Hey, it's Empire's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. There are some celebrity memoirs that seem

thin, you know, like vanity projects that don't seem to show any evidence of growth or

self-interrogation. And there are the celeb memoirs that are thin on the depth, but then have the

gall to not even dish out any hot goss

from back in the day. But Barbara Streisand's memoir is not one of these. It's a nearly thousand-page

tomb titled My Name is Barbara, and in it she talks about everything she went through in entertainment,

you know, the people, the obstacles, the slights, and of course, the triumphs.

She talked to NPR's Brittany Luz, host of It's Been a Minute, and there's a moment in this interview

where they take a minute to sit on this idea of control, right, that although she was

famous, you know, she was stricand after all, she still sought control.

That's after the break.

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Barbara Streisand and NPR's Brittany Luce start off that conversation talking about Yentel,

the 1983 musical Streisand starred in and directed.

And Streisand put in work to get this movie made, you know, 15 years worth of work.

And one of the reasons it was so difficult was that she had studio suits telling her that

the story was too Jewish for the mainstream. Here's Brittany. Was it infuriating to you at the time?

Like, were you ever insulted? Or did you have sort of the same even handedness in thinking about it?

How did you see it then? Yeah, I think so. I mean, again, when I went to the

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