‘Did you take Ozempic?’ Barbra Streisand gives a masterclass in how not to pay a compliment
The singer just wanted to tell Melissa McCarthy how great she was looking. Was it a good idea to mention a drug used for weight loss?
January 2024
From Barbra Streisand to Barbie: seven things you need to know about the new-look Golden Globes
After a PR makeover, the scandal-hit ceremony returns on Sunday night with diverse voters, fresh owners, new categories and highbrow leanings. Can it pull it off?
December 2023
Ryan O’Neal obituary
Star of Love Story, Paper Moon and Barry Lyndon who remained a prolific screen actor despite his stormy personal life
November 2023
My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand review – funny girl
From difficult childhood to glittering career, this is an astonishing success story
Observer book of the week
My Name Is Barbra review – Streisand’s story: mystical, messy, bawdy and funny
Barbra Streisand’s eloquent and commanding memoir reveals her insecurities along with a hunger for fame and complete control
How long since I last had fun? I remember a time in 2017 ...
Emma Beddington
‘You couldn’t make it up’: Barbra Streisand on taking on Hollywood, her pal King Charles and cloning her dog
Charlie Chaplin’s son was ‘very cruel’ to me, says Barbra Streisand
October 2023
Ranked
Barbra Streisand’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
‘Juicy revelations are required’: will Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith memoirs satisfy?
July 2023
From Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga: Tony Bennett’s greatest duets
Taylor Swift becomes first woman to have four albums in US Top 10 at once
February 2023
Barbra Streisand to publish her first memoir
In ‘one of the greatest tales of the creative life ever told’, the singer, actor and director recounts her life and 60-year career, in which she won scores of awards, many times as the first woman to do so
October 2022
Barbra Streisand: ‘It’s the funniest thing to me that people still can’t get my name right’
In a rare interview discussing her music, the star details the highs and lows her early career, the difficult transition into pop and how she rose above jabs at her appearance
July 2022
The Godfather star James Caan dies aged 82
Actor who played Sonny Corleone in the groundbreaking 1972 epic engineered a comeback after his career went off the rails in the early 1980s
June 2022
James Brolin on building aeroplanes and wooing Barbra Streisand: ‘When I first saw her I went whoa!’
He’s US TV royalty, Barbra Streisand’s other half, and has some seriously impressive hobbies – but even at 81, the Lightyear star still suffers from ‘collywobbles’
April 2022
Funny Girl review – Beanie Feldstein struggles in Broadway revival
The actor brings pathos (and celebrity) as the vaudeville legend Fanny Brice in the much-hyped musical revival – but not the singing chops
December 2021
Joan Didion obituary
Detached observer of American society and political life through her collections of journalism, novels and screenwriting
August 2021
Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand: the myth of their lesbian play
Before they were superstars, Joan Rivers kissed and tried to kill a young Barbra Streisand on stage – or so she claimed. Now her tall tale has inspired drama The Funny Girls
March 2021
George Segal: a defining face of 1970s Hollywood with a late-career resurgence
Peter Bradshaw
The romcom player appeared opposite everyone from Barbra Streisand to Glenda Jackson before almost disappearing from screens. But a late-career turn on TV brought new admirers
