.
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David Lean
Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 190816 April 1991) was a British filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia,
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David Shire
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals and film and television scores. The soundtrack to the movie The Taking of Pelham 123 and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as Night on Disco Mountain, an adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, are some of his best know of his best known works. Shire is married to actress Didi Conn.
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Dean Pitchford
Dean Pitchford (born July 29, 1951 in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) is a songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and novelist. His work has earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three additional Oscars, two more Golden Globes, seven Grammy Awards and two Tony Awards.
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Diana Krall
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Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has sold more than 150 million records.
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Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall; January 5, 1946) is an American film actress, director, producer, and writer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen beginning with Play It Again, Sam in 1972. Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actor. Her fourth, Annie Hall (1977), won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
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Don Black (lyricist)
Don Black, OBE (born 21 June 1938) is an English lyricist. His works have included numerous musicals, movie themes and hit songs. He has provided lyrics for John Barry, Charles Strouse, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Quincy Jones, Jule Styne, Henry Mancini, Michael Jackson, Elmer Bernstein, Michel Legrand, A. R. Rahman and Marvin Hamlisch.
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Don Rickles
Donald Jay "Don" Rickles (born May 8, 1926) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. A frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Rickles has acted in comedic and dramatic roles, but is best known as an insult comic. However, unlike many insult comics who only find short-lived success, Rickles has enjoyed a sustained career, thanks to a distinct sense of humor, a very sharp wit and impeccable timing.
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Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (born December 31, 1948), known by her stage name, Donna Summer is an American singer who gained prominence and notoriety during the disco era of the seventies with the majority of her early work produced by the team of Giorgio Moroder and Pete Belotte.
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Doris Day
Doris Day (born April 3, 1922) is an American actress and singer, and has been an outspoken animal rights activist since her retirement from show business. Day's entertainment career began in her late teens as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording , "Sentimental Journey", and, in 1948, appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas. During her entertainment career, she has appeared in thirty-nine films, recorded more than six-hundred-fifty songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
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Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable types of characters.
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Eddie Izzard
Edward John "Eddie" Izzard (born 7 February 1962) is a British stand-up comedian, actor and voice-over artist. His comedy style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime.
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Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch (born February 2, 1926) is an American actress and vocalist. She has appeared in numerous stage plays and musicals, feature films, and many television programs. She is known for her performance of "The Ladies Who Lunch" in Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical Company, her 2001 one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty, and recently for her role as Jack Donaghy's mother Colleen on NBC's 30 Rock. She has been nominated for the Tony Award four times in various categories, and Elaine Stritch at Liberty won. She appeared on the Cosby show.
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Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932), also known as Liz Taylor, is an English-American actress. She is known for her acting talent and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages. Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden age.
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932) is an American actress, who has worked in film, stage and television.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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Elvis Presley
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Enrico Banducci
Enrico Banducci - born Harry Banducci - (February 17, 1922 – October 9, 2007) was an American impresario. Banducci operated the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where he launched the careers of Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters, and Barbra Streisand, and featured Woody Allen and Dick Cavett before they were well-known, as well as countless folk singers. The hungry i featured the original brick wall in the stage background, a staple for stand up comedy presentations ever since. Banducci bought the hungry i from its founder, Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, in 1950. Banducci later also started the Clown Alley hamburger stand as well as Enrico's Sidewalk Cafe on Broadway, a restaurant and jazz club that has been in and out of business (as of 2007 it remains in operation under new ownership).
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Ethel Merman
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Euel Box
Euel Box (b. Dec 31, 1928, Georgetown, TX) is a music producer, composer, arranger, and trumpeter who has written major film scores and radio jingles for major markets.
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Evan Goldberg
Evan Goldberg (born 1982) is a Canadian comedy television and film writer and producer from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Goldberg attended Point Grey Secondary School in Vancouver, British Columbia and then McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada before joining the staff of Da Ali G Show with childhood friend Seth Rogen. The two also collaborated on the films Knocked Up and Superbad, as well as Pineapple Express. In a strategy to garner interest and funding, Goldberg created a pre-pre-production trailer for Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse, a film he is now working on with Rogen. They are also co-writing and co-producing a remake of The Green Hornet, due out in 2010.
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Eydie Gormé
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Fanny Brice
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Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is an American actress.
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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Away from show business, Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied theatre. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is primarily known for directing the Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now, Dracula, and The Conversation and for writing Patton.
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Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), ''You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life'' (1946).
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Frank Sinatra
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Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.
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Fred Zinnemann
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Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer. A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen.
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George Gershwin
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George Harrison
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George Hearn
For the Louisiana psychologist, see George E. Hearn.
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George Jones
George Glenn Jones (born September 12, 1931) is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette.
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George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film producer, screenwriter, director and founder/chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the science fiction franchise Star Wars and joint creator of the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones. Today, Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful independent directors/producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.25 billion as of 2010.
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George Martin
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (; born July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut) was the 43rd President of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of Texas, serving from 1995 to 2000.
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Gilda Radner
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Glenn Close
Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and singer of stage and screen, known for her roles as a femme fatale (the scheming marchioness of Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons (1988), and deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction (1987). She is also known for playing Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996), and its sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000). She has been more recently known for being in the FX TV series Damages. She has been nominated five times for an Oscar, and has won three Tonys, an Obie, three Emmys, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Grace Bumbry
Grace Bumbry (born January 4, 1937) is an American opera singer, and is considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, as well as a major soprano for many years. She was a member of an extraordinary and pioneering generation of singers who followed Marian Anderson (including Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verrett and Reri Grist) in the world of classical music and paved the way for future African-American opera and classical singers. Bumbry's voice was rich and sizable, possessing a wide range, and was capable of producing a very distinctive plangent tone. In her prime, she also possessed good agility and bel canto technique (see for example her renditions of the 'Veil Song' from Verdi's Don Carlo in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as her Ernani from the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1984). She was particularly noted for her fiery temperament and dramatic intensity on stage. More recently, she has also become known as a recitalist and interpreter of lieder, and as a teacher. From the late 1980s on, she seemed to concentrate her career in Europe, rather than in the US. A long time resident of Switzerland, she now makes her home in Salzburg, Austria.
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Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor.
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Harold Arlen
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Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American film actor and producer. Ford is best known for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. He is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, John Book in Witness and Jack Ryan in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. His four-decade career also includes roles in several other Hollywood blockbusters, including Presumed Innocent, The Fugitive, Air Force One, and What Lies Beneath. At one point, four of the top five box-office hits of all time included one of his roles. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry.
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Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor.
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Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards (20), including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995. His best-known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme"), the Peter Gunn Theme from the television series, and back-to-back Academy Awards for the songs "Moon River" from the Blake Edwards film ''Breakfast at Tiffany's and "Days of Wine and Roses" from the 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses''.
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Herbert Ross
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Hugh Jackman
Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theatre and television.
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Idina Menzel
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Il Divo
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Jack Albertson
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Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
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Jack Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director and producer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters.
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Jack Paar
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Jackie Evancho
Jacqueline Marie "Jackie" Evancho ( ; born April 9, 2000) is an American soprano who gained popularity after performing in the fifth season of ''America's Got Talent'', coming in second place.
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James Brolin
James Brolin (; born July 18, 1940) is an American actor, producer and director, best known for his roles in soap operas, movies, sitcoms, and television. He is the father of actor Josh Brolin and husband of singer/actress Barbra Streisand.
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James Brown
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James Cagney
James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American film actor. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time.
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James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor of stage and screen, well known for his deep basso voice. To modern audiences, he is known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise and the tagline for CNN.
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James Levine
James Lawrence Levine (; born June 23, 1943) is an American conductor and pianist. He is currently the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Levine's first performance conducting the Metropolitan Opera was on June 5, 1971, and as of July 2009 he has conducted more than 2,456 Met performances. In 1997, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
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James Stewart
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Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. After 15 years of retirement, she returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law followed by Georgia Rule two years later. She also produced and starred in several exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995.
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Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana, and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She first performed on stage with her family at the age of seven, and started her career as an actress with the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976. She went on to appear in other television shows throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including Good Times and Fame.
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Jason Donovan
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Jason Gould
Jason Emanuel Gould (born December 29, 1966; New York City) is an American actor, writer and director.
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Jerome Kern
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", "Long Ago (and Far Away)" and "Who?". He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.
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Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman (born July 10, 1931) is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He has been nominated for the Tony Award five times, and won twice, for Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles. In 2009, Herman received the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. He is a recipient of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors.[]
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Joan Cusack
Joan Mary Cusack (born October 11, 1962) is an American film, stage and television actress. A well-respected comedic character actor, she has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in the movies Working Girl and In & Out and is a three-time winner of the American Comedy Award as "Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture." Cusack was a cast member of the sketch comedy TV show Saturday Night Live in 1985-86. She is the sister of actor John Cusack.
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Joan Rivers
Joan Alexandra Molinsky Sanger Rosenberg aka Joan Rivers (born June 8, 1933) is an American comedian, television personality and actress. She is known for her brash manner, her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent, as well as her numerous cosmetic surgeries. Rivers's comic style relies heavily on poking fun at herself and other celebrities, mostly about their fashion sense. A documentary film about Rivers, , premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival at the Castro Theatre on May 6, 2010.
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Joan Sutherland
Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (7 November 192610 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.
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Joe South
Joe South (born Joseph Alfred Souter, 28 February 1940, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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Joel Hirschhorn
Joel Hirschhorn, (December 18, 1937 – September 17, 2005), was an American songwriter. During a successful career, he won the Academy Award for Best Song on two occasions. He also wrote songs for a number of prominent musicians, including Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison (the combined sales of albums to which he contributed is over 90 million).
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John Ford
Rear Admiral (reserve)
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John Goldwyn
John Howard Goldwyn (born August 10, 1958) is an American film producer.
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John Huston
John Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered "classics": The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Misfits (1960), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston to Oscar wins in different films.
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John Leguizamo
Jonathan Alberto "John" Leguizamo (born July 22, 1964) is a Colombian-born American actor, comedian, voice artist, and producer.
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John Lennon
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John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is a prolific American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning six decades, he has composed many of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including those for Jaws, the Star Wars Saga, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, Jurassic Park, ''Schindler's List, Home Alone, and three Harry Potter'' films. He has composed the music for all but two of director Steven Spielberg's feature films.
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Johnny Carson
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Jon Peters
Jon Peters (born John H. Peters; June 2, 1945) is an American movie producer.
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Jonathan Groff
Jonathan Drew Groff (born March 26, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter, stage, television and film actor. He is best known for the roles of Melchior Gabor in Spring Awakening and Jesse St. James in the musical television series Glee.
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Josh Brolin
Josh James Brolin (; born February 12, 1968) is an American actor. He has acted in theater, film and television roles since 1985, and won acting awards for his roles in the films W., No Country for Old Men and Milk.
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Joyce Davidson
Joyce Davidson (born ) was a Canadian and American television personality.
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João Gilberto
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Judy Garland
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Julie Andrews
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE ( Wells; born 1 October 1935) is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.
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Julie Harris
Julia Ann "Julie" Harris (born December 2, 1925) is an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1994, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She also received the 2002 Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award.
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Katharine Hepburn
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Keith Carradine
Keith Ian Carradine (born August 8, 1949) is an American actor who has had success on stage, film and television. In addition, he is a Golden Globe and Oscar winning songwriter. As a member of the Carradine family, he is part of an acting "dynasty" that began with his father, John Carradine.
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Kenny Ascher
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Kenny Loggins
Kenneth Clark "Kenny" Loggins (born January 7, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter known best for "soft rock" and "adult contemporary" music beginning during the 1970s. Originally a part of the duo Loggins and Messina, he became a solo artist and has written songs for other artists.
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Kevin Costner
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and businessman. He has been nominated for three BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards, won two Academy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Costner's roles include Lt. John J. Dunbar in the film Dances with Wolves, Jim Garrison in JFK, Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, Robin Hood in , the Mariner in Waterworld, Robert "Butch" Haynes in A Perfect World and Eliot Ness in The Untouchables.
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Kevin Kline
Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American theatre, voice and film actor. He has won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards, and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2009.
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Kirk Douglas
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Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE ( ; born 28 May 1968), is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987. Her first single, "Locomotion", spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian singles chart and became the highest selling single of the decade. This led to a contract with songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Her debut album, Kylie (1988), and the single "I Should Be So Lucky", each reached number one in the United Kingdom, and over the next two years, her first 13 singles reached the British top ten. Her debut film, The Delinquents (1989) was a box-office hit in Australia and the UK despite negative reviews.
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Laura Nyro
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Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.
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Laurence Olivier
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Lea Michele
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Lee Solters
Lee Solters (June 23, 1919 – May 18, 2009) was an American press agent who used his flamboyant style to represent celebrities from stage, movies and sports including 26 years with Frank Sinatra.
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Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher (born July 23, 1928) is an American pianist and conductor.
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Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges (born April 2, 1942; Lawton, Oklahoma), known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist.
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Lillian Gish
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Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli.
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Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels, CM (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.
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Louise Fletcher
Louise Fletcher (born July 22, 1934) is an American actress best known for her role as Nurse Ratched in ''One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest for which she won the Academy Award for best actress and as Kai Winn Adami in ''. More recently, she guest starred on the science fiction television series "Heroes".
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Luciano Pavarotti
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Lucille Ball
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Lynn Redgrave
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Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith-Cross, DBE (born 28 December 1934), better known as Maggie Smith, is an English film, stage, and television actress who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 58 years. She has won numerous awards for acting, including five BAFTA Awards, two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.
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Marge Simpson
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Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (born April 3, 1942) is an American actress and television director.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation.
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Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr. (April 2, 1939April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late fifties, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960 signing with the Tamla subsidiary of Motown Records. After starting off as a session drummer, Gaye ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the sixties.
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Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer. He is one of only two people to have been awarded Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and a Tony (known as an EGOT) plus a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers). Hamlisch has also won two Golden Globes.
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Mel Brooks
Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor, and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony award. Three of his films ranked in the Top 20 on the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 comedy films of all-time: Blazing Saddles, The Producers and Young Frankenstein.
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Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected actors of the modern era.
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Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow; February 9, 1945) is an American actress, singer, and former fashion model. Farrow has appeared in more than forty-five films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award (and seven additional Golden Globe nominations), five BAFTA Film Award nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Farrow is also notable for her extensive humanitarian work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She is involved in humanitarian activities in Darfur, Chad, and the Central African Republic. In 2008, she was selected by Time magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.
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Michael Cimino
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Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards, first as producer of 1975's Best Picture, ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as Best Actor in 1987 for his role in Wall Street''. Douglas received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2009.
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Michael Gore
Michael Gore (born March 5, 1951) is an American composer. He, along with lyricist Dean Pitchford, won the Oscar in 1980 for best original song for "Fame" from the film of the same title. He also won the award that year for best original score. Gore is the younger brother of singer/songwriter Lesley Gore.
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Michael Jackson
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Michael Sarrazin
Michael Sarrazin (born May 22, 1940) is a Canadian actor who found fame opposite Jane Fonda in ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' (1969).
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Mike Myers (actor)
Michael John "Mike" Myers (born May 25, 1963) is a British Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a long-time cast member on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s and the early 1990s and starred as the title characters in the films ''Wayne's World, Austin Powers, the Shrek file series, and The Love Guru''.
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Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born November 6, 1931) is a German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of only twelve people to have won an all the major American entertainment awards: an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. In 2001, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He received the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 2010.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (, ) (born January 28, 1948) is a Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance. After freelancing with many companies, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer to learn George Balanchine's style of movement. He then moved to New York to dance with the American Ballet Theatre, where he later became artistic director.
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Miloš Forman
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Morgan Freeman
Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice.
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Nelson Muntz
Nelson Mandela Muntz is a fictional character from the animated TV series The Simpsons. He is voiced by Nancy Cartwright. Nelson was introduced in Season 1's "Bart the General" as a bully and archnemesis of Bart Simpson, who is best identified by his signature laugh ("Haw-Haw!").
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Norman Gimbel
Norman Gimbel is an American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes whose writing career includes such titles as "Sway", "Canadian Sunset", "Summer Samba", "The Girl from Ipanema", "Killing Me Softly With His Song", "Meditation" and "I Will Wait for You", along with an Oscar for "It Goes Like It Goes" - from the film Norma Rae. During 1984 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Orson Bean
Orson Bean (born July 22, 1928) is an American film, television, and stage actor. He appeared frequently on televised game shows in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including being a long-time panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth.
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Orson Welles
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Ossie Davis
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Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal (January 20, 1926August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen. She was best known for her roles as World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in ''Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and middle-aged housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud'' (1963), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Paul Jabara
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Paul McCartney
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Paul Newman
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (; born 19 May 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than forty years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 60s and 70s, and, according to Eddie Vedder, "possibly the greatest live band ever."
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Peter Griffin
Peter Griffin is a fictional character and the protagonist of the animated comedy series Family Guy and the patriarch of the Griffin family. He is voiced by cartoonist Seth MacFarlane and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the family in the 15-minute short on December 20, 1998. Peter was created and designed by MacFarlane himself. MacFarlane was asked to pitch a pilot to the Fox Broadcasting Company based on Larry and Steve, a short made by MacFarlane which featured a middle-aged character named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve. After the pilot was given the green light, The Griffin family appeared on the episode "Death Has a Shadow".
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Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932) is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.
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Plácido Domingo
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Quincy Jones
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Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch (born September 5, 1940) is an American actress, author and sex symbol.
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Red Skelton
Red Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American comedian who was best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, night clubs and casinos, all while pursuing another career as a painter.
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Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (born 29 August 1923) is an English actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. Attenborough has won two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes. He is the older brother of naturalist and wildlife filmmaker Sir David Attenborough.
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Richard M. Nixon
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Richard Perry
Richard Perry is an American music producer. Perry began as a performer in his adolescence, but shifted gears after graduating college and rose through the late 1960s and early 1970s to become a highly successful and popular record producer with over a dozen gold records to his credit by 1982. From 1978 to 1983, he ran his own record label, Planet Records, but continued after its sale to RCA as an independent producer. With hit records stretching from the 1960s through the 2000s, Perry's more successful modern releases includes albums by Rod Stewart and Carly Simon.
