Streisand: Her Life - Rilegato

Spada, James

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ISBN 10: 0517597535 ISBN 13: 9780517597538

Casa editrice: Crown Pub, 1995

Riassunto

An intimate portrait of one of the world's most popular performers follows Barbra Streisand's diverse life as singer, actress, director, and political activist, from her early years in Brooklyn to her role as a powerful force in the entertainment industry. 150,000 first printing. Tour.

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L'autore:

James Spada is the author of fourteen books, including the international bestsellers Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept the Secrets, Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess, Monroe:  Her Life in Pictures, and Streisand: The Woman and the Legend.

Born and raised in Staten Island, New York, he founded a Marilyn Monroe Fan Club at thirteen and edited its journals for four years.  As a college student in 1969, he began a political quarterly devoted exclusively to Senator Edward M. Kennedy.  He spent the summer of 1970 as a Senate intern in Kennedy's Boston office.

In 1977, Spada became the only author to write an authorized career biography of Robert Redford.  In 1981 and 1982, his best-selling pictorial books about Barbra Streisand and Marilyn Monroe were published, followed by studies of Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, Bette Midler, Jane Fonda, Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty, and Katharine Hepburn. His 1987 book, Grace, spent nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was translated in thirteen languages. His Peter Lawford biography was serialized by Vanity Fair in 1991 and also became a New York Times bestseller.

He lives in Los Angeles.

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ess. Producer. Director. Activist. Wife. Mother. Lover. Barbra Streisand has risen from humble beginnings to become one of the most talented, versatile, and influential women of our time. In STREISAND: Her Life, best-selling  biographer James Spada delivers the definitive biography of this one-woman conglomerate.

Based on more than 200 interviews with Streisand's friends, relatives, and colleagues, along with never-before conducted research, Spada uncovers surprising and often startling details of this very private star's life.  "For 30 years she has surprised, delighted, angered, polarized, and riveted the public," Spada says. "She is still going where many tell her not to."

In STREISAND, Spada  traces the life and career of Barbra with equal depth. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Streisand began performing in her teens as an actress; she only began singing on a dare. But it was because of her voice, wh

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• Editore: Crown Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0517597535
• ISBN 13: 9780517597538
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 552