| name | Barbra Streisand |
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| background | solo_singer |
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| birth name | Barbara Joan Streisand |
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| birth date | April 24, 1942Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
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| genre | Broadway, traditional pop, adult contemporary |
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| occupation | singer-songwriter, actress, film producer, director |
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| years active | 1957–present |
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| label | Columbia |
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Barbra Joan Streisand (pronounced ; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, writer, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, 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. 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. 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. 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. According to the RIAA, she has released 51 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums in the United States.
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 children fathered by Emanuel (the elder child is Sheldon), who was a respected high school teacher. Fifteen months after Streisand's birth, Emanuel died of a
cerebral hemorrhage and the family went into near-poverty. Streisand attended
Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and joined the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club. Diana Rosen Streisand remarried Louis Kind in 1949 and gave Streisand a half-sister, the singer Roslyn Kind (Kind is 9 years younger than Barbra).
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. 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. 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. 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. Streisand appeared at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit in 1961.
Streisand's first television appearance was on ''The Tonight Show'', then hosted by Jack Paar, in 1961, singing Harold Arlen's "A Sleepin' Bee". 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). Streisand became a semi-regular on ''PM East/PM West'', a talk/variety series. PM East was hosted by Mike Wallace, in late 1961. PM West was hosted by Terrence O'Flaherty Westinghouse Broadcasting, which aired in a select few cities (Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington DC, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and San Francisco). Audio segments from some episodes 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" to her on ''PM East/PM West''. He countered that she had been "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''."
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, to her "crazy" reputation at Erasmus Hall High School. 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.
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. 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. 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).
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." 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. 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.
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. 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. 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 in either direction." On November 17, 2008, Streisand returned to the studio to begin recording what would be her sixty-third album and it was announced that Diana Krall was producing the album. Streisand is one of the recipients of the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors. On December 7, 2008, she visited the White House as part of the ceremonies.
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. 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. 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.
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. ''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''. 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 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''.
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. 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." Streisand's spokesperson confirmed that "there have been conversations". 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. 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).
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.
Streisand changed her name from Barbara to Barbra because, she said, "I hated the name, but I refused to change it." 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." 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."
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."
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.
Streisand has personally raised $25 million for organizations through her live performances. The Streisand Foundation, 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 and
nuclear disarmament."
In 2006, Streisand donated $1 million to the William J. Clinton Foundation in support of former President Bill Clinton’s climate change initiative.
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. 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", 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. In December 2011 she agreed to sing at a fundraising gala for Israel Defence Forces charities.
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.
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.
"Mecha Streisand" as portrayed in the animated show ''South Park''.]] 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." 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".
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).
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).
"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.
Daniel Stern's 2003 Off-Broadway play ''Barbra's Wedding'' was set against the backdrop of Streisand's 1998 wedding to James Brolin.
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. 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.
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. She also received the
National Medal of Arts in 2000 and the
Kennedy Center Honors in 2008. She was inducted as an officer of France's
Legion of Honour in 2007.
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 is honored as
MusiCares Person of the Year by the Grammy Foundation.
