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Our English program has a simple goal: to help you engage in the never-ending work of reading more insightfully, thinking more clearly, and writing more beautifully. We know that you'll be long gone from us when you're at your best, but we know our programs in literature, education, and creative writing will help you get there. We believe that literature is one of the most powerful ways that humans express what it means to be human, and that a steady, disciplined reading of classic and modern literature gives you insight and inspiration as you create your own texts. Our writing courses help you pursue your own creative vision and build toward careers in editing, publishing, journalism, or technical writing. Lastly, our courses in literary theory, rhetoric, and linguistics help you explore the powers and limitations of language and thought.
Carroll's English graduates can look forward to excellent placement opportunities in various careers, professional schools, and graduate programs around the country. Approximately one-third of Carroll's English graduates become educators in primary or secondary schools. Others pursue successful careers in advertising, business, communications, journalism, public relations, politics, publishing, and numerous other fields.
Carroll's English graduates often choose to pursue advanced degrees (M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., etc.) in graduate programs and law schools across the United States and around the world. English faculty at Carroll are committed to placing qualified students into their chosen careers or the finest professional and graduate programs possible. Preparation for the Graduate Record Exam (G.R.E.) is a significant feature of this commitment to provide graduates with a solid foundation for academic and professional success.
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Students on the Enterprise Computing (DC200) course turned their hand to making music this semester as part of the 'Introduction to Computer Hardware' (CA112) module. It was part of a new practical session designed by module co-ordinator, Dr. Monica Ward and the technical support team here in the School of Computing.
They performed this task using Raspberry Pi computers and a piece of open-source software called Sonic-Pi, which teaches the concepts of programming through the process of musical composition. The Raspberry Pi is a small credit card sized, low-cost computer, that can be used for many different personal and commerial computing tasks, however the Raspberry Pi was primarily designed by the University of Cambridge to promote the teaching and learning of computer science.
The School of Computing ran yet another active and successful Open Day in DCU on Friday and Saturday 15th and 16th November with over 720 students attending the Computing talks over the two days. Each talk was filled to capacity and many had to be turned away. Students are clearly keen to invest time and effort into understanding the key elements of each computing degree and were eager to ask specific questions about each one and the career prospects following graduation.
It is an obvious indication that computing is becoming a prime choice for students year on year , with the demand driving the CAO points up for each course. There was also a noticeable increase in students who are programming at home in their own time. Some of these students were particularly keen to hear about our new Computational Problem Solving and Software Development (CPSSD) degree, a degree designed for those who have programming experience, a sign of the times ahead!
DCU Open Day takes place this Friday and Saturday 15th and 16th November. Come and visit us in the School of Computing to hear all about our exciting courses. Talks run at 10.30, 11.30 and 12.30 both days. Meet our Computing Society, Redbrick and try out a few games with our Games Society gang. It all kicks off at 10am, see you there!
A DCU team of first year undergraduate students from the School of Computing's new degree in Computational Problem Solving and Software Development (CPSSD) they were the highest placed undergraduate team in Ireland beaten only by a postgraduate team from UCD.
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Resolution No. 1 on Improving the instruments for rational use of land
The ministers attending the ninth meeting of the European Conference of Ministers responsible for Regional/Spatial Planning, which was held in Ankara on 4 and 5 November 1991;
Having taken note of the report submitted by the Turkish minister,
Recalling that the first priority was to develop, on the basis of the principles adopted in 1988 at the Lausanne Conference, instruments for promoting, implementing and managing a policy of judicious and restrained use of land and, in particular,
– information and monitoring instruments;
– regulatory and administrative instruments;
– socio-political instruments,
Taking into consideration the review of member countries' experiences, which has revealed that a large array of Instruments for rational use of land exists in each country, but that the effectiveness of any instrument is ultimately a product of the political will for its implementation;
Noting that regional/spatial planning contributes to the pursuit of the goal of sustainable development, defined as improved quality of life and living conditions and the equitable distribution of natural resources between present and future generations;
i. Re-affirm the following fundamental principles on which any regional and spatial land-use policy should be based:
– land should be used rationally by reconciling the temporal and spatial requirements of economic and social development and the need to protect, qualitatively and quantitatively, this limited natural resource which cannot be increased and can be reclaimed only with difficulty;
– political choices and priorities involving land use should be more clearly defined and co-ordinated by/at the various decision-making and executive sectors and levels; better intra-sectoral and inter-sectoral co-ordination is essential when such choices are made;
– short-term approaches should be based on long-range thinking and forward-looking approaches, while taking Into account the precautionary principle, with specific emphasis on the need and the right of future generations to have enough land for their requirements;
– local decisions should be taken within a coherent system of the widest possible regional/spatial development and planning in the light of the prospects for lasting development in the future;
ii. Agree to the principle of a European strategy for the rational use and conservation of natural resources;
iii. Believe that, in order to improve the existing situation,
– all Interested parties and decision makers should be alerted to the concerns of rational use of land. In this connection, training should receive due importance in the process of building awareness;
– the importance of "well-tailored" information should be recognised for purposes of long-range decision making, constant reappraisal of goals, monitoring and developing efficient communication between decision makers and people at large;
– transparency of decision making should be a major goal so as to encourage public participation, cherish private initiative and promote public and private co-operation;
– global impact assessment studies, not just environmental but also socio-economic, should be recognised and adopted by all governments as an essential tool of any policy for the rational planning of land use;
iv. Emphasise that:
– international co-operation to promote exchange of information and experience and prospective research into future possibilities for the balanced development and rational use of land at European level should be developed and strengthened;
– overall medium- and long-term priorities should be increasingly studied, specified and defined at European level; implementation however should be a matter for national, regional and local authorities as a rule;
In this context, they propose to implement this policy by considering the results of seminars and experts' work undertaken in the inter-sessional period;
v. Recommend to governments that they show strong political commitment and take all measures to create the legal and administrative framework needed to increase the effectiveness of instruments for rational use of land;
vi. Recommend to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe that it agree to the proposals made in Resolution No. 1 on soil protection by ministers attending the 6th European Environmental Conference;
vii. Instruct the Committee of Senior Officials to:
– co-operate with the European Ministerial Conference of the Environment on the proposal to draw up a framework convention for soil protection, both qualitatively and quantitatively;
– consider ways and means of making the European Regional/Spatial Planning Charter and the European Regional/Spatial Planning Strategy more operational;
– study the possibilities of setting up a system of technical co-operation between national institutes specialising in data collection on the rational use of land, to form the basis for a European regional/spatial planning strategy.


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We talk with Danger Mouse and James Mercer about the new Broken Bells album, "After The Disco."
KJZZ News
Jerry Lewis won last week's recall election against Russell Pearce in Mesa's legislative district 18. But there were three people on the ballot, of whom was accused of being a sham candidate.
November 10, 2011
National Geographic public speaker and photographer Mattias Klum sits down with Steve Goldstein to talk about art, nature, conservation, and following your passion. Mattias is speaking Wednesday, November 9th at 7:30 in the Mesa Arts Center.
November 09, 2011
Host Steve Goldstein talks to Arizona Republic columnist Bob Robb the Russell Pearce recall, what it may mean for furture recalls...and what impact Jerry Lewis may have on the legislature.
November 09, 2011
??Andrew Thomas took the stand in a disciplinary hearing that could disbar him if found he violated ethical rules.
