Tag: Barbra Streisand

Becoming Barbra - CBS News Watch CBS News Everybody's gotta start somewhere. For the 19-year-old formerly known as Barbara Joan Streisand, that somewhere was Bon Soir, an intimate nightclub in New York's Greenwich Village, where her performances heralded the arrival of a major new artist. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with author James Gavin and critics Wesley Morris and Stephen Holden about Barbra Streisand's debut, and how New York's cabarets in the 1950s and '60s helped launch some of the most influential figures of American popular culture. Be ...

Despite her celebrated career, Barbra Streisand said that her performances have been shadowed by a fear of forgetting her lines — a fear that took root during her early days in Broadway's "Funny Girl."She said the off-script, on-stage behavior of her "Funny Girl" co-star Sydney Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin's son, drove her into therapy and instilled a deep-seated anxiety about live performances."He kept talking to me on stage under his breath. Not looking at me in the eyes. You know, looking, like, at my forehead or my hair or something. And talking. Like a crazy person," she told "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King. "And it was driving me insane," she said. "That threw me so off that I thought, 'What, what am I, what is my next line?'""I never lost that, tha...

Everybody's gotta start somewhere. For nineteen-year-old Barbra Streisand, that somewhere was New York's Bon Soir nightclub. In her memoir, "My Name Is Barbra," Streisand writes: "The Bon Soir was a typical Greenwich Village nightclub ... small, dark, and you had to walk down a flight of stairs to get in. In fact, it was so dark that the waiters carried little flashlights."It was, said James Gavin, who wrote the book about New York's cabaret scene in the 1960s, "this exclusive setting that you had to kind of be in the know in order to find your way to. Everybody there was joining in a shared experience of discovery – that was part of the thrill of seeing the likes of Barbra Streisand in one of these clubs, because you knew that you were in on something fabulous that was unfolding before y...

Barbra Streisand on her long-awaited memoir - CBS News Watch CBS News In her first autobiography, "My Name Is Barbra," the celebrated actress-singer-director writes of a life of heartbreaking deprivation and spectacular success, and of an artistic career lauded by critics and fans as peerless. She talks with "CBS Mornings" host Gayle King about her early years as a singer, Broadway performer, film star and director; her romances and marriages; and the double-standards applied to women who are perfectionists in their craft. Be the first to know G...

Descend to the basement of Barbra Streisand's Malibu home, and you'll be transported to her own private mall – yes, a mall. One of the "stores" is Bee's Doll Shop. It's a poor girl's fantasy brought to life, Streisand-style."I love to collect," Streisand said. "I love antiques. [As a child] I didn't have a doll, so I put hot water into a hot water bottle, which felt like a real person." "Wow, Barbra," said King. "I think that you've made up for not having a doll when you were a child." Barbra Streisand introduces CBS News' Gayle King to her antique doll collection.  CBS News Further down the mall: the wardrobe of her extraordinary life, with gowns she wore to meet President...

Award-winning singer, actor and director Barbra Streisand says the loss of her father when she was just 15 months old left a big hole in her life, in a revealing interview for "CBS News Sunday Morning," to be broadcast Sunday, November 5 on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.Streisand opens up to "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King about life, love, and her long-awaited memoir, "My Name Is Barbra" (to be published Tuesday). Below are some excerpts. On her deceased father, and the mother she describes as cold and unsupportive:BARBRA STREISAND: "I was angry that I didn't have a father. I remember … saying to my mother, 'Why didn't you ever tell me about my father?' And she said, 'I didn't want you to miss him.'" GAYLE KING: "She didn't seem very affectio...