| Year !! Award !! Category !! Work !! Result
|
| rowspan="3" | 1963 |
Grammy Awards |
Grammy Award for Album of the YearAlbum of the Year || | ''The Barbra Streisand Album'' |
|
| Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | Best Female Vocal Performance |
|
| Grammy Award for Record of the Year | Record of the Year |
Happy Days Are Here Again#Barbra Streisand version>Happy Days Are Here Again" |
| rowspan="3" | 1964 |
Best Female Vocal Performance | ''People'' || |
| Album of the Year |
|
| Record of the Year |
|
| rowspan="2" | 1965 |
Best Female Vocal Performance | | ''My Name Is Barbra'' |
|
| Album of the Year |
|
| rowspan="2" | 1966 |
Best Female Vocal Performance | | ''Color Me Barbra'' |
|
| Album of the Year |
|
| 1968 |
Best Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance | | Funny Girl (film)>Funny Girl'' Soundtrack |
|
| 1970 |
AGVAAGVA Georgie Award || | Entertainer of the Year |
— |
|
| rowspan="2" | 1972 |
Grammy Awards | | Best Pop Female Vocal Performance |
"Sweet Inspiration / Where You Lead" |
|
| AGVA Georgie Award |
Singing Star of the Year | | — |
|
| 1975 |
People's Choice Awards | | Favorite Female Singer of the Year |
|
| 1976 |
rowspan="5"Grammy Awards || | Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance |
''Classical Barbra'' |
|
| rowspan="5" | 1977 |
Best Pop Female Vocal Performance | "Evergreen" (from ''A Star Is Born'') || |
| Song of the Year |
|
| Record of the Year |
|
| Best Original Score – Motion Picture or Television Special |
|
| AGVA Georgie Award |
Singing Star of the Year | | — |
|
| 1978 |
rowspan="7"Grammy Awards || | Best Pop Female Vocal Performance |
rowspan="3"You Don't Bring Me Flowers (song) | You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (with Neil Diamond) |> |
| rowspan="2" | 1979 |
Record of the Year |
| rowspan="2" | Best Pop Vocal Performance – Duo, Group, or Chorus |
|
| rowspan="5" | 1980 |
rowspan="2"Guilty (Barbra Streisand album) | Guilty'' (with Barry Gibb) |> |
| Album of the Year |
|
| Record of the Year |
"Woman in Love" |
| Best Pop Vocal Female Performance |
|
| AGVA Georgie Awards |
Singing Star of the Year | | — |
|
| 1985 |
People's Choice Awards | | Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer |
|
| rowspan="3" | 1986 |
rowspan="5"Grammy Awards || | Best Pop Vocal Female Performance |
''The Broadway Album'' |
|
| Album of the Year |
|
| Best Instrumental Arrangement Acompanying Vocal |
"Being Alive" |
| rowspan="2" | 1987 |
Best Pop Vocal Female Performance | ''One Voice'' || |
| Best Music Video Performance |
|
| 1988 |
People's Choice Awards | | Favorite All-Time Musical Performer |
— |
|
| 1991 |
rowspan="17"Grammy Awards || | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance |
"Warm All Over" |
|
| 1992 |
Grammy Legend Award | | — |
Special award
|
| 1993 |
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance | | ''Back to Broadway'' |
|
| rowspan="3" | 1994 |
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award | | — |
Special award
|
| Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance |
''Barbra: The Concert'' |
| Best Pop Vocal Female Performance |
"Ordinary Miracles" |
| rowspan="2" | 1997 |
rowspan="2"Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals || | Tell Him (Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion song)>Tell Him" (with Celine Dion) |
|
| "I Finally Found Someone" (with Bryan Adams) |
|
| 2000 |
rowspan="3"Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album || | ''Timeless – Live In Concert'' |
|
| 2002 |
''Christmas Memories'' |
| 2003 |
''The Movie Album'' |
| 2004 |
rowspan="2"Grammy Hall of Fame | | Funny Girl'' (Barbra Streisand and Sydney Chaplin) |>rowspan="2"|Inducted |
| 2006 |
''The Barbra Streisand Album''
|
| 2007 |
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | | ''Live in Concert 2006'' |
|
| 2008 |
Grammy Hall of Fame | | The Way We Were (song)>The Way We Were" |
Inducted
|
| 2011 |
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | | Love Is the Answer (album)>Love Is the Answer'' |
|
| 2012 |
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | | ''What Matters Most'' |
|
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
|
| rowspan="2" | 1969 |
Academy Awards |
Best Actress | ''Funny Girl'' || |
| rowspan="5" | Golden Globe Awards |
Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) |
| rowspan="2" | 1970 |
''Hello, Dolly(film) | Hello, Dolly!'' |