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November 09, 2011
In January Phoenix will have a new mayor. Greg Stanton talks to host Steve Goldstein about winning the runoff election for Phoenix mayor Tuesday night. Former Phoenix mayor Paul Johnson weighs in with his reaction to this year's race.
November 09, 2011
For the first time in Arizona history, a state legislator is recalled. State Senate President Russell Pearce—who many consider the most powerful politician in the state—lost to charter school administrator Jerry Lewis.
November 09, 2011
You may think twice about adding one traditional item to your Thanksgiving meal this year.
The price of pecans continues to go up. The price of a bag of pecans is now 11-dollars. It's gone up one dollar every year since 2008.
November 09, 2011
The campaigns of Senate President Russell Pearce and opponent Jerry Lewis are making an all-out push to get people to vote in Tuesday's recall election. Many political observers--even the campaigns themselves--think the race is too close to call.
November 08, 2011
Child care advocates are asking Governor Jan Brewer to restore almost 14 million dollars that were cut this year from child care subsidies…used by low income parents. The current state budget eliminates all general fund support for the program.
November 04, 2011
Some of the original backers of the Independent Redistricting Commission say the Governor and state Republican senators went too far in removing its chair. Colleen Mathis was dismissed earlier this week for what Governor Brewer called "substantial neglect of duty or gross misconduct in office.
November 04, 2011
The Arizona Supreme Court will be asked to decide if Governor Brewer's removal of the chair of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission is legal. An attorney for I-R-C chair Colleen Mathis says his client wasn't afforded due process.
November 03, 2011
Fill-in host Mark Brodie talks to Senator Steve Pierce about the controversy surrounding the redistricting commission in Arizona. Dennis Welch, managing editor of Arizona Guardian.com, and Chris Herstam, head of government relations for Lewis and Roca, also weigh in on the vote to remove the chairwoman of the independent redistricting commission.
November 02, 2011
Mark Brodie fills in for Steve Goldstein and talks to Jim Rounds, senior economist and with Elliot D Pollack and Company, and Bob Young, columnist with the Arizona Republic, about the state of pro sports in Arizona.
November 02, 2011
Mark Brodie fills in for host Steve Goldstein. Brodie talks to the new consul general of Israel for the southwestern United States about the decision to admit Palestine as a member of UNESCO. They also talk about the importance of Israel's relationship with the Arizona and the US.
November 02, 2011
In honor of Halloween, and the day of the dead, La Dia de les Muertes, you'll hear lots of old black magic, pumpkins and moonlight, when Blaise puts a spell on you with her delightful Halloween show on Monday night.
October 28, 2011
Former ASU Sun Devil's Football Coach Kush still comes to work every day and recently sat down with KJZZ's Terry Ward to talk about his legacy.Kush is going to be honored at the University's 'Legends Luncheon' with more than 200 former ASU players at the downtown Sheraton Hotel today.
October 28, 2011
The demographics of the United States are changing rapidly, and the demographics of schools are in flux. We want to hear from you: how are classrooms in the Southwest changing?
October 27, 2011
Former deputy Maricopa County Attorney Lisa Aubuchon took the stand on Tuesday to defend the decision to charge numerous county officials with racketeering two years ago. Aubuchon and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas are accused of filing the charges as political retaliation.
October 26, 2011
Host Steve Goldstein talks to Kirk Adams, former House speaker and member of the LDS church, and BYU political Science professor Quin Monson about the impact faith has on public opinion for two Mormon presidential hopefuls.
October 26, 2011
Host Steve Goldstein talks to Jerry Colangelo, co-chair of the Arizona Commerce Authority, about reinvigorating Arizona's job market and the future of downtown Phoenix.
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UK lawmakers call for Alan Turing banknote tribute
LONDON (AP) — A group of British lawmakers called Wednesday for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote.
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Turing, who helped crack Nazi Germany's secret codes by creating the "Turing bombe," a forerunner of modern computers.
He also developed the "Turing Test" to measure artificial intelligence.
Several legislators from the main parties proposed Wednesday that Turing appear on the next version of the 10 pound (about $15) note. The most recent version features Charles Darwin, but a redesign is due in the next few years.
Liberal Democrat lawmaker Julian Huppert said the banknote would celebrate a man who showed "the infinite potential of human ingenuity."
"He showed the world how machines could help humans and we treated him in the most inhuman way," Huppert said.
After the war, Turing was prosecuted for homosexuality, stripped of his security clearance and forcibly treated with female hormones. He killed himself in 1954 at age 41 by eating an apple laced with cyanide.
Turing received a posthumous government apology in 2009.
An online petition calling for Turing to be commemorated on a banknote has attracted 20,000 signatures.
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Boots or Heels?
Last year I couldn't get enough of these Gap boots…but this fall I've really been into pointy toe heels. They just seem to make everything a little more classy and glamorous.
And out of curiosity…how's your neck of the woods? Feeling any wrath from Sandy? Just a little extra windy here. Hopefully the kids won't get blown away trick-or-treating tonight!
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October 31, 2012 6:45 am
Honestly, I really like it with the booties… Very fall. But you rock it either way! That skirt is gorgeous.
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October 31, 2012 9:16 am
I like it better with the heels but I think it definitely works with the booties as well The skirt is adorable!!
October 31, 2012 11:17 am
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I love the red of the heels with it.
October 31, 2012 7:55 pm
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Gorgeous skirt.
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I love both booties and pointy toe heels! And you look amazing in both of them!
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LOVE LOVE the booties!!!! Amazing!!!! You look great and the skirt is splendid.
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AIDS 2012: Turning the Tide Together
The International AIDS Conference returns to the United States for the first time in over 20 years. The passage of the HIV travel ban in 1993 stood in the way of the U.S. hosting the conference. Thanks to the hard work of HRC and our allies on the Hill, Congress lifted the ban in 2008 and as of January 2010 allowed HIV+ people to enter the country again.
The conference is back and HRC is proud to participate in this momentous and historic event. Please join us in Washington, D.C., July 22-27.
Join HRC at various D.C. events related to the 2012 International AIDS Conference.
The 48,000 hand-sewn panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt return to D.C. this summer.
The 2012 International AIDS Conference takes place in Washington, D.C. from July 22-27.
Find more information on HIV/AIDS, getting tested and the epidemic's impact on the LGBT community.
The AIDS 2012 Global Village is open to the general public and admission is free.


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> I'm looking for a multi-port serial card for 8 (or more) 28.8 kbps modems.
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> Any recommendations as to what is most cost effective?
Definately the Cyclades Cyclom-8y. You can get them rather cheap, and
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Sabetha, Kansas is located in Nemaha. Nearby cities and towns include Dawson, Fairview, Falls City, Morrill and Salem. Sabetha is a suburban community with a population of 2,565. The median household income in Sabetha is $46,705. 62% of residents are married and families with children reside in 28% of Sabetha households. Half the population of Sabetha commutes 8 minutes or more to work, with 70% of residents holding white collar jobs and 30% residents holding blue collar jobs.
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Employees learn to lead in steps around companyCross Country Home Services president Sandra Finn was a mere 23 years old when she was put in a leadership position, at a different company. |
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About OPR
The Office of Professional Regulation, commonly known as "OPR," is a division of the Secretary of State's Office responsible for supporting the boards and advisor groups overseeing licensure for 45 different professions and about 58,000 licensees, ranging from Architects to Tattooists. The mission of OPR is public protection from incompetent or unethical practitioners through a system of licensure.
