MY NAME IS BARBRA, by Barbra StreisandHello, enormous.
Of course Barbra Streisand’s memoir, 10 years in the making if you don’t count the chapter she scribbled in longhand in the 1990s and then lost, was going to approach “Power Broker” proportions.
For one thing, she is — fits of insecurity notwithstanding — a bona fide power broker: tearing down barriers to and between Broadway, Hollywood, the recording industry and Washington, D.C., like Robert Moses on a demolition bender.
For another, as Streisand writes in “My Name Is Barbra,” a 970-page victory lap past all who ever doubted, diminished or dissed her, with lingering high fives for the many supporters, she does tend to agonize over the editing process.
After adding back material to her version of “A Star Is Born” for Netflix in 2018 — “I think I made it better.
Persons:
Barbra Streisand, Barbra, Robert Moses, Streisand, ”, “, James Brolin, “ We’ll
Organizations:
Broadway, D.C, Netflix
Locations:
longhand, Hollywood, Washington