Barbra Streisand on Sunday Mornin

I'm surprised she settled for Gayle. Did O turn her down? "Enough with the fucking painted mikes!"

Did she make a plug for her book singing memoirees

She should only do radio interviews now.

She hoards malls in her basement.

Boring.

Who?

She needs to stage a fight with Jason on TikTok to boost Gen Z sales.

She now looks like a victim of a fire who had to undergo facial reconstruction and skin grafts.

I wonder how cloning her dog worked out.

I still think she's beautiful.

She’s 81. She seems great.

The introductory segment by Mo Rocco really captures what was incredible about her career. Wesley Morris is also very charming when talking about her work.

The definition of a living legend.

[quote]Did she make a plug for her book singing memoirees

Stop posting while high.

Does she include the cock sizes of each lover?

She actually thinks this interview is endearing? Good lord. Delusional.

R15, she makes out that she had a romantic relationship with Prince Charles… because she believes he flirted with her. I doubt she’s slept with more than two people.

Jon Peters’ beer can cock got her through the ‘70s.

r10 = Barbra herself

Wasn't she shtupping Mandy Patinkin during Yentl? And wasn't there Jon Peters? So she was married to Elliot GOuld and Brolin, but she wasn't dormant in between, R17. And Prince Charles probably thought he was being charming towards her, wth his jugers and Ichabod Crane features.

"with his jug ears..."

I like at 9:20 how Gayle held up her book so we could see all the marked pages.

The audiobook version, read by Barbra is FORTY FOUR HOURS LONG!

It’s not hoarding, it’s a collection. It’s very well organized and displayed.

I admire Barbra, she’s a humanitarian. She’s an outspoken liberal and I love her.

[quote] It’s not hoarding, it’s a collection.

Of houses?

Josh Brolin is soo lucky that he gets to wake up, roll over and hit that every morning.

Looks like her basement Mall hasn't changed at all in 20 years. That's kind of creepy.

R27 his stepmom?

R24, I Concur. But I also get the 'Miss Ross' thing, so i know the apologist tag well.

She’s not a shopaholic and hoarder- she’s a collector who happens to be very wealthy and created a folly for some of her collections. By the way, at least twice she auctioned some of her collections the the tune of double digit millions and given the proceeds to charity and to fund her foundation. What she really is, is a very smart woman who knows how to use money. Much of her art collection is bequeathed to museums- and at times she lets them borrow pieces. Morons on this thread.

No she doesn’t R17. You’re full of you-know-what.

She is DEFINITELY milking the connection to Charles.

R20 She went out with Don Johnson for a hot minute in the late 1980s. I recall Michael Musto making a crack about her huge schnoz and his big schlong.

Good interview.

[quote]Josh Brolin is soo lucky that he gets to wake up, roll over and hit that every morning.

Oh, dear.

[quote] I doubt she’s slept with more than two people.

Oh, honey...

There were times in 1964 where that bitch slept with more than two people between the matinee and the evening performance.

Is Gayle on Ozempic? She looked drained.

I think you mean Ozemper* R38

80 year olds should have more wrinkles. She's spooky and kind of pathetic to create that wax museum face.

The piece at r12 is interesting for noting that when Streisand was making a first impression on audiences she was singing material written and popularized decades earlier. In the middle of the rock era and during the "British Invasion", she was a throwback except she was already in league with the most extraordinary vocal talents of any era.

Gayle King is the very definition of a mediocrity but Barbra was fun.

I had hopes Babs would finally spill in this new autobiography, but it was same old shit in this interview,

Gayle promised to have Timmy delivered to Babs after the show (she lied).

That crazy bitch had her goons try to grab me, but I'm used to wiggling away from grasping old people.

I wish her basement mall was a bit more updated. Is that what malls looked like in the 50's?

I must admit, Gayle is a good interviewer.

I wish she was able to keep all her Sharaff and Beaton costumes. I know she has a few. She would never look so good again.

It was in the 70s she started singing muck. But it what was people wanted and it made her fortune.

Oh my God, the moment when Barbra shows Gayle King that $10 velvet dress she bought at a thrift store!

"I haven't had much fun in my life, to tell you the truth. And I want to have more fun."

You would THINK in 1000 pages she'd have some revelations. But yeah in this interview, it seems not.

I love her all the same. A towering figure in 20th century entertainment.

Hoorah. For those who couldn't access the interview part 1 on YouTube - like me - I found it on the CBS website.