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Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr belonged to another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became the Beatles' drummer in 1962, taking over from Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead singer on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally") and as songwriter with the songs "Don't Pass Me By", "What Goes On" and "Octopus's Garden".
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Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931) is a Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress. She is the first and only Hispanic and one of the few performers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony and at the time the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award.
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Rob Marshall
Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award Best Picture Chicago.
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Robert John Lange
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Robert Mitchum
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Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002.
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Robert Wise
Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director. He won Academy Awards as Best Director for The Sound of Music (1965) and West Side Story (1961) as well as nominations as Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and Best Picture for The Sand Pebbles (1966).
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Robin Williams
Robin McLaurim Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian.
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Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English lineage.
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Roger Daltrey
Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944), is an English singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of films, theatre and television roles and also producing films.
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Roman Polanski
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Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Cherie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, writer, television producer and director.
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Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist, perhaps best-known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961).
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Rupert Holmes
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Ryan Murphy (writer)
Ryan Murphy (born November 30, 1965) is an American writer, film and television director and producer for film and television, best known for his creations Nip/Tuck, Popular and Glee.
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Sally Field
Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter. In each decade of her career, she has been known for major roles in American TV/film culture, including: in the 1960s, for Gidget (1965-66) or Sister Bertrille on The Flying Nun (1967-70); in the 1970s, for Sybil (1976), Smokey and the Bandit or Norma Rae; in the 1980s, for Absence of Malice, Places in the Heart (1984) or Steel Magnolias; in the 1990s, for Not Without My Daughter, Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) or Forrest Gump; and in the 2000s, on the TV shows ER or Brothers & Sisters. She has also performed in numerous other roles.
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Sam the Sham
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Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery KBE (born 25 August 1930), more commonly known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes.
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Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born April 24, 1934) is an American film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her spiritual beliefs as well as her Hollywood career. In 1983, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Terms of Endearment. She is the elder sister of actor Warren Beatty.
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Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet (, loo-MET; born June 25, 1924) is an American film director, with over 50 films to his name, including 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982), all of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director.
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Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE ( or ; born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat. He broke through as a star in acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world.
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Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel are an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, backed by the hit single "The Sounds of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling them further into the public consciousness.
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Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer (born 1948, England) is a British author who currently lives in Italy.
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Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek (born Mary Elizabeth Spacek; December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in ''Coal Miner's Daughter'' (1980). She has been nominated a total of six times. She is also known for her role as Carrie White in Brian de Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress.
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Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B; and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy. Robinson's consistent commercial success and creative contributions to the label have earned him the title "King of Motown."
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Sonny Burke
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Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren (born Sofia Villani Scicolone; September 20, 1934) is an Italian actress.
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Stan Getz
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Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, music critic, film critic, and poet.
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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and . He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.
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Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer.
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Steve McQueen
Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was a popular American movie actor. He was nicknamed "The King of Cool." His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Vietnam counterculture, made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in 'The Sand Pebbles'. His other popular films include The Magnificent Seven, 'The Great Escape', The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, 'Papillon', and The Towering Inferno. In 1974, he became the highest-paid movie star in the world. Although McQueen was combative with directors and producers, his popularity put him in high demand and enabled him to command large salaries.
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Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg, (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and video game designer. In a career spanning six decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is also one of the founders of DreamWorks.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born May 13, 1950), name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind from shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
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Sting (musician)
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born 2 October 1951), better known by his professional name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, activist, actor and philanthropist. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist of the rock band The Police.
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Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell (born August 16, 1945) is an eminent 20th century ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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Tatum O'Neal
'''Tatum Beatrice O'Neal''' (born November 5, 1963) is an American actress best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s. She is the youngest to win a competitive Academy Award, at the age of 10.
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The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with their debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979); this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom. During the early 1980s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the gothic rock genre.
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The Nanny
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Tim Conway
Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway (born December 15, 1933) is an American comedian and actor, primarily known for his roles in sitcoms, films and television. Conway is best-known for his role as the inept second-in-command officer, Ensign Charles Parker, to Lt. Commander Quinton McHale (played by Ernest Borgnine), in the popular 1960s WWII sitcom ''McHale's Navy, and for co-starring alongside Carol Burnett on The Carol Burnett Show''.
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Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have earned her the title '''The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll'''.
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Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor, producer, writer and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander James A. Lovell in Apollo 13, Captain John H. Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Joe Fox in ''You've Got Mail and Chuck Noland in Cast Away. Hanks won consecutive Best Actor Academy Awards, in 1993 for Philadelphia and in 1994 for Forrest Gump''. U.S. domestic box office totals for his films exceed $3.9 billion. He is the father of actor Colin Hanks.
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto; August 3, 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz.
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Tracey Ullman
Tracey Ullman (born 30 December 1959) is a British-American stage and television actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, screenwriter and author.
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Twiggy
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Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer and choreographer, who lives and works in New York City.
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Van Cliburn
Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (born July 12, 1934), is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War.
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Vaughn Meader
Abbott Vaughn Meader (March 20, 1936 – October 29, 2004) was an American comedian and impersonator whose achievement of fame with The First Family album spoofing President John F. Kennedy was equalled only by his obscurity after Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
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Vicki Lawrence
Vicki Lawrence (born Vicki Ann Axelrad in March 26, 1949) is an American actress, comedienne, and singer, who was frequently a game show panelist in the 1970s and 1980s. She is best known for her co-starring role on The Carol Burnett Show, alongside Carol Burnett, from 1967 to 1978, and as the sharp-tongued matriarch, Thelma Harper (the main character on ''Mama's Family, airing from 1983 to 1990, which was spun off from The Carol Burnett Show's The Family'' sketches). She has also been credited as Vicki Lawrence Schultz.
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Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in high demand as a guest vocalist, and a duet partner. Gill has recorded more than twenty studio albums, charted over forty singles on the U.S. Billboard charts as Hot Country Songs, and has sold more than 22 million albums. He has been honored by the Country Music Association with 18 CMA Awards, including two Entertainer of the Year awards and five Male Vocalist Awards. Gill has also earned 20 Grammy Awards, more than any other male Country music artist. In 2007, Gill was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986), born Lester Anthony Minnelli, was a Hollywood director and stage director. He was married to Judy Garland from 1945 until 1951; they were the parents of Liza Minnelli.
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Walter Mirisch
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Walter Scharf
Walter Scharf (1 August 1910 - 24 February 2003) was an American film composer.
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Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (, ; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director.
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Wayne Brady
Wayne Alphonso Brady (born June 2, 1972) is an actor, singer, comedian and television personality, known for his work as a regular on the American version of the improvisational comedy television series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and as the host of the daytime talk show The Wayne Brady Show. He was the host of FOX's ''Don't Forget the Lyrics!, and currently hosts the 2009 revival of Let's Make a Deal''.
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is an American R&B;/Pop singer, actress, and former fashion model. A relative of several soul singers, including her mother Cissy Houston, cousins Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, and close family friend Aretha Franklin, Houston began singing at her New Jersey church as a member of a junior gospel choir at age eleven. After she began performing alongside her mother at night clubs in the New York City area, she was discovered by Arista Records label head Clive Davis. Houston has released studio albums and movie soundtrack albums throughout her career, all of which have had diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold certification.
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Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (; born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, and talk show host.
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William Friedkin
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Streisand, Barbra Filmography
- My Mother's Curse (2012)
- Mendel's Dwarf (2011)
- We Are the World 25 for Haiti (2010)
- The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010)
- One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard - September 26,2009 (2010)
- One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard - September 26,2009 (2010)
- Little Fockers (2010)
- Streisand: Live in Concert (2009)
- Streisand: Live in Concert (2009)
- Streisand: Live in Concert (2009)
- Streisand: Live in Concert (2009)
- Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009)
- Streisand: Live in Concert (2009)
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty (2008)
- The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008)
- President Hollywood (2008)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2008)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2008)
- No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (2008)
- Hillary! Uncensored: Banned by the Media (2008)
- Heckler (2007)
- Ein Leben wie im Flug (2007)
- Countdown Spectacular 2 (2007)
- Silent No More: Behind the Scenes of 'Serving in Silence' (2006)
- Tony Bennett: An American Classic (2006)
- Legends Ball (2006)
- The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005)
- Fashion Week Diaries (2005)
- Judy Garland Duets (2005)
- The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards (2004)
- Rated 'R': Republicans in Hollywood (2004)
- The Greatest Canadian (2004)
- Sex 'n' Pop (2004)
- 101 Biggest Celebrity Oops (2004)
- 101 Most Unforgettable SNL Moments (2004)
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies (2004)
- Meet the Fockers (2004)
- The 100 Greatest Musicals (2003)
- The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003)
- 101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment (2003)
- The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003)
- Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album (2003)
- The 74th Annual Academy Awards (2002)
- Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s (2002)
- What Makes a Family (2001)
- The 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2001)
- Timeless: Live in Concert (2001)
- Timeless: Live in Concert (2001)
- Varian's War (2001)
- Timeless: Live in Concert (2001)
- Timeless: Live in Concert (2001)
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand (2001)
- Reel Models: The First Women of Film (2000)
- The 27th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2000)
- Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000)
- Frankie & Hazel (2000)
- Lesley Ann Warren: A Cinderella Story (2000)
- The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2000)
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Harold Arlen (1999)
- Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 (1999)
- The Way We Were: Looking Back (1999)
- ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999)
- Saturday Night Live 25 (1999)
- Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Families (1998)
- City at Peace (1998)
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Mike Myers (1998)
- Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples (1998)
- Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998)
- The Long Island Incident (1998)
- Hollywood Aids (1998)
- Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women (1997)
- The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997)
- The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (1996)
- The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
- Barbara Walters: 20 Years at ABC (1996)
- The Real Las Vegas (1996)
- The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
- The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
- Barbra: The Concert (1995)
- Barbra: The Concert (1995)
- Hollywood's Most Powerful Women (1995)
- The 47th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1995)
- Barbra: The Concert (1995)
- Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995)
- Barbra: The Concert (1995)
- Barbra: The Concert (1995)
- Fame in the Twentieth Century (1993)
- The 65th Annual Academy Awards (1993)
- The 34th Annual Grammy Awards (1992)
- Oscar's Greatest Moments (1992)
- The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992)
- The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991)
- The Prince of Tides (1991)
- Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (1991)
- The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1991)
- The Prince of Tides (1991)
- The Prince of Tides (1991)
- Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990)
- The Earth Day Special (1990)
- Sinatra 75: The Best Is Yet to Come (1990)
- Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville (1987)
- Nuts (1987)
- Nuts (1987)
- Nuts (1987)
- The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986)
- One Voice (1986)
- One Voice (1986)
- One Voice (1986)
- Directed by William Wyler (1986)
- The 28th Annual Grammy Awards (1986)
- Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album (1985)
- Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album (1985)
- La hora bruja (1985)
- Judy Garland: The Concert Years (1985)
- Sunday Night Live (1984)
- A Film Is Born: The Making of 'Yentl' (1983)
- A Film Is Born: The Making of 'Yentl' (1983)
- Yentl (1983)
- Yentl (1983)
- Yentl (1983)
- Yentl (1983)
- A Film Is Born: The Making of 'Yentl' (1983)
- Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny (1982)
- I Love Liberty (1982)
- The 23rd Annual Grammy Awards (1981)
- All Night Long (1981)
- The 22nd Annual Grammy Awards (1980)
- The Main Event (1979)
- The 21st Annual Grammy Awards (1979)
- The American Film Institute Salute to Alfred Hitchcock (1979)
- The Main Event (1979)
- Getting in Shape for 'The Main Event' (1979)
- The 20th Annual Grammy Awards (1978)
- The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977)
- The 34th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1977)
- The 19th Annual Grammy Awards (1977)
- The American Film Institute Presents a Salute to William Wyler (1976)
- A Star Is Born (1976)
- A Star Is Born (1976)
- Barbra: With One More Look at You (1976)
- Barbra: With One More Look at You (1976)
- Funny Girl to Funny Lady (1975)
- Funny Lady (1975)
- Funny Girl to Funny Lady (1975)
- For Pete's Sake (1974)
- Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments (1973)
- The Way We Were (1973)
- What's Up, Doc? (1972)
- Up the Sandbox (1972)
- Singer Presents Burt Bacharach (1971)
- Fight of the Century (1971)
- The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970)
- A World of Love (1970)
- The 24th Annual Tony Awards (1970)
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
- The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)
- Barbra: Yesterday, Today and Forever! (1970)
- Barbra: Yesterday, Today and Forever! (1970)
- The 41st Annual Academy Awards (1969)
- Hello, Dolly! (1969)
- This Is Streisand (1968)
- This Is Streisand (1968)
- The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968)
- Funny Girl (1968)
- A Happening in Central Park (1968)
- The Belle of 14th Street (1967)
- The 21st Annual Tony Awards (1967)
- Color Me Barbra (1966)
- My Name Is Barbra (1965)
- Bob Hope Comedy Special (1963)
Barbra Streisand was born on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York. She is an actress, director, producer and writer. Among her many films are _Hello, Dolly! (1969)_ (qv), _A Star Is Born (1976)_ (qv), _Yentl (1983)_ (qv) and _The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)_ (qv). As a child she attended the Beis Yakov Jewish School in Brooklyn. She is good friends with singer/songwriter 'Neil Diamond (I)' (qv), with whom she dueted on the smash hit song, "You Don't Bring Me Flowers". They both attended the same high school and sang together in the school choir. Barbra has one son, 'Jason Gould (I)' (qv), with ex-husband 'Elliott Gould' (qv). She is now married to 'James Brolin' (qv). She has won many awards including two Oscars, five Emmys, eight Golden Globes, three People's Choice Awards, two Women in Film Crystal Awards and two ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards. Barbra has also received an American Film Institute award and a 'Cecil B. DeMille' (qv) Award.
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- The Windmills of Your Mind
- Something New in My Life
- Solitary Moon
- Nice 'n' Easy
- Alone in the World
- So Many Stars
- The Same Hello, The Same Goodbye
- That Face
- I'll Never Say Goodbye
- What Matters Most
- Woman in Love
- Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)
- The Way We Were
- Guilty (duet with Barry Gibb)
- No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (duet with Donna Summer)
- Don't Rain on My Parade
- Memory
- Papa, Can You Hear Me?
- As If We Never Said Goodbye
- Tell Him (duet with Céline Dion)
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- I've Dreamed of You
- Send in the Clowns
- People
- Smile
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
- Somewhere
- You Don't Bring Me Flowers (duet with Neil Diamond)
- A Sleepin' Bee
- Cry Me a River
- I Stayed Too Long at the Fair
- Lover, Come Back to Me
- People
- My Man
- Second Hand Rose
- He Touched Me
- Don't Rain on My Parade
- Happy Days Are Here Again
- On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
- Stoney End
- Since I Fell for You
- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
- The Way We Were
- All in Love Is Fair
- Lazy Afternoon
- Evergreen (Love Theme from 'A Star Is Born')
- My Heart Belongs to Me
- You Don't Bring Me Flowers (feat. Neil Diamond)
- The Main Event / Fight
- No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (feat. Donna Summer)
- Here's to Life
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
- Gentle Rain
- If You Go Away (Ne me quitte pas)
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
- Make Someone Happy
- Where Do You Start?
- A Time for Love
- Here's That Rainy Day
- Love Dance
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Some Other Time
- You Must Believe in Spring
- My Melancholy Baby
- Just in Time
- Taking a Chance on Love
- Bewitched (Bothered and Bewildered)
- Never Will I Marry
- As Time Goes By
- Draw Me a Circle
- It Had to Be You
- Make Believe
- I Had Myself a True Love
- Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
- Right as the Rain
- Down With Love
- Who Will Buy?
- When the Sun Comes Out
- Gotta Move
- My Coloring Book
- I Don't Care Much
- Lover, Come Back to Me
- I Stayed Too Long at the Fair
- Like a Straw in the Wind
- Cry Me a River
- My Honey's Loving Arms
- I'll Tell the Man in the Street
- A Taste of Honey
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
- Soon It's Gonna Rain
- Happy Days Are Here Again
- Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
- Much More
- Come to the Supermarket (in Old Peking)
- A Sleepin' Bee
- Emotion
- Make No Mistake, He's Mine
- Time Machine
- Best I Could
- Left in the Dark
- Heart Don't Change My Mind
- When I Dream
- You're a Step in the Right Direction
- Clear Sailing
- Here We Are at Last
- Come Tomorrow (feat. Barry Gibb)
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- Hideaway
- It's Up to You
- Night of My Life
- Above the Law (feat. Barry Gibb)
- Without Your Love
- All the Children
- Golden Dawn
- (Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away
- Letting Go
- Guilty
- Woman in Love
- Run Wild
- Promises
- The Love Inside
- What Kind of Fool
- Life Story
- Never Give Up
- Make It Like a Memory
- Smile
- Moon River
- I'm in the Mood for Love
- Wild Is the Wind
- Emily
- More in Love With You
- How Do You Keep the Music Playing?
- But Beautiful
- Calling You
- The Second Time Around
- Goodbye for Now
- You're Gonna Hear From Me
- The Singer
- I Can Do It
- Stoney End
- (They Long to Be) Close to You
- We've Only Just Begun
- Since I Fell for You
- You're the Top
- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
- If I Close My Eyes
- Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
- Can You Tell the Moment?
- The Way We Were (soundtrack version)
- Cryin' Time
- God Bless the Child
- A Quiet Thing / There Won't Be Trumpets
- Lost Inside of You (film dialogue / alternate soundtrack version)
- Evergreen (demo/soundtrack version)
- 1977 Academy Awards
- Hatikvah (from ''The Stars Salute Israel at 30")
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Where's That Rainbow?
- Absent Minded Me
- How Does the Wine Taste?