A Public Protection Mission
When professions are regulated, competency is assured. OPR accomplishes this through licensing boards and advisors by ensuring that applicants are qualified, complaints of unprofessional conduct are investigated and prosecuted, and standards of practice are well defined. This further safeguards the public who may lack a basis for judging what constitutes acceptable quality in service or conduct.
Disciplinary action against a licensee can include sanctions such as a reprimand, restrictions on the ability to practice, a monetary penalty or even revocation of a professionals license. Such action helps to rid the profession of incompetent, unethical, and dishonest practitioners, correct inappropriate behaviors, and rehabilitate those practitioners who can safely maintain their licenses. It also serves notice on others that the regulatory agency will not tolerate practitioners whose activities may be contrary to the public interest.
How does this affect me?
In a typical busy month, any one of us might run the following "errands" and receive the services of several licensed professionals without giving much thought to the qualifications of those who provide these services. For example, you might:
- Get your hair cut
- Look into buying or selling a home
- Get an appraisal as part of refinancing your mortgage
- Ask a security guard for help
- Visit the hospital or your local health clinic
- Have your teeth cleaned
- Visit a relative at a nursing home
- Get your eyes checked
- Take your dog or cat to the Vet
- Prepay your funeral arrangements
- Visit the chiropractor, physical therapist, athletic trainer or acupuncturist about that achy joint
- Pick up a prescription from your local pharmacy
- Buy a hearing aid
- Have a session with a mental health counselor or psychologist
- Venturing outside your home, you will encounter the work done by licensed engineers, architects, appraisers, and land surveyors
- Your health often depends upon nurses, naturopaths, pharmacists, physical therapists, chiropractors, dentists, opticians, osteopaths, acupuncturists, athletic trainers, occupational therapists, psychologists and optometrists to determine what health care services you require and to perform those services safely and competently.
For each of these seemingly simple errands, there is a tremendous amount of work going on behind the scenes to ensure your safety. The first hard work comes from the professional who must meet certain education, exam and experience requirements in order to prove their qualifications for licensure. Next, once licensed, the professional must meet a set of standards governing how they must practice their profession. Last but certainly not least, there is a system in place to investigate complaints from the public and, in some cases, restrict a licensees ability to practice a profession when necessary to protect the public.


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Barbra Streisand
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Born | Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
April 24, 1942
Genres | Broadway, jazz, traditional pop, adult contemporary |
Occupations | Singer-songwriter, author, actress, film producer, director |
Labels | Columbia |
Website | www.barbrastreisand.com |
Barbra Joan Streisand (born Barbara Joan Streisand, /ˈstraɪsænd/; April 24, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter, author, actress, writer, film producer, and director. She has won two Academy Awards,[1] eight Grammy Awards,[2] five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy,[3] a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors award,[4] a Peabody Award,[4] and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
She is one of the best selling female artists of all time, with more than 71.5 million albums shipped in the United States and 145 million records sold worldwide. She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Album Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre.[5]
After beginning a successful recording career in the 1960s, by the end of the decade, Streisand ventured into film starring in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl, for which she won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.[6] Other notable films include The Owl and the Pussycat, The Way We Were and A Star Is Born for which she received her second Academy Award for composing the music to the picture's main song, "Evergreen".[7] By the 1980s, Streisand established herself as one of the film industry's most notable figures by becoming the first woman to direct, produce, script and star in her own picture.[8]
According to the RIAA, Streisand holds the record for the most top ten albums of any female recording artist – a total of 32 since 1963.[9] Streisand has the widest span (48 years) between first and latest top ten albums of any female recording artist. With her 2009 album, Love Is the Answer, she became one of the rare artists to achieve number one albums in five consecutive decades.[10] According to the RIAA, she has released 51 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums in the United States.[2]
Early life[edit]
Barbara Joan Streisand (see name change) was born on April 24, 1942, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Diana (born Ida Rosen) and Emanuel Streisand. Her mother was a singer at one time but earned her income as a school secretary[11] and her father was a high school teacher. Her family was Jewish; her paternal grandparents immigrated from Galicia (Poland–Ukraine) and her maternal grandparents from Russia.[12] In August 1943, fifteen months after Streisand's birth, her father died from complications from an epileptic seizure[13] and the family fell into near-poverty.[14] She has an older brother, Sheldon, and a sister, the singer Roslyn Kind,[14][15][16][17] from her mother's re-marriage to Louis Kind in 1949.[14] Kind is nine years younger than Streisand.[18]
Streisand went to the Jewish Orthodox Yeshiva of Brooklyn, giving a solo performance at the age of seven.[19] She later attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and joined the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club.[20][21] Streisand has recollected, "I'm so glad I came from Brooklyn – it's down to earth."[19]
Early career[edit]
Streisand became a nightclub singer while in her teens. She wanted to be an actress and appeared in summer stock and in a number of Off-Off-Broadway productions, including Driftwood (1959), with then-unknown Joan Rivers. (In her autobiography, Rivers wrote that she played a lesbian with a crush on Streisand's character, but this was later denied by the play's author.) Driftwood ran for only six weeks.[22]
Her boyfriend, Barry Dennen, helped her create a club act – first performed at The Lion, a popular gay nightclub in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1960 – and she achieved success as a singer. While singing at The Lion for several weeks, she modified her name from Barbara to Barbra.[23][24] Afterward she appeared at other New York nightclubs, including the Bon Soir and the Blue Angel. One early appearance outside of New York City was at Enrico Banducci's hungry i nightclub in San Francisco in 1963.[25] In 1961, Streisand appeared at the Town and Country nightclub in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, but her appearance was cut short because the club owner did not appreciate her singing style![26] Streisand appeared at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit in 1961.[27]
Streisand's first television appearance was on The Tonight Show, then hosted by Jack Paar, in 1961, singing Harold Arlen's "A Sleepin' Bee".[28] Orson Bean, who substituted for Paar that night, had seen the singer perform at a gay bar and booked her for the telecast. (Her older brother Sheldon paid NBC for a kinescope film so she could use it in 1961 to promote herself. Decades later the film was preserved through digitizing and is available for viewing on a website.)[29] Later in 1961, Streisand became a semi-regular on PM East/PM West, a talk/variety series. PM East was hosted by Mike Wallace and Joyce Davidson.[30] PM West was hosted by Terrence O'Flaherty. Westinghouse Broadcasting, which aired the television show in a select few cities (Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington DC, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and San Francisco), wiped all the videotapes soon after broadcasting them.[30] Audio segments from some episodes, which were saved by Streisand's fans, are part of the compilation CD Just for the Record, which went platinum in 1991. The singer said on 60 Minutes in 1991 that 30 years earlier Wallace had been "mean, very mean" to her on PM East/PM West.[31] He countered that she had been "totally self-absorbed". (Her response: "You invited me on your show to talk about subjects that interested me, and you dare to call me self-absorbed?") 60 Minutes included the audio of Streisand saying to him in 1961, "I like the fact that you are provoking. But don't provoke me."[32]
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 and 1963. Topics covered in her interviews with host Johnny Carson included the empire-waisted dresses that she bought wholesale and her "crazy" reputation at Erasmus Hall High School.[33] As is the case with Wallace, only audio survives from small portions of her telecast conversations with Carson. It was at about this time that Streisand entered into a long and successful professional relationship with Lee Solters and Sheldon Roskin as her publicists with the firm Solters/Roskin (later Solters/Roskin/Friedman).
