Streisand : a biography / / Anne Edwards

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798228103321
• Autore: Edwards Anne
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham : , : Taylor Trade Publishing, , [1996]; ©1996
• ISBN: 1-63076-129-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (490 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.42164092
• Soggetti: Women singers - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Streisand; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; People; Roots; Broadway Baby; Making It; Making Movies, Making Love; Discography; Theatre; Film Cast and Credits; Television Credits; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Streisand: A Biography is much more than the story of the world's greatest living performer, how she got there, and why she remains at the top after three decades, it is also, in Anne Edward's sure hands, a compelling chronicle of a woman's fight to validate her appearance, her talent, and her right to love and be loved. Time and time again Streisand has demonstrated the ability to reinvent herself to keep pace with the continuing changes in musical taste. This updated edition of Edwards's pioneering biography chronicles her public life as a political activist as well as her private life as Mr