Barbra Streisand Sets the Record Straight - The New York Times
Ben Brantley
Streisand, you see, has always been in charge — of her image, of her career and, whenever possible, of her immediate environment — ever since she started singing in Greenwich Village nightclubs as a gawky teenager in clothes in the early 1960s.
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