Funny Girl

I even love that armpit hair

I want to talk about Streisand. Or Barbra to her friends. I’m sorry, I know this view is not a popular one, but I love Babs. I love her so much that, I tried to be her last night. Me and my excellent husband held a 1969 Party for some reason, and I channeled La Streisand. Sadly, the voice isn’t up to par in any way, but that’s not the point- I just needed the Streisand vibe, the Streisand aura, the Streisand magic.

Here are some thoughts on Barbra related stuff:

On paper she’s an ugly bird- long hooked nose, one eye going to the shops, the other coming back with the change- but in reality she’s stunningly beautiful. How can that be? She is a visual conundrum. She shouldn’t work, but she does.

I didn’t like them taking the piss out of her on South Park. OK, turning her into a Manga robot was a tiny bit funny, but in my heart of hearts I felt it wasn’t right. Nobody who could sing Evergreen and nearly have me crashing my car unable to see out the windscreen through tears could ever destroy a whole town, much less exterminate rude little boys with laser beams from her eyes. To suggest this is sheer unbridled lunacy.

Wrongness

Barbara once made a play for Walter Matthau and was flatly turned down. You are not going to put that in your CV, are you? It’s amazing she was ever able to recover from that. As upsetting as it would have been for my herione, I would, however, have loved to know exactly how Matthau rejected her. I like to think that it might have gone something like this, “Come on, you crazy beaky broad, are you kiddin’ me??? With my nose, and your nose….ahhh, getoutahere!”

I played her duet album with Barry Gibb, Guilty, to get ready on my wedding day. My sister did the same. We did it in a non-ironic way. Our love for the Streister is pure ..oh, and soft as an easy chair, fresh as the morning air, seldom seen by two.

My friend, Emma, once went as La Streisand to a party and forced her husband to go as Kris Kristofferson, paying homage to the duo in the outstanding 1970′s film, A Star is Born which should have got Oscars for the hair alone. In one of the most hilarious moments of my entire life my friend, Sezza, said this to the wannabe Kris, “Where did you get those fake teeth- they are hilarious!” They were his own teeth. Another argument for having video recordable eyesight for later playback. Come on Future, provide us with that technology forthwith!

I am the only person in the world to have enjoyed both “Prince of Tides” and “The Mirror Has Two Faces”. Guilty as charged, take me to the cooler, officer.

Babs is so famous that Word Spellcheck was able to provide me with the correct spelling of her name when I spelled it Striesand, not one minute ago. Now that’s what I call being an icon!

So here’s a nice pic of Barbra and then one of me being Barbra.