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Yahoo! BuzzBarbra's 63rd album, "Love Is The Answer" has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), just months after debuting at #1 on the Billboard Charts. This brings the number of gold albums awarded to Barbra to 51. Additionally, Barbra is the recipient of 30 platinum albums and 13 multi-platinum albums.
She's instantly known by only one name: Barbra. Her inimitable style and personality are captured in this wonderful portrait doll, inspired by her early fame. She wears an iconic outfit, a striking re-creation of one she designed herself and wore at Hollywood's Coconut Grove in 1963.
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Barbra called into the syndicated show “The Doctors” in support of The Barbra Streisand Women's Cardiovascular Research and Education Program at Cedars-Sinai. Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz will be appearing on the show to discuss the program and the research of the female heart.
It is scheduled to air November 16th please check your local listings.
Liza Minelli recently revealed that she and Barbra Streisand will be co-starring in the upcoming Sex & the City movie sequel. Minelli has told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper that apart from performing Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” hit, backed by two females in wigs, fellow diva Barbra Streisand will also appear in a lavish wedding scene. To read up on the story click HERE.
'Love Is The Answer', Barbra's 63rd album, has climbed to position 1 on the UK album charts, in its second week.
Here's a note from Barbra...
When the album went to #1 in the States I was surprised and thrilled. To have the same thing happen on "the other side of the pond" is just as exciting.
I've always loved spending time in the UK and it's so gratifying to learn how this album has been embraced. With all my appreciation and thanks! Barbra
I was just told that Love Is The Answer came out at Number One, and I want to share that honor with all of you.. my fans, my friends.. who have made that possible. I want to share it as well with Diana Krall and Tommy LiPuma and everyone who worked on the album... with Jay Landers and especially my manager Marty Erlichman and my team at Columbia Records. You'd think that getting the news that you've been Number One in five consecutive decades would make you feel old, but this makes me feel young. Thank you all.
Love, Barbra
BARBRA #1
STREISAND IS THE FIRST ARTIST WITH #1 ALBUMS IN 5 CONSECUTIVE DECADES
TIES THE BEATLES FOR 3RD PLACE FOR TOP 10 ALBUM FIRST WEEK SALES
Barbra Streisand's album Love is the Answer debuts #1 on the US charts by selling 180,415 for the week of September 29th. She has increased her prior record of length of time between her first #1 album (People, 1964) and her most recent.Read more »
Paul Gambaccini speaks to Barbra Streisand the award-winning singer, actress and director, as she releases her new album 'Love Is The Answer'.
The interview is interwoven with recordings from Streisand's back catalogue, as she reflects on past achievements and talks about the process of recording a double album with Diana Krall's jazz quartet and the orchestral arranger Johnny Mandel.
Click here to listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n7mwk
NEW YORK, NY September 30, 2009 —Barbra Streisand released her latest album last week. It’s called "Barbra: Love Is The Answer" and includes 13 jazz standards. But when you already have 62 albums in your repertoire, what could you possibly do to create a buzz? Streisand decided to go back to her roots to where it all began. Last weekend she performed for some lucky lottery-winning fans at the Village Vanguard, a small jazz club in the West Village. That’s where in 1961 she entered an afternoon talent contest.Read more »
Haven't had a chance to watch videos from Saturday night's performance at The Village Vanguard? Now's your chance!
You can now watch these great performances from 'The Girl Singer', as she was introduced on Saturday evening. Click: http://www.barbrastreisand.com/us/village-vanguard-2009
Barbra hasn't performed at The Village Vanguard since 1961, when she auditioned for Miles Davis. 48 years later, she got the job!
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY (AP)
NEW YORK — When Barbra Streisand was a 19-year-old ingenue, she never had a problem performing in front of small crowds — it was her livelihood. The Brooklyn girl could only get gigs in clubs that sat a few dozen people.
As she got more famous she abandoned tiny clubs for grand stages. After a while, it got to the point where she couldn't perform for a small crowd, even if was an intimate gathering of friends and family.Read more »
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"By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF -- New York Times"
President Obama and Congress will soon make defining choices about health care and troops for Afghanistan.
These two choices have something in common — each has a bill of around $100 billion per year. So one question is whether we’re better off spending that money blowing up things in Helmand Province or building up things in America.Read more »
By Tom Hamburger and David G. Savage
Newly released documents show Bush's top political aide focused on GOP calls to oust New Mexico's top U.S. prosecutor. Other Bush aides lobbied the Justice Dept. on other issues, the documents show.
Reporting from Washington -- Karl Rove and other officials in George W. Bush's White House played an active role in the firing of the top federal prosecutor in New Mexico, according to documents released Tuesday that also show Bush political aides tried to influence Justice Department officials on other matters.Read more »
By Timothy Egan
In Egypt, 43 percent of people think Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks in America, a poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org found last year.
In the United States, six percent of Americans say the moon landing of 40 years ago was staged, according to Gallup.
And in Alaska, the former governor, a woman who was nearly a heartbeat away from the presidency, now tells followers that “Obama death panels” could decide if her parents and her baby, Trig, who has Down Syndrome, will live or die.Read more »
By Paul Krugman
So it seems that we aren’t going to have a second Great Depression after all. What saved us? The answer, basically, is Big Government.
Just to be clear: the economic situation remains terrible, indeed worse than almost anyone thought possible not long ago. The nation has lost 6.7 million jobs since the recession began. Once you take into account the need to find employment for a growing working-age population, we’re probably around nine million jobs short of where we should be.Read more »
By FRANK RICH
“AUGUST is a challenging time to be president,” said Andrew Card, the former Bush White House chief of staff, as he offered unsolicited advice to his successors in a television interview last week. “I think you have to expect the unexpected.”
He should know. Thursday was the eighth anniversary of “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.,” the President’s Daily Brief that his boss ignored while on vacation in Crawford. Aug. 29 marks the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s strike on the Louisiana coast, which his boss also ignored while on vacation in Crawford.Read more »
Among the many issues voters need to consider in this campaign is this vital fact: The next president is likely to appoint several Supreme Court justices. Those choices will determine the future of the law, and of some of Americans' most cherished rights.
From The New York Times
This weekend, citizens from around the world will tune into one of the biggest concert events in history. Live Earth, organized under the leadership of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, will hold concerts in seven cities around the globe, broadcast through multiple outlets that organizers estimate will reach an audience of two billion people.
While the Baker-Hamilton report from the Iraq Study Group dominates the news in recent weeks with its rebuke of the colossal mess the United States has made in Iraq, there is another report released at the end of October -- even more vital in its import -- that has gone virtually unnoticed
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By PAUL KRUGMAN
There’s a famous Norman Rockwell painting titled “Freedom of Speech,” depicting an idealized American town meeting. The painting, part of a series illustrating F.D.R.’s “Four Freedoms,” shows an ordinary citizen expressing an unpopular opinion. His neighbors obviously don’t like what he’s saying, but they’re letting him speak his mind.Read more »
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