- No More Songs for Me
- Quiet Night
- When in Rome (I Do as the Romans Do)
- Supper Time
- Autumn
- Will He Like Me
- I'm All Smiles
- Don't Rain on My Parade
- Gotta Move
- All That I Want
- Love Is a Bore
- Medley: Second Hand Rose / Give Me the Simple Life / I Got Plenty of Nothin' / Brother Can You Spare a Dime? / Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out / Second Hand Rose / The Best Things in Life Are Free
- Being at War With Each Other
- Something So Right
- The Best Thing You've Ever Done
- The Way We Were
- All in Love Is Fair
- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
- Summer Me, Winter Me
- Pieces of Dreams
- I've Never Been a Woman Before
- Medley: My Buddy / How About Me
- Watch Closely Now
- Queen Bee
- Everything
- Lost Inside of You
- Hellacious Acres
- Love Theme from "A Star Is Born" (Evergreen)
- The Woman in the Moon
- I Believe in Love
- Crippled Crow
- Finale: With One More Look at You / Watch Closely Now
- Love Theme from "A Star Is Born" (Evergreen) (reprise)
- I Won't Be the One to Let Go
- Guilty
- You Don't Bring Me Flowers
- I Finally Found Someone
- Cryin' Time
- I've Got a Crush on You
- Tell Him
- No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
- What Kind of Fool
- I Have a Love / One Hand, One Heart
- One Less Bell to Answer / A House Is Not a Home
- Lost Inside of You
- Till I Loved You
- Make No Mistake, He's Mine
- If You Ever Leave Me
- The Music of the Night
- Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
- Get Happy / Happy Days Are Here Again
- All I Know of Love
- Putting It Together
- If I Loved You
- Something's Coming
- Not While I'm Around
- Being Alive
- I Have Dreamed / We Kiss in a Shadow / Something Wonderful
- Adelaide's Lament
- Send in the Clowns
- Pretty Women / The Ladies Who Lunch
- Can't Help Lovin' That Man
- I Loves You Porgy / Porgy, I's Your Woman Now (Bess, You Is My Woman)
- Somewhere
- I Know Him So Well (session outtake)
- Absent Minded Me
- When in Rome (I Do as the Romans Do)
- Fine and Dandy
- Supper Time
- Will He Like Me
- How Does the Wine Taste?
- I'm All Smiles
- Autumn
- My Lord and Master
- Love Is a Bore
- Don't Like Goodbyes
- People
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- A Christmas Love Song
- What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
- I Remember
- Snowbound
- It Must Have Been the Mistletoe
- Christmas Lullaby
- Christmas Mem'ries
- Grown-Up Christmas List
- Ave Maria
- Closer
- One God
- I've Dreamed of You
- Isn't It a Pity?
- The Island
- Love Like Ours
- If You Ever Leave Me (duet with Vince Gill)
- We Must Be Loving Right
- If I Never Met You
- It Must Be You
- Just One Lifetime
- If I Didn't Love You
- Wait
- The Music That Makes Me Dance
- Jingle Bells
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
- White Christmas
- My Favorite Things
- The Best Gift
- Sleep in Heavenly Peace (Silent Night)
- Gounod's Ave Maria
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- I Wonder as I Wander
- The Lord's Prayer
- I Believe / You'll Never Walk Alone
- Higher Ground
- At the Same Time
- Tell Him
- On Holy Ground
- If I Could
- Circle
- The Water is Wide / Deep River
- Leading With Your Heart
- Lessons to Be Learned
- Everything Must Change
- Avinu Malkeinu
- Free the People
- Hands Off the Man
- If You Could Read My Mind
- Just a Little Lovin'
- Let Me Go
- Stoney End
- I Don't Know Where I Stand
- No Easy Way Down
- Time and Love
- Maybe
- I'll Be Home
- My Name Is Barbara
- A Kid Again / I'm Five
- Jenny Rebecca
- My Pa
- Sweet Zoo
- Where Is the Wonder
- I Can See It
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- I've Got No Strings
- If You Were the Only Boy in the World
- Why Did I Choose You
- My Man
- The Main Event / Fight
- The Body Shop
- The Main Event / Fight (short version)
- Copeland Meets the Coasters / Get a Job
- Big Girls Don't Cry
- It's Your Foot Again
- Angry Eyes
- I'd Clean a Fish for You
- The Main Event (ballad)
- What About Today?
- Ask Yourself Why
- Honey Pie
- Punky's Dilemma
- Until It's Time for You to Go
- That's a Fine Kind o' Freedom
- Little Tin Soldier
- With a Little Help From My Friends
- Alfie
- The Morning After
- Goodnight
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Everybody Says Don't
- The Music of the Night
- Speak Low
- As If We Never Said Goodbye
- Children Will Listen
- I Have a Love / One Hand, One Heart
- I've Never Been in Love Before
- Luck Be a Lady
- With One Look
- The Man I Love
- Move On
- People
- Second Hand Rose
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- I Got Plenty of Nothin'
- All That I Want
- Where's That Rainbow?
- Absent Minded Me
- Fine and Dandy
- How Does the Wine Taste?
- He Touched Me
- No More Songs for Me
- Quiet Night
- When in Rome (Do as the Romans Do)
- Supper Time
- Love Is a Bore
- Autumn
- Piano Practicing
- I Got Rhythm
- Johnny One Note / One Note Samba
- Glad to Be Unhappy
- People
- Second Hand Rose
- Don't Rain on My Parade
- Don't Ever Leave Me
- Monologue
- By Myself
- Come Back to Me
- I Never Has Seen Snow
- Lied: Auf Dem Wasser Zu Singen
- The World Is a Concerto / Make Your Own Kind of Music
- The Sweetest Sounds
- We're Not Makin' Love Anymore
- Woman in Love
- All I Ask of You
- Comin' In and Out of Your Life
- What Kind of Fool
- The Main Event / Fight
- Someone That I Used to Love
- By the Way
- Guilty
- Memory
- The Way He Makes Me Feel (studio version)
- Somewhere
- The Places You Find Love
- On My Way to You
- Till I Loved You (feat. Don Johnson)
- Love Light
- All I Ask of You
- You and Me for Always
- Why Let It Go?
- Two People
- What Were We Thinking Of
- Some Good Things Never Last
- One More Time Around
- Yesterdays
- One Kiss
- The Minute Waltz
- Gotta Move
- Non c'est rien
- Where or When
- Medley: Animal Crackers in My Soup / Funny Face / That Face / They Didn't Believe Me / Were Thine That Special Face / I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face / Let's Face the Music and Dance / Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long / What's New Pussycat? / Small World / I Love You / I Stayed Too Long at the Fair / Look at That Face
- C'est si bon (It's So Good)
- Where Am I Going?
- Starting Here, Starting Now
- Love Theme from "A Star Is Born" (Evergreen)
- Love Theme from "Eyes of Laura Mars" (Prisoner)
- My Heart Belongs to Me
- Songbird
- The Way We Were
- Sweet Inspiration / Where You Lead
- All in Love Is Fair
- Superman
- Stoney End
- You Don't Bring Me Flowers (feat. Neil Diamond)
- Beautiful
- Love
- Where You Lead
- I Never Meant to Hurt You
- One Less Bell to Answer / A House Is Not a Home
- Space Captain
- Since I Fell for You
- Mother
- The Summer Knows
- I Mean to Shine
- You've Got a Friend
- Free Again
- Autumn Leaves
- What Now My Love
- Ma première chanson
- Clopin Clopant
- Le Mur
- I Wish You Love
- Speak to Me of Love
- Love and Learn
- Once Upon a Summertime
- Martina
- I've Been Here
- Free Again
- Autumn Leaves
- What Now My Love
- Ma première chanson
- Clopin Clopant
- Le Mur
- I Wish You Love
- Speak to Me of Love
- Love and Learn
- Once Upon a Summertime
- Martina
- I've Been Here
- Guilty
- Woman in Love
- Run Wild
- Promises
- The Love Inside
- What Kind of Fool
- Life Story
- Never Give Up
- Make It Like a Memory
- I Finally Found Someone
- Let's Make A Night To Remember
- Evergreen (love theme from "A Star is Born" spanish ver.)
- Happy Days Are Here Again
- When the Sun Comes Out
- My Coloring Book
- I Am Woman
- Funny Girl
- My Love
- I Like Him
- You Wanna Bet
- Les Enfants Qui Pleurent
- Et La Mer
- Our Corner of the Night
- He Could Show Me
- Funny Girl
- I'd Rather Be Blue Over You
- Before the Parade Passes By
- Wait Till We're Sixty-Five (feat. Larry Blyden)
- Who Is There Among Us? (feat. Jack Nicholson)
- My Coloring Book
- Lover, Come Back to Me
- Cry Me a River
- When the Sun Comes Out
- Hello, Dolly! Medly
- Claude Debussy: Beau Soir
- Joseph Canteloube: Brezairola (from Songs of the Auvergne)
- Hugo Wolf: Verschwiegene Liebe
- Gabriel Fauré: Pavane (Vocalise)
- Gabriel Fauré: Après un Rêve
- Carl Orff: In Trutina (from Carmina Burana)
- George Frideric Handel: Lascia ch'io pianga (from Rinaldo)
- Robert Schumann: Mondnacht
- George Frideric Handel: Dank sei Dir, Herr
- Claus Ogerman: I Loved You
- Wet
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Splish Splash
- On Rainy Afternoons
- After the Rain
- No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
- Niagara
- I Ain't Gonna Cry Tonight
- Kiss Me in the Rain
- Superman
- Don't Believe What You Read
- Baby Me Baby
- I Found You Love
- Answer Me
- My Heart Belongs to Me
- Cabin Fever
- Love Comes From Unexpected Places
- New York State of Mind
- Lullaby for Myself
- Tomorrow
- A Man I Loved
- I Don't Break Easily
- Love Breakdown
- You Don't Bring Me Flowers
- Honey Can I Put on Your Clothes
- One More Night
- Stay Away
- Deep in the Night
- Songbird
- Lazy Afternoon
- My Father's Song
- By the Way
- Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)
- I Never Had It So Good
- Letters That Cross in the Mail
- You and I
- Moanin' Low
- A Child Is Born
- Widescreen
- Love in the Afternoon
- Guava Jelly
- Grandma's Hands
- I Won't Last a Day Without You
- Jubilation
- Simple Man
- Life on Mars
- Since I Don't Have You
- Crying Time
- Let the Good Times Roll
- My Funny Valentine
- The Nearness of You
- When Sunny Gets Blue
- Make the Man Love Me
- Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
- More Than You Know
- I'll Know
- All the Things You Are
- The Boy Next Door
- Stout-Hearted Men
- He Touched Me
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Quiet Night
- I Got Plenty of Nothin'
- How Much of the Dream Comes True
- Second Hand Rose
- The Kind of Man a Woman Needs
- All That I Want
- Where's That Rainbow?
- No More Songs for Me
- Medley: Second Hand Rose / Give Me the Simple Life / I Got Plenty of Nothin' / Brother Can You Spare a Dime? / Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out / Second Hand Rose / The Best Things in Life Are Free
- People
- Second Hand Rose
- Why Did I Choose You
- He Touched Me
- Free Again
- Don't Rain on My Parade
- My Coloring Book
- Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long
- My Man
- Gotta Move
- Happy Days Are Here Again
- Memory
- My Heart Belongs to Me
- New York State of Mind
- No More Tears
- Comin in and Out of Your Life
- Evergreen
- Lost Inside of You
- The Love Inside
- The Way We Were
- You Don't Bring Me Flowers
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Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were (1975)
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- Duration: 4:53
- Published: 27 Sep 2006
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
"Funny Girl to Funny Lady" Tv special, 1975: "The Way We Were". One of Barbra's best live performances ever.
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"DON'T RAIN ON MY PARADE" - "Funny Girl"'
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:15
- Published: 23 Dec 2009
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
The ultimate number from Barbra Streisand's Oscar-winning performance in "Funny Girl."
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Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand (Official Video / Out Now)
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- Duration: 3:17
- Published: 25 Sep 2010
- Updated: 24 Jun 2012
itunes.apple.com 3Beat are very excited to bring you the official video for one of the biggest tracks of the year! Out now on iTunes: itunes.apple.com Barbra Streisand!
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Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand (Official Video HQ)
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- Duration: 4:17
- Published: 12 Aug 2010
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand is the new single from Duck Sauce. Its kinda catchy you think? Duck Sauce is a collaboration between DJs Armand Van Helden and A-Trak, signed to the Fool's Gold record label. Their first tracks are "aNYway" and "You're Nasty". Their EP, Greatest Hits, was released September 2009. [1] The track "aNYway" has capital letters to signify the band's origins in New York. The song is sampled from "I Can Do It" by Final Edition. Duck Sauce have also released a summer track, entitled "Barbra Streisand". The song is sampled from "Gotta Go Home" by Boney M. The pair aim to produce disco house tracks that will appeal to club DJs. Their latest disco track "Barbara Streisand" was first played at Miami Winter Music Conference 2010, and is currently getting heavy DJ and radio support in the UK.
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Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand Official HD Music Video
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- Duration: 3:17
- Published: 15 Oct 2010
- Updated: 24 Jun 2012
Official Music video shot by So Me in New York with special guests such as Pharell, Kanye West, The Roots, Dj Mehdi, Chromeo, Ryan Leslie, Buckshot...etc. A killer track available on iTunes: itunes.apple.com Keep track of the latest news on: www.facebook.com Buy Mp3 on My Clubbing Store : www.myclubbingstore.com
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Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand HQ
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- Duration: 4:34
- Published: 17 Aug 2010
- Updated: 24 Jun 2012
non-official video of Duck Sauce's hit Barbra Streisand
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Barbra Streisand - Evergreen (live)
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- Duration: 3:22
- Published: 19 Aug 2007
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Barbra Streisand - Evergreen (BARBRA The Concert, Live at the MGM Grand - December 31, 1993/ January 1, 1994)
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Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand (Official Music Video)
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- Duration: 3:17
- Published: 05 Oct 2010
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Join us on Facebook: on.fb.me Check out our playlists on Spotify: spoti.fi Join us on G+ : gplus.to Spinnin' Records is proud to bring you DUCK SAUCE - Barbra Streisand [Official video]. Brilliant new record by Armand van Helden and A-Trak. Enjoy it!
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Barbra Streisand - Somewhere
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- Duration: 5:11
- Published: 09 Nov 2007
- Updated: 22 Jun 2012
This song is the most beautiful song that I ever heard. It made in 1985, that's my favorite year. This video is the original version. Music video by Barbra Streisand performing Somewhere. (C) 1985 Sony BMG Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment Content Type: Audiovisual content Sony Music Entertainment Content Type: Sound Recording
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The way we were
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- Duration: 3:31
- Published: 30 Nov 2006
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
The way we were
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Memory - Barbra Streisand
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- Duration: 3:56
- Published: 10 Jun 2008
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Midnight, Not a sound from the pavement Has the moon lost her memory? She is smiling alone. In the lamplight, The withered leaves collect at my feet, And the wind begins to moan. Memory, All alone in the moonlight, I can dream of the old days Life was beautiful then I remember the time I knew what happiness was. Let the memory live again. Every street lamp seems to beat A fatalistic warning. Someone mutters and the street lamp gutters And soon it will be morning. Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise, I must think of a new life And I musn't give in. When the dawn comes, Tonight will be a memory too And a new day will begin. Burnt out ends of smoky days, The stale cold smell of morning. A street lamp dies, Another night is over, Another day is dawning. Touch me, It's so easy to leave me All alone with the memory Of my days in the sun. If you touch me, You'll understand what happiness is. Look, a new day has begun.
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Barbra Streisand - WOMAN IN LOVE - Guilty 1980
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- Duration: 3:53
- Published: 27 Apr 2008
- Updated: 22 Jun 2012
Barbra Streisand © a 1980 Music video of the beautiful song ' Woman In Love ' from the album ' Guilty ' by Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb (Bee Gees). Lyrics: Woman In Love, sung by Barbra Streisand Written Barry Gibb/Robin Gibb Life is a moment in space When the dream is gone It's a lonelier place I kiss the morning goodbye But down inside you know we never know why The road is narrow and long When eyes meet eyes And the feeling is strong I turn away from the wall I stumble and fall But I give you it all I am a woman in love And I'd do anything To get you into my world And hold you within It's a right I defend Over and over again What do I do ? With you eternally mine In love there is no measure of time They planned it all at the start That you and I live in each others heart We may be oceans away You feel my love I hear what you say No truth is ever a lie I stumble and fall But I give you it all I am a woman in love And I'd do anything To get you into my world And keep you within It's a right I defend Over and over again What do I do ? I am a woman in love And I'm talkin' to you I know how you feel What a woman can do It's a right I defend Over and over again I am a woman in love And I'd do anything To get you into my world And hold you within It's a right I defend Over and over again What do I do ? ...
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Barbra Streisand - HD STEREO - Memory - CC for lyrics
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- Duration: 4:02
- Published: 11 Jan 2009
- Updated: 22 Jun 2012
Anna May Wong Women's League - Barbra Streisand. While the best elements available were used, HD is only as good as the original source. Closed Captioned lyrics. Anna May Wong is not in this video. This video is parked here by fans of Anna May Wong for it's special merit. The Anna May Wong Society. Filmed in London (suburb) at Olympic Studios (with NYC overlays) September 1981 (while working pre-production for Yentl). The take is live and is the acclaimed released recording. Behind a nervous Barbra is full symphony orchestra with Lloyd Webber conducting (no studio tricks on this one).
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Barbra Streisand - Somewhere
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- Duration: 4:30
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Music video by Barbra Streisand performing Somewhere. (C) 1985 Sony BMG Music Entertainment
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Barbara Streisand & Barry Gibb "What Kind Of Fool"
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- Duration: 4:51
- Published: 20 Jan 2008
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Barbara Streisand and Barry Gibb 25th Anniversity Edition "Guilty Album"
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Barbra Streisand - Moon River
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- Duration: 4:09
- Published: 21 Jul 2007
- Updated: 22 Jun 2012
VIDEO DE DESAYUNO EN TIFANYS CON LA MELODIOSA, HERMOSA, DELICIOSA VOZ DE BARBRA STREISAND "Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
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Barbra Streisand - The way we were (Live)
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- Duration: 3:43
- Published: 29 Aug 2007
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Barbra streisand - The way we were (BARBRA The Concert 1993/1994)
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Celine Dion & Barbara Streisand - Tell Him
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- Duration: 4:46
- Published: 09 Feb 2008
- Updated: 24 Jun 2012
Celine Dion & Barbara Streisand - Tell Him Album : Let's Talk About Love Lyrics : I'm scared So afraid to show I care Will he think me weak If I tremble when I speak Oooh - what if There's another one he's thinking of Maybe he's in love I'd feel like a fool Life can be so cruel I don't know what to do I've been there With my heart out in my hand But what you must understand You can't let the chance To love him pass you by Tell him Tell him that the sun and moon Rise in his eyes Reach out to him And whisper Tender words so soft and sweet Hold him close to feel his heart beat Love will be the gift you give yourself Touch him With the gentleness you feel inside Your love can't be denied The truth will set you free You'll have what's mean to be All in time you'll see I love him Of that much I can be sure I don't think I could endure If I let him walk away When I have so much to say Tell him Tell him that the sun and moon Rise in his eyes Reach out to him And whisper Tender words so soft and sweet Hold him close to feel his heart beat Love will be the gift you give yourself Love is light that surely glows In the hearts of those who know It's a steady flame that grows Feed the fire with all the passion you can show Tonight love will assume it's place This memory time cannot erase Blind faith will lead love where it has to go Tell him Tell him that the sun and moon Rise in his eyes Reach out to him And whisper Tender words so soft and sweet Hold him close to feel his heart beat <b>...</b>
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Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand (Original Mix)
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- Duration: 4:59
- Published: 10 Sep 2010
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Finally... the original mix of this great song. Not the O-God Remix or some radio rip, just the original version in good quality!
