Barbra----- all these years later, you are still the greatest star, and i am looking forward to seeing this movie. your comedic talents have always been amazing. no more so than in "What's Up, Doc?", and i still can't understand why you have always trashed this movie, when it truly is the fun-est movie ever. it is a hoot from start to finish. "vocal revurberation under spinal pressure! you know-- VRUSP?!" "do you have a pencil, darling? 4-5-9 dirella street!"

i'm sure "Little Fockers" will be a box-office smash; but all these years later i still wish you had gone through and produced directed starred in "The Normal Heart." just as much as Fanny Brice and Katie Morosky, the role of Emma Brookner is one that only you can bring to life. This truly could have been the movie for you, the movie for gay men, the movie for America. but you chose not to do it, and this i will never understand. was it because of the money? you are the most-acclaimed artist in the world, for the past 50 years. there is nothing at all that you shouldn't be able to do. anyone could just mention your name, "Barbra Streisand," and everyone in earshot will gasp. you are America's living legend. after a lifetime of dreaming of it, we finally see and hear you in concert, and we weep with happiness. your musical career has been amazing, no one else can come close to you. best-selling albums in five consecutive decades, sold-out concerts. but your film career has been much-less stellar, even as you have said that you are "an actress who sings." Barbra, before it is too late, please do "The Normal Heart."

ryan winchester
kennesaw, georgia