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Barbra Streisand

Autor de My Name is Barbra {book}

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Barbra Streisand born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn N.Y. She attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and joined the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club. Streisand became a nightclub singer while in her teens. She wanted to be an actress and appeared in summer stock and in a mostrar más number of Off-Off-Broadway productions, including Driftwood (1959), with the then-unknown Joan Rivers. Streisand's first television appearance was on The Tonight Show, then hosted by Jack Paar, in 1961, singing Harold Arlen's A Sleepin' Bee. Streisand became a semi-regular on PM East/PM West, a talk/variety series hosted by Mike Wallace. 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. 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". Streisand has recorded 35 studio albums, almost all with the Columbia Records label. 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 slow version of the normally uptempo Happy Days Are Here Again. Barbra Streisand has also become an author of books with her title My Passion which was released in 2010. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras de Barbra Streisand

My Name is Barbra {book} (2023) 205 copias
My passion for design (2010) 110 copias
Yentl (Two-Disc Director's Cut) (1983) — Director/Screenwriter/Cast — 89 copias
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1997) — Director; Actor — 81 copias
The Prince of Tides [1991 film] (1991) — Director/Cast — 57 copias
The Broadway Album (1985) 52 copias
Higher Ground ♫ (1997) 49 copias
A Christmas Album (1967) 38 copias
Back to Broadway (1993) 30 copias
Barbra: The Concert ♫ (1994) 27 copias
One Voice (1987) 26 copias
Guilty ♫ (1980) 25 copias
Memories (1981) 25 copias
Just for the Record (1991) 19 copias
Timeless: Live in Concert (2000) 18 copias
The Movie Album (2003) 17 copias
Christmas Memories ♫ (2001) 16 copias
Duets (2002) 14 copias
Partners (2014) 14 copias
Walls (2018) 14 copias
My Name Is Barbra [Album] (1965) 11 copias
Till I Loved You (1988) 10 copias
The Third Album (1964) 10 copias
Back to Brooklyn (2013) 9 copias
Guilty Pleasures ♫ (2005) 9 copias
Color Me Barbra (1966) 9 copias
Classical Barbra (2013) 8 copias
Wet ♫ (1979) 8 copias
Simply Streisand (1967) 8 copias
Emotion ♫ (2008) 8 copias
My Name Is Barbra, Two... (2008) 8 copias
Stoney End (1971) 8 copias
Barbra Joan Streisand (2001) 8 copias
Live Concert at the Forum (1972) 7 copias
people 45 rpm single (2008) 7 copias
People (1964) 6 copias
Superman (1977) 6 copias
Songbird (2008) 5 copias
Guilty Too (2005) 5 copias
Love Songs (2004) 5 copias
I Finally Found Someone [Single] (1996) — Artist — 5 copias
The Ultimate Collection (2010) 4 copias
ButterFly 4 copias
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) — Vocalist — 3 copias
What About Today? (2008) 3 copias
Release Me 2 (2021) 3 copias
Broadway Album 2 copias
Tell Him (1999) 2 copias
Wet [songbook] (1979) 2 copias
Erté : Romain de Tirtoff, 1892–1990 (2017) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Woman in love 2 copias
Ultimate Collection (2010) 2 copias
Second Hand Rose (1966) 2 copias
What Kind of Fool (1980) 2 copias
Release Me (2012) 2 copias
Hello Dolly! 1 copia
Lazy Afternoon (2008) 1 copia
Pre-history 1 copia
Love Like Ours (2000) 1 copia
Guilty (2002) 1 copia
Memory 1 copia
Higher Ground [songbook] (1998) 1 copia
Je M'appelle Barbra (2008) 1 copia

Obras relacionadas

Meet The Fockers (Full Screen Edition) (2004) — Actor — 322 copias
Hello, Dolly! Widescreen Edition (1969) — Actor — 210 copias
Funny Girl [1968 film] (1985) — Actor — 142 copias
The Way We Were [1973 film] (1973) — Actor — 131 copias
What's Up, Doc? [1972 film] (1972) — Actor — 107 copias
Little Fockers (2010) — Actor — 104 copias
Duets: An American Classic (2006) — Contribuidor — 53 copias
A Star Is Born [1976 film] (1976) — Actor — 53 copias
Funny Lady (2005) — Actor — 30 copias
Hello, Dolly! Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1964) — Performer — 27 copias
Funny Girl: Original 1964 Broadway Cast Recording (1964) — Performer — 21 copias
Now That's What I Call Christmas! 2 (US) (2003) — Contribuidor — 17 copias
Yentl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1983) — Performer — 14 copias
The Main Event [1979 film] (1979) 14 copias
All Night Long [1981 film] (1981) — Actor — 13 copias
Barbra Streisand: The Television Specials (2005) — Actor — 12 copias
Nuts [1987 film] (2003) — Actor — 11 copias
For Pete's Sake [1974 film] (1974) — Actor — 10 copias
The Owl and the Pussycat [1970 film] (1970) — Actor — 9 copias
Inside The Actors Studio (Box Set) (2012) — Self — 3 copias
The Golden Glow of Christmas [1972 Sound Recording Album] (1972) — Performer, algunas ediciones1 copia
Sounds of the Season — Contribuidor — 1 copia

