Barbara Streisand [Mass Market Paperback]

Shaun Considine (Author)

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More expose than biography, this is a devastatingly acute look at the behind- the-scenes in-fighting and back-stab bing that sometimes go into creating art. Considine, a record publicist and entertainment reporter, traces Strei sand's career alongside the growth of Columbia Records, for which the singer has amassed $125 million in profit over the past two decades. Streisand, who was not interviewed, comes off as a tactless, often arrogant, genius. The book is almost exclusively focused on Streisand's music, but fans will be amused and horrified by explicit de scriptions of romantic interludes with Warren Beatty and Jon Peters. No one will emerge unscathednot Streisand, Columbia Records, nor the authorin what may be the most controversial star bio of the fall. Christopher Sche mering, Arlington Cty. P.L., Va.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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A " tour-de-force...this volume is brilliant...excellent,clean, well-researched, 

dazzling...  a fierce 'Mirror for Pop Stars'"-

                                                  Carolyn See - The Los Angeles Times

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Dell (November 1, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440104645
• ISBN-13: 978-0440104643
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,279,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculous expose on the diva..., April 12, 2005

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This review is from: Barbra Streisand: The Woman, the Myth, the Music (Hardcover)

Nutty, baffling, sometimes hilariously over-the-top collection of stories on Barbra Streisand's infamous impatience, impertenance, uber perfection and all-around bad temper. Author Shaun Considine, having been present on the sets of Barbra's movies "Up The Sandbox" and "A Star Is Born"--which seems to be the closest he ever got to her--writes about the star as if he knows her first-hand. Many of his gossipy tidbits are suspect, others merely juvenile and/or taken out of context. When the star complains, "No one really cares", she's saying this on the set of a movie, on-location in sweltering Arizona, trying to get an indifferent director to see her vision and contend with a stadium full of screaming fans. Considine never considers the dynamic results of Streisand's hard work, only on how she cracked under the pressure to get it right.