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Barbra Streisand You'll Never Walk Alone .
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- Duration: 5:00
- Published: 04 Aug 2009
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Barbra Streisand - Memory (1981)
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- Duration: 3:48
- Published: 21 Aug 2008
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Barbra sang that song in 1981. The songwriter is Andrew Loyd Webber. Barbra played in this musical(Cats). She was the first Grizabella who played in London.
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Barbra Streisand - Life On Mars
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- Duration: 3:13
- Published: 10 Nov 2008
- Updated: 16 Jun 2012
Barbra Streisand - Life On Mars
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Yentl - Papa Can you Hear Me?
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- Duration: 3:18
- Published: 22 Nov 2006
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Papa, Can You Hear Me? clip from Yentl
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| Barbra Streisand | |
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 Barbra Streisand in concert, O2 Arena, London 2007 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Barbara Joan Streisand |
| Born | (1942-04-24) April 24, 1942 (age 70) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Broadway, traditional pop, adult contemporary |
| Occupations | singer-songwriter, actress, film producer, director |
| Years active | 1957–present |
| Labels | Columbia |
| Website | barbrastreisand.com |
Barbra Joan Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, writer, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards,[1] eight Grammy Awards,[2] five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy,[3] a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award,[4] a Peabody Award,[4] and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history, with more than 71.5 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 million albums sold worldwide.[5][6] She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre.[7] Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an acting Oscar and also recording a number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
According to the RIAA, Streisand holds the record for the most top-ten albums of any female recording artist – a total of 32 since 1963.[8] Streisand has the widest span (48 years) between first and latest top-ten albums of any female recording artist. With her 2009 album, Love Is the Answer, she became one of the rare artists to achieve number-one albums in five consecutive decades.[9] According to the RIAA, she has released 51 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums in the United States.[2]
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Early life[link]
Barbara Joan Streisand (see name change) was born on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family, the daughter of Emanuel and Diana (née Rosen) Streisand, both of Austrian descent. She is the second of two siblings sired by Emanuel (her older brother is Sheldon), who was a respected high school teacher. Fifteen months after Streisand's birth, her father died of a cerebral hemorrhage and the family went into near-poverty.[10] Streisand first attended the Jewish Orthodox Yeshiva of Brooklyn, giving a solo performance at the age of 7.[11] She later attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and joined the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club.[12][13]. Streisand recollects, "I'm so glad I came from Brooklyn--it's down to earth."[14]
Diana Rosen Streisand remarried Louis Kind in 1949[10] and gave Streisand a half-sister, the singer Roslyn Kind[10][15][16] Kind is 9 years younger than Barbra.[17]
Barbra Streisand became a nightclub singer while in her teens. She wanted to be an actress and appeared in summer stock and in a number of Off-Off-Broadway productions, including Driftwood (1959), with then-unknown Joan Rivers. (In her autobiography, Rivers wrote that she played a lesbian with a crush on Streisand's character, but this was later denied by the play's author.) Driftwood ran for only six weeks.[18] When her boyfriend, Barry Dennen, helped her create a club act — first performed at The Lion, a popular gay nightclub in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1960 — she achieved success as a singer. While singing at The Lion for several weeks, she changed her name from Barbara to Barbra.[19][20] Afterward she appeared at other New York nightclubs, including the Bon Soir and the Blue Angel. One early appearance outside of New York City was at Enrico Banducci’s hungry i nightclub in San Francisco.[citation needed] In 1961, Streisand appeared at the Town and Country nightclub in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, but her appearance was cut short; the club owner did not appreciate her singing style.[21] Streisand appeared at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit in 1961.[22]
Streisand's first television appearance was on The Tonight Show, then hosted by Jack Paar, in 1961, singing Harold Arlen's "A Sleepin' Bee".[23] Orson Bean, who substituted for Paar that night, had seen the singer perform at a gay bar and booked her for the telecast. (Her older brother Sheldon paid NBC for a kinescope film so she could use it in 1961 to promote herself. Decades later the film was preserved through digitizing and is available for viewing on a website.)[24] Later in 1961, Streisand became a semi-regular on PM East/PM West, a talk/variety series. PM East was hosted by Mike Wallace and Joyce Davidson.[25] PM West was hosted by Terrence O'Flaherty. Westinghouse Broadcasting, which aired the television show in a select few cities (Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington DC, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and San Francisco), wiped all the videotapes soon after broadcasting them.[26] Audio segments from some episodes, which were saved by Streisand's fans, are part of the compilation CD Just for the Record, which went platinum in 1991. The singer said on 60 Minutes in 1991 that 30 years earlier Mike Wallace had been "mean, very mean" to her on PM East/PM West.[27] He countered that she had been "totally self-absorbed." 60 Minutes included the audio of Streisand saying to him in 1961, "I like the fact that you are provoking. But don't provoke me."[28]
In 1962, after several appearances on PM East/PM West, Streisand first appeared on Broadway, in the small but star-making role of Miss Marmelstein in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale. Her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, won two Grammy Awards in 1963. Following her success in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Streisand made several appearances on The Tonight Show in 1962 and 1963. Topics covered in her interviews with host Johnny Carson included the empire-waisted dresses that she bought wholesale and her "crazy" reputation at Erasmus Hall High School.[29] As is the case with Mike Wallace, only audio survives from small portions of her telecast conversations with Carson. It was at about this time that Streisand entered into a long and successful professional relationship with Lee Solters and Sheldon Roskin as her publicists with the firm Solters/Roskin (later Solters/Roskin/Friedman).
Streisand returned to Broadway in 1964 with an acclaimed performance as entertainer Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Winter Garden Theatre. The show introduced two of her signature songs, "People" and "Don't Rain on My Parade." Because of the play's overnight success, she appeared on the cover of Time. In 1966, she repeated her success with Funny Girl in London's West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre. From 1965 to 1967 she appeared in her first four solo television specials.
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Singing[link]
Streisand has recorded 35 studio albums, almost all with Columbia Records. Her early works in the 1960s (her debut The Barbra Streisand Album, The Second Barbra Streisand Album, The Third Album, My Name Is Barbra, etc.) are considered classic renditions of theater and cabaret standards, including her pensive version of the normally uptempo "Happy Days Are Here Again". She performed this in a duet with Judy Garland on The Judy Garland Show. Garland referred to her on the air as one of the last great belters. They also sang "There's No Business Like Show Business" with Ethel Merman joining them.
Beginning with My Name Is Barbra, her early albums were often medley-filled keepsakes of her television specials. Starting in 1969, she began attempting more contemporary material, but like many talented singers of the day, she found herself out of her element with rock. Her vocal talents prevailed, and she gained newfound success with the pop and ballad-oriented Richard Perry-produced album Stoney End in 1971. The title track, written by Laura Nyro, was a major hit for Streisand.
During the 1970s, she was also highly prominent on the pop charts, with Top 10 recordings such as "The Way We Were" (US No. 1), "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" (US No. 1), "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (1979, with Donna Summer), which as of 2010 is reportedly still the most commercially successful duet, (US No. 1), "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (with Neil Diamond) (US No. 1) and "The Main Event" (US No. 3), some of which came from soundtrack recordings of her films. As the 1970s ended, Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the U.S. — only Elvis Presley and The Beatles had sold more albums.[30] In 1980, she released her best-selling effort to date, the Barry Gibb-produced Guilty. The album contained the hits "Woman in Love" (which spent several weeks atop the pop charts in the Fall of 1980), "Guilty", and "What Kind of Fool".
After years of largely ignoring Broadway and traditional pop music in favor of more contemporary material, Streisand returned to her musical-theater roots with 1985's The Broadway Album, which was unexpectedly successful, holding the coveted No. 1 Billboard position for three straight weeks, and being certified quadruple platinum. The album featured tunes by Rodgers & Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and Stephen Sondheim, who was persuaded to rework some of his songs especially for this recording. The Broadway Album was met with acclaim, including a Grammy nomination for album of the year and, ultimately, handed Streisand her eighth Grammy as Best Female Vocalist. After releasing the live album One Voice in 1986, Streisand was set to take another musical journey along the Great White Way in 1988. She recorded several cuts for the album under the direction of Rupert Holmes, including "On My Own" (from Les Misérables), a medley of "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" and "Heather on the Hill" (from Finian's Rainbow and Brigadoon, respectively), "All I Ask of You" (from The Phantom of the Opera), "Warm All Over" (from The Most Happy Fella) and an unusual solo version of "Make Our Garden Grow" (from Candide). Streisand was not happy with the direction of the project and it was ultimately scrapped. Only "Warm All Over" and a reworked, lite FM-friendly version of "All I Ask of You" were ever released, the latter appearing on Streisand's 1988 effort, Till I Loved You. At the beginning of the 1990s, Streisand started focusing on her film directorial efforts and became almost inactive in the recording studio. In 1991, a four-disc box set, Just for the Record, was released. A compilation spanning Streisand's entire career to date, it featured over 70 tracks of live performances, greatest hits, rarities and previously unreleased material.
The following year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former President Bill Clinton into the spotlight and into office.[31] Streisand later introduced Clinton at his inauguration in 1993. Streisand's music career, however, was largely on hold. A 1992 appearance at an APLA benefit as well as the aforementioned inaugural performance hinted that Streisand was becoming more receptive to the idea of live performances. A tour was suggested, though Streisand would not immediately commit to it, citing her well-known stage fright as well as security concerns. During this time, Streisand finally returned to the recording studio and released Back to Broadway in June 1993. The album was not as universally lauded as its predecessor, but it did debut at No. 1 on the pop charts (a rare feat for an artist of Streisand's age, especially given that it relegated Janet Jackson's Janet to the No. 2 spot). One of the album's highlights was a medley of "I Have A Love" / "One Hand, One Heart", a duet with Johnny Mathis, who Streisand said is one of her favorite singers (this is stated in the CD's liner notes).[citation needed]
In 1993, New York Times music critic Stephen Holden wrote that Streisand "enjoys a cultural status that only one other American entertainer, Frank Sinatra, has achieved in the last half century."[32] In September 1993, Streisand announced her first public concert appearances in 27 years. What began as a two-night New Year's event at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas eventually led to a multi-city tour in the summer of 1994. Tickets to the tour were sold out in under one hour. Streisand also appeared on the covers of major magazines in anticipation of what Time magazine named "The Music Event of the Century." The tour was one of the biggest all-media merchandise parlays in history. Ticket prices ranged from US$50 to US$1,500 – making Streisand the highest-paid concert performer in history. Barbra Streisand: The Concert went on to be the top-grossing concert of the year and earned five Emmy Awards and the Peabody Award, while the taped broadcast on HBO is, to date, the highest-rated concert special in HBO's 30-year history. Following the tour's conclusion, Streisand once again kept a low profile musically, instead focusing her efforts on acting and directing duties as well as a burgeoning romance with actor James Brolin.
In 1997, she finally returned to the recording studio, releasing Higher Ground, a collection of songs of a loosely-inspirational nature which also featured a duet with Céline Dion. The album received generally favorable reviews and, remarkably, once again debuted at No. 1 on the pop charts. Following her marriage to Brolin in 1998, Streisand recorded an album of love songs entitled A Love Like Ours the following year. Reviews were mixed, with many critics carping about the somewhat syrupy sentiments and overly-lush arrangements; however, it did produce a modest hit for Streisand in the country-tinged "If You Ever Leave Me", a duet with Vince Gill.
On New Year's Eve 1999, Streisand returned to the concert stage, with the highest-grossing single concert in Las Vegas history to date.[citation needed] At the end of the millennium, she was the number-one female singer in the U.S., with at least two No. 1 albums in each decade since she began performing. A two-disc live album of the concert entitled Timeless: Live in Concert was released in 2000. Streisand performed versions of the Timeless concert in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, in early 2000. In advance of four concerts (two each in Los Angeles and New York) in September 2000, Streisand announced she was retiring from paying public concerts. Her performance of the song "People" was broadcast on the Internet via America Online.
Streisand's most-recent albums have been Christmas Memories (2001), a somewhat somber collection of holiday songs (which felt entirely —albeit unintentionally— appropriate in the early post-9/11 days), and The Movie Album (2003), featuring famous film themes and backed by a large symphony orchestra. Guilty Pleasures (called Guilty Too in the UK), a collaboration with Barry Gibb and a sequel to their Guilty, was released worldwide in 2005.
In February 2006, Streisand recorded the song "Smile" alongside Tony Bennett at Streisand's Malibu home. The song is included on Tony Bennett's 80th birthday album, Duets. In September 2006, the pair filmed a live performance of the song for a special directed by Rob Marshall entitled Tony Bennett: An American Classic. The special aired on NBC November 21, 2006, and was released on DVD the same day. Streisand's duet with Bennett opened the special. In 2006, Streisand announced her intent to tour again, in an effort to raise money and awareness for multiple issues. After four days of rehearsal at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, New Jersey, the tour began on October 4 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, continued with a featured stop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, (this was the concert Streisand chose to film for a TV special), and concluded at Staples Center in Los Angeles on November 20, 2006. Special guests Il Divo were interwoven throughout the show. The show was known as Streisand: The Tour.
Streisand's 20-concert tour set box-office records. At the age of 64, well past the prime of most performers, she grossed $92,457,062 and set house gross records in 14 of the 16 arenas played on the tour. She set the third-place record for her October 9, 2006, show at Madison Square Garden, the first- and second-place records of which are held by her two shows in September 2000. She set the second-place record at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, with her December 31, 1999, show being the house record and the highest-grossing concert of all time. This led many people to openly criticize Streisand for price gouging, as many tickets sold for upwards of $1,000.[citation needed]
A collection of performances culled from different stops on this tour, Live in Concert 2006, debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, making it Streisand's 29th Top 10 album.[33] In the summer of 2007, Streisand gave concerts for the first time in continental Europe. The first concert took place in Zürich (June 18), then Vienna (June 22), Paris (June 26), Berlin (June 30), Stockholm (July 4, canceled), Manchester (July 10) and Celbridge, near Dublin (July 14), followed by three concerts in London (July 18, 22 and 25), the only European city where Streisand had performed before 2007. Tickets for the London dates cost between £100.00 and £1,500.00 and for the Ireland date between €118 and €500. The tour included a 58-piece orchestra.
In February 2008, Forbes listed Streisand as the No. 2 earning female musician, between June 2006 and June 2007, with earnings of about $60 million.[34] Although Streisand's range has changed with time and her voice has deepened over the years, her vocal prowess has remained remarkably secure for a singer whose career has endured for nearly half a century. Streisand is a contralto or possibly a mezzo-soprano who has a range consisting of well over two octaves from "low E to a high G and probably a bit more that [sic?] in either direction."[35] On November 17, 2008, Streisand returned to the studio to begin recording what would be her sixty-third album[36] and it was announced that Diana Krall was producing the album.[37] Streisand is one of the recipients of the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors.[38] On December 7, 2008, she visited the White House as part of the ceremonies.[36]
On April 25, 2009, CBS aired Streisand's latest TV special, Streisand: Live in Concert, highlighting the aforementioned featured stop from her 2006 North American tour, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. On September 26, 2009, Streisand performed a one-night-only show at the Village Vanguard in New York City's Greenwich Village.[39] This performance was later released on DVD as One Night Only Barbra Streisand and Quartet at The Village Vanguard. On September 29, 2009, Streisand and Columbia Records released her newest studio album, Love is the Answer, produced by Diana Krall.[40] On October 2, 2009, Streisand made her British television performance debut with an interview on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross to promote the album. This album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and registered her biggest weekly sales since 1997, making Streisand the only artist in history to achieve No. 1 albums in five different decades.
On February 1, 2010, Streisand joined over 80 other artists in recording a new version of the 1985 charity single "We Are the World". Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie planned to release the new version to mark the 25th anniversary of its original recording. These plans changed, however, in view of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010, and on February 12, the song, now called "We Are the World 25 for Haiti", made its debut as a charity single to support relief aid for the beleaguered island nation.
In 2011, she sang with Jackie Evancho in a song called "Somewhere" on Jackie Evancho' album Dream With Me.
Streisand was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year on February 11, 2011, two days prior to the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.
Streisand is one of many singers who use teleprompters during their live performances. Streisand has defended her choice in using teleprompters to display lyrics and, sometimes, banter.[41]
Acting[link]
Her first film was a reprise of her Broadway hit, Funny Girl (1968), an artistic and commercial success directed by Hollywood veteran William Wyler. Streisand won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress for the role, sharing it with Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter), the only time there has been a tie in this Oscar category. Her next two movies were also based on musicals, Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly (1969), and Alan Jay Lerner's and Burton Lane's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, directed by Vincente Minnelli (1970), while her fourth film was based on the Broadway play The Owl and the Pussycat (1970).
During the 1970s, Streisand starred in several screwball comedies, including What's Up, Doc? (1972) and The Main Event (1979), both co-starring Ryan O'Neal, and For Pete's Sake (1974) with Michael Sarrazin. One of her most famous roles during this period was in the drama The Way We Were (1973) with Robert Redford, for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. She earned her second Academy Award for Best Original Song as composer (together with lyricist Paul Williams) for the song "Evergreen", from A Star Is Born in 1976.
