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In a relaxed and wide-ranging interview with the Washington Post on the eve of her
Kennedy Center honor, Barbra
Streisand revealed that she would like to have her next directorial duty for
film be 'The Normal Heart'. Streisand has long desired to bring Larry Kramer's
powerful AIDS stage drama to the big screen.
The Post states that her husband James Brolin figures, "to some degree, in
the issue of why her movie career has all but ceased. She says she does want to
direct another film, citing "The Normal Heart," the prescient AIDS play by Larry Kramer that
has been on and off her To Do list for something like 15 years. But she wonders
how the all-consuming task of making a movie would affect her relationship with
Brolin."
Streisand herself admits in the interview, "I've never really been, you know,
married during a directorial time in my life," she observes. "How do you, you
know, balance the personal?"
To read the very personal and informative Washington Post interview with Ms.
Streisand click here.
Barbra
Streisand will be honored on December 7th at the Kennedy Center Honors.
The
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced back in September
the selection of the individuals who will receive the Kennedy Center Honors of
2008. Recipients to be honored at the 31st annual national celebration of the
arts are: actor Morgan Freeman,
singer George Jones, actress and singer Barbra
Streisand, choreographer Twyla Tharp, and
musicians Pete
Townshend and Roger Daltrey of
The Who.
Barbra
Streisand returned to the recording studio on Monday November 17th to record
her first studio album since Guilty Pleasures, which was released on September
20th, 2005 and subsequently went Gold within weeks of it's release.
Streisand broke the news of the upcoming project to radio listeners prior to
the Presidential elections. She will work along side Diana Krall for the very
first time.
The project is Barbra's 63rd album. Barbra
Streisand Live In Concert 2006 was her last non-studio album, which debuted
at #7 in May 2007.
A star for over
four decades, Streisand received Tony nominations for her Broadway debut I Can
Get It For You Wholesale and for her star-making turn as Fanny Brice in Funny
Girl (she would receive a Star of the Decade, Hall of Fame Tony in 1970).
Streisand would go on to recreate the role on film for a 1969 Oscar. She was
also nominated for her performance in The Way We Were. She received another
Oscar for co-writing "Evergreen" for A Star is Born and was similarly nominated
for "I Finally Found Someone" from The Mirror Has Two Faces. Other film credits
include Hello,
Dolly!, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, What's Up, Doc?, Funny Lady,
Nuts and Yentl. She has also produced several of her
movies.
Barbra
Streisand is the US music industry's #1 best-selling female recording
artist. She is second in the all-time charts, ahead of The Beatles and The
Rolling Stones, exceeded only by Elvis. Streisand remains the only artist to
receive an Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace, and Peabody
Awards, and the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
The winner of multiple Grammy Awards,
Streisand has sold many millions of records, with 50 of them gold and 30
platinum. She is also the only artist to have Billboard #1 albums spanning four
decades--the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. Her many albums include"Guilty,"
"Duets," "Higher Ground," "Memories," "Lazy Afternoon," "The Broadway Album" and
"The Movie Album." In addition to her Tony, Oscars and Grammys, Streisand has
won five Emmys, eight Golden Globes, two ASCAP Film and Television Awards, as
well as the American Film Institute Award.
Photo by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.
(I saw Simply the Best and thought it was tied somehow to Tina Turner or the song...it's a special song to me and Edie. But, I wasn't disappointed at all when I read what it was really connected to.)