|
| Henrietta Award | Henrietta World Film Favorite |
— |
| rowspan="2" | 1971 |
Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | | The Owl and the Pussycat (film)>The Owl and the Pussycat'' |
|
| Henrietta World Film Favorite |
— |
| rowspan="2" | 1974 |
Academy Awards | | Best Actress |
''The Way We Were'' |
|
| rowspan="3" | Golden Globe Awards |
Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) |
| 1975 |
Henrietta World Film Favorite | | — |
Special award
|
| 1976 |
Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | | ''Funny Lady'' |
|
| rowspan="3" | 1977 |
Academy Awards | | Best Original Song |
rowspan="3"Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born) | Evergreen" (from ''A Star Is Born'') |> |
| rowspan="6" | Golden Globe Awards |
Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) |
| Best Original Song |
|
| 1978 |
Henrietta World Film Favorite | | — |
Special award
|
| rowspan="2" | 1984 |
Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | ''Yentl'' || |
| Best Director (Motion Picture) |
|
| 1988 |
Best Actress in Motion Picture (Drama) | | Nuts (film)>Nuts'' |
|
| rowspan="2" | 1992 |
Academy Awards | | Best Picture |
''The Prince of Tides'' |
|
| Golden Globe Awards |
Best Director (Motion Picture) |
| rowspan="3" | 1997 |
Academy Awards | | Best Original Song |
"I Finally Found Someone" (from ''The Mirror Has Two Faces'') |
|
| rowspan="3" | Golden Globe Awards |
Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | | ''The Mirror Has Two Faces'' |
|
| Best Original Song |
"I Finally Found Someone" (from ''The Mirror Has Two Faces'') |
| 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''.
| Year !! Title !! Notes
|
| 1966 |
Funny Girl (musical)>Funny Girl'' |
April 13, 1966 – July 16, 1966 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London.
|
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''
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''
| Year
|
Title
|
Role
|
Notes
|
| 1968
|
|
Fanny Brice
|
Academy Award for Best Actress Tied with Katharine Hepburn for ''The Lion in Winter''David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress Tied with Mia Farrow for ''Rosemary's Baby''Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role also for ''Hello, Dolly!'' |
| 1969
|
|
Dolly Levi
|
|
|
|
Daisy Gamble / Melinda Tentres
|
|
|
Doris Wilgus / Wadsworth / Wellington / Waverly
|
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
|
|
|
Judy Maxwell
|
|
| ''Up the Sandbox''
|
Margaret Reynolds
|
|
| 1973
|
''The Way We Were''
|
Katie Morosky
|
David di Donatello for Best Actress |
| 1974
|
|
Henrietta 'Henry' Robbins
|
|
| 1975
|
''[[Funny Lady''
|
Fanny Brice
|
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
|
| 1976
|
|
Esther Hoffman Howard
|
Academy Award for Best Original Song Shared with Paul Williams (lyrics) for the song "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyGolden Globe Award for Best Original Song Shared with Paul Williams (lyrics) for the song "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Shared with Paul Williams, Kenny Ascher, Rupert Holmes, Leon Russell, Kenny Loggins, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Donna Weiss |
| 1979
|
|
Hillary Kramer
|
|
| 1981
|
|
Cheryl Gibbons
|
Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Actress
|
| 1983
|
|
Yentl / Anshel
|
|
| 1987
|
|
Claudia Faith Draper
|
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
|
| 1991
|
''The Prince of Tides''
|
Dr. Susan Lowenstein
|
also director and producerNominated—Academy Award for Best Picture Shared with Andrew S. KarschNominated—Directors Guild of America AwardNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Director
|
| 1996
|
''The Mirror Has Two Faces''
|
Rose Morgan
|
also director and producerNominated—Academy Award for Best Original Song Shared with Marvin Hamlisch, Robert John Lange and Bryan Adams for the song "I Finally Found Someone"Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Shared with Marvin Hamlisch, Robert John Lange and Bryan Adams for the song "I Finally Found Someone"
|
| 2004
|
''Meet the Fockers''
|
Roz Focker
|
|
| 2010
|
''Little Fockers''
|
Roz Focker
|
Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress
|
| 2012
|
|
Joyce Brewster
|
| 2013-14
|
Gypsy
|
Rose Hovick
|
Expected to be released Holiday 2013 to early 2014.
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