Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand joined the family of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Monday in condemning the choice of a leadership award previously named after the late Supreme Court justice going to Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch, among others. Streisand, who accepted the honor formerly known as the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award last year, wrote on Instagram she was “proud” to have done so “in memory of one of the most esteemed public figures in American history.” The Dwight D. Opperman Foundation,…

Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch and three other individuals will no longer receive Ruth Bader Ginsburg‘s namesake leadership award, presenting organization Opperman Foundation announced late Monday. The awards’ cancellation came hours after singer and former RBG award recipient Barbra Streisand slammed the decision to honor Musk and Murdoch, and several days after the late justice’s daughter spoke out against the award as well. “The last thing we intended was to offend the family and friends of RBG,”…

Elon Musk and Rubert Murdoch are earning a leadership award named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Barbra Streisand and the family of the late justice are not happy about it. On Monday, the entertainment icon — who was awarded the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award last year — joined the family of Ginsburg in denouncing the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation for its recent choice of honorees. In 2019, Ginsburg helped establish the award with the Opperman Foundation to celebrate “women who exemplify human…

As a teenager, Barbra Streisand dreamt of being an actress while sitting on her bed in Brooklyn with a pint of coffee ice cream and a movie magazine. During those days, after school she would make a break for New York’s Astor Theatre, which showed black-and-white international movies. Another time, she ducked into a showing of Guys and Dolls at the Loew’s Kings Theatre in her neighborhood. “Everything was so beautiful up on that screen,” Streisand said in opening her acceptance speech upon receiving a…

Barbra Streisand was honored at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Saturday at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles, receiving a Life Achievement Award. The 30th annual ceremony was streamed live globally on Netflix for the first time. The legendary actress, director-producer, and singer is one of the few people who have achieved EGOT status — meaning she has won an Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar, and a Tony award. For the record, she has won two Oscars, 10 Grammys, five Emmys, and a Tony. Jennifer…

Before “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” became synonymous with Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler, the song from Michael Bay‘s 1998 science fiction disaster flick Armageddon had its beginnings in another romance. Performed by Aerosmith, the power ballad was written by prolific song writer Diane Warren, who was inspired by an exchange between Barbra Streisand and husband James Brolin. In her new memoir My Name is Barbra, Streisand writes about lying in bed with Brolin one night, when he told her, “I don’t want to fall…