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", Because of the play's overnight success, she appeared on the cover of Time. In 1964 Streisand was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical but lost to Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly! Streisand received an honorary "Star of the Decade" Tony Award in 1970.[34]
In 1966, she repeated her success with Funny Girl in London's West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre. From 1965 to 1967 she appeared in her first four solo television specials.
Streisand has recorded 50 studio albums, almost all with Columbia Records. 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 pensive version of the normally uptempo "Happy Days Are Here Again". She performed this in a duet with Judy Garland on The Judy Garland Show. Garland referred to her on the air as one of the last great belters. They also sang "There's No Business Like Show Business" with Ethel Merman joining them.
Beginning with My Name Is Barbra, her early albums were often medley-filled keepsakes of her television specials. Starting in 1969, she began attempting more contemporary material, but like many talented singers of the day, she found herself out of her element with rock. Her vocal talents prevailed, and she gained newfound success with the pop and ballad-oriented Richard Perry-produced album Stoney End in 1971. The title track, written by Laura Nyro, was a major hit for Streisand.
During the 1970s, she was also highly prominent on the pop charts, with Top 10 recordings such as "The Way We Were" (US No. 1), "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" (US No. 1), "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (1979, with Donna Summer), which as of 2010 is reportedly still the most commercially successful duet, (US No. 1), "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (with Neil Diamond) (US No. 1) and "The Main Event" (US No. 3), some of which came from soundtrack recordings of her films. As the 1970s ended, Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the U.S. — only Elvis Presley and The Beatles had sold more albums.[35] In 1980, she released her best-selling effort to date, the Barry Gibb-produced Guilty. The album contained the hits "Woman in Love" (which spent several weeks on top of the pop charts in the Fall of 1980), "Guilty", and "What Kind of Fool".
After years of largely ignoring Broadway and traditional pop music in favor of more contemporary material, Streisand returned to her musical-theater roots with 1985's The Broadway Album, which was unexpectedly successful, holding the coveted No. 1 Billboard position for three straight weeks, and being certified quadruple platinum. The album featured tunes by Rodgers and Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and Stephen Sondheim, who was persuaded to rework some of his songs especially for this recording. The Broadway Album was met with acclaim, including a Grammy nomination for album of the year and, ultimately, handed Streisand her eighth Grammy as Best Female Vocalist. After releasing the live album One Voice in 1986, Streisand was set to release another album of Broadway songs in 1988. She recorded several cuts for the album under the direction of Rupert Holmes, including "On My Own" (from Les Misérables), a medley of "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" and "Heather on the Hill" (from Finian's Rainbow and Brigadoon, respectively), "All I Ask of You" (from The Phantom of the Opera), "Warm All Over" (from The Most Happy Fella) and an unusual solo version of "Make Our Garden Grow" (from Candide). Streisand was not happy with the direction of the project and it was ultimately scrapped. Only "Warm All Over" and a reworked, lite FM-friendly version of "All I Ask of You" were ever released, the latter appearing on Streisand's 1988 effort, Till I Loved You. At the beginning of the 1990s, Streisand started focusing on her film directorial efforts and became almost inactive in the recording studio. In 1991, a four-disc box set, Just for the Record, was released. A compilation spanning Streisand's entire career to date, it featured over 70 tracks of live performances, greatest hits, rarities and previously unreleased material.
The following year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former President Bill Clinton into the spotlight and into office.[36] Streisand later introduced Clinton at his inauguration in 1993. Streisand's music career, however, was largely on hold. A 1992 appearance at an APLA benefit as well as the aforementioned inaugural performance hinted that Streisand was becoming more receptive to the idea of live performances. A tour was suggested, though Streisand would not immediately commit to it, citing her well-known stage fright as well as security concerns. During this time, Streisand finally returned to the recording studio and released Back to Broadway in June 1993. The album was not as universally lauded as its predecessor, but it did debut at No. 1 on the pop charts (a rare feat for an artist of Streisand's age, especially given that it relegated Janet Jackson's Janet to the No. 2 spot). One of the album's highlights was a medley of "I Have A Love" / "One Hand, One Heart", a duet with Johnny Mathis, who Streisand said is one of her favorite singers.[37][38]
In 1993, New York Times music critic Stephen Holden wrote that Streisand "enjoys a cultural status that only one other American entertainer, Frank Sinatra, has achieved in the last half century".[39] In September 1993, Streisand announced her first public concert appearances in 27 years (if one does not count her Las Vegas nightclub performances between 1969 and 1972). What began as a two-night New Year's event at the MGM Grand Las Vegas eventually led to a multi-city tour in the summer of 1994. Tickets for the tour were sold out in under one hour. Streisand also appeared on the covers of major magazines in anticipation of what Time magazine named "The Music Event of the Century." The tour was one of the biggest all-media merchandise parlays in history. Ticket prices ranged from US$50 to US$1,500 – making Streisand the highest-paid concert performer in history. Barbra Streisand: The Concert went on to be the top-grossing concert of the year and earned five Emmy Awards and the Peabody Award, while the taped broadcast on HBO is, to date, the highest-rated concert special in HBO's 30-year history. Following the tour's conclusion, Streisand once again kept a low profile musically, instead focusing her efforts on acting and directing duties as well as a burgeoning romance with actor James Brolin.
In 1996, Streisand released "I Finally Found Someone" as a duet with Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams. The song was nominated for an Oscar as it was part of the soundtrack of Streisand's self-directed movie The Mirror Has Two Faces. It reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was her first significant hit in almost a decade and her first top 10 hit on the Hot 100 (and first gold single) since 1981.
In 1997, she finally returned to the recording studio, releasing Higher Ground, a collection of songs of a loosely-inspirational nature which also featured a duet with Céline Dion. The album received generally favorable reviews and, remarkably, once again debuted at No. 1 on the pop charts. Following her marriage to Brolin in 1998, Streisand recorded an album of love songs entitled A Love Like Ours the following year. Reviews were mixed, with many critics complaining about the somewhat syrupy sentiments and overly-lush arrangements; however, it did produce a modest hit for Streisand in the country-tinged "If You Ever Leave Me", a duet with Vince Gill.
On New Year's Eve 1999, Streisand returned to the concert stage, selling out in the first few hours, eight months before her return.[40] At the end of the millennium, she was the number one female singer in the U.S., with at least two No. 1 albums in each decade since she began performing. A two-disc live album of the concert entitled Timeless: Live in Concert was released in 2000. Streisand performed versions of the Timeless concert in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, in early 2000. In advance of four concerts (two each in Los Angeles and New York) in September 2000, Streisand announced that she was retiring from playing public concerts. Her performance of the song "People" was broadcast on the Internet via America Online.
Streisand's most recent albums have been Christmas Memories (2001), a somewhat somber collection of holiday songs (which felt entirely —albeit unintentionally— appropriate in the early post-9/11 days), and The Movie Album (2003), featuring famous film themes and backed by a large symphony orchestra. Guilty Pleasures (called Guilty Too in the UK), a collaboration with Barry Gibb and a sequel to their Guilty, was released worldwide in 2005.
