Barbra Streisand Articles

One-time powerful agent Sue Mengers died at her home in Beverly Hills on Oct. 15. Mengers, whose reported age varies between 78 and 81, died of pneumonia following a series of strokes. Known for her abrasive manner, the German-born Mengers represented numerous top film performers and filmmakers in the ’70s and ’80s. According to various sources, among those were Barbra Streisand, Ann-Margret, Cher, Ryan O’Neal, [...]

Orson Welles in Welles’ own Citizen Kane (top); Gregory Peck, Brock Peters in Robert Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird (middle); Barbra Streisand in William Wyler’s Funny Girl (bottom) This list of AFI Life Achievement Award winners was culled from Wikipedia. The number on the right represents the honorees’ age at the time of the award. Shirley MacLaine will be 78 next June 7. 1973 John [...]

The Kennedy Center Honors have been handed out since 1978. Recipients hail from various branches of the American performance art world — including film, stage, music, and dance — even though performers more closely associated with British show business have managed to sneak in every now and then, e.g., Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Pete Townshend. Since recipients are supposed to attend the Washington, [...]

Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were Playwright-screenwriter Arthur Laurents has died. Laurents, who was 93, died in his sleep. Best known for writing the book for the Broadway smashes West Side Story and Gypsy, the New York-born Laurents (July 14, 1918) also penned several screenplays, among them those for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse (1958), and Herbert Ross‘ The Turning [...]