Blame it on bad luck. Hard blow for actress and singer Barbra Streisand. This year, the Cannes festival, which is celebrating its 79th anniversary, decided to pay him a special tribute. Nothing but very normal, the American star with the golden voice forever remains the iconic face of several great classics of Hollywood cinema. She received an Oscar in 1968 for her role in Funny Girl, appears in the second remake ofA star is born long before Lady Gaga. The main song of the film, Evergreenwhich she performs, is rewarded by theOscar and Golden Globe for Best Original Song. In 1973, she became the unforgettable Katie in the cult drama Our best years alongside the late Robert Redford. Ten years later, a Golden Globe was awarded to her disguised performance in Yentl, before she melted the public in the adaptation of the novel The prince of the tides as well as Lessons in seduction for which she is also behind the camera. Since then the public has notably found it in My father-in-law and I, as Ben Stiller’s whimsical mother.
Barbra Streisand gives up coming to Cannes: “On the advice of my doctors…”
Already rewarded in 2007 at the Élysée with the badge of officer of the Legion of Honor, by an admiring Nicolas Sarkozy, the singer was to receive a Palme d’Or of honor from Cannes. After Peter Jackson, director of Lord of the Rings and actor John Travolta, the third Palme had been awarded to the star for his immense career, and was to be presented to him during the Closing Evening on Saturday May 23.
Unfortunately, the Festival was informed on May 17 that Barbra Streisand will not be able to attend the ceremony at the Grand Théâtre Lumiere in Cannes. “On the advice of my doctors, as I continue my recovery from a knee injuryunfortunately I cannot join the Cannes Film Festival this year.” announced Barbra Streisand. “I am deeply honored to receive the Honorary Palme d’Or and looked forward to celebrating the remarkable films of the 79th edition. I was also looking forward to spending time with artists I admire so much and, of course, to return to France, a country that I have always loved.” And to conclude: “My most sincere thanks go to the Festival, as well as to all those who continue to support and defend the art of cinema.”. The Cannes Film Festival has, however, decided to maintain the tribute planned to celebrate Barbra Streisand on Saturday May 23 and obviously wishes a speedy recovery to the actress.
Who are the men in Barbra Streisand’s life?
The actress has had many love stories. On March 21, 1963, at the age of 20, Barbra married Elliott Gould, then 24 years old. The actor who plays Monica and Ross’s dad in Friends divorced on July 9, 1971 after the birth of their son Jason Emanuel Gould. The decades that followed were emotionally turbulent. The actress will have in fact had an affair with the Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau (dad of Justin Trudeau), the actor Omar Sharif, the producer Jon Peters, the actor Don Johnson (dad of Dakota Johnson and ex star of Two flics à Miami), or the tennis player André Agassi, 28 years his junior. Since this idyll which has caused ink to flow, the tennis player has found love again with Steffi Graf, with whom he leads a peaceful life, surrounded by their two children Jaz Elle and Jaden Gil… Barbra Streisand has also found happiness.
On July 1, 1998, the actress married her second marriage to actor James Brolin, then 57 years old. The actor is the father of actor Josh Brolin. In the columns of Vanity Fair he recounted his first meeting with the actress. He says that the latter was destabilized to see him shaved and with short hair, he who had had long and curly hair for years. “She saw me and saidÂ: ‘That’s not the guy I came to see.’ She finally sat down at the table, stood behind me and asked: ‘Who did your hair like that?’ It was at this precise moment that I fell in love. Such sincerity, from the first minutes: I was crazy about her. Since then, we’ve been almost inseparable.” A story like Hollywood loves…
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