In February 2006, Streisand recorded the song "Smile" alongside Tony Bennett at Streisand's Malibu home. The song is included on Bennett's 80th birthday album, Duets. In September 2006, the pair filmed a live performance of the song for a special directed by Rob Marshall entitled Tony Bennett: An American Classic. The special aired on NBC November 21, 2006, and was released on DVD the same day. Streisand's duet with Bennett opened the special. In 2006, Streisand announced her intent to tour again, in an effort to raise money and awareness for multiple issues. After four days of rehearsal at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, New Jersey, the tour began on October 4 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, continued with a featured stop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, (this was the concert Streisand chose to film for a TV special), and concluded at Staples Center in Los Angeles on November 20, 2006. Special guests Il Divo were interwoven throughout the show. The show was known as Streisand: The Tour.
Streisand's 20-concert tour set box-office records. At the age of 64, well past the prime of most performers, she grossed $92,457,062 and set house gross records in 14 of the 16 arenas played on the tour. She set the third-place record for her October 9, 2006 show at Madison Square Garden, the first- and second-place records of which are held by her two shows in September 2000. She set the second-place record at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, with her December 31, 1999 show being the house record and the highest-grossing concert of all time. This led many people to openly criticize Streisand for price gouging, as many tickets sold for upwards of $1,000.[41]
A collection of performances culled from different stops on this tour, Live in Concert 2006, debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, making it Streisand's 29th Top 10 album.[42] In the summer of 2007, Streisand gave concerts for the first time in continental Europe. The first concert took place in Zürich (June 18), then Vienna (June 22), Paris (June 26), Berlin (June 30), Stockholm (July 4, canceled), Manchester (July 10) and Celbridge, near Dublin (July 14), followed by three concerts in London (July 18, 22 and 25), the only European city where Streisand had performed before 2007. Tickets for the London dates cost between £100.00 and £1,500.00 and for the Ireland date between €118 and €500. The Ireland date was marred by problems, with serious parking and seating problems leading to the event's being dubbed a fiasco by Hot Press.[43] The tour included a 58-piece orchestra.
In February 2008, Forbes listed Streisand as the No.-2-earning female musician, between June 2006 and June 2007, with earnings of about $60 million.[44] On November 17, 2008, Streisand returned to the studio to begin recording what would be her sixty-third album[45] and it was announced that Diana Krall was producing the album.[46] Streisand is one of the recipients of the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors.[47] On December 7, 2008, she visited the White House as part of the ceremonies.[45]
On April 25, 2009, CBS aired Streisand's latest TV special, Streisand: Live in Concert, highlighting the aforementioned featured stop from her 2006 North American tour, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. On September 26, 2009, Streisand performed a one-night-only show at the Village Vanguard in New York City's Greenwich Village.[48] This performance was later released on DVD as One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at The Village Vanguard. On September 29, 2009, Streisand and Columbia Records released her newest studio album, Love is the Answer, produced by Diana Krall.[49] On October 2, 2009, Streisand made her British television performance debut with an interview on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross to promote the album. This album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and registered her biggest weekly sales since 1997, making Streisand the only artist in history to achieve No. 1 albums in five different decades.
On February 1, 2010, Streisand joined over eighty other artists in recording a new version of the 1985 charity single "We Are the World". Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie planned to release the new version to mark the 25th anniversary of its original recording. These plans changed, however, in view of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010, and on February 12, the song, now called "We Are the World 25 for Haiti", made its debut as a charity single to support relief aid for the beleaguered island nation.
In 2011, she sang Somewhere from the Broadway musical West Side Story, with child prodigy Jackie Evancho, on Evancho's album Dream with Me.[50]
Streisand was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year on February 11, 2011, two days prior to the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.[51]
On October 11, 2012, Streisand gave a three-hour concert performance before a crowd of 18,000 as part of the ongoing inaugural events of Barclays Center (and part of her current Barbra Live tour) in her native Brooklyn (her first-ever public performance in her home borough). Streisand was joined onstage by trumpeter Chris Botti, Italian operatic trio Il Volo, and her son Jason Gould. The concert included musical tributes by Streisand to Donna Summer and Marvin Hamlisch, both of whom had died earlier in 2012. Confirmed attendees included Barbara Walters, Jimmy Fallon, Sting, Katie Couric, Woody Allen, Michael Douglas and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, as well as designers Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors.[52][53] In June 2013 she gave two concerts in Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv.
Streisand is one of many singers who use teleprompters during their live performances. Streisand has defended her choice in using teleprompters to display lyrics and, sometimes, banter.[54]
Streisand is a soprano who has a range consisting of well over two octaves from "low E to a high G and probably a bit more in either direction".[55][56] While she is predominantly a pop singer, Streisand's voice has been described as "semi-operatic" due to its strength and quality of tone. [57] She is known for her ability to hold relatively high notes, both loud and soft, with great intensity, as well as for her ability to make slight but unobtrusive embellishments on a melodic line. The former quality led classical pianist Glenn Gould to call himself "a Streisand freak". [58] In recent years, critics and audiences have noted that her voice has "lowered and acquired an occasionally husky edge". However, New York Times music critic Stephen Holden noted that her distinctive tone and musical instincts remain, and that she still "has the gift of conveying a primal human longing in a beautiful sound". [57]
Her first film was a reprise of her Broadway hit, Funny Girl (1968), an artistic and commercial success directed by Hollywood veteran William Wyler. Streisand won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress for the role,[59] sharing it with Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter), the only time there has been a tie in this Oscar category.[60] Her next two movies were also based on musicals, Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly (1969); and Alan Jay Lerner's and Burton Lane's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, directed by Vincente Minnelli (1970); while her fourth film was based on the Broadway play The Owl and the Pussycat (1970).[61]
During the 1970s, Streisand starred in several screwball comedies, including What's Up, Doc? (1972) and The Main Event (1979), both co-starring Ryan O'Neal, and For Pete's Sake (1974) with Michael Sarrazin. One of her most famous roles during this period was in the drama The Way We Were (1973) with Robert Redford, for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. She earned her second Academy Award for Best Original Song (with lyricist Paul Williams) for the song "Evergreen", from A Star Is Born in 1976.[62]
Along with Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier and later Steve McQueen, Streisand formed First Artists Production Company in 1969, so that the actors could secure properties and develop movie projects for themselves. Streisand's initial outing with First Artists was Up the Sandbox (1972).[63]
From a period beginning in 1969 and ending in 1980, Streisand appeared in the annual motion picture exhibitors poll of Top 10 Box Office attractions a total of 10 times, often as the only woman on the list. After the commercially disappointing All Night Long in 1981, Streisand's film output decreased considerably. She has acted in only seven films since.
Streisand produced a number of her own films, setting up Barwood Films in 1972. For Yentl (1983), she was producer, director, and star, an experience she repeated for The Prince of Tides (1991) and The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). There was controversy when Yentl received five Academy Award nominations, but none for the major categories of Best Picture, Actress, or Director.[64] The Prince of Tides received even more Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, but the director was not nominated. Streisand also scripted Yentl, something for which she is not always given credit. According to The New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal in an interview (story begins at minute 16) with Allan Wolper, "the one thing that makes Barbra Streisand crazy is when nobody gives her the credit for having written Yentl."
In 2004, Streisand made a return to film acting, after an eight-year hiatus, in the comedy Meet the Fockers (a sequel to Meet the Parents), playing opposite Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner and Robert De Niro.
In 2005, Streisand's Barwood Films, Gary Smith, and Sonny Murray purchased the rights to Simon Mawer's book Mendel's Dwarf.[65] In December 2008, she stated that she was considering directing an adaptation of Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart, a project she has worked on since the mid-1990s.[66] In 2009, Andrew Lloyd Webber stated that Streisand was one of several actresses (alongside Meryl Streep and Glenn Close) who was interested in playing the role of Norma Desmond in the film adaptation of Webber's musical version of Sunset Boulevard.[67]
In December 2010, Streisand appeared in Little Fockers, the third film from the Meet the Parents trilogy. She reprised the role of Roz Focker alongside Dustin Hoffman.
