Readers who’ve been following the commentary and sketches of my friend Schulenberg may recall that when he arrived in New York from his home state of California in 1961, one of the first people he met was the then girlfriend of his UCLA chum Barry Dennen, a kid from Brooklyn…
Tag: Barbra Streisand
She was holding my hand and I thought, “Gee, she seems nervous.” At that time, I wasn’t nervous. I was still very young, I think, about to do Funny Girl, and now, when I think back on it, I think, “Oh, my God, I know exactly what she’s feeling.” Or,…
Her early life is a writer’s feast. It involves childhood tragedy the death of her kindly father when Streisand was an infant, emotional neglect from her mother, Diana, a frustrated singer who rarely gave her a warm word of approval and outright abuse by a stepfather who called her ugly.…