Streisand on Howard Stern

Oh, how things change! I remember how he used to make fun of her looks. As if he's one to talk.

Stop posting BS threads! She’s not popular or interesting and I’m not going to read her shit book!

^She's like butta! GFYS

What R3 said. Ditto for me.

They look more and more like each other.

I wrote the musical "Bella!" for her but she said she was insulted. "I'm a hot MILF- why would I play this meeskite?!".

She tells Howard she was going to direct a movie about a love triangle in the context of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire.

Howard used to make fun of her all the time, and talk about how she was a “yenta” and how ridiculous she was with “the hair, and the nails, and only look at my left side. Who can stand it?”

R7 - Actually that sounds good!! I have to head over to you tube - back in the late 70s wasn’t there a movie about it? Why am I thinking that Cynthia Nixon was in it. ….

Here’s the full Howard Stern interview.

Did they mention Hamas?

Separated at birth?

R12- No

But they did mention Hummus.

Sondheim was a prick. Barbra could’ve directed and starred in “Gypsy”.

It was a very well done interview

Petty, thin-skinned...

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R16 I love me some Streisand Effect.

I am upset to hear that she will never perform again. I never got to see her :(. My mom and I love us some Babs.

She must be desperate to sell her book.

Interesting, this is probably the most open I've ever seen her in an interview.

The best interview she has given so far during her stay at home book tour.

There's such a stark difference between Howard's interview and the Terry Gross interview. Barbra was brittle from Terry's first question. That's the one a friend (who owns all of her work) heard so of course he is horrified at the idea of a 2.5 hour long interview and won't be buying the book. Colbert is kinda fun, that might suggest to him that the audio book would be a good listen. Her book/deadly weapon sized tome is charting better than I expected because Barbra the person isn't nearly as charismatic or interesting as Barbra the performer and she's very hit and miss in interviews purposefully scheduled to sell 1,000 pages.

Could never live in that house on the cliff, I'd be obsessed that one great rain storm would take out the cliff and house with it in the middle of the night

People need to stop ragging on Howard Stern. He’s the best interviewer out there today.

His "shock jock" days were decades ago.

[quote]Could never live in that house on the cliff, I'd be obsessed that one great rain storm would take out the cliff and house with it in the middle of the night

It never rains in Southern California.

My name is Terry.

Love Barbra but I don't understand how anyone would want to fuck her, even when she was young.

Says someone who is attracted to a gaping guy's hairy hole.

Howard Stern is bullshit white bread now. He rolled his body in the scat that dropped from the ass end of America’s Got Talent and now here we are.

A lot of people mellow as they age.

Maybe Howard will 'remix' Barbras audio book like he did with Dollys.

"The Night Larry Kramer Dissed Me"

[quote] Sondheim was a prick. Barbra could’ve directed and starred in “Gypsy”.

He didn't feel she could SELF-DIRECT. He knew that she would never be able to give her best performance without a strong director who was not afraid of her.

[quote] Says someone who is attracted to a gaping guy's hairy hole.

You mean "a guy's gaping hairy hole." Quite a tongue-twister!

Her last film was a disappointment. Clearly she wanted it to be a romance.

Her Gypsy would have been great.

I was just thinking about how at lunch today somebody talked about knowing somebody named Sandy and this other girl said not Sandy with an eye is it and the girl is like no. And the other girl was like that's good and I asked why is it good that Sandy's blind.

Honestly she must be desperate to sell that book to have anything to do with Stern. I don’t care if his shock jock days are over he’s a POS. If she fancies herself as feminist it’s a little degrading.

Poor R40 still living in the 80's.

Did Stern have Barbra throw boloney at a stripper?

Weirder still, Howard just had Dolly Parton on his show.

She made a mistake in talking about "The Owl And the Pussycat". She said she said "fuck" and it automatically got an X rating. In those days one uttered fuck got an automatic R as it was initially released. Soon after she dubbed it out and it was re-rated PG

Actually, for whatever reason, Pussycat was going to get an X rating. It was released as an R, however. I read it in a magazine article, quite possibly the 1970 Newsweek cover story.

R29- She briefly had a modicum of curb appeal- mainly the nice RACK

What's her name- Bette Midler was ALWAYS DUMPY and average looking. She never had any curb appeal even when she was young.

A nice "rack"? Barbra Streisand was a ordinary B CUP. Nothing out of the ordinary, and certainly nothing anyone would call a "nice rack," (like my grandfather talked). R46, you may want to read up on push up bras and stuffed bras - the kind Barbra used before silicone.

Barbra’s ass was her best feature.

When was the interview? Did they talk about Israel?

Sarah Jessica Parker’s looks are on par with Barbra’s and she got some very hot guys in her youth and is still considered “gorgeous” by more than you would think. Babs is far more wealthy and talented than SJP.

R48 = Barbra

What year was Gypsy supposed to happen? SJP could’ve been Louise.

Merv Griffin died too soon.

Well guess he should go back to jokes about women are “cunts” and gays are “fags” since R40 says redemption is not possible. Cancel culture cunt! Don’t you have a Palestinian rally to go to?

[quote] Sarah Jessica Parker’s looks are on par with Barbra’s and she got some very hot guys in her youth and is still considered “gorgeous” by more than you would think. Babs is far more wealthy and talented than SJP.

SJP is a stick figure. Babs had body.

R44, she did not dub it out- can you read?

If Barbra put the moves on me anytime up to c.2000 I would have thought about it! In her 1994 concerts she's still very sexy. I couldn't point to any one feature but the overall package is very alluring. I've never been with a woman so if I'd stop and think.....maybe then the majority of straight men would have jumped on her on a second.

