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...never looked forward to nothing; I always wanted to be something," mused Brooklyn's Barbra Streisand last week. "Now I want to be nothing." That is because motherhood is calling, and so Streisand is quitting the stage temporarily. The baby that she refers to as "Kid" is due in December, after which she will report to Hollywood to begin filming Funny Girl. But before taking her maternity leave, Barbra had to say goodbye to her worshipers with a concert tour of stadiums in Newport, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Chicago...
Royal Nightmare. Not much else has changed for Streisand since she became the Funny Girl. Success hasn't spoiled her. It hasn't even convinced her. She got rave reviews and an S.R.O. Funny Girl run in London, but she was nightmarishly maladroit when she met Princess Margaret. Arriving late at the receiving line, she apologized to Her Royal Highness: "I got screwed up." She still worries that her cult of followers will desert her. "Barbra," says her producer-actor husband, Elliott Gould, "is the kind of person who is hurt if her puppy walks past...
COLOR ME BARBRA (Columbia). Carpers have claimed that the second Streisand TV special was overproduced, but it would take a real Barbraphobe to fault this album of songs from the show. From the soft-shoe shuffle of Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long to Non, C'Est Rien, Streisand's first venture into French, this record extends the image...
...side, he is co-producer of another play, A Lion in Winter, and he has just set up a deal to produce a concert tour for Barbra Streisand, who will get $1,000,000 for 20 appearances. Almost old hat now are King's two non-books (Anybody Who Owns His Own Home Deserves It, Help! I'm a Prisoner in a Chinese Bakery), which have sold over 900,000 copies. To his fans, he seems to have been around and on top forever. Around he has been; on top he has only recently arrived...
...hour of Barbra Streisand [April 8] is 60 minutes too long. Her chief "talent": she is bizarre, a particularly unattractive woman with an unpleasant voice and an insincere manner...