On January 4, 2011, the New York Post reported that Ms. Streisand was in negotiations to produce, direct, and star in a new film version of Gypsy. In an interview with the New York Post, Arthur Laurents said: "We've talked about it a lot, and she knows what she's doing. She has my approval." He said that he would not write the screenplay.[68][69] The following day, The New York Times reported that Arthur Laurents clarified in a telephonic interview that Streisand would not direct the film, "but playing Rose is enough to make her happy".[69][70] Streisand's spokesperson confirmed that "there have been conversations".[70] After Laurents' subsequent death, there was no official word on the status of the film for months, until it was announced on March 13, 2012 that Gypsy would be moving forward, with Julian Fellowes writing the screenplay for the project.
On January 28, 2011, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Paramount Pictures had given the green light to begin shooting the road-trip comedy My Mother's Curse, with Seth Rogen playing Streisand's character's son. Anne Fletcher directed the project with a script by Dan Fogelman, produced by Lorne Michaels, John Goldwyn, and Evan Goldberg. Executive producers included Streisand, Rogen, Fogelman, and David Ellison, whose Skydance Productions co-financed the road movie.[71] Shooting began in spring 2011 and wrapped in July; the film's title was eventually altered to The Guilt Trip, and the movie was released in December 2012.
Personal life[edit]
Relationships and family[edit]
Streisand has been married twice. Her first husband was actor Elliott Gould, to whom she was married from 1963 until 1971. They had one child, Jason Gould, who appeared as her on-screen son in The Prince of Tides. In 1969 and 1970, Streisand dated Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.[72][73][74]
She started dating her hairdresser Jon Peters in 1974. He went on to be her manager and producer.[75] She is the godmother of his daughters, Caleigh Peters and Skye Peters.[76]
Streisand dated tennis champion Andre Agassi in the early 1990's. Writing about the relationship in his 2009 autobiography, Agassi said: We agree that we're good for each other, and so what if she's twenty-eight years older? We're simpatico, and the public outcry only adds spice to our connection. It makes our friendship feel forbidden, taboo -- another piece of my overall rebellion. Dating Barbra Streisand is like wearing Hot Lava."
Her second husband is actor James Brolin, whom she married on July 1, 1998.[77] While they have no children together, Brolin has two children from his first marriage, including Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin, and one child from his second marriage. Both of her husbands starred in the 1970s conspiracy sci-fi thriller Capricorn One.
Streisand changed her name from Barbara to Barbra because, she said, "I hated the name, but I refused to change it."[78] Streisand further explained, "Well, I was 18 and I wanted to be unique, but I didn't want to change my name because that was too false. You know, people were saying you could be Joanie Sands, or something like that. (My middle name is Joan.) And I said, 'No, let's see, if I take out the 'a,' it's still 'Barbara,' but it's unique."[79] A 1967 biography with a concert program said, "the spelling of her first name is an instance of partial rebellion: she was advised to change her last name and retaliated by dropping an "a" from the first instead."[80]
Streisand has long been an active supporter of the Democratic Party and many of its causes.
In 1971, Streisand was one of the celebrities listed on President Richard Nixon's infamous Enemies List.[81]
Streisand is a supporter of gay rights, and in 2007 helped raise funds in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Proposition 8 in California.[82]
In 1984, Streisand donated the Emanuel Streisand Building for Jewish Studies to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in the Mount Scopus campus, in memory of her father, an educator and scholar who died when she was young.[83][84][85]
Streisand has personally raised $25 million[86] for organizations through her live performances. The Streisand Foundation,[87] established in 1986, has contributed over $16 million through nearly 1,000 grants to "national organizations working on preservation of the environment, voter education, the protection of civil liberties and civil rights, women's issues[88] and nuclear disarmament".[89]
In 2006, Streisand donated $1 million to the William J. Clinton Foundation in support of former President Bill Clinton's climate change initiative.[90]
In 2009, Streisand gifted $5 million to endow the Barbra Streisand Women's Cardiovascular Research and Education Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Women's Heart Center.[91] In September that year, Parade magazine included Streisand on its Giving Back Fund's second annual Giving Back 30 survey, "a ranking of the celebrities who have made the largest donations to charity in 2007 according to public records",[92] as the third most generous celebrity. The Giving Back Fund claimed Streisand donated $11 million, which The Streisand Foundation distributed. In 2012 she raised $22 million to support her women's cardiovascular center, bringing her own personal contribution to $10 million. The program was officially named the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center.
At Julien's Auctions in October 2009, Streisand, a longtime collector of art and furniture, sold 526 items, with all the proceeds going to her foundation. Items included a costume from Funny Lady and a vintage dental cabinet purchased by the performer at 18 years old. The sale's most valuable lot was a painting by Kees van Dongen.[93] In December 2011, she agreed to sing at a fundraising gala for Israel Defense Forces charities.[94]
References in popular culture[edit]
In television[edit]
On the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, in the recurring skit "Coffee Talk", character Linda Richman, played by Mike Myers, hosts a talk show dedicated to, among other things, the adoration of Streisand. Streisand, in turn, made an unannounced guest appearance on the show, surprising Myers and guests, Madonna and Roseanne Barr. Mike Myers also appeared as the Linda Richman character on stage with Streisand at her 1994 MGM Grand concert, as well as a few of the 1994 Streisand tour shows.[95]
Streisand is mentioned in the sitcom Will & Grace, particularly by the character Jack McFarland. Songs made famous by Streisand, such as "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" from Yentl and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" from The Broadway Album are reproduced by characters in the show. Also, in the episode "Fagmalion", Will and Jack, who are making over their "gay-in-training" Barry, make him recite "Judy, Liza, Barbra, Bette, these are names I shan't forget", as part of his "gay" affirmations.
At least five episodes of the animated sitcom The Simpsons refer to Streisand. Outside Springfield Elementary School, announcing Lisa's jazz concert and noting tickets have been sold out, is an advertisement for a Streisand concert in the same venue for the following day, with tickets still on sale. In "Fear of Flying", after Marge undergoes therapy, she informs the therapist that whenever she hears the wind blow, she'll hear it saying "Lowenstein", Streisand's therapist character in The Prince of Tides, even though Marge's therapist is named Zweig. (This is actually only one in a series of references to the film in that episode.) Another reference comes in "Sleeping with the Enemy" when Bart exclaims after seeing Lisa make a snow-angel in a cake on the kitchen table, "At least she's not singing Streisand", in reference to Nelson Muntz singing "Papa Can You Hear Me?" from Yentl earlier in the episode. In "Simple Simpson", a patriotic country singer says that Streisand is unpatriotic and could be pleased by spitting on the flag and strangling a bald eagle.
Another enduring satirical reference is in the animated series South Park, most notably in the episode "Mecha-Streisand", where Streisand is portrayed as a self-important, evil, gigantic robotic dinosaur with a terrible singing voice about to conquer the universe before being defeated by Robert Smith of The Cure. On another occasion, the Halloween episode "Spookyfish" is promoted for a week as being done in "Spooky-Vision", which involves Streisand's face seen at times during the episode in the four corners of the screen. At the end of the feature film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, her name is used as a powerful curse word, a gag repeated in the episode "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants". The Mecha-Streisand character made a return in the Season 14 episodes "200" and "201", as one of several celebrities the show had lampooned over the years.
