Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There was this sweet-faced kid who looked like a bouncing ball. I mean she weighed about 185 Ibs. She was hanging around the stage door at Funny Girl. I asked her if she was a fan and she said, 'No, I'm Barbra's sister.' So I said, 'Why don't you go inside instead of waiting out here with this mob?' And she answered quietly, 'I wasn't invited, and I don't want to impose on Barbra...
...that this kid was hurting, so I took her across the street for a Coke. 'When you go home,' I said, 'read your little Bible and the Man Upstairs will help you. He'll take care of you and find a place for you. Your sister will come back to being your sister just as soon as she settles down after all this adulation...
Missed Lollipops. Even Roz, who at 18 is no phony, talks romance. "My sister left home when I was in third grade. Mother and I always came into New York on Saturdays to visit her, and we brought lots of food to stuff her refrigerator. Even when Barbra was in Funny Girl we used to bring in chicken soup and brownies to her dressing room. I guess what I missed most about Barbra's not being home was the trips we used to take to the beach and the lollipops she always gave me when I stopped...
Rozzie's biggest problem will be to build confidence and shuck off her sister's shadow. It may be difficult. For her first public appearance, Brooks booked her at Bill Hahn's in Connecticut, the same spot where Barbra started out. One of the first tunes Rozzie sang was People. Brooks insists that the high-pressure rush has little to do with Barbra's fame. But every album-plugging newspaper interview somehow gets around to the Streisand kinship. Roz insists that "if I could just do a fourth of what my sister did, or maybe half...
...Half sister, really. After Barbra's father died in 1943, her mother married Louis Kind, a Brooklyn tailor and Roslyn's father...