NEW YORK: Superstar Barbra Streisand is capping her storied career with a nearly 1,000-page memoir out Tuesday, musing on her childhood, Broadway breakout and storied Hollywood love life.
Across 992 pages Streisand, beloved for her voice as well as her myriad acting roles including “Funny Girl,” “A Star Is Born” and “The Way We Were,” discusses the pressures of the industry and double standards for women artists: “sometimes I felt like my nose got more press than I did,” she writes. “I guess when you become famous, you become public property. You’re an object to be examined, photographed, analysed, dissected . . . and half the time I don’t recognize the person they portray. I’ve never gotten used to it, and I try to avoid reading anything about myself.”
“Deep down, I, too, wanted romance, but I had let my work take over. I tended to use work as a substitute for relationships,” she writes.“Jim and I met at a point in my life when I had basically given up on finding someone. And frankly, I was all right with being on my own. I had my son, I had great friends to keep me company, my work was fulfilling, and I loved my new house in Malibu overlooking the ocean,” she writes.