Along with Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier and later Steve McQueen, Streisand formed First Artists Production Company in 1969, so the actors could secure properties and develop movie projects for themselves. Streisand's initial outing with First Artists was Up the Sandbox (1972).
From a period beginning in 1969 and ending in 1980, Streisand appeared in the annual motion picture exhibitors poll of Top 10 Box Office attractions a total of 10 times, often as the only woman on the list. After the commercially disappointing All Night Long in 1981, Streisand's film output decreased considerably. She has acted in only six films since.
Streisand produced a number of her own films, setting up Barwood Films in 1972. For Yentl (1983), she was producer, director, and star, an experience she repeated for The Prince of Tides (1991) and The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). There was controversy when Yentl received five Academy Award nominations, but none for the major categories of Best Picture, Actress, or Director.[42] The Prince of Tides received even more Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, but the director was not nominated. Streisand also scripted Yentl, something she is not always given credit for. According to New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal in an interview (story begins at minute 16) with Allan Wolper, "the one thing that makes Barbra Streisand crazy is when nobody gives her the credit for having written Yentl."
In 2004, Streisand made a return to film acting, after an eight-year hiatus, in the comedy Meet the Fockers (a sequel to Meet the Parents), playing opposite Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner and Robert De Niro.
In 2005, Streisand's Barwood Films, Gary Smith, and Sonny Murray purchased the rights to Simon Mawer's book Mendel's Dwarf.[43] In December 2008, she stated that she was considering directing an adaptation of Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart, a project she has worked on since the mid-1990s[44] In 2009, Andrew Lloyd Webber stated that Streisand was one of several actresses (alongside Meryl Streep and Glenn Close) who were interested in playing the role of Norma Desmond in the film adaptation of Webber's musical version of Sunset Boulevard.[45]
In December 2010, Streisand appeared in Little Fockers, the third film from the Meet the Parents trilogy. She reprised the role of Roz Focker alongside Dustin Hoffman.
On January 4, 2011, the New York Post reported that Streisand was in negotiations to produce, direct, and star in a new film version of Gypsy. In an interview with the New York Post, Arthur Laurents said: "We've talked about it a lot, and she knows what she's doing. She has my approval." He said that he would not write the screenplay.[46][47] The following day, the New York Times reported that Arthur Laurents clarified in a telephonic interview that Streisand would not direct the film "but playing Rose is enough to make her happy."[47][48] Streisand's spokesperson confirmed that "there have been conversations".[49] After Laurents' subsequent death there was no official word on the status of the film for months, until it was announced on March 13, 2012 that Gypsy was moving forward, with Julian Fellowes writing the screenplay for the project.
On January 28, 2011, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Paramount Pictures has given the road-trip comedy My Mother's Curse the green light to begin shooting, with Streisand and Seth Rogen playing mother and son. Anne Fletcher is slated to direct the project with a script by Dan Fogelman. Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn will produce it with Evan Goldberg. Executive producers include Streisand, Rogen, Fogelman, and David Ellison, whose Skydance will co-finance the pic.[50] Shooting began in spring of 2011 and wrapped in July. In August the Internet Movie Database began listing the film with the new title Guilt Trip. The film is set for a November 2012 release (originally it was slated to release in March 2012).
Personal life[link]
Marriages and family[link]
Streisand has been married twice. Her first husband was actor Elliott Gould, to whom she was married from 1963 until 1971. They had one child, Jason Gould, who would go on to star as her on-screen son in The Prince of Tides. Her second husband is actor James Brolin, whom she married on July 1, 1998. While they have no children together, Brolin has two children from his first marriage, including Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin, and one child from his second marriage. Both of her husbands starred in the 1970s conspiracy sci-fi thriller Capricorn One.
Jon Peters' daughters, Caleigh Peters and Skye Peters are her goddaughters.[citation needed]
Name[link]
Streisand changed her name from Barbara to Barbra because, she said, "I hated the name, but I refused to change it."[51] Streisand further explained, "Well, I was 18 and I wanted to be unique, but I didn't want to change my name because that was too false. You know, people were saying you could be Joanie Sands, or something like that. [My middle name is Joan.] And I said, 'No, let's see, if I take out the 'a,' it's still 'Barbara,' but it's unique."[52] A 1967 biography with a concert program said, "the spelling of her first name is an instance of partial rebellion: she was advised to change her last name and retaliated by dropping an “a” from the first instead."[53]
Politics[link]
Streisand has long been an active supporter of the Democratic Party and many of their causes. Streisand said, "The Democrats have always been the party of working people and minorities. I've always identified with the minorities."[54]
In 1971, Streisand was one of the celebrities listed on President Richard Nixon's infamous Enemies List.
Streisand is a supporter of gay rights, and in 2008 helped raise funds to defeat Proposition 8 in California.[55]
Philanthropy[link]
Streisand has personally raised $25 million[56] for organizations through her live performances. The Streisand Foundation,[57] established in 1986, has contributed over $16 million through nearly 1,000 grants to "national organizations working on preservation of the environment, voter education, the protection of civil liberties and civil rights, women’s issues[58] and nuclear disarmament."[59]
In 2006, Streisand donated $1 million to the William J. Clinton Foundation in support of former President Bill Clinton’s climate change initiative.[60]
In 2008, Streisand gifted $5 million to endow the Barbra Streisand Women's Cardiovascular Research and Education Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Women's Heart Center.[61] In September that year, Parade magazine included Streisand on their Giving Back Fund's second annual Giving Back 30 survey, "a ranking of the celebrities who have made the largest donations to charity in 2007 according to public records",[62] as the third most generous celebrity. The Giving Back Fund claimed Streisand donated $11 million, which The Streisand Foundation distributed.
At Julien’s Auctions in October 2009, Streisand, a long-time collector of art and furniture, sold 526 items with all the proceeds going to her foundation. Items included a costume from Funny Lady and a vintage dental cabinet purchased by the performer at 18 years old. The sale’s most valuable lot was a painting by Kees van Dongen.[63] In December 2011 she agreed to sing at a fundraising gala for Israel Defence Forces charities.[64]
References in popular culture[link]
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One memorable parody of Streisand's iconic status has been on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live in the recurring skit Coffee Talk where character Linda Richman, played by Mike Myers, hosts a talk show dedicated to, among other things, the adoration of Streisand. Streisand, in turn, made an unannounced guest appearance on the show, surprising Myers and guests, Madonna and Roseanne Barr. Mike Myers also appeared as the Linda Richman character on stage with Streisand at her 1994 MGM Grand concert, as well as a few of the 1994 Streisand tour shows.[65]
Streisand is mentioned in the sitcom Will & Grace, particularly by the character Jack McFarland. Songs made famous by Streisand, such as "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" from Yentl and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" from The Broadway Album are reproduced by characters in the show.
At least four episodes of the animated sitcom The Simpsons refer to Streisand. Outside Springfield Elementary School, announcing Lisa's jazz concert and noting tickets have been sold out, is an advertisement for a Streisand concert in the same venue for the following day, with tickets still on sale. In "Fear of Flying", after Marge undergoes therapy, she informs the therapist that whenever she hears the wind blow, she'll hear it saying "Lowenstein", Streisand's therapist character in The Prince of Tides, even though Marge's therapist is named Zweig. Another reference comes in "Sleeping with the Enemy" when Bart exclaims after seeing Lisa make a snow-angel in a cake on the kitchen table, "At least she's not singing Streisand", in reference to Nelson Muntz singing "Papa Can You Hear Me?" from Yentl earlier in the episode. In "Simple Simpson", a patriotic country singer says that Streisand is unpatriotic and could be pleased by spitting on the flag and strangling a bald eagle.
Another enduring satirical reference is in the animated series South Park, most notably in the episode "Mecha-Streisand", where Streisand is portrayed as a self-important, evil, gigantic robotic dinosaur with a terrible singing voice about to conquer the universe before being defeated by Robert Smith of The Cure. On another occasion, the Halloween episode "Spookyfish" is promoted for a week as being done in "Spooky-Vision", which involves Streisand's face seen at times during the episode in the four corners of the screen. At the end of the feature film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, her name is used as a powerful curse word, a gag repeated in the episode "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants". The Mecha-Streisand character made a return in the Season 14 episodes "200" and "201", as one of several celebrities the show had lampooned over the years.
In the Family Guy episode "Mind Over Murder", Lois sings a cabaret act with "Don't Rain on My Parade" — originally sung by Streisand in Funny Girl — only slowed down and jazzier, as an act of defiance to Peter. In "Stewie Kills Lois", Peter receives life insurance after Lois' apparent death, and claims that he has more money than Streisand. This was followed by a cut scene showing Streisand blowing money out of her nose. In "Wasted Talent", Streisand and husband James Brolin are shown sitting together at the dinner table, with Streisand remarking "I'm glad I married a regular person and not a celebrity".
Streisand is referenced frequently on the Fox TV musical series Glee. The character Rachel (Lea Michele) mentions that Streisand refused to alter her nose in order to become famous in the show's third episode "Acafellas". Also, in the mid-season finale of Glee, Rachel sings the Streisand anthem "Don't Rain on My Parade". In the episode "Hell-O", she says that she will be heartbroken for life, "Like Barbra in The Way We Were." In the same episode, Jesse St. James (Jonathan Groff) criticizes Rachel's performance of "Don't Rain on My Parade" by saying that she "lacked Barbra's emotional depth."
In the episode "Theatricality", Rachel is spying on the opposing team's dance rehearsal when the director, Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel), expresses dissatisfaction at the team's routine. She demonstrates how it's done with the title song from Funny Girl, and Rachel, sitting in the audience, whispers to her friend, "Exactly what I would have done — Barbra. I could do it in my sleep." In the episode "Grilled Cheesus" Rachel sings Barbra's infamous song from the movie Yentl, Papa, Can You Hear Me?,to help support Kurt's dad Burt after undergoing a heart attack. Rachel sang it in a park with Finn sitting at her side/in Burt Hummel's hospital room. She told Finn that she "wanted nothing to come between her and God, and Yentl sang it outside in the movie." [66] On the episode Born This Way Barbara is mentioned when Rachel is debating whether or not to get a nose job, Kurt Hummel and the rest of the glee club set up a "Barbra-vention" of a flashmob to the popular hit "Barbra Streisand" by Duck Sauce.
The characters of Kurt and Rachel also sang the "Get Happy/Happy Days are Here Again" duet originally heard during Streisand's 1963 appearance with Judy Garland on Garland's weekly TV series. In the season three episode "I Am Unicorn," Kurt sings Barbra Streisand's "I'm the Greatest Star" from the musical Funny Girl, stating "[He] has permission from the woman herself," actually meaning Rachel Berry. When Glee won the prize for "Best TV Series-Comedy Or Musical" at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards, creator Ryan Murphy quipped on stage, "Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press and Miss Barbra Streisand."
In the sitcom The Nanny, Streisand is viewed as a divine figure by Fran Fine throughout the show. When asked by her boss who she would save if her mother and Streisand were drowning, Fran replies "I'd save ma, Barbra can walk on water," Another example is in "The Passed-Over Story," when Fran hears that Barbra Streisand and James Brolin will be arriving at the airport, Fran runs towards the door yelling "It's the miracle of Passover, the Messiah is coming".
On film[link]
In movies, Streisand is remembered as the favorite of the character Howard Brackett, played by Kevin Kline, who finally admits to being gay while standing at the altar in the 1997 romantic comedy In & Out. His unfortunate bride-to-be, played by Joan Cusack, cries out in frustration to family and friends present, "Does anybody here KNOW how many times I've had to sit through Funny Lady?" In an earlier scene, Howard is taunted by a friend during an argument at a bar with a jeering, "The studio thought that Barbra was too ol-l-ld to play Yentl." The film also mentions the album Color Me Barbra. Barbra's signature tune, "People", is played by a school orchestra in honor of teacher Howard as the story wraps at the end of the credits. This and similar references refer to her popularity among gay men.
In the 1996 comedy "The Associate", Whoopi Goldberg plays a business woman, Laurel Ayers, who creates a business associate, Robert S. Cutty, who is said to have known and dated Streisand. In addition to having an autographed picture of Streisand in her office, Ayers also has a cross-dressing friend who dresses up to resemble Streisand throughout the film.
The characters Carla and Connie, as aspiring song-and-dance acts in the 2004 comedy Connie and Carla, include four Streisand references. They sing "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "Memory" at an airport lounge and "Don't Rain on My Parade" onstage in a gay bar, and talk about the plot of Yentl at the climax of the film after they ask how many in their audience have seen the movie (everyone raised their hands).
In music[link]
Sound clips of Streisand's heated exchange with a supporter of former U.S. president George W. Bush were sampled in the 2009 Lucian Piane dance song "Bale Out", making it sound as if she were arguing with actor Christian Bale (whose recorded outbursts during the filming of Terminator Salvation were the centerpiece of the song).[67]
"Barbra Streisand" is a disco house song by American-Canadian DJ duo Duck Sauce. It was released on September 10, 2010. The song peaked at number one in Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland and Austria. It became a top ten hit in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the UK.
On stage[link]
Daniel Stern's 2003 Off-Broadway play Barbra's Wedding was set against the backdrop of Streisand's 1998 wedding to James Brolin.
"Streisand effect"[link]
Main article: Streisand effect
In 2003, Streisand sued aerial photographer Kenneth Adelman for displaying a photograph of her Malibu, California, home, along with other photos of the California coastline. Her suit was dismissed under the anti-SLAPP provisions of California law.[68][69][70] Mike Masnick of Techdirt coined the term "Streisand effect" in January 2005 to describe the publicity generated by Streisand's efforts to suppress the publication of the photograph.
Awards[link]
In 1984, Streisand was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.[71] She also received the National Medal of Arts[72] in 2000 and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2008. She was inducted as an officer of France's Legion of Honour in 2007.
Streisand is the only women to have an album reach #1 on the US charts and win the Academy Award for Best Actress.[citation needed]
Music awards[link]
Streisand's works have been nominated for over 57 Grammy Awards; she won 15 of these, including two special awards. She has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame three times. In 2011, she was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year by the Grammy Foundation.
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Grammy Awards | Album of the Year | The Barbra Streisand Album | Won |
| Best Female Vocal Performance | Won | |||
| Record of the Year | "Happy Days Are Here Again" | Nominated | ||
| 1964 | Best Female Vocal Performance | People | Won | |
| Album of the Year | Nominated | |||
| Record of the Year | Nominated | |||
| 1965 | Best Female Vocal Performance | My Name Is Barbra | Won | |
| Album of the Year | Nominated | |||
| 1966 | Best Female Vocal Performance | Color Me Barbra | Nominated | |
| Album of the Year | Nominated | |||
| 1968 | Best Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance | Funny Girl Soundtrack | Nominated | |
| 1970 | AGVA Georgie Award | Entertainer of the Year | — | Won |
| 1972 | Grammy Awards | Best Pop Female Vocal Performance | "Sweet Inspiration / Where You Lead" | Nominated |
| AGVA Georgie Award | Singing Star of the Year | — | Won | |
| 1975 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Female Singer of the Year | Won | |
| 1976 | Grammy Awards | Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance | Classical Barbra | Nominated |
| 1977 | Best Pop Female Vocal Performance | "Evergreen" (from A Star Is Born) | Won | |
| Song of the Year | Won | |||
| Record of the Year | Nominated | |||
| Best Original Score – Motion Picture or Television Special | Nominated | |||
| AGVA Georgie Award | Singing Star of the Year | — | Won | |
| 1978 | Grammy Awards | Best Pop Female Vocal Performance | "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (with Neil Diamond) | Nominated |
| 1979 | Record of the Year | Nominated | ||
| Best Pop Vocal Performance – Duo, Group, or Chorus | Nominated | |||
| 1980 | Guilty (with Barry Gibb) | Won | ||
| Album of the Year | Nominated | |||
| Record of the Year | "Woman in Love" | Nominated | ||
| Best Pop Vocal Female Performance | Nominated | |||
| AGVA Georgie Awards | Singing Star of the Year | — | Won | |
| 1985 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer | Won | |
| 1986 | Grammy Awards | Best Pop Vocal Female Performance | The Broadway Album | Won |
| Album of the Year | Nominated | |||
| Best Instrumental Arrangement Acompanying Vocal | "Being Alive" | Nominated | ||
| 1987 | Best Pop Vocal Female Performance | One Voice | Nominated | |
| Best Music Video Performance | Nominated | |||
| 1988 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite All-Time Musical Performer | — | Won |
| 1991 | Grammy Awards | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance | "Warm All Over" | Nominated |
| 1992 | Grammy Legend Award | — | Special award | |
| 1993 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance | Back to Broadway | Nominated | |
| 1994 | Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award | — | Special award | |
| Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance | Barbra: The Concert | Nominated | ||
| Best Pop Vocal Female Performance | "Ordinary Miracles" | Nominated | ||
| 1997 | Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals | "Tell Him" (with Celine Dion) | Nominated | |
| "I Finally Found Someone" (with Bryan Adams) | Nominated | |||
| 2000 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | Timeless – Live In Concert | Nominated | |
| 2002 | Christmas Memories | Nominated | ||
| 2003 | The Movie Album | Nominated | ||
| 2004 | Grammy Hall of Fame | Funny Girl (Barbra Streisand and Sydney Chaplin) | Inducted | |
| 2006 | The Barbra Streisand Album | |||
| 2007 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | Live in Concert 2006 | Nominated | |
| 2008 | Grammy Hall of Fame | "The Way We Were" | Inducted | |
| 2011 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | Love Is the Answer | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | What Matters Most | Nominated |
Film awards[link]
Streisand has won 2 Academy Awards (Oscar) against 5 nominations, 2 for acting, 2 for song writing and 1 for Best Picture,
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Academy Awards | Best Actress | Funny Girl | Won |
| Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | Won | ||
| 1970 | Hello, Dolly! | Nominated | ||
| Henrietta World Film Favorite | — | Special award | ||
| 1971 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | The Owl and the Pussycat | Nominated | |
| Henrietta World Film Favorite | — | Special award | ||
| 1974 | Academy Awards | Best Actress | The Way We Were | Nominated |
| Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) | Nominated | ||
| 1975 | Henrietta World Film Favorite | — | Special award | |
| 1976 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | Funny Lady | Nominated | |
| 1977 | Academy Awards | Best Original Song | "Evergreen" (from A Star Is Born) | Won |
| Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | Won | ||
| Best Original Song | Won | |||
| 1978 | Henrietta World Film Favorite | — | Special award | |
| 1984 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | Yentl | Nominated | |
| Best Director (Motion Picture) | Won | |||
| Best Motion Picture (Comedy Or Musical) | Won | |||
| 1988 | Best Actress in Motion Picture (Drama) | Nuts | Nominated | |
| Best Motion Picture (Drama) | Nominated | |||
| 1992 | Academy Awards | Best Picture | The Prince of Tides | Nominated |
| Golden Globe Awards | Best Director (Motion Picture) | Nominated | ||
| Golden Globe Awards | Best Motion Picture - (Drama) | Nominated | ||
| 1997 | Academy Awards | Best Original Song | "I Finally Found Someone" (from The Mirror Has Two Faces) | Nominated |
| Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | The Mirror Has Two Faces | Nominated | |
| Best Original Song | "I Finally Found Someone" (from The Mirror Has Two Faces) | Nominated | ||
| 2000 | Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement | — | Special award |
1984 nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award as Worst Male actor for her (male) performance in Yentl.
