Today is Barbra Streisand's birthday!

[quote]and how is her golden voice at this stage of the game?

Have you not heard her?

[quote]Do you think she will make any more movies

Hope not.

[quote]Do you think she will make any more movies

enough is enough

Her last movie was The Guilt Trip, a comedy in 2012.

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R4 The caption was meant to say, Cheers to Babs on her birthday!!

younger than springtime and twice as exciting!

Is Gypsy still happening 🙄

I think it's a disgrace she won a Best Actress Oscar, she has an extremely patchy career

[quote] Babs turns 79 years old today.

About ripe to run for president in America

Kings County Hospital is closest to where they lived on Schenectady Avenue. Was she born there?

R8 What a jealous whiner! She deserved to win the Oscar for Funny Girl, one of her greatest works.

She won an Oscar for her first movie; a Grammy for her first album; an Emmy for her first TV show; a Tony for her first Broadway show.

Legend.

She’s never going to appear in a movie again

Kate did not deserve to share her award to a limited actress just playing a version of herself. And R12 - she never won a Tony. She's too lazy

Of all the missed opportunities, Streisand's Gypsy film is on the short list, had it been made, say, twenty years ago, when she was still in voice.

She herself has the drive that Madam Rose has, the almost hysterical need. She would have sung the heck out of the score. Maybe they could have pulled a new number out of Jule Styne's trunk, which Sondheim could have lyricked, for extra patina. Or they could have restored Rose's "Smile, Girls" (I think that's the title), the song Rose sang when rehearsing the Toreadorables. It was dropped in Philadelphia as unnecessary, but it's fun. Somebody recorded it--Patti Lu, I think?

Anyway, it would have been a fine film if done right. People here have said there was a screenplay and it was a good one. Of course, you hear a lot on this site that isn't true, but that tale struck a persuasive note.

Why didn't Streisand go ahead with the movie? Did Arthur Laurents make trouble? He always loved to. Did Streisand dither rarther than decide. She also loved to.

The Guilt Trip bombing was a big blow to her ego.

For a long time she made films she was passionate about then she seemed to make movies for fun. I don’t think she gives a fuck if Guilt Trip flopped. She’s worked her whole life so now she can sit back and work when she feels like it. Good for her. She’s a major talent and one of the last great stars who can do it all.

By do it all, do you mean doing nothing but sitting at home?

Whoever said she won an actual competitive Tony is insane.

perhaps she'll do a metal album or screamo

If someone said Streisand won a competitive Tony, R19, he or she is wrong, not insane. It's ridiculous to overspeak like that; it makes you look deranged.

To others, Streisand was nominated for Tonys both times she appeared in a Broadway musical. She lost both times.

She did win something like a Star Of the Year Tony, but that wouldn't have been competitive.

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I think she had an amazing voice but I hate her movies. She is homely and I can’t recommend a single film of hers.

Barbara was a complete diva, refusing to perform her nominated song because her awful movie wasn't nominated (The Mirror Has Two Shitstains)

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What happened to her super fans?

[quote] About ripe to run for president in America

Yes, she will have such appeal to the under-50 demographic.

[quote] If someone said Streisand won a competitive Tony, [R19], he or she is wrong, not insane. It's ridiculous to overspeak like that; it makes you look deranged.

Speaking of sounding deranged...

She also won the Nobel Prize in physics for "her pioneering work in the field of canine quantum cloning".

Thanks to the Funny Girl thread I’ve been surveying her recording career. Lot of novelty songs in the beginning. And always tons of personality being brought to bear.

The Queen sent her a telegram.