Barbra Streisand

Barbra Turned Down Cabaret, Klute, and Julia

I was uptown last night when Barbra Streisand arrived to be honored with her Film Society of Lincoln Center's "Chaplin" award, and she and hubby Brolin looked like buttah. Also lovely was this New York Times piece yesterday, in which the greatest star answered readers' questions with her usual plu ... More >>

Kinky Boots Kicks Up Some Familiar High Heels; Buyer and Cellar Prowls Barbra's Mall

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Sondheim Won't Let Barbra Streisand Direct Gypsy?

Stephen Sondheim has generously allowed a lot of wacky and/or progressive interpretations of his work, including ones with the actors playing musical instruments, the director's wife playing the female lead, and all sorts of other tweaks and concessions. But according to this report on lemonwade.co ... More >>

Seth Rogen Takes His Centrum Silver in The Guilt Trip

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The Man Behind Barbra's New Movie

Barbra Streisand returns to the screen where she belongs in The Guilt Trip, in which she and Seth Rogen go on a mother-and-son drive that puts them at cross purposes which melt into mutual appreciation. The film is written by Dan Fogelman, who based it on a real-life road trip he took with his moth ... More >>

Streisand Is Thinking of Casting Lady Gaga In Gypsy

As you know, Barbra Streisand is supposed to play Grandma Rose, I mean Mamma Rose in another movie version of Gypsy. And she told Time magazine that she's thinking of casting Lady Gaga in it! That's interesting for several reasons:

Streisand at the Hollywood Bowl: A Report

A friend sent me this positive review of Barbra Streisand's concert on Friday: "It was a good show. Her son's singing was very nice. And her sister did a duet with her toward the end. "I got a great seat from a scalper for 50 bucks 45 minutes into the show, and I was happy. The printed pr ... More >>

Barclays Center's Security Put Jay-Z Fans Through The Wringer. Streisand Fans, Not So Much. Was It Racist?

If you went to the Jay-Z concert at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn last month, getting into the arena probably felt like you were getting on an airplane -- concertgoers were put through airport-style metal detectors.However, if you caught Barbara Streisand at the same venue last week, the same secu ... More >>

Travolta And Olivia Newton-John Reuniting For Christmas Album

I'm not totally sure this isn't a prank, but even if it is, it's the one that I want, ooh ooh ooh. Supposedly the two Grease stars will bring back the closety 1970s with all sorts of cozy Christmas chestnuts, helped by guest stars from Barbra Streisand to Kenny G. And yes, those are two different ... More >>

Donna Summer, RIP; My Favorite Hits Of Hers

The queen of disco is gone, but her music will live on. Here are my fave Donna Summer songs to boogie to through eternity: *"No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" A slow-percolating, then explosive duet with Barbra Streisand. Could you imagine just being a fly on the wall in that recording studio?

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GRAND STEPPIN’

A-Trak comes to Girls & Boys

Celebrities' New Year Resolutions For 2012!

I've exclusively gotten these resolutions from famous people who are hoping to stay famous in the new year. *Justin Bieber "I'll smile for the first time! Even when people say I impregnated them!"

If Adele Found A Solid Relationship...

​Her career would be over! WTF would she have to sing about? "I met the man of my dreams and he loves me right back"? Blech. Boring. That would go down the charts with a bullet. And here are some other potential career killers for top music stars:

Six Songs For A Desert Isle

Here's audio I could listen to through eternity ... or at least until a hawk swoops down and pecks my eardrums out. (6) "Losing My Religion by R.E.M. Don't tell me what it means! Don't even tell me they broke up! Just tell me I can have this on constant rotation! Its propulsive guitars and angst ... More >>

Footage Of Streisand Whipping Harrison Ford

​You have to trust me on this one. In the blurry but still discernable video in the attached link, Barbara Streisand is done up in full leather dominatrix gear and whipping Harrison Ford like a maniac. No, she's not mad because he gave her hydrangeas.

Mitt Romney and Barbra Streisand, Two "People Who Love People," Sing Duet Together

It's been quite a week for Mitt Romney.

Glee: The 3D Concert Movie

Tommy Tune: So Tall, People at the Port Authority Run Away

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 26, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 17 One from the 'Seesaw' by Joanna Mermey "Tap dancing is so honest. It makes people smile. A few weeks ago I was in Port Authority handing out ads for 'Seesaw.' Everyone kept running away from me becaus ... More >>

Barbra Streisand: 'The Retarded Are People Who Need People'

​ Yes, Barbra Streisand actually said those words in a public service commercial for the National Association for Retarded Children way back when she was an explosive star with silky voice and hair, not the fully formed legend we know and love today. In the commercial, our diva talks about h ... More >>

The Golden Razzie Awards Are Homophobic!

​They must be! After all, three of their picks for Worst Supporting Actress of the year happen to be huge gay icons. Cher is up for Burlesque

Streisand In Talks To Do Gypsy!