Appearances[link]
Broadway performances[link]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1961–1963 | I Can Get It for You Wholesale | Nominated—Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
| 1964–1965 | Funny Girl | Nominated—Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical |
West End performances[link]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Funny Girl | April 13, 1966 – July 16, 1966 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. |
Television specials[link]
| Year | Title | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | My Name Is Barbra | Aired April 28, 1965 | |||
| 1966 | Color Me Barbra | Aired March 30, 1966 | |||
| 1967 | The Belle of 14th Street | Aired October 11, 1967 | |||
| 1968 | A Happening in Central Park | Aired June 17, 1967 | |||
| 1973 | Barbra Streisand...And Other Musical Instruments | Nov 2, 1973 | |||
| 1975 | Funny Girl to Funny Lady | ||||
| 1976 | Barbra: With One More Look at You | ||||
| 1983 | A Film Is Born: The Making of 'Yentl' | ||||
| 1986 | Putting it Together: The Making of The Broadway Album | ||||
| 1987 | One Voice | ||||
| 1994 | Barbra Streisand: The Concert | Also producer and director | |||
| 1990 | Barbara Sings Celine | ||||
| 1990 | Barbara Sings Celine | 2001 | Barbra Streisand: Timeless | Aired on FOX TV February 14, 2001 (1 hour edited version) | |
| 1990 | Barbara Sings Celine | 2009 | Streisand: Live in Concert | Aired on CBS April 25, 2009[73] (Filmed in Florida in 2006) | |
| 2009 | Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | First Ever Live Performance on UK Television |
Tours and live performances[link]
| Year | Title | Continents | Box-office benefits | Total audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | An Evening with Barbra Streisand (Tour) | North America | $480,000 | 60,000 |
| 1994 | Barbra Streisand: The Concert Tour | North America and Europe | $50 million | 400,000 |
| 2000 | Timeless: Live in Concert Tour | North America and Oceania | $70 million | 200,000 |
| 2006–2007 | Streisand: The Tour | North America and Europe | $119.5 million | 425,000 |
Discography[link]
Main article: Barbra Streisand discography
- 1963: The Barbra Streisand Album
- 1963: The Second Barbra Streisand Album
- 1964: The Third Album
- 1964: People
- 1965: My Name Is Barbra
- 1965: My Name Is Barbra, Two...
- 1966: Color Me Barbra
- 1966: Je m'appelle Barbra
- 1967: Simply Streisand
- 1967: A Christmas Album
- 1969: What About Today?
- 1971: Stoney End
- 1971: Barbra Joan Streisand
- 1973: Barbra Streisand...And Other Musical Instruments
- 1974: The Way We Were
- 1974: ButterFly
- 1975: Lazy Afternoon
- 1976: Classical Barbra
- 1976: A Star is Born
- 1977: Streisand Superman
- 1978: Songbird
- 1979: Wet
- 1980: Guilty
- 1981: Memories
- 1984: Emotion
- 1985: The Broadway Album
- 1988: Till I Loved You
- 1993: Back to Broadway
- 1997: Higher Ground
- 1999: A Love Like Ours
- 2001: Christmas Memories
- 2003: The Movie Album
- 2005: Guilty Pleasures
- 2009: Love Is the Answer
- 2011: What Matters Most
Filmography[link]
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Further reading[link]
- Andersen, Christopher (2006). Barbra: The Way She Is. Harper-Collins. ISBN 0-06-056256-0.
- Edwards, Anne (1997). Streisand: A Biography. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-21138-3.
- Riese, Randall (1993). Her Name Is Barbra: An Intimate Portrait of the Real Barbra Streisand. Birch Lane Press. ISBN 1-55972-203-7.
- Santopietro, Tom (2006). The Importance of Being Barbra: The Brilliant, Tumultuous Career of Barbra Streisand. Thomas Dunne. ISBN 978-0-312-34879-3.
- Spada, James (1995). Streisand: Her Life. Crown Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-517-59753-5.
- Pohly, Linda (2000). The Barbra Steisand Companion: A Guide to Her Vocal Style and Repertoire. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-30414-9.
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| Name | Streisand, Barbra |
| Alternative names | Streisand, Barbara Joan |
| Short description | Singer-Songwriter, Actress |
| Date of birth | April 24, 1942 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
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 Dion during her Taking Chances Tour concert in Bell Centre, Montreal, on August 19, 2008. |
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| Birth name | Céline Marie Claudette Dion |
| Born | (1968-03-30) March 30, 1968 (age 44) |
| Origin | Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada |
| Genres | Pop, dance, R&B, pop rock, soft rock, adult contemporary |
| Occupations | Singer,[1] songwriter-composer,[2] actress[3] |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Labels | Sony Music Canada, Epic, 550, Columbia |
| Website | celinedion.com |
Céline Marie Claudette Dion, CC OQ, (French pronunciation: [selin djɔ̃] (
listen); born March 30, 1968), is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec,[4] Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record.[5] In 1990, she released the English-language album Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world.[6]
Dion had first gained international recognition in the 1980s by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest.[7][8] Following a series of French albums in the early 1980s, she signed on to CBS Records Canada in 1986. During the 1990s, with the help of Angélil, she achieved worldwide fame after signing with Epic Records and releasing several English albums along with additional French albums, becoming one of the most successful artists in pop music history.[9][10] However, in 1999 at the height of her success, Dion announced a hiatus from entertainment in order to start a family and spend time with her husband, who had been diagnosed with cancer.[10][11] She returned to the top of pop music in 2002 and signed a three-year (later extended to almost five years) contract to perform nightly in a five-star theatrical show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada.[12][13][14]
Dion's music has been influenced by genres ranging from rock and R&B to gospel and classical. While her releases have often received mixed critical reception, she is renowned for her technically skilled and powerful vocals.[15][16][17] Dion is the best-selling Canadian artist of all time,[18][19] is the second best-selling female artist in the US during the Nielsen SoundScan era,[20][21] and is the only female artist to have two singles sell more than a million copies in the UK.[22] In addition, her 1995 album D'eux, is the best-selling French-language album of all time.[23] In 2004, after surpassing 175 million in album sales worldwide, she was presented with the Chopard Diamond Award at the World Music Awards for becoming the best-selling female artist of all time.[24][25] According to Sony Music Entertainment, Dion has sold over 200 million albums worldwide.[26]
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Childhood and early beginnings[link]
The youngest of 14 children born to Adhémar Dion and Thérèse Tanguay, both of French-Canadian descent, Celine Dion was raised a Roman Catholic in a poverty-stricken, but, by her own account, happy home in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada.[10][27] Music had always been a part of the family (Dion was named after the song Céline, recorded by French singer Hugues Aufray two years before her birth [28]). On the 13th of August 1973, (at the age of five) the young Céline did her first public appearance at her brother Michel's marriage, and performed Christine Charbonneau's song [29] Du fil des aiguilles et du coton.[30] Then after she grew up singing with her siblings in her parents' small piano bar called Le Vieux Baril. From an early age Dion had dreamed of being a performer.[31] In a 1994 interview with People magazine, she recalled, "I missed my family and my home, but I don't regret having lost my adolescence. I had one dream: I wanted to be a singer."[32]
At age 12, Dion collaborated with her mother and her brother Jacques to compose her first song, "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" ("It Was Only a Dream").[27] Her brother Michel Dondalinger Dion sent the recording to music manager René Angélil, whose name he discovered on the back of a Ginette Reno album.[5] Angélil was moved to tears by Dion's voice, and decided to make her a star.[27] In 1981, he mortgaged his home to fund her first record, La voix du bon Dieu ("The Voice of the Good God"), which later became a local number-one hit and made Dion an instant star in Quebec. Her popularity spread to other parts of the world when she competed in the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, Japan, and won the musician's award for "Top Performer" as well as the gold medal for "Best Song" with "Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi" ("I Have So Much Love for You").[5]
By 1983, in addition to becoming the first Canadian artist to receive a gold record in France for the single "D'amour ou d'amitié" ("Of Love or of Friendship"), Dion had also won several Félix Awards, including "Best Female performer" and "Discovery of the Year".[5][33] Further success in Europe, Asia, and Australia came when Dion represented Switzerland in the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Ne partez pas sans moi (Don't Go Without Me) and won the contest by a close margin in Dublin, Ireland.[34] However, American success was yet to come, partly because she was exclusively a Francophone artist.[35] At eighteen, after seeing a Michael Jackson performance, Dion told Angélil that she wanted to be a star like Jackson.[36] Though confident in her talent, Angélil realized that her image needed to be changed in order for her to be marketed worldwide.[27] Dion receded from the spotlight for a number of months, during which she underwent dental surgery to improve her appearance, and was sent to the École Berlitz in 1989 to polish her English.[6]
In 1989, during a concert on Incognito Tour, Dion injured her voice. She consulted the otorhinolaryngologist William Gould.[37][38] He gave her an ultimatum: have surgery on her vocal cords, or not utilize them at all for three weeks.[37] Dion chose the latter and underwent a vocal formation with William Riley,[37][38] because, according to Gould and Riley, she "doesn't know singing, she made a bad use of her vocal cords".[37][38]
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Dion's earlier English releases
"Where Does My Heart Beat Now", Dion's first North American hit, was 1980s soft rock. (Note the prominence of the electric guitar). It contrasts with the style of subsequent efforts.
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Two years after she had learned English, Dion made her debut into the Anglophone market with Unison (1990), the lead single having originally been recorded by Laura Branigan.[5] She incorporated the help of many established musicians, including Vito Luprano and Canadian producer David Foster.[39] The album was largely influenced by 1980s soft rock music that quickly found a niche within the adult contemporary radio format. Unison also hit the right notes with critics: Jim Faber of Entertainment Weekly wrote that Dion's vocals were "tastefully unadorned", and that she never attempted to "bring off styles that are beyond her".[40] Stephen Erlewine of Allmusic declared it as, "a fine, sophisticated American debut."[41] Singles from the album included "(If There Was) Any Other Way", "The Last to Know", "Unison", and "Where Does My Heart Beat Now", a mid-tempo soft-rock ballad which made prominent use of the electric guitar. The latter became her first single to reach the top-ten on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number-four. The album established Dion as a rising singer in the United States, and across Continental Europe and Asia.
In 1991, Dion was also a soloist in Voices That Care, a tribute to American troops fighting in Operation Desert Storm. Dion's real international breakthrough came when she duetted with Peabo Bryson on the title track to Disney's animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991).[42] The song captured a musical style that Dion would utilize in the future: sweeping, classically influenced ballads with soft instrumentation. Both a critical and commercial hit, the song became her second U.S. top-ten single, and won the Academy Award for Best Song, and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.[15] "Beauty and the Beast" was featured on Dion's 1992 self-titled album, which, like her debut, had a strong rock influence combined with elements of soul and classical music. Owing to the success of the lead-off single and her collaboration with Foster and Diane Warren, the album was as well received as Unison. Other singles that achieved moderate success included "If You Asked Me To" (a cover of Patti LaBelle's song from the 1989 movie Licence to Kill) which peaked at number-four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, the gospel-tinged "Love Can Move Mountains", and "Nothing Broken But My Heart".
As with Dion's earlier releases, the album had an overtone of love. Also during this time, Dion released the Francophone album Dion chante Plamondon in 1991. The album consisted mostly of covers, but included 4 new songs, which included "Des mots qui sonnent", "Je danse dans ma tête", "Quelqu'un que j'aime, quelqu'un qui m'aime" and "L'amour existe encore". It was originally released in Canada and France during the 1991–1992 period, but then got an international release in 1994, the first French Celine Dion album to do so. "Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)" became a smash hit in France, reaching number-two and being certified gold. In Quebec, the album was certified Gold the day it was released.
By 1992 Unison, Céline Dion, and media appearances had propelled Dion to superstardom in North America. She had achieved one of her main objectives: wedging her way into the Anglophone market and achieving fame.[35] However, while she was experiencing rising success in the U.S., her French fans in Canada criticized her for neglecting them.[15][43] She would later regain her fan base at the Félix Award show, where, after winning "English Artist of the Year", she openly refused to accept the award. She asserted that she was—and would always be—a French, not an English, artist.[6][44] Apart from her commercial success, there were also changes in Dion's personal life, as Angélil, who was twenty-six years her senior, transitioned from manager to lover. However, the relationship was kept a secret as they both feared that the public would find their relations inappropriate.[45]
Popularity established: 1993–1995[link]
In 1993, Dion announced her feelings for her manager by declaring him "the colour of [her] love" in the dedication section of her third English-language album The Colour of My Love. However, instead of criticizing their relationship as Dion had feared, fans embraced the couple.[46] Eventually, Angélil and Dion married in an extravagant wedding ceremony in December 1994, which was broadcast live on Canadian television.
As it was dedicated to her manager, the album's motif focused on love and romance.[47] It became her most successful record up to that point, selling more than six million copies in the U.S., two million in Canada, and peaking at number-one in many countries. The album also spawned Dion's first U.S., Canadian, and Australian number-one single "The Power of Love" (a remake of Jennifer Rush's 1985 hit), which would become her signature hit until she reached new career heights in the late 1990s.[35] The single "When I Fall in Love", a duet with Clive Griffin, achieved moderate success on the U.S. and Canadian charts, and was nominated for two Grammy Awards, winning one. The Colour of My Love also became Dion's first major hit in Europe, and in particular the United Kingdom. Both the album and the single "Think Twice" simultaneously occupied the top of the British charts for five consecutive weeks. "Think Twice", which remained at number-one for seven weeks, eventually became the fourth single by a female artist to sell in excess of one million copies in the UK,[48] while the album was eventually certified five-times platinum for two-million copies sold.[49]
Dion kept to her French roots and continued to release many Francophone recordings between each English record.[50] Generally, they achieved more credibility than her English-language works.[43] She released À l'Olympia, a live album that was recorded during one of Dion's concerts at the Paris Olympia in 1994. It had one promotional single, a live version of "Calling You", which peaked at seventy-five on the French Singles Chart. She also recorded a bilingual version of Petit Papa Noël with Alvin and the Chipmunks for the 1994 holiday album A Very Merry Chipmunk. D'eux (also known as The French Album in the United States), was released in 1995, and it would go on to become the best-selling French-language album of all time.[50] The album was mostly written and produced by Jean-Jacques Goldman, and amassed huge success with the singles "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" and "Je sais pas". "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" reached number 1 in France and stayed at the top position for twelve weeks. It was later certified Platinum in France.[51] The single also reached the top ten in the UK and Ireland, a rare accomplishment for a French song. The second single off the album, "Je sais pas", reached number-one on the French Singles Chart as well and was certified Silver in France.[52] These songs would later become "If That's What It Takes" and "I Don't Know" on Dion's next English album, Falling into You.
During the mid-1990s, Dion's albums continued to be constructed on the basis of melodramatic ballads, but also with up-tempo pop and adult contemporary themed music.[53] She collaborated with talented craftsman such as Jim Steinman and David Foster who helped her devise more adult contemporary songs.[54][55] While critical reviews fluctuated, Dion's releases performed increasingly well on the international charts, and in 1996 she won the World Music Award for "World’s Best-selling Canadian Female Recording Artist of the Year" for the third time. By the mid-1990s, she had established herself as one of the best-selling artists in the world.[56]
Worldwide commercial success: 1996–1999[link]
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Falling into You (1996), Dion's fourth English-language album, presented the singer at the height of her popularity, and showed a further progression of her music.[45] In an attempt to reach a wider audience, the album combined many elements, such as complex orchestral sounds, African chanting and elaborate musical effects. Additionally, instruments like the violin, Spanish guitar, trombone, the cavaquinho and saxophone created a new sound.[57] The singles encompassed a variety of musical styles. The title track "Falling into You" and "River Deep, Mountain High" (a Tina Turner cover) made prominent use of percussion instruments; "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (a remake of Jim Steinman's song) and a remake of Eric Carmen's "All by Myself" kept their soft-rock atmosphere, but were combined with the classical sound of the piano; and the number-one single "Because You Loved Me", which was written by Diane Warren, was a ballad that served as the theme to the 1996 film Up Close & Personal.[56]
Falling into You garnered career-best reviews for Dion. While Dan Leroy wrote that it was not very different from her previous work,[58] and Stephen Holden of The New York Times and Natalie Nichols of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the album was formulaic,[59][60] other critics, such as Chuck Eddy of Entertainment Weekly, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AMG and Daniel Durchholz, lavished the album as "compelling", "passionate", "stylish", "elegant" and "remarkably well-crafted".[57][61] Falling Into You became Dion's most critically and commercially successful album: it topped the charts in many countries and became one of the best-selling albums of all time.[62] In the United States, the album reached number-one,[63] and was later certified 11x Platinum for over 11 million copies shipped.[64] In Canada, the album was certified diamond for over one million copies shipped.[65] The IFPI certified Falling into You 9x Platinum, an accolade that has been given to only two other albums in history, with one of the two being Dion's own album, Let's Talk About Love.[66] The album also won Grammy Awards for Best Pop Album, and the academy's highest honor Album of the Year.[67] Dion's status on the world stage was further solidified when she was asked to perform "The Power of the Dream" at the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.[68] In March 1996, Dion launched the Falling into You Tour in support of her new album, giving concerts around the world for over a year.