In the DreamWorks Animation CGI series Father of the Pride, in the episode "And The Revolution Continues", Streisand appears as a guest at MGM Mirage hotel in Las Vegas, where Siegfried & Roy are entertaining her and her husband James Brolin. She was about to eat a lobster named Emerson, but was saved by the series main protagonist; Larry the White Lion after he has a confrontation with Barbera.
Streisand is referenced frequently on the Fox TV musical series Glee. The character Rachel (Lea Michele) mentions that Streisand refused to alter her nose in order to become famous in the show's third episode "Acafellas". Also, in the mid-season finale of Glee, Rachel sings the Streisand anthem "Don't Rain on My Parade". In the episode "Hell-O", she says that she will be heartbroken for life, "Like Barbra in The Way We Were". In the same episode, Jesse St. James (Jonathan Groff) criticizes Rachel's performance of "Don't Rain on My Parade" by saying that she "lacked Barbra's emotional depth".
In the episode "Theatricality", Rachel is spying on the opposing team's dance rehearsal when the director, Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel), expresses dissatisfaction at the team's routine. She demonstrates how it's done with the title song from Funny Girl, and Rachel, sitting in the audience, whispers to her friend, "Exactly what I would have done—Barbra. I could do it in my sleep." In the episode "Grilled Cheesus" Rachel sings Streisand's famous song from the movie Yentl—"Papa, Can You Hear Me?"—to help support Kurt's (Chris Colfer) dad Burt after undergoing a heart attack. Rachel sang it in a park with Finn sitting at her side/in Burt Hummel's hospital room. She told Finn that she "wanted nothing to come between her and God, and Yentl sang it outside in the movie".[96] On the episode "Born This Way", Streisand is mentioned when Rachel is debating whether or not to get a nose job, Kurt Hummel and the rest of the glee club set up a "Barbra-vention" of a flashmob to the popular hit "Barbra Streisand" by Duck Sauce.
The characters of Kurt and Rachel also sang the "Get Happy/Happy Days are Here Again" duet originally heard during Streisand's 1963 appearance with Judy Garland on Garland's weekly TV series. In the season three episode "I Am Unicorn", Kurt sings Streisand's "I'm the Greatest Star" from the musical Funny Girl, stating, "[He] has permission from the woman herself," actually meaning Rachel Berry. When Glee won the prize for "Best TV Series-Comedy Or Musical" at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards, creator Ryan Murphy quipped on stage, "Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press and Miss Barbra Streisand."
In the sitcom The Nanny, Streisand is viewed as a divine figure by Fran Fine throughout the sitcom's run. When asked by her boss who she would save if her mother and Streisand were drowning, Fran replies, "I'd save Ma, Barbra can walk on water," Another example is in "The Passed-Over Story", when Fran hears that Streisand and James Brolin will be arriving at the airport, Fran runs towards the door yelling, "It's the miracle of Passover, the Messiah is coming".
On film[edit]
In movies, Streisand is the favorite performer of Kevin Kline's character Howard Brackett, who finally admits to being gay while standing at the altar in the 1997 romantic comedy In & Out. His unfortunate bride-to-be, played by Joan Cusack, cries out in frustration to family and friends present, "Does anybody here KNOW how many times I've had to sit through Funny Lady?" In an earlier scene, Howard is taunted by a friend during an argument at a bar with a jeering, "The studio thought that Barbra was too ol-l-ld to play Yentl." The film also mentions the album Color Me Barbra. Streisand's signature tune, "People", is played by a school orchestra in honor of teacher Howard as the story wraps at the end of the credits. This and similar references point to her popularity among gay men.
In the 1996 comedy "The Associate", Whoopi Goldberg plays a business woman, Laurel Ayers, who creates a business associate, Robert S. Cutty, who is said to have known and dated Streisand. In addition to having an autographed picture of Streisand in her office, Ayers also has a cross-dressing friend who dresses up to resemble Streisand throughout the film.
The characters Carla and Connie, as an aspiring song-and-dance act duo in the 2004 comedy Connie and Carla, include four Streisand references. They sing "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "Memory" at an airport lounge and "Don't Rain on My Parade" onstage in a gay bar, and talk about the plot of Yentl at the climax of the film after they ask how many in their audience have seen the movie (everyone raised their hands).
In a montage of makeovers in the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire, Robin Williams' character is transformed into someone vaguely resembling Streisand and proceeds to sing the first verse of "Don't Rain on My Parade", even mimicking Streisand's signature facial expressions.
In music[edit]
Sound clips of Streisand's heated exchange with a supporter of former U.S. president George W. Bush were sampled in the 2009 Lucian Piane dance song "Bale Out", making it sound as if she were arguing with actor Christian Bale (whose recorded outbursts during the filming of Terminator Salvation were the centerpiece of the song).[97]
"Barbra Streisand" is a disco house song by American-Canadian DJ duo Duck Sauce (Armand Van Helden & A-Trak). It was released on September 10, 2010. The song peaked at number one in Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland and Austria. It became a top ten hit in Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, and Italy.
On stage[edit]
Daniel Stern's 2003 Off-Broadway play Barbara's Wedding was set against the backdrop of Streisand's 1998 wedding to James Brolin.
The comedy play Buyer & Cellar, written by Jonathan Tolins, is set in Streisand's cellar. A struggling actor finds a job there and one day meets the star. It is a one-man show starring Michael Urie that premiered at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in April 2013.[98]
"Streisand effect"[edit]
In 2003, Streisand sued aerial photographer Kenneth Adelman for displaying a photograph of her Malibu, California home, along with 12,000 other photos of the California coastline taken to illustrate coastal erosion. The picture had at that point been downloaded a total of six times, two of which were by Streisand's lawyers. The suit had the unintended consequence of drawing attention to the photograph, which suddenly became wildly popular and was rapidly copied to multiple mirrors outside the immediate reach of US law. Her lawsuit was eventually dismissed under the anti-SLAPP provisions of California law.[99][100][101] Mike Masnick of Techdirt coined the term "Streisand effect" in January 2005 to describe the publicity generated by Streisand's efforts to suppress the publication of the photograph.
In 1984, Streisand was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.[102] She also received the National Medal of Arts[103] in 2000 and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2008. She was inducted as an officer of France's Legion of Honour in 2007. She was accorded An Honorary Doctorate In Arts and Humanities by Brandeis University in 1995 and an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013. In that year, she was also recipient of the Charles Chaplin lifetime achievement award by the Film Society of Lincoln Center as the only female artist who directed, wrote, produced and starred in the same major studio film (Yentl).
Music awards[edit]
Streisand's works have been nominated for 40 Grammy Awards; she won 8 of these, including two special awards. She has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame three times. In 2011, she was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year by the Grammy Foundation.