When I was 16 I was over at a friend’s house. They were going through the channels and Funny Girl was on. Her very attractive 40 year old brother said “She is SOOO pretty! I would run away with her if I could.” I was surprised because I didn’t know anyone thought she was pretty.

R58 the brother was gay.

And 24 years is a hell of an age gap

The reason Barbra Streisand has men interested in her - she's RICH and FAMOUS. Works every time. If she can get them a job, better.

R59 the mom had 7 kids over 25 years starting at 14

Her book flopped. Next.

Her book flopping was completely predictable.

Book came out 30 years too late

She looks like AI... her face is all smoothed out- very strange.

Babs was #6 overall and 55,322 copies sold first week.

Britney’s bio sold 81k last week, still #3 last week coming off #1 and 633k copies sold overall.

Streisand might have steady sales into the holidays with the eldergays and Fraus hitting the stores. But definitely not the hit it would have been a decade ago, she’s lost alot of fans to old age in those 10 years.

If she was going to be in Gypsy how old was she supposed to have been when she gave birth to those two little girls?

R7 Meanwhile she makes it sound like the “movie they made of it” ended that yet…but it was a TV movie. A 1970s TV movie. I mean, it was good but it was small screen. The topic could easily have been a feature. But yes R7 a love triangle would have been as tacky as “Holocaust: A Love Story.”

Nobody is “reading” a 1000-page autobiography or listening to a 48-hour+ (!) audiobook in 2023, except those who appreciate true artists and what they do, which is what Barbra stands for and is. Its sad culture has declined so precipitously, but a quick read easy Christmas present is all the sales really stand for… a book ghostwritten and not even “reading” audiobook. Barbra wrote her autobiography herself and it’s her story. In 2023, Britney ghostwritten pablum after her mentally ill conservatoriship era is what people want.

She felt the TV movie on the Triangle Factory Fire stole her film's thunder but not the same about the film she wanted to make about Margaret Bourke White, though that too was made as a TV movie with Farrah Fawcett.

R65 that’s the new norm for women. As soon as a wrinkle shows up, get something done to smooth it out. Apparently it makes them feel young and beautiful forever. Even if they have never been beautiful.

R69, you can help. Buy 100 copies!

[quote] Britney’s bio sold 81k last week, still #3 last week coming off #1 and 633k copies sold overall

Britney’s bio is basically a pamphlet. The audio book is eight hours.

I like some of her songs and movies but she sounds like a lot to deal with on a regular basis. It’s best to admire her from a distance.

I'm surprised not just by the numbers, but the longevity of Britney's autobiography on the top of the list.

But Britney's will eventually wind up in Little Lending Libraries. I suspect Babs' will not.

There’d be no room in a Little Lending Library for such a weighty tome as Streisand’s autobiography.

[quote]Its sad culture has declined so precipitously

Yeah. 44 years ago there was no Streisand book, but we had glorious movies like The Main Event and her LP Wet.

The #1 albums right now on Spotify are by Bad Bunny, Ed Sheeran, The Weeknd, and Post Malone who has tattoos on his face.

(#s 1-4)

Howard has really turned out some great interviews in recent years. He's obviously mellowed on the people he used to rag on, like Madonna, Barbra, and Rosie, and they've all gone on his show and given some of their best interviews.

[quote] Yeah. 44 years ago there was no Streisand book, but we had glorious movies like The Main Event and her LP Wet....Waiting for some one to say they were HITS!

The "Wet" album peaked at No. 7 on the US, Canadian and Australian charts and has been certified as Platinum by the RIAA. It featured the No. 1 hit single, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", a duet with American disco singer Donna Summer

WET featured a #1 song with no less than Donna Summer at height of disco duetting with Barbra; thank you R81 for reminding us.

She doesn't understand people who idolize her. She doesn't understand people who idolize anyone who is a stranger. She's just not wired that way. So the adoration she used to get from the gay community, and from say lonely women like Rosie O'Donnell just makes her feel uncomfortable. She doesn't know what to do with it, or about it. You know what I mean?

There's a difference between blind idolization an appreciation of voice and artistry.

That Dolly Parton interview was great. I haven't heard that much from her ever. His first McCartney interview was great too.

I don't know her.

A star all of her adult life and she still doesn’t get fan adulation? Yet she sells her shit to them, she’s dependent on them to buy her book.

R87 to be clear, she gets appreciating somone's talent. What she doesn't get is Rosie O'Donnell talking about how important she was in her life growing up. She doesn't see how a person you never met can hold such importance.

She’s an asshole.

Hi Lainie/r89!!

[quote]A star all of her adult life and she still doesn’t get fan adulation?

Not like most people do. She was obsessed with Brando and and would spend the day at the movies watching his movies over and over, even having to sit thru the second feature. BUT she got to have a friendship with him and he became a person and came down from the pedestal.

She’s divine, R91.

R69 Good lord. Her talent was subverted for artless films & middle of the road pop junk. Babs still pissed at her mother is mental illness.

I'm trying to slog my way through the book because she has lived an amazing life, but god, it is hard. She goes into such depth on subjects/histories that are not that interesting. The YENTL chapter is interminable. There is the occasional interesting insight on herself and she seems to understand the level of her damage and how it's impacted others. She also is an obsessive artists and makes no apologies for that. I can't imagine how Brolin lives with her. Seems impossible.

That's sarcasm at R92, btw

[quote]She goes into such depth on subjects/histories that are not that interesting.

Same thing with Faye Dunaway.

I haven't read all of it, but from what I have read, the tone of her book is "nice", "humble" very loving of so many people. It doesn't seem like Barbra. It's like she studied how to write an autobiography from reading Lauren Bacall's.

Does Barbra mention anything about how her father’s death affected her?

I can’t help but like someone who is as passionate about noshing as her career.