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Not to disparage paper and print, I highly recommend finding yourself the recorded version of My Name is Barbra, read by Her Majesty Barbra herself in her lovely Brooklyn lilt and illustrated (so to speak) with amazing clips of the songs which we all know and love. I laughed, I cried (especially after her account of The Way We Were) and marvelled. The book in print will break your foot if you drop it on it; in the recorded version it will come damn near breaking your heart.
 
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mblxv | 8 reseñas más. | Mar 26, 2024 |
Audio, which has some lovely song excerpts, but since it was so long I had to listen to the book sped up, so the singing came out a little tinny. Streisand tells of her life in a conversational, but extremely detailed way. Lots of names are dropped. I was never a huge fan, but I think she is interesting and admirable.
 
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mojomomma | 8 reseñas más. | Mar 12, 2024 |
Streisand, Barbra. 2023. _My Name Is Barbra_. Viking.

Review: This has become my year of reading memoirs. I didn't plan that, but that is how it is shaking out. I started Barbra Streisand's memoir, My Name is Barbra, a couple of months ago borrowing it from the library, but then I had to return it. Actually, I think I had to put it back on hold a couple of times before I decided to plow through it. Now I probably shouldn't have read it on my phone--my iphone had the page count at over 1600 pages, but looking at the print edition, it is only about 800 pages. It is still a lot for a memoir! But are you going to be the editor that tells Barbra Streisand to scale back? And should you?

The book started a bit slow for me--Streisand goes into a lot of detail about her life. And if I had edited it, I probably would have cut out reviews and letters from other folks telling her what a great job she did on this or that project. But I have to say, when I received that final loan and decided to put some focus on it, it turned into a delightful reading of a strong, inventive, creative woman who broke many barriers. Towards the end, I thought, well, she deserves every page here. I also, in the latter half of the book, started taking a moment to watch video clips of whatever the chapter was on (like Yentl or The Way We Were), and also started a playlist of her albums and other albums she mentioned. I gave myself the full "multimedia" experience and that was also a delight.

Contrast this to another memoir, The Woman in Me, by Britney Spears. Maybe I shouldn't compare two women like this, but I will do it. I enjoyed Spear's memoir, but I also tamped my expectations way down. When Britney arrived, I thought, "Oh, this girl has no power and is a victim." And then I am reading her memoir decades later and thinking, "Yes, just as I suspected. Poor thing. She's amazing and talented, but her story is sad." No one can say that about Streisand.

One of the things I loved about this memoir is how many hats Streisand has worn over her career. Singer, actress, director, fundraiser, designer, friend to world leaders.. She doesn't quit, and she never stops being creative, and she doesn't give up her control, which is refreshing. She embodies The Artist's Way, which I've facilitated. I was righteously angry to read about her slights with the Academy for Directing, thinking that we are in 2024 and that Greta Gerwig didn't get a Director's nod for Barbie. Grrrrr... We still have work to do.

One of my favorite things I can relate to is her love story with James Brolin, which doesn't come until later in the book and her life. I have my own James Brolin and I think finding that love later in life is so much sweeter. I stopped and watched a video of him talking about her, and it made me happy to see a man who loves and supports his strong woman. If anyone could fix that, it would be Streisand!

One irritation with the Libby app is that on my iPhone, a lot of the black-and-white photos in the book appear as negatives, and I have to click on them to see what they look like. And there are a lot of photos in this book. I didn't see most of them until the end, and by then, I had googled most of the people who appeared in the book.

If you love Streisand (and who doesn't?), you'll enjoy this book. Enjoy the ride!

Next up on my memoir list is Viola Davis's new memoir, which I also had to return and is now in my queue.
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auldhouse | 8 reseñas más. | Mar 9, 2024 |
Very very long but fascinating.
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chasidar | 8 reseñas más. | Mar 2, 2024 |

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