Will Streisand direct again?
Barbra Streisand is among those being feted this weekend with the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors and talked to the Washington Post beforehand. One of the things that she said was that she would like Larry Kramer's powerful AIDS stage play "The Normal Heart" to be her next directorial effort.
I say don't hold your breath. Streisand, whose directorial efforts include "Prince of Tides" and "Yentl," has not directed a movie since "The Mirror Has Two Faces" in 1996. She also starred in "Mirror" and has since only acted in a single movie: the smash comedy "Meet the Fockers."
But I do hope she finally does it because she is a mighty fine director with Nick Nolte ("Tides"), Amy Irving ("Yentl") and Lauren Bacall ("Mirror") all earning Oscar nods under her.
Her once all-consuming film career basically ceased ionce she married James Brolin and she has only surfaced with albums and the rare live performance.
"I've never really been, you know, married during a directorial time in my life," she told The Post. "How do you, you know, balance the personal?"
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I have no idea how it would turn out if she directed it...but I do know that "The Normal Heart" is a brilliant play.
Well, looking back at all of her credentials as a Director, Barbra certainly has the tenderness, compassion and strength to put such a powerful story on-screen, and actually make it into something so important that seemed to have been forgotten over the past 15 years. It is time. This just may be the project Streisand has been destined to do. We'll see...