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
1963 | Grammy Awards | Album of the Year | The Barbra Streisand Album | Won |
Best Female Vocal Performance | Won | |||
Record of the Year | "Happy Days Are Here Again" | Nominated | ||
1964 | Best Female Vocal Performance | People | Won | |
Album of the Year | Nominated | |||
Record of the Year | Nominated | |||
1965 | Best Female Vocal Performance | My Name Is Barbra | Won | |
Album of the Year | Nominated | |||
1966 | Best Female Vocal Performance | Color Me Barbra | Nominated | |
Album of the Year | Nominated | |||
1968 | Best Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance | Funny Girl Soundtrack | Nominated | |
1970 | AGVA Georgie Award | Entertainer of the Year | — | Won |
1972 | Grammy Awards | Best Pop Female Vocal Performance | "Sweet Inspiration / Where You Lead" | Nominated |
AGVA Georgie Award | Singing Star of the Year | — | Won | |
1975 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Female Singer of the Year | Won | |
1976 | Grammy Awards | Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance | Classical Barbra | Nominated |
1977 | Best Pop Female Vocal Performance | "Evergreen" (from A Star Is Born) | Won | |
Song of the Year | Won | |||
Record of the Year | Nominated | |||
Best Original Score – Motion Picture or Television Special | Nominated | |||
AGVA Georgie Award | Singing Star of the Year | — | Won | |
1978 | Grammy Awards | Best Pop Female Vocal Performance | "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (with Neil Diamond) | Nominated |
1979 | Record of the Year | Nominated | ||
Best Pop Vocal Performance – Duo, Group, or Chorus | Nominated | |||
1980 | Guilty (with Barry Gibb) | Won | ||
Album of the Year | Nominated | |||
Record of the Year | "Woman in Love" | Nominated | ||
Best Pop Vocal Female Performance | Nominated | |||
AGVA Georgie Awards | Singing Star of the Year | — | Won | |
1985 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer | Won | |
1986 | Grammy Awards | Best Pop Vocal Female Performance | The Broadway Album | Won |
Album of the Year | Nominated | |||
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal | "Being Alive" | Nominated | ||
1987 | Best Pop Vocal Female Performance | One Voice | Nominated | |
Best Music Video Performance | Nominated | |||
1988 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite All-Time Musical Performer | — | Won |
1991 | Grammy Awards | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance | "Warm All Over" | Nominated |
1992 | Grammy Legend Award | — | Special award | |
1993 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance | Back to Broadway | Nominated | |
1994 | Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award | — | Special award | |
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance | Barbra: The Concert | Nominated | ||
Best Pop Vocal Female Performance | "Ordinary Miracles" | Nominated | ||
1997 | Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals | "Tell Him" (with Celine Dion) | Nominated | |
"I Finally Found Someone" (with Bryan Adams) | Nominated | |||
2000 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | Timeless – Live In Concert | Nominated | |
2002 | Christmas Memories | Nominated | ||
2003 | The Movie Album | Nominated | ||
2004 | Grammy Hall of Fame | Funny Girl (Barbra Streisand and Sydney Chaplin) | Inducted | |
2006 | The Barbra Streisand Album | |||
2007 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | Live in Concert 2006 | Nominated | |
2008 | Grammy Hall of Fame | "The Way We Were" | Inducted | |
2011 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | Love Is the Answer | Nominated | |
2012 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | What Matters Most | Nominated |
Film awards[edit]
Streisand has won 2 Academy Awards (Oscar) against 5 nominations, 2 for acting, 2 for song writing and 1 for Best Picture,
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
1969 | Academy Awards | Best Actress | Funny Girl | Won |
Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | Won | ||
1970 | Hello, Dolly! | Nominated | ||
Henrietta World Film Favorite | — | Special award | ||
1971 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | The Owl and the Pussycat | Nominated | |
Henrietta World Film Favorite | — | Special award | ||
1974 | Academy Awards | Best Actress | The Way We Were | Nominated |
Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) | Nominated | ||
1975 | Henrietta World Film Favorite | — | Special award | |
1976 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | Funny Lady | Nominated | |
1977 | Academy Awards | Best Original Song | "Evergreen" (from A Star Is Born) | Won |
Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | Won | ||
Best Original Song | Won | |||
1978 | Henrietta World Film Favorite | — | Special award | |
1984 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | Yentl | Nominated | |
Best Director (Motion Picture) | Won | |||
Best Motion Picture (Comedy Or Musical) | Won | |||
1985 | Golden Raspberry Awards | Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor | Nominated | |
1988 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress in Motion Picture (Drama) | Nuts | Nominated |
Best Motion Picture (Drama) | Nominated | |||
1992 | Academy Awards | Best Picture | The Prince of Tides | Nominated |
Golden Globe Awards | Best Director (Motion Picture) | Nominated | ||
Golden Globe Awards | Best Motion Picture - (Drama) | Nominated | ||
1997 | Academy Awards | Best Original Song | "I Finally Found Someone" (from The Mirror Has Two Faces) | Nominated |
Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) | The Mirror Has Two Faces | Nominated | |
Best Original Song | "I Finally Found Someone" (from The Mirror Has Two Faces) | Nominated | ||
2000 | Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement | — | Special award | |
2010 | Golden Raspberry Award | Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress | Little Fockers | Nominated |
2012 | Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress | The Guilt Trip | Nominated |
Broadway performances[edit]
Year | Title | Notes |
1961–1963 | I Can Get It for You Wholesale | Nominated—Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
1964–1965 | Funny Girl | Nominated—Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical |
West End performances[edit]
Year | Title | Notes |
1966 | Funny Girl | April 13, 1966 – July 16, 1966 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. |
Television specials[edit]
Year | Title | Notes |
1965 | My Name Is Barbra | Aired on CBS April 28, 1965 |
1966 | Color Me Barbra | Aired on CBS March 30, 1966 |
1967 | The Belle of 14th Street | Aired on CBS October 11, 1967 |
1968 | A Happening in Central Park | Aired on CBS June 17, 1967 |
1973 | Barbra Streisand...And Other Musical Instruments | Aired on CBS Nov 2, 1973 |
1975 | Funny Girl to Funny Lady | Aired on ABC |
1976 | Barbra: With One More Look at You | |
1983 | A Film Is Born: The Making of 'Yentl' | |
1986 | Putting it Together: The Making of The Broadway Album | |
1986 | One Voice | |
1994 | Barbra Streisand: The Concert | Also producer and director |
2001 | Barbra Streisand: Timeless | Aired on FOX February 14, 2001 (1 hour edited version) |
2009 | Streisand: Live in Concert | Aired on CBS April 25, 2009[104] (Filmed in Florida in 2006) |
2011 | Barbra Streisand: One Night Only at The Village Vanguard | Aired on PBS, premiered on August 6, 2011 |
2012 | "Katie: Barbra is Back!" | September 25, 2012 |
Tours and live performances[edit]
Year | Title | Continents | Box-office benefits | Total audience |
1966 | An Evening with Barbra Streisand Tour | North America | $480,000 | 67,500 |
1993–94 | Barbra Streisand in Concert | North America and Europe | $50 million | 400,000 |
1999–2000 | Timeless | North America and Australia | $70 million | 200,000 |
2006–07 | Streisand | North America and Europe | $119.5 million | 425,000 |
2012–13 | Barbra Live | North America and Europe | $40 million | 154,287 |
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Further reading[edit]
- Andersen, Christopher (2006). Barbra: The Way She Is. Harper-Collins. ISBN 0-06-056256-0.
- Edwards, Anne (1997). Streisand: A Biography. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-21138-3.
- Riese, Randall (1993). Her Name Is Barbra: An Intimate Portrait of the Real Barbra Streisand. Birch Lane Press. ISBN 1-55972-203-7.
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- Spada, James (1995). Streisand: Her Life. Crown Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-517-59753-5.
- Pohly, Linda (2000). The Barbra Steisand Companion: A Guide to Her Vocal Style and Repertoire. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-30414-9.
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