She was also on the BBC.

[quote]Much of her art collection is bequeathed to museums- and at times she lets them borrow pieces.

This a classic rich person’s way of getting some other entity to pay for the proper storage, insuring and security of the rich person’s art collection. It’s how the Rockefellers started the MoMa, right there in their backyard off of Fifth Avenue.

Gayle's face on the reactions is heaven. You can tell she's like, "Am I really dealing with this crazy old person?"

Thank you, R12.

Great segment, and Wesley Morris is wonderful. God, that man is hot. He's handsome. He's fills that shirt out quite nicely. But what really makes him hot is that he's interesting. He knows music, and he knows what made Barbra a legend!

Yes, R56, I was most impressed with Mr. Morris.

Mo Rocca was totally into it.

Yes, I so loved the introductory segment with Mo and Wesley' commentary and seeing all those incredible old tapes and photos of the beginning of Barbra's career. I was a huge fan as a highly precocious pre-teen as early as 1963 but was done with her by the time she did Hello Dolly! and that awful What About Today album?

Sad for me to go back and see what the early attraction/fascination was and what became of her. And that mall....! Oy.

It looks like she directed it. Half of the segment is just old clips and photos. Half the book is her going over old slights, critiques and untruths. She's obsessed with herself.

Control.

Ok this was hysterical. Gayle was clearly freaked out and Barbra was like that crazy lady at a yard sale.

The best was Barbra wanting Gayle to touch the purple fabric.

Streisand was like, “let the magic touch you” and Gayle was like….um…okay?

But that velvet is soft like buttah!

[quote]80 year olds should have more wrinkles. She's spooky and kind of pathetic to create that wax museum face.

She does, look around her mouth and eyes but this is a professional interview. There are twenty people behind that camera, make-up, lighting trying to erase 81 years. She looks good, not like the alien Joan Rivers died resembling.

[quote] Check out her "mall"of clothes and stuff she bought

I too am a shopaholic with clothes, but I do use most of them eventually, at least once. I need clothes for every season, function, mood, and temperature possibility. It adds up.

The stuff in her mall are actually quite beautiful. She keeps good care of them.

I couldn't watch the interview though, I've heard this shit many times before. Who the fuck cares at this point. Is she so clueless that she forgets every time that she's told the same fucking stories for years.

I'm sorry that her father died when she was 18 months. What is easy to forget is that it was in the middle of WW2 and people were losing sons, fathers and husbands by the thousands every month. Not sure why her lose is so unique.

Having hunky Brolin on hand for 25 years seems more than sufficient compensation for the unrelenting slights, untruths, and critiques she has been subjected to.

R68, Brolin claims he was celibate for three years before he hooked up with Streisand.

Celibate or impotent?

Brolin looks really good!

She probably still gets him rock hard, r69, when she comes strutting out in her Doris ensemble.

Did I see the purple dress from Hello, Dolly! in her clothes collection? I thought she auctioned off a lot of her film costumes.

Did Disney build a Barbara animatronic?

A snippet of Barbra's acceptance speech for winning the Emmy for My Name is Barbra was shown in the CBS Sunday Morning interview. Here it is in its entirety.

Can't find part 2 yet ....

I can’t stand her jacked up face. She looks like a cabbage patch doll that’s been repeatedly kicked in the face.

^ why is r76 speaking of the ghastly Amy Schumer?

Part 2.

Most of you have probably visited this site but if you have not the enjoy this link to the Barbre Archives

The Barbre archives?

She's looking feline, much like Nicole Kidman. I hope Gayle set out a saucer of milk for her.

It goes without saying, so I'll say it: Barbra's first records are thrilling! It all goes south when she met the Bergmans.

It all went south when Barbra started perming her hair.

Dying to know if Barbra settles the score with Anne Francis, now that she's dead and can't respond.

Her basement mall is batshit insane. She's so proud of it, but it makes her look crazy.

Gayle looks like she is a wearing a Korean wig.

Plastic surgery makes you forever young

She looks like the Cowardly Lion.

I agree the plastic surgery is bad, but the mall is a dream come true for every collector who has to constantly figure out how to display, or at least where to put your crap.

I know to non-collectors it all seems bat-shit insane - and objectively I can agree, but I also just bought another vintage TWA poster I have no room to hang.

To have the resources to both buy whatever strikes your fancy, and to properly display it is enviable.

Where is all that shit in her underground mall gonna go when she dies?

