Streisand: The Woman and the Legend [Hardcover]

James Spada (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 249 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (October 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385175663
• ISBN-13: 978-0385175661
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,217,686 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

James Spada is an author, publisher and photographer who has produced two dozen books over the past thirty-five years. He has had three New York Times bestsellers, including his biographies of Grace Kelly and Peter Lawford. He has written both intimate text-only biographies and illustrated coffee-table books.
In September 2010 he will have two new books on the market. His first work of fiction, "Days When My Heart Was Volcanic," is a historical novel about six months in the life of Edgar Allan Poe. His third collection of male nude images, "Eye Candy," comprises over seventy photographs.

Jim lives in Boston with his husband and two cats.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A worthy follow-up to "The First Decade", April 12, 2005

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This review is from: Streisand: The Woman and the Legend (Hardcover)

Revisiting Barbra Streisand's 'first decade' in show business, and taking her career through to her 1981 comedy "All Night Long", James Spada has done another terrific job examining the multi-faceted, sexy, tempermental and talented diva. Each of Streisand's films is given its own chapter, complete with lots of photographs(some never before seen). Spada soft-peddles some of Streisand's more chaotic battles with co-stars or directors, but many are present in interviews to give their thoughts. As with Spada's "Barbra: The First Decade", Streisand's music career isn't quite as fully explored as her movie work, and some of Spada's details are askew(David Bowie didn't write "Space Captain", for instance). Still, this is a very fine collection of photos and stories and must be included in any Streisand collection.