Barbra Streisand | Barbra Streisand
Dec.19.2012
Yet another movie has given me a jumping off point to tell a personal story that probably would not have gotten published without a current topic to help promote it.
Try it. It works.
My son and I bonded long before Barbra Steisand and Seth Rogen in The Guilt Trip http://lnkd.in/eihdsu
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Sep.27.2012
This biography of Barbra Streisand is a timely release, marking her fiftieth anniversary in show business. While the singer/actress giant is still actively performing (sold out for her tour at age seventy), Hello Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand covers only the first four years of...
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Sep.17.2012
Kirk and Anne Douglas has doubled their Los Angeles Skid Row pledge for homeless women to $10 million. Named to honor his wife, the Anne Douglas Center for Women at the Los Angeles Mission opened two decades ago on Valentine’s Day.
ANNE / KIRK...
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Aug.07.2012
One of the most prolific composers for the stage and cinema has died. Marvin Hamlisch joins Richard Rogers as the only person in history to ever win an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and a Pulitzer Prize. You can also add two Golden Globes to his list of accomplishments.
He wrote...
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Jul.11.2011
In Sixth Grade my best friend Julie T. was obsessed with the movie Funny Girl. She played the record every day after school and sang along while staring at Barbra Streisand's glowing face on the album cover.
"You look exactly like her!" Julie once said.
"How do I look...
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Sep.29.2008
Thomas Wolfe may have said you can't go home again, but it sure seemed like one could with colored lights and Carlos Santana and band wailing though the percussive and guitar-screaming "Soul Sacrifice" in an outdoor grandstand at, of all places, the Sobaba Casino in an Indian reservation...
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Jan.17.2008
My two links to Barbra Streisand are that we both have the same vivid blue eyes and her Uncle, Sydney Streisand, used to fix my parents' rabbit-eared TV when we lived in Far Rockaway, Queens. Recently, I read Ann Edward's 1999 biography, STREISAND (Little Brown & Co..) and was reminded of...
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