But what's the point of having all that beautiful shit if you have to store it in the basement? I suppose she makes all of her guests come down, have a (guarded) look around and stroke the velvet dress.

I'd be pissed if she died and I was one of her heirs that had to clean up her hoarding mess. Oh well, they'd be loaded anyway so they could just hire somebody to load up the dumpsters.

No R54, when bequeathed, yes tax deduction for charity. But if she chose to keep and leave in her estate, it would reap much more value to her estate. Loaning is purely altruistic. Do you really suppose people with collections like Streisand don’t know how to take care of and house their art? Lol. You don’t have a clue. FYI, I know these things which most reasonable informed do as well- first hand. I spend thousands on maintaining my best stuff- I know she does too as does anyone with valuable art.

I admire that she’s never had a facelift or anything.

Trick or Treat!!!

^ Is she starring in a remake of Cat People?

[quote]Where is all that shit in her underground mall gonna go when she dies?

Craigslist

[quote]Is that what malls looked like in the 50's?

Fewer coloreds.

Streisand was early to the Art Deco market and collected truckloads. She tired of it and sold most at a handsome profit.

Her decorative art tastes has devolved into very treacly aesthetics. Her "ye olde towne shopping street" in her carpenter gothic ? ersatz farm manor ? "estate" is the pits.

Will she keep cloning the same dog?

R91 - I understand your point, but there are basements and then there are basements.

Her home is already furnished and decorated with antiques and art. She also collects, as we saw, dolls and vintage clothes (I know there’s more) - setting up themed areas is a a great way to organize and display them.

I think calling it a mall instead of a gallery is a bit silly and the conceit of a faux New England street of shops, as opposed to just a series of rooms, is twee, but it is well done. (Her whole ersatz New England Malibu compound is really twee, but again, well executed). I imagine it’s in the basement because the house is already pretty large.

If she’d built another building on the property to house some of these collections I think it would come across as less weird, but sunlight is often not great for vintage items, so the basement location does make some practical sense.

How tall is Gayle King?

Barbra looked like a garden gnome standing next to her.

R103, I saw Barbra when she wasn't on and wearing flats. She was shockingly petite. I was expecting a 9 foot tall Jewish goddess. I think she's like 5'5". I would have walked right by her if I hadn't know it was her. In fact, I was like two feet away from her an didn't realize it was her for a few seconds. She was filming Prince of Tides in Grand Central.

Did you all happen to notice that Gayle King was wearing flats in the interview?

Gee, I wonder whose idea that was?

She says her Star is Born perm wasn't done by Jon himself, but by Soonie Paik, a stylist at his salon who still does her hair.

[quote]I admire Barbra, she’s a humanitarian. She’s an outspoken liberal and I love her.

Those are indeed two admirable aspects of her life and personality, which arguably go a long way toward balancing all the awful stuff.

I'm not a huge fan of Barbra's work, though I do like her late 70s/early 80s pop stuff, I wish she'd done more of that. I love "Prisoner," which was the theme song from the craptastic Eyes Of Laura Mars, starring Miss Dunaway.

Like the above poster, I have always admired her politics and how outspoken for liberal causes she is. She done a lot of good work in that area. And she's always been very supportive of gay men.

I like "Prisoner" too. She doesn't mention it in her book, or "Laura Mars," which Peters produced and she, supposedly, was going to star in.

R105 One does not leave inprints of blood red highheels in Miss Streisands Aubusson rug in the most beautiful shade of lavender with subtle touches of apple green against an off- white background.

Ore a scratch in the heringbone floor(threeandonehalfinchwide boards)

Know what i mean?

R108, On the Audiobook, she seemed a bit perturbed that Faye owns the film rights to Master Class, a film Streisand was interested in making.

Why does Gayle King have a stick up her ass? She’s an ice cold interviewer with a Miss Thing attitude.

Lort, she looks like shit.

I love Barbra. However, she always tells the story about when she first met James Brolin, she asked him, "Who fucked up your hair?" Which is rude as hell even though she says she was just being truthful. (Barbra dear, some things are better left unsaid.)

But continuing on that truthful theme, someone should ask Barbra, "Who fucked up your hair?"

Soonie Paik

Mo Rocca who used to be a kind of edgy, mocking comedian sure turned establishment shill for the big bucks, didn’t he?

My favorite thing ever written about Barbra was the headline of Andrew Sarris’s review of A Star I Born in The Village Voice: “A Bore Is Starred.”