Dion followed Falling into You with Let's Talk About Love (1997), which was publicized as its sequel.[69] The recording process took place in London, New York City, and Los Angeles, and featured a host of special guests, such as Barbra Streisand on "Tell Him"; the Bee Gees on "Immortality"; and world-renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti on "I Hate You Then I Love You".[45][70] Other musicians included Carole King, Sir George Martin, Bryan Adams and Jamaican singer Diana King, who added a reggae tinge to "Treat Her Like a Lady".[71] As with Falling into You, Let's Talk About Love was a major success for Dion, reaching number-one all over the world, attaining platinum status in twenty-four sales territories, and becoming Dion's fastest selling album of her career.[72] In the United States, the album topped the chart in its seventh week of release,[73] and was later certified 10x Platinum in the U.S. for over 10 million copies shipped.[74] In Canada, the album sold 230,212 copies in its first week of release, which became, and still is, a record.[75] It was eventually certified diamond in Canada for over 1 million copies shipped.[76][77] The most successful single from the album became the classically influenced ballad "My Heart Will Go On", which was written and composed by James Horner and Will Jennings, and produced by Horner and Walter Afanasieff.[67] Serving as the love theme for the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic, the song topped the charts across the world, and became Dion's signature song;[78] as well as winning the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song.[79] The song also gave Dion two Grammy Awards for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" and the most coveted "Record of the Year", (the song itself won four awards, but two were presented to the songwriters).[80] "My Heart Will Go On" and "Think Twice" made her the only female artist in the UK to have two singles to sell more than a million copies.[81] In support of her album, Dion embarked on the Let's Talk About Love Tour between 1998 and 1999.[82]
Dion ended the 1990s with three more extremely successful albums—the Christmas album These Are Special Times (1998), the French-language album, S'il suffisait d'aimer, and the compilation album All the Way... A Decade of Song (1999).[46] On These Are Special Times, Dion became more involved in the writing process. She co-wrote the song, "Don't Save It All For Christmas Day" along with Ric Wake and Peter Zizzo.[83] The album was her most classically influenced yet, with orchestral arrangements found on virtually every track.[84] "I'm Your Angel", a duet with R. Kelly, became Dion's fourth U.S. number one single, and another hit single across the world. All the Way... A Decade of Song drew together her most successful hits coupled with seven new songs, including the lead off single "That's the Way It Is", a cover of Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", and "All the Way", a duet with Frank Sinatra.[46] The album itself was also extremely successful worldwide, reaching number-one in the United States for three weeks.[63] The album was later certified 7x Platinum in the U.S. for 7 million copies shipped.[85] All the Way... A Decade of Song also topped the charts in the UK,[86] Canada,[87] and Australia.[88] Her last French-language studio album of the 1990s, S'il suffisait d'aimer, was very successful as well, topping the charts in every major French-speaking country, including France,[89] Switzerland,[90] Belgium Wallonia,[91] and Canada.[87] In France, the album was certified diamond, selling 1.5 million copies.[92] By the end of the 1990s, Celine Dion had sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, and had won a slew of industry awards.[93] Her status as one of the music industry's biggest pop divas was further solidified when she was asked to perform on VH1's Divas Live special in 1998, with superstars Aretha Franklin, Gloria Estefan, Shania Twain and Mariah Carey.[94] That year she also received two of the highest honours from her home country: "Officer of the Order of Canada for Outstanding Contribution to the World of Contemporary Music"[95][96] and "Officer of the National Order of Quebec".[97] A year later she was inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame, and was honoured with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.[98]
During this time, the pop-rock genre that was more noticeable in her earlier releases, was replaced by a more adult contemporary feel.[69] However, the theme of "love" remained in most of her releases, which led to some critics dismissing her music as banal.[99] Other critics, like Elysa Gardner and Jose F. Promis, praised her vocals during this period, describing it as a "technical marvel".[100][101] However, others, like Steve Dollar, who reviewed These Are Special Times, stated that Dion is a "vocal Olympian for whom there ain't no mountain—or scale—high enough."[102]
Career break: 2000–2002[link]
After releasing and promoting thirteen albums during the 1990s, Dion stated that she needed to settle down, and announced on her latest album All the Way... A Decade of Song, that she needed to take a step back from the spotlight and enjoy life.[10][103] Angélil's diagnosis with throat cancer also prompted her to hiatus.[104] While on break, Dion was unable to escape the spotlight. In 2000, the National Enquirer published a false story about the singer. Brandishing a picture of Dion and her husband, the magazine misquoted Dion, printing the headline, "Celine — 'I'm Pregnant With Twins!'"[105] Dion later sued the magazine for more than twenty million dollars.[106] The editors of the Enquirer printed an apology and a full retraction to Dion in the next issue, and donated money to the American Cancer Society in honor of Dion and her husband. A year after the incident, after undergoing fertility treatments, Dion gave birth to a son, René-Charles Dion Angélil, on January 25, 2001, in Florida.[107][108] Following the September 11 attacks, Dion returned to the music scene, and in a televised performance sang "God Bless America" at the benefit concert America: A Tribute to Heroes. Chuck Taylor of Billboard wrote, "the performance... brings to mind what has made her one of the celebrated vocalists of our time: the ability to render emotion that shakes the soul. Affecting, meaningful, and filled with grace, this is a musical reflection to share with all of us still searching for ways to cope."[109] Dion would perform it again in 2003 during pregame festivities for Super Bowl XXXVII in San Diego.[110]
In December 2001, Dion published her autobiography, My Story, My Dream which chronicled her rags to riches story.[111]
Return to music: 2002–2003[link]
Dion's aptly titled A New Day Has Come, released in March 2002, ended her three-year break from the music industry. The album was Dion's most personal yet, and established a more mature side of Dion with the songs "A New Day Has Come", "I'm Alive", and "Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)", a change that resulted from her new-found maternal responsibilities, because, in her own words, "becoming a mother makes you a grown-up."[103] She stated, "A New Day Has Come, for Rene, for me, is the baby. It has everything to do with the baby...That song "A New Day Has Come" represents very well the mood I'm feeling right now. It represents the whole album."[112] A New Day Has Come debuted at number one in over 17 countries, including the United Kingdom and Canada.[113][114][115] In the United States, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with first week sales of 527,000 copies; marking her first number one debut on the chart.[116] It was eventually certified 3x Platinum in the United States,[117] and 6x Platinum in Canada.[118]
While the album was commercially successful, critical reviews suggested that it was "forgettable" and the lyrics were "lifeless".[119] Both Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone magazine, and Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly, stated that Dion's music had not matured during her break, and classed her music as trite and mediocre.[120][121] Sal Cinquemani of Slant magazine called the album "a lengthy collection of drippy, gooey pop fluffer-nutter."[122] The first single off the album, A New Day Has Come peaked at No.22 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, being an airplay-only release. On the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, however the song spent 21 consecutive weeks at number 1, breaking the record for the longest span at the top.[123] The previous record holders were Phil Collins' You'll Be in My Heart and Dion's own Because You Loved Me, both of which lasted nineteen weeks at number 1. During 2002, she performed for many benefit concerts, the famous VH1 Divas Live, a concert to benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, alongside Cher, Anastacia, Dixie Chicks, Mary J. Blige, Whitney Houston, Cyndi Lauper, Shakira and Stevie Nicks.
Drawing inspiration from personal experiences, Dion released One Heart (2003), an album that represented her appreciation for life.[124] The album largely consisted of dance music—a deviation from the soaring, melodramatic ballads, for which she had once been given mixed reception. Although the album achieved moderate success, One Heart was met with mixed criticism, and words such as "predictable" and "banal" appeared even in the most lenient reviews.[125][126] A cover of the 1989 Cyndi Lauper hit "I Drove All Night", released to launch her new advertising campaign with Chrysler,[127] incorporated dance-pop and rock and roll. The advertising deal itself, however was met with mixed criticism, with some stating that Dion was trying to please her sponsors.[128] However, people like Bonita Stewart, who was the director of Chrysler Group Marketing Communications stated that "Chrysler was taken by how her appeal crossed ethnic lines." She also added, "She brings sophistication, refinement, romance and passion to the brand."[129]
After One Heart, Dion released her next English Language studio album, Miracle (2004). Miracle was a multimedia project conceived by Dion and photographer Anne Geddes, and had a theme centering on babies and motherhood. The album was filled with lullabies and other songs of maternal love and inspiration, the two most popular being covers of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" and John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy". The reviews for Miracle were mixed.[130] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic.com gave the album three of out five stars, stating, "The worst you can say about the record is that there are no surprises, but the audience for this record doesn't want surprises; they want comfort, whether it arrives in polished music or artsy photos of newborns, and Miracle provides both, which makes it appealing for those expectant or new mothers in Dion's audience.[130] Chuck Taylor of Billboard magazine wrote that the single "Beautiful Boy" was "an unexpected gem" and called Dion "a timeless, enormously versatile artist",[131] Chuck Arnold of People Magazine, however, labeled the album as excessively sentimental,[132] while Nancy Miller of Entertainment Weekly opined that "the whole earth-mama act is just opportunism, reborn".[133] Miracle debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 chart and number one in Canada , and was eventually certified platinum by the RIAA.[134]
The Francophone album 1 fille & 4 types (1 Girl & 4 Guys), released in October 2003, fared better than her first two releases, and showed Dion trying to distance herself from the "diva" image. She recruited Jean-Jacques Goldman, Gildas Arzel, Eric Benzi, and Jacques Veneruso, with whom she had previously worked on two of her best-selling French albums S'il suffisait d'aimer and D'eux. Labeled "the album of pleasure" by Dion herself, the album cover showed Dion in a simple and relaxed manner, contrary to the choreographed poses usually found on her album covers. The album achieved widespread commercial success in France, Canada, and Belgium where it reached number one. In France, the album debuted at number one and was later certified 2x platinum after selling over 700,000 copies. Critic, Stephen Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that Dion's vocals "are back at top of their game" and that she was "getting back to pop basics and performing at a level unheard in a while."[135]
Though her albums were commercially successful, they did not achieve the sales or the reception of her previous works. Albums like The Collector's Series, Volume One (2000), and One Heart (2003) did not perform as well critically.[125][125] Her songs received less airplay as radio became less embracing of balladeers like Dion, Carey, and Houston, and was focused on more up-tempo, Urban/Hip-hop songs.[136] However, by 2004, Dion had accumulated sales of more than 175 million albums worldwide, and received the Chopard Diamond Award from the World Music Awards for her achievements.[137] According to the official World Music Awards website, the award is rare; it is "not presented every year" and an artist can only be presented with the award for selling "over 100 million albums during their career."[138]
[edit] A New Day... Live in Las Vegas: 2003–2007
In early 2002 Dion had announced a three-year, 600-show contract to appear five nights a week in an entertainment extravaganza, A New Day..., at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.[12] This move was seen as "one of the smartest business decisions in years by any major recording artist".[139] She conceived the idea for the show after seeing O by Franco Dragone early in her break from recording, and began on March 25, 2003, in a 4,000-seat arena designed for her show.[12] Many stars attended opening night including Dick Clark, Alan Thicke, Kathy Griffin, and Justin Timberlake, who hosted the television special.[140] The show, put together by Dragone, was a combination of dance, music, and visual effects. It included Dion performing her biggest hits against an array of dancers and special effects. Reviewer Mike Weatherford felt that, at first, Dion was not as relaxed as she should be, and at times, it was hard to find the singer among the excessive stage ornamentations and dancers. However, he noted that the show had become more enjoyable, due to Dion's improved stage-presence and simpler costumes.[78]
The show was also well-received by audiences, despite the complaints of expensive tickets; the show routinely sold out until its end in late 2007.[141] Ticket prices averaged $135.33.[142] The show was choreographed by Mia Michaels, who is a world renowned choreographer. According to Pollstar, Dion sold 322,000 tickets and grossed US$43.9 million in the first half of 2005, and by July 2005, she had sold out 315 out of 384 shows.[143] By the end of 2005, Dion grossed more than US$76 million, placing sixth on Billboard's Money Makers list for 2005.[144] A New Day... was the 6th biggest selling tour in America in 2006.[145] Because of the show's success, Dion's contract was extended into 2007 for an undisclosed sum. On January 5, 2007 it was announced that the show would end on December 15, 2007, with tickets for the period after October 2007 having gone on sale from March 1.[146] During its entire run, the show accumulated a total gross of $400 million, while being seen by nearly 3 million fans.[147][148] The Live in Las Vegas - A New Day... DVD was released on December 10, 2007 in Europe and the following day in North America.[149]
Back to studio and world tour: 2007–2009[link]
Dion's latest French language album, D'elles (About Them), released on May 21, 2007, debuted at the top of the Canadian album charts, selling 72,200 copies in its first week. It marked her tenth number-one album in the SoundScan era, and her eighth to debut at the top position. In Canada, the album has been certified 2× platinum, and within the first month had already shipped half a million units worldwide.[150] D'Elles also reached No. 1 in France and Belgium. The first single "Et s'il n'en restait qu'une (je serais celle-là)" (meaning "And If There Was Only One Woman Left (I Would Be That One)") debuted at the top of the French singles chart a month earlier. She released her latest English album Taking Chances on November 12 in Europe, and on the November 13 in North America.[151] Her first English studio album since 2003's One Heart, it features pop, R&B, and rock inspired music.[152] Dion has collaborated with John Shanks and ex-Evanescence guitarist Ben Moody, as well as Kristian Lundin, Peer Astrom, Linda Perry, Japanese singer Yuna Ito, and R&B singer-songwriter Ne-Yo.[153][154] Dion stated, "I think this album represents a positive evolution in my career ... I'm feeling strong, maybe a little gutsier than in the past, and just as passionate about music and life as I ever was."[155] She launched her year-long worldwide Taking Chances Tour on February 14, 2008 in South Africa, performing 132 dates in stadiums and arenas across five continents.[156]
The Taking Chances Tour was a great success in the United States, reaching the Number 1 spot on the Billboard Boxscore and it sold out every concert in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, she appeared on Idol Gives Back for a second year in a row. Céline Dion was nominated for six Juno Awards in 2008, leading the group of Canadians to receive this honour,and adding to her 53 previous nominations. Her nominations included Artist of the Year, Pop Album of the Year (for Taking Chances), Francophone Album of the Year (for D'elles) and Album of the Year (for both Taking Chances and D'elles).[157] The following year, Dion was nominated for 3 Juno Awards including the Fan Choice Award, Song of the Year (for Taking Chances), and Music DVD of the Year (for Live in Las Vegas — A New Day...)[158]
On August 22, 2008, Celine Dion presented a free show, exclusively francophone,[159] outside on the Plains of Abraham, in Quebec City, Canada, for the 400th anniversary of Quebec City.[160] The celebration gathered approximately 490,000 people (total with TV broadcast). The concert, called Céline sur les Plaines, was released on DVD on November 11, 2008 in Quebec and was released on May 20, 2009 in France.[161] The end of October saw the worldwide release of her first ever comprehensive English greatest hits album called My Love: Essential Collection,[162] available in two different album formats.
In May 2009, Celine Dion was named the 20th best-selling artist of the decade in the United States and the second-best-selling female artist of the decade in the United States, selling an estimated 17.57 million albums.[163] In June 2009, Forbes reported that Dion earned $100 million during 2008. In December 2009, Pollstar announced that Dion was the best-selling solo touring act of the decade and the second-best-selling touring act of the decade, only to the Dave Matthews Band.[164] Dion grossed $522.2 million during the decade, a large sum of that coming from her five-year residence at Caesars Palace.[164]
Concert film and video release: late 2009–2010[link]
On February 17, 2010 Dion released into theatres a documentary film about her Taking Chances Tour, titled, Celine: Through the Eyes of the World.[165] The documentary shows behind-the-scenes footage of Dion both onstage and offstage, along with footage of Dion with her family as they traveled with her.[165] The distributor is the Sony Pictures subsidiary, Hot Ticket.[165] The film was later released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 4, 2010, along with the CD/DVD, Taking Chances World Tour: The Concert, which chronicled her world tour of the same name.[166][167] At the 52nd Grammy Awards in February 2010, Dion joined Carrie Underwood, Usher, Jennifer Hudson and Smokey Robinson to perform the song "Earth Song" during the 3-D Michael Jackson tribute.[168]
In January 2010, The Los Angeles Times presented its annual list of the top ten largest earners of the year, revealing that Dion took the top spot for the entire decade, with $US747.9 million in total revenue from 2000–2009.[169] The largest haul came from ticket sales, totaling $522.2 million.[169] Additionally, Dion was named "Artist of the Decade" in her native Canadian province of Quebec, announced by the Montreal-based newspaper, Le Journal de Quebec in 2009 December.[170] A public online survey asked responders to vote for who they believe deserved the above-mentioned accolade.[170]
Furthermore, in a May 2010 Harris Poll, Dion was named the most popular musician in the United States, ahead of U2, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles, while factoring in gender, political affiliations, geographic region of residence, and income.[171] Specifically, Dion was the most popular musician in the female demographic, as well as among all Democrats, those who live in the eastern United States and southern United States, and those who have incomes between US$35k and US$74.9k.[172][173]
In September 2010, she released the single "Voler", a duet with French singer Michel Sardou. The song was later included on Sardou's album.[174] In addition, it was announced in October 2010 that Dion wrote and composed a new song for Canadian singer, Marc Dupré entitled "Entre deux mondes".[175]
New Las Vegas show: 2011–present[link]
In an interview with People magazine published in February 2010, Dion announced that she will be returning to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for Celine, a three-year residency for seventy shows a year, beginning March 15, 2011.[176] She stated that the show will feature, "all the songs from my repertoire that people want to hear" and will contain a selection of music from classic Hollywood films.[176] In preparation for her return to Las Vegas, Dion, on February 21 made an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show during the show's final season, for a record twenty-seventh time[177] and spoke about her upcoming Caesars Palace shows, as well as her family.[178] Additionally, for a record sixth time, Dion performed at the 83rd Academy Awards, where she sang the song "Smile," as part of the ceremony's "In Memoriam" segment.[179] On September 4, Dion appeared on the 2011 MDA Labor Telethon Event and showed a prerecorded performance of "Open Arms" from her new Las Vegas show.[180] On October 1, 2011, OWN Network premiered a documentary on Dion's life, from months before her pregnancy with twins, to the makings of her new Las Vegas Show, called, "Celine: 3 Boys and a New Show".[181] The documentary became the second highest rated show on TV OWN Canada. In October, FlightNetwork.com conducted a poll, asking 780 participants, which celebrity they would like to sit next to the most on an airplane. Dion was the top favorite, with 23.7% of the vote.[182] Also, in September, Dion released her 14th perfume from her Celine Dion Parfums Collection, called "Signature".[183]
On September 15, Dion made an appearance at the free concert of world famous tenor, Andrea Bocelli, in Central Park in New York.[184] In 2012 she performed at 16th Jazz and Blues Festival in Jamaica.[185] It has been officially announced that Dion will release a new English album in 2012.[186]
Personal life[link]
Dion first met her husband and manager, Rene Angelil in 1980, when she was 12 and he was 38, after she and her mother sent him a demo tape of a song they had written. They began a relationship in 1987, and became engaged in 1991. They married on December 17, 1994, at the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, Quebec. On January 5, 2000, Dion and Angelil renewed their wedding vows in Las Vegas.
