Barbra

Consider Mandy Patinkin: Star of stage and screen, onetime Inigo Montoya, and celebrated performer of “I’m Singing in the Bathtub.”  He’s an Emmy and Tony award-winner, a Golden Globe nominee, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He contributed his voice to a musical children’s book for the Christopher Reeve Foundation, providing funding for paralysis and spinal injury repair research, and he stood up for writers during the 2023 WGA strike. He was pretty great on Dead Like Me and darn it all, according to Barbra…

Barbra Streisand has a lot to dish about in the more than 900 pages of her new memoir, “My Name is Barbra,” including all the good and bad men she dealt with as she navigated treacherous, sexist workplaces in Hollywood. The EGOT winner’s famous male friends and lovers include Marlon Brando, a friend who wanted to sleep with her, and Jon Peters, the one-time hairdresser who became her boyfriend and enjoyed a short reign as one Hollywood’s most powerful and toxic producers. To Streisand’s fans, sexism is the reason she…

20. Guava Jelly (1974)Earning its place here for its WTF factor: Barbra Streisand covering a Bob Marley track (albeit one indebted to Steam’s 1969 bubblegum smash Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye) before the Wailers broke the US. Bizarrely, it works: gleeful 70s pop soul, gentle reggae inflection in the chorus, Streisand’s vocal suggesting grasped the song’s lubricious undercurrent.19. Promises (1980)A hidden gem from Guilty: overshadowed by its two big hits that rank much higher up this list, it’s a richly melodic,…

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 has said her Yentl co-star Mandy Patinkin made her life “miserable for months” while filming the 1983 musical rom-com.The two co-led Streisand’s directorial debut as students who meet at a yeshiva after Yentl (Streisand) disguises herself as a boy. Yentl soon finds herself falling in love with Avigdor (Patinkin), who’s already engaged.Streisand, 81, wrote about working…

On the night of 9 September 1960, an 18-year-old Barbra Streisand made her way through Greenwich Village to a tiny club called the Bon Soir to perform the first paid solo show of her career. “I remember walking to the club wearing an antique vest from the thrift shop and antique shoes from the 1920s that I still have in my closet today,” she recalled to the Guardian earlier this month. “On the way, I remember thinking, ‘this could be the beginning of a big change in my life.’”That’s a mammoth understatement. The impact of…

James Brolin and I meet in a restaurant in Malibu, just down the road from his home, to share a loaf of delicious courgette bread and talk about his role in Lightyear, the latest Toy Story offshoot – except, it turns out, Brolin isn’t allowed to discuss the movie yet. To have the ostensible object of conversation taken off the table would be, in most interviews, something of a disadvantage. But with Brolin, 81, it is a most fortuitous development because there is so much else to discuss.“This one time, Clint Eastwood,…