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A review by acraig5075
Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand by William J. Mann
4.0
Biography spanning the years 1960 to 1964 which were pivotal and career-defining ones for Streisand.
I felt Mann tried too hard at making it read like a story with descriptions that the author could not possibly have known. For example what colour the sky was that day, how she was feeling, what he was thinking, how he woke her with a kiss on the cheek, etc. Sparse insertions of historic events to set the scene did however work well, e.g. Marilyn Monroe's suicide, the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK's assassination, etc.
In a world where the term diva is used so often and undeservedly so, Streisand is a true diva. She's done it all: singing, acting, theatre, TV, film, entertaining, winning awards in all categories.
I felt Mann tried too hard at making it read like a story with descriptions that the author could not possibly have known. For example what colour the sky was that day, how she was feeling, what he was thinking, how he woke her with a kiss on the cheek, etc. Sparse insertions of historic events to set the scene did however work well, e.g. Marilyn Monroe's suicide, the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK's assassination, etc.
In a world where the term diva is used so often and undeservedly so, Streisand is a true diva. She's done it all: singing, acting, theatre, TV, film, entertaining, winning awards in all categories.