In May 2000, Dion had two small operations at a fertility clinic in New York to improve her chances of conceiving, after deciding to use in-vitro fertilisation after years of failed attempts to conceive. Their first son, René-Charles Angelil, was born on January 25, 2001. In May 2010, Angelil announced that Dion was 14 weeks pregnant with twins after a sixth treatment of in-vitro fertilisation. On Saturday, October 23, 2010, at 11:11 and 11:12 am respectively, at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, Dion, by Caesarean section, gave birth to two healthy fraternal twins weighing 5 pounds 10 ounces and 5 pounds 4 ounces.[187] The twins were named Eddy, after Dion's favorite Algerian songwriter Eddy Marnay who also produced Dion's first five albums, and Nelson, after former South African President Nelson Mandela.[188] Dion appeared with her newborn sons on the cover of the December 9, 2010 issue of the Canadian edition of Hello! magazine.[189]
Artistry and image[link]
Dion grew up listening to the music of Aretha Franklin, Charles Aznavour, Michael Jackson, Carole King, Anne Murray, Barbra Streisand, and the Bee Gees, all of whom she would eventually collaborate with.[190][191] Dion has also stated she grew up listening to artists such as Janis Joplin, the Doobie Brothers, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, but never got the chance to sing their genre of music. She also was inspired by fellow vocalist Whitney Houston, whom Dion has often been compared to.[192] Her music has been influenced by numerous genres, including pop, rock, gospel, R&B and soul, and her lyrics focus on themes of poverty, world hunger, and spirituality, with an emphasis on love and romance.[47][193] After the birth of her child, her work also began to emphasize maternal bond and brotherly love.[130][194][195][196]
Dion has faced considerable criticism from critics, who state that her music often retreats behind pop and soul conventions, and is marked by excessive sentimentality.[6][99] According to Keith Harris of Rolling Stone magazine, "[Dion's] sentimentality is bombastic and defiant rather than demure and retiring....[she] stands at the end of the chain of drastic devolution that goes Aretha-Whitney-Mariah. Far from being an aberration, Dion actually stands as a symbol of a certain kind of pop sensibility—bigger is better, too much is never enough, and the riper the emotion the more true."[197] Dion's francophone releases, by contrast, tend to be deeper and more varied than her English releases, and consequently have achieved more credibility.[43][198]
Critics have stated that Dion's involvement in the production aspect of her music is fundamentally lacking, which results in her work being overproduced[198] and impersonal.[43] However, coming from a family in which all of her siblings were musicians, she learned to play instruments like piano and guitar, and practiced with a Fender Stratocaster during the recording sessions of her album, Falling into You. [199] Also, she helped to compose many of her earlier French songs, and had always tried to involve herself with the production and recording of her albums. On her first English album, which she recorded before she had a firm command of the English language, she expressed disapproval of the record, which could have been avoided if she had assumed more creative input.[43] By the time she released her second English album Celine Dion, she had assumed more control of the production and recording process, hoping to dispel earlier criticisms. She stated, "On the second album I said, 'Well, I have the choice to be afraid one more time and not be 100% happy, or not be afraid and be part of this album.' This is my album."[43] She would continue to involve herself in the production of subsequent releases, helping to write a few of her songs on Let's Talk About Love (1997) and These Are Special Times (1998).[2]
Dion is often the subject of media ridicule[200] and parody, and is frequently impersonated on shows like MADtv, Saturday Night Live, South Park, Royal Canadian Air Farce and This Hour Has 22 Minutes for her strong accent and on-stage movements. However, Dion has stated that she is unaffected by the comments, and is flattered that people take the time to impersonate her.[103] She even invited Ana Gasteyer, who parodied her on SNL, to appear on stage during one of her performances. While she is rarely politically outspoken, in 2005 following the Hurricane Katrina disaster, Dion appeared on Larry King Live and tearfully criticized the U.S. government's slow response in aiding the victims of the hurricane: "There's people still there waiting to be rescued. To me that is not acceptable...How can it be so easy to send planes in another country to kill everybody in a second and destroy lives. We need to serve our country."[201] After her interview, she stated, "When I do interviews with Larry King or the big TV shows like that, they put you on the spot, which is very difficult. I do have an opinion, but I'm a singer. I'm not a politician."[202]
Voice[link]
Dion is often regarded as one of pop music's most influential voices.[6][43][203] She has been described as a reigning "Queen of Pop" for her influence over the record industry during the 1990s, alongside other female entertainers, including Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.[204] In a countdown of the "22 Greatest Voices in Music" by Blender Magazine and MTV, she placed ninth (sixth for a female), and she was also placed fourth in Cove magazine's list of "The 100 Outstanding Pop Vocalists."[17][205][206] Dion is often compared to Mariah Carey for her vocal style and to her idol, Barbra Streisand, for her voice.[207]
According to various sources, Dion possesses a five-octave vocal range.[208][209][210][211] Dion states she is a mezzo-soprano.[212] However, attempts to adopt classical voice types to other forms of singing has been met with controversy.[213] Without making a classification, maestro Kent Nagano remarked, "All you just sang was soprano," after Dion auditioned with two solos of Carmen, wanting to know if she could sing opera.[212] Her timbre has been described as "thin, slightly nasal, nearly vibratoless,"[214] with a "raspy" lower register and "bell glass-like high notes."[215]
Dion is often praised for her technical virtuosity.[216] Stephen Holden of The New York Times, writes, "Ms. Dion [...] is a belter with a high, thin, slightly nasal, nearly vibratoless soprano and a good-sized arsenal of technical skills. She can deliver tricky melismas, produce expressive vocal catches and sustain long notes without the tiniest wavering of pitch. And as her duets [...] have shown, she is a reliable harmony voice."[214] In an interview with Libération, Jean-Jacques Goldman states that she has "no problem of accuracy or tempo."[217] According to Kent Nagano, maestro of the Munich Symphony Orchestra, Dion is "a musician who has a good ear, a refinement, and a degree of perfection that is envious."[212] Charles Alexander of TIME states, "[Her] voice glides effortlessly from deep whispers to dead-on high notes, a sweet siren that combines force with grace."[35]
In her French repertoire, Dion adorns her vocals with more nuances and modulations, with the emotional intensity being "more tender and intimate."[218] Additionally, Luc Plamondon, a French singer-songwriter who has written several works for Dion states that there are three chanteuse that Dion uses: the Québécois, the French, and the American.[218]
Other activities[link]
Dion became an entrepreneur with the establishment of her franchise restaurant, Nickels in 1990. She has since divested her interests in the chain and is no longer affiliated with Nickels, as of 1997. In 2003, Dion signed a deal with Coty, Inc. to release Celine Dion Parfums.[219] Her latest fragrance, Signature, was released in September 2011[183]with an advertising campaign by New York agency Kraftworks NYC.[220] Since its inception, Celine Dion Parfums has grossed over $850 million in retail sales.[221][222] In October 2004, Air Canada hired Dion as part of their promotional campaign to unveil new service products and an updated livery. "You and I", the theme song sung by Dion, was written by advertising executives working for Air Canada.[223]
Dion has actively supported many charity organizations, worldwide. She has promoted the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CCFF) since 1982, and became the foundation's National Celebrity Patron in 1993.[224] She has an emotional attachment to the foundation; her niece Karine succumbed to the disease at the age of sixteen. In 2003, Dion joined a number of other celebrities, athletes, and politicians, including Josh Groban and Yolanda Adams to support "World Children's Day", a global fundraising effort sponsored by McDonald's. The effort raised money from more than 100 nations and benefited orphanages and children's health organizations. In addition, Dion has been a major supporter of the T.J. Martell Foundation, the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, and many health and educational campaigns. During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Dion donated $1 million to the victims of the storm, and held a fund-raising event for the victims of the 2004 Asian Tsunami, which subsequently raised more than $1 million.[225] After the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, Dion donated $100,000 to China Children & Teenagers' Fund and sent a letter showing her consolation and support.[226]
In 1999, Dion received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame and also a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in January 2004.[227][228] She dedicated her star to her father, who died the month prior. In 2007, Celine Dion was ranked by Forbes as the 5th richest woman in entertainment with an estimated net worth of US$250 million, though the ranking omitted non-working or retired celebrities.[229][230][231] She also received France's highest award, the Légion d'honneur, in May 2008. In August 2008, she received an honorary doctorate in music from the Université Laval in Quebec City.[232] In October 2010, Dion was named a Goodwill Ambassador, a program created by the UN in 1999. She shared this accolade with Oscar-winner, Susan Sarandon.[233]
Discography[link]
Main articles: Celine Dion albums discography, Celine Dion singles discography, and Celine Dion videography
French albums
- 1981: La voix du bon Dieu
- 1982: Tellement j'ai d'amour...
- 1983: Les chemins de ma maison
- 1984: Mélanie
- 1985: C'est pour toi
- 1987: Incognito
- 1991: Dion chante Plamondon
- 1995: D'eux
- 1998: S'il suffisait d'aimer
- 2003: 1 fille & 4 types
- 2007: D'elles
English albums
- 1990: Unison
- 1992: Celine Dion
- 1993: The Colour of My Love
- 1996: Falling into You
- 1997: Let's Talk About Love
- 2002: A New Day Has Come
- 2003: One Heart
- 2004: Miracle
- 2007: Taking Chances
Holiday albums
- 1981: Céline Dion chante Noël
- 1983: Chants et contes de Noël
- 1998: These Are Special Times
Tours[link]
| Year | Title | Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1983–1984 | Les chemins de ma maison tournée | None |
| 1985 | C'est pour toi tournée | Vinyl Céline Dion en concert |
| 1988 | Incognito tournée | None |
| 1990–1991 | Unison Tour | VHS Unison |
| 1992–1993 | Celine Dion in Concert | None |
| 1994–1995 | The Colour of My Love Tour | VHS/DVD The Colour of My Love Concert; CD À l'Olympia |
| 1995 | D'eux Tour | VHS/DVD Live à Paris; CD Live à Paris |
| 1996–1997 | Falling into You Tour | VHS Live in Memphis |
| 1998–1999 | Let's Talk About Love World Tour | VHS/DVD Au cœur du stade; CD Au cœur du stade |
| 2003–2007 | A New Day... | DVD/BD Live in Las Vegas - A New Day...; CD A New Day... Live in Las Vegas |
| 2008–2009 | Taking Chances Tour | DVD Céline sur les Plaines; DVD/BD Celine: Through the Eyes of the World; DVD/CD Taking Chances World Tour: The Concert |
| 2011–2014 | Celine |
Filmography[link]
- Touched by an Angel
- The Nanny
- All My Children
- La fureur de Céline
- Des fleurs sur la neige
- Céline sur les Plaines
- Celine: Through the Eyes of the World
See also[link]
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Notes[link]
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- ^ a b "The real Céline: Céline Dion’s new French album shows her personal side". CBC. 2007. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/celinedion.html. Retrieved January 7, 2010. [dead link]
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- ^ See, e.g., Joel Selvin, "Celine Dion in full force at HP Pavilion", San Francisco Chronicle, February 23, 2009, E2. In this rather hostile review, Selvin wrote: "You want cheese? She is a Velveeta volcano."
- ^ "Canadian Broadcasting Corporation". Céline Dion takes swipe at Iraq war; donates $1 m to Katrina victims. http://blogs.lasvegasmagazine.com/VegasLuxeLife/our-celine-dion-countdown%E2%80%94just-12-shows-to-go/. Retrieved July 14, 2006. [dead link]
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- ^ Andersson, Eric. "Who Inspired the Idols?" Us. March 12, 2007. p. 104
- ^ "If Ella Fitzgerald is the queen of jazz, Billie Holiday first lady of the blues, and Aretha Franklin the queen of soul, then who is the queen of pop? In the 1990s, it would seem to be a three-way tie between Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion. Certainly all three have their devotees and detractors, but their presence has been inescapable." in Lister, Linda (2001). "Divafication: The Deification of Modern Female Pop Stars". Popular Music and Society 25 (3/4): p. 1. ISSN 03007766
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- ^ Depalma, Anthony (February 23, 1997). "POP/JAZZ – Quebec's Little Girl, Conquering the Globe". The New York Times (Quebec Province (Canada)). http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/23/arts/quebec-s-little-girl-conquering-the-globe.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
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- ^ Celine Dion is 'Taking Chances' with her latest show stopper USA Today Retrieved December 31, 2009
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- ^ People to Watch The Paim Beach Post News Retrieved February 20, 2011
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- ^ Celine Dion Her letter to China Children & Teenagers' Fund. Retrieved October 15, 2009.
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References[link]
- Sean Michaels (July 22, 2011). "Celine Dion shuts down parody website". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jul/22/celine-dion-parody-website?CMP=twt_fd. Retrieved July 22, 2011.
- Beaulne, Jean (2004). René Angélil: the making of Céline Dion : the unauthorized biography. Dundurn Group. ISBN 1-55002-489-2. http://books.google.ca/books?id=vME4TPh1RXwC&lpg=PP1&dq=Celine%20Dion&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true.
- Bogdanvo, Vladimir; Woodstra; Erlewine (2001). Allmusic:The Definitive Guide to Popular Music. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-627-0.
- Céline Dion. Artist direct. Retrieved on December 18, 2005.
- "Celine Dion." Contemporary Musicians, Volume 25. Gale Group, 1999.
- "Celine Dion." Newsmakers 1995, Issue 4. Gale Research, 1995.
- Céline Dion Rock on the Net. Retrieved November 20, 2005.
- Céline Dion The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 2, 2006
- Céline Dion provided by VH1.com Retrieved August 16, 2005.
- Dion extends long Las Vegas stint bbc news. com. Retrieved November 5, 2005.
- Durchholz, Daniel. Review: One Heart. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Mo.: April 24, 2003. p. F.3
- Germain, Georges-Hébert (1998). Céline: The Authorized Biography. Dundurn Press. ISBN 1-55002-318-7. http://books.google.ca/books?id=RTVs3X_s0McC&lpg=PA1&dq=C%C3%A9line%3A%20The%20Authorized%20Biography&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=true.
- Glatzer, Jenna (2005). Céline Dion: For Keeps. Becker & Mayer Ltd. ISBN 0-7407-5559-5. http://books.google.ca/books?id=CAvRv-Myw08C&lpg=PP1&dq=C%C3%A9line%20Dion%3A%20For%20Keeps&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true.
- The 100 Outstanding Pop Vocalist covemagazine.com Retrieved November 1, 2005.
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Nineties (ISBN 0-89820-137-3)
- World Music Awards Diamond Award Retrieved November 1, 2005, (Search by year required)
Further reading[link]
- Beauregard, Sylvain (2002). Passion Celine Dion the Book: The Ultimate Guide for the Fan. Trafford Pub. ISBN 1-55369-212-8. http://books.google.ca/books?id=IQ4W5F5UocEC&lpg=PP1&dq=Celine%20Dion&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true.
- Dion, Céline (2001). Céline Dion: My Story, My Dream. Avon. ISBN 0-380-81905-8.
- Geddes, Anne; Céline Dion (2004). Miracle: a celebration of new life. Andrews McMeel Pub. ISBN 0-7407-4696-0. http://books.google.ca/books?id=7m6YeL1lLVYC&lpg=PP1&dq=Celine%20Dion&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true.
- Wilson, Carl (2007). Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste. Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-2788-5.
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| Name | Dion, Céline Marie Claudette, OC, OQ |
| Alternative names | Dion, Celine |
| Short description | Canadian singer and actor |
| Date of birth | March 30, 1968 |
| Place of birth | Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada |
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Celine Dion & Barbara Streisand - Tell Him
Celine Dion & Barbara Streisand - Tell Him Album : Let's Talk About Love Lyrics : I'm scared So afraid to show I care Will he think me weak If I tremble when I speak Oooh - what if There's another one he's thinking of Maybe he's in love I'd feel like a fool Life can be so cruel I don't know what to do I've been there With my heart out in my hand But what you must understand You can't let the chance To love him pass you by Tell him Tell him that the sun and moon Rise in his eyes Reach out to him And whisper Tender words so soft and sweet Hold him close to feel his heart beat Love will be the gift you give yourself Touch him With the gentleness you feel inside Your love can't be denied The truth will set you free You'll have what's mean to be All in time you'll see I love him Of that much I can be sure I don't think I could endure If I let him walk away When I have so much to say Tell him Tell him that the sun and moon Rise in his eyes Reach out to him And whisper Tender words so soft and sweet Hold him close to feel his heart beat Love will be the gift you give yourself Love is light that surely glows In the hearts of those who know It's a steady flame that grows Feed the fire with all the passion you can show Tonight love will assume it's place This memory time cannot erase Blind faith will lead love where it has to go Tell him Tell him that the sun and moon Rise in his eyes Reach out to him And whisper Tender words so soft and sweet Hold him close to feel his heart beat <b>...</b>
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