Sunday 12 August 2012

Barbra Streisand - Release Me


Barbra Streisand is going to have a big fall season. It looks like her much rumored boxed set, called 'Release Me', is on the Sony schedule for September 25th. This is supposed to be a collection of hits and rarities designed to mark Barbra’s 50th anniversary with Columbia Records. She was signed in March 1962, and signed a new contract this past spring. I think she may have broken Johnny Mathis’s record with the record label. Barbra’s also had the same manager, the great Marty Ehrlichman, the whole time.

'Release Me' will precede by a couple of weeks Streisand’s performance at the new Barclay Center in Brooklyn. People are already paying scalpers to get into that room. It should be quite a night. Then, come Christmas Day, Streisand returns to the big screen in a comedy with Seth Rogen called 'The Guilt Trip'. And she’s preparing to direct her first new film in 15 years– as I reported exclusively this spring–called 'Skinny and Cat', starring Colin Firth and Cate Blanchett.

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