What makes Barbra Streisand an icon? Newsweek's H. Alan Scott ponders this question in the latest For the Culture newsletter.
What makes Barbra Streisand an icon? You could credit it to her talent, of course. Or even the multiple awards she's won over the years. Maybe even her work in classic films like Funny Girl, The Way We Were, or Yentl. But that doesn't fully answer the question for me because she feels so much bigger than any of those things. This is something I've been thinking a lot about as Streisand promotes her highly anticipated memoir, My Name Is Barbra .
You see, I realized that the only reason why people thought there was drama during the production of The Mirror Has Two Faces was because Streisand dared to do what she wanted. She dared to take control of her work. She dared to not settle for just being the star, she wanted to be the creator. And her daring to do these things went against the expected standards set for women in Hollywood.As I realized this, I learned Streisand had been doing this exact thing throughout her career.
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