Barbra Streisand: The life of a star than ever for – El Observador

By Ben Brantley – The New York Times

. Barbra Streisand, whose duets album, Encore: Movie Sing Broadway Partners , presents a cast of stellar cast including Jamie Melissa McCarthy and Foxx- is talking about another duet with another famous singer, who died ago long time.

This is Judy Garland, whose television program Streisand visited in 1963, in what today is designated as a momentous moment in the history of the legendary American vocalists.

Streisand says several times that he does not like to review your past. But since he has been researching for an autobiography, it is in a more retrospective than usual mental state.

Streisand has always been in charge of his image, his career and, if possible, of their immediate environment since he began singing in nightclubs in New York when she was a teenager ungainly dressed in clothes thrift stores in early 1960. Her determination became one of the most enduring, adored and abhorred American stars.

that is also the reason that seems unlikely to be withdrawn by full behind the iron gates of the property that says it is the only place where you feel totally comfortable. You need to make sure that the version of Barbra that the world knows is the version that she sees, as accurate as possible. Unlike many of his generation and stature star has rarely relinquished control any representative or partner.

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which brings us back to the issue of Garland, a singer with whom Streisand was compared and contrasted over the years. Streisand was barely twenty years old when they met, but he was already on the cusp of stardom astronomical; Garland, 41, would be dead six years later, one of the most notorious victims of devouring Hollywood fame. However, when they sang two American classics in counterpoint – Happy Days Are Here Again (Streisand) and Get Happy (Garland) – seemed to blend seamlessly

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Each played a happy song with a great thundering voice that nevertheless hinted the small and lonely character who was inside. Happiness, as was intoned in these interpretations are never easily achieved.

“After that, she used to visit me and give me advice,” says Streisand. “He came to my apartment in New York, and say.. ‘Do not let them do what they did to me’ I did not know then what he meant I was just starting.”

Whoever they they were “them” was never likely to Streisand could do what they did to Garland. Since the early days of his career, Streisand exuded one garlanesca fragility and emotional openness. But her long fingernails and eyes together, both derisive as belligerents, spoke of the harshness of someone uniquely able to protect themselves.

Both sides of this dichotomy are still very much in evidence during my visit to Streisand on your property, an area of ​​three main buildings that evoke a New England fantasy, incongruously situated above the dazzling expanse of the Pacific ocean.

at 74 years old, resembles a softer, more subdued version that one knows of six decades of movies since his debut that won him an Oscar in the musical Funny Girl (1968) to comedy the Guilt Trip (2012 ), with Seth Rogen.

Streisand has created its own sui generis alternative reality here, one she shares with her husband, actor James Brolin.

The new album is called Encore , studio album number 35 of Streisand. (To date, his albums have sold 245 million copies worldwide, and with Partners , compilation of duets 2014, became the only singer to reach the site No. 1 with a album six consecutive decades.)

He says working on songs with other singers-artists known primarily for his film work as Antonio Banderas, Alec Baldwin, Anne Hathaway and Seth was more like MacFarlane- produce a series of mini films. Added dialogue and, in some cases, altered letters Broadway classics.

For his interpretation of Anything You Can Do Annie Get Your Gun , Irving Berlin, devised a prologue in which she and McCarthy fight after learning that both are on the same film role.

The world is full of those exasperating errors and Streisand looks as if applicable the sisifea task of eradicating them. Working in his autobiography, whose publication is scheduled for 2017, has become more conscious than ever of misinterpretations in many accounts of his life that already exist.

The residence in Malibu, so over cooked to your taste and needs as would be a couture gown, it seemed to offer a place where a person could break free from its shell. I asked if he feels serene here. It was not immediately returned. So I asked: “Have you ever feel calm?” “That’s a good question,” he says.

So I did it again. He muttered his answer: “No, it really is not, sad to say.”

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