​It's a gay man's wet dream. Singer, Oscar winner, star, and Donna Karan wearer Barbra Streisand is in negotiations to play the fiercely tunnel-visioned Mama Rose in a movie of Gypsy, according to The Post's Michael Riedel. Normally I'd say "Enough with Gypsy!" but the chance to see Streisan ... More >>

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Q&A: A-Trak and Armand Van Helden Talk (and Talk and Talk) Duck Sauce, "Barbra Streisand," and Doing Karaoke With Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig

Duck Sauce, mid-interview. All photos by Chris Klassen.​When A-Trak (Alain Macklovitch) and Armand Van Helden teamed up as Duck Sauce for last year's dance hit, "aNYway", we were surprised, then pleased, then completely addicted. The production duo shares roots in old-school hip-hop and club-f ... More >>

People Who Work Your Last Gay Nerve

​"People who are the least qualified to birth, raise, and nurture children having the most number of them. "People who brag about how LinkedIn, Facebooked, My Spaced, and Twittered they are, but lack the ability to carry on a conversation in person. Social networking my ass!

Possible Sequels to Angelina in Salt

​Salt 2: This Time It's Table Salt Kosher Salt>, with Barbra Streisand as Angelina's mama Salt meets the Little Mermaid in Sea Salt

Chelsea Clinton's Wedding to Feature Luxury Porta-Potties, Increasing Odds of Awkward Encounters

​Before you click away from this post thinking that it'll be just more blather about Chelsea Clinton's wedding, be aware that it is exactly that, but with a twist: outrageously huge porta-potties. Seriously. These rent-a-johns are bigger than my apartment by far, and carry a hefty cost of $15, ... More >>

Are All Celebs Compensating For Bad Childhoods?

​You know the drill: A child has self-aggrandizing parents (Lindsay Lohan) or a demeaning mother (Barbra Streisand) or an abusive father (Michael Jackson) or tons of distracting siblings (Madonna), and it's because of all that Freudian jazz--whether directly or indirectly--that the child ends ... More >>

Who Should Host Saturday Night Live?

​Thank God I finally joined Facebook! It's such a powerful tool that swarms of armchair producers there managed to get Betty White (face-) booked as last Saturday's SNL host. And she raked in the ratings! So who should you and your "friends" rally for next?

I Met "Sully" Sullenberger!

Ingrid Taylar via Wikipedia​Yes, I got to corner the pilot who made the only heroic gesture of 2009! And what did I ask him? "Were you really saving your own ass?" CLICK HERE for my column in which he pushes me into the Hudson--I mean gracefully responds to that query. You will also get to r ... More >>

The Barbra Streisand Barbie Doll: Hello, Gorgeous?

​Troll around Amazon and you'll find some amazing things--like this completely authorized Barbra Streisand Barbie doll, complete with Cleopatra eye makeup, pert sailor blouse, and saucy smirk. "People, people who need plastic..."

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Bow Down to Michael Buble, America

​Crazy Love is still very much #1 in the country. But The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack--a goofy melange of what's warm in indie right now, e.g. Lykke Li, Grizzly Bear, Thom Yorke, etc.--sold 115,000 copies, good for #2. Those bands selling that many records would be stunning if this wer ... More >>

Michael Buble Knocks Paramore Clear Out of the Top 10

​This week in completely joyless chart news: International cipher Michael Buble sells a whopping 132,000 copies in three days to knock Barbra Streisand out of the number one spot; Kiss, whose Walmart-exclusive Sonic Bomb sold 108K, take #2; and Toby Keith's American Ride (not to be confused wi ... More >>

Emerald City Is Also Where Ghostface's Record Sales Go To Die

​Oh, wow. We were so stunned by Barbra Streisand's left-field chart victory yesterday we forgot to check on Ghostface's Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City. Maybe it was because you have to go all the way to #28 just to see where the damn thing debuted? At the sub-Mendoza line figu ... More >>

Let's Write The Inevitable Mamma Mia! Sequel

The Mamma Mia! movie was huge--in fact, it was the biggest moneymaking film in history directed by a woman. (Wouldn't you love to ring Barbara Streisand and alert her to that little fact?) So let's face it--as sure as there won't be another Duplicity, there WILL be another Mamma Mia!. I mean, the w ... More >>

Fuck You, Facebook! Thank You, Beyonce!

At Splash, the showtunes must go on.

Pete Townsend, Other Oddities at Kennedy Center Honors

NYUFF IS ENOUGH

Film fest takes its final bow

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Beelzebabs

A harrowing look at Satanic motifs in the canon of Barbra Streisand

The Way We Were

The Parent Trap 2: Cultures Clash as Focker Wedding Nears

My Gay Boyfriend

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Chaos Theory

In Pop Music, It’s Anyone's Guess

Queer and Present Danger

The Shock of the Old

Strange Days at Anthropologie and Restoration Hardware

Heroine Addiction

Giving Gender the Shakes, Four Performers Prove There's Life in Drag Yet

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''How can you dislike a Barbara Walters co-anchor who had a birthday party at Hooters?''