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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 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…

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…

“It was when I first saw Marlon Brando when I was 13. I had to become an actress, there was no turning back,” SAG Awards Life Achievement honoree Barbra Streisand says of first realizing she wanted to be an actor. (Firooz Zahedi) Barbra Streisand’s 970-page memoir, “My Name Is Barbra,” took her 10 years to complete. So it didn’t seem like that much of an ask for me to spend 48 hours listening to her read it, which I did over the course of a couple months. Exhaustive, but never exhausting,…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Barbra Streisand’s film company paid the groundskeeper at her $20 million Malibu estate using some of the $209,000 it received from Paycheck Protection Program loans, a new report says. According to The New York Post, Barwood Films Ltd., the multimillionaire’s production company, received loans from the program in 2020 and 2021. The program was created by the federal government to help small businesses make payroll during the global health crisis and to prevent mass unemployment. The Post…

Two years ago, the Golden Globes and their organising body, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), were persona non grata in Hollywood. In disgrace following widespread reporting of corruption, racism and even sexual assault within their ranks, the ceremony was boycotted by the industry and dropped by its longtime broadcasting partner NBC.The awards went ahead, unattended and untelevised, posing an equivalent showbiz question to the old “if a tree falls in a forest” conundrum. Turns out they did make something of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBarbra Streisand and other celebrities have paid tribute to Ryan O’Neal, following the actor’s death at the age of 82. O’Neal, the celebrated but complicated star of films such as Love Story, Barry Lyndon and Paper Moon, appeared opposite Streisand in the 1972 screwball comedy What’s Up, Doc? and 1979’s The Main Event. Son Patrick O’Neal announced news of his death on Instagram. The…

It is hard to know where to start with My Name Is Barbra, the much reported on 1,000‑page memoir that took Barbra Streisand 10 years to complete. Most celebrity memoirs rely on a certain amount of pre-existing goodwill to shunt readers through the more banal parts. With Streisand, this principle is stretched to such a degree that by the end of the book, one is left in a state of wonder – at the accomplishments of an American icon, yes, but also at the sheer volume of detail passed on. While visualising the star in her…

A voice like Barbra Streisand’s is a mystery, even to its owner: two bits of gristle in the throat resonantly swell in her head and chest to produce a storm of sound that Streisand first heard when vocalising in the stairwell of a Brooklyn tenement. Taken to a recording studio by her mother at the age of 14, she gratuitously riffed on a melody and, as she recalls, “something came out of my mouth that completely surprised me”. A decade later in Funny Girl, that finely tuned and amped-up “something” stunned the world. At…

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…