Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisa Part 66

[>] "a potentially great new stylist": Syracuse Post Standard, April 14, 1963.

"shows herself to be one": Altoona (Pennsylvania) Mirror, April 8, 1963.

"the silk in 'Happy Days'": Walter Winch.e.l.l's syndicated column, as in the San Antonio Light, April 13, 1963.

[>] "almost definite": NYT, April 26, 1963.

Investors had lost: NYT, May 4, 1963.

[>] "been signed for the role": Oakland Tribune, March 23, 1963. The San Francisco Chronicle also reported she'd been signed on March 26. Both publications, however, referred to the Brice project as a film.

"They've been having a tough": Mike Connolly's syndicated column, as in the Pasadena Independent, April 18, 1963.

"That funny Barbra Streisand": Mike Connolly's syndicated column, as in the Pasadena Star News, May 7, 1963.

"an ordinary beauty shop": Cosmopolitan, May 1965.

[>] "the most sought-after": Payn and Morley, eds., The Noel Coward Diaries.

[>] The Barbra Streisand Alb.u.m had reached: Billboard, May 18, 1963. Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul, and Mary, was higher than Streisand on the chart, but only as part of her group.

"much too busy": This anecdote is recounted in Ballard's memoir, How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years, and was also told in more detail in a personal interview.

[>] Originally called La Vie en Rose: NYT, October 25, 1967.

"the town's top agents": Billboard, May 25, 1963.

Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn: Grant's telegram was reported in Earl Wilson's syndicated column, as in the Uniontown (Maryland) Morning Herald, May 16, 1963. For Hepburn, see Riese, Her Name Is Barbra.

"shouting their enthusiasm": Louis Sobol's syndicated column, as in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 19, 1963.

for his upcoming show: Earl Wilson's syndicated column, as in the Lowell (Ma.s.sachusetts) Sun, May 17, 1963, and Dorothy Kilgallen's syndicated column, as also in the Lowell Sun, May 19, 1963.

"A potent belter": Variety, May 22, 1963.

[>] "with the talent and ability": Billboard, May 25, 1963.

"Kenneth coif": Variety, May 22, 1963.

"a different kind of mama": syndicated UPI article, as in the Columbus (Nebraska) Daily Telegram, May 13, 1963.

"attempt one of the great": syndicated Scripps-Howard article, as in the Albuquerque Tribune, May 13, 1963.

[>] "playfully mocked": Sir! magazine, October 1963.

"juxtaposition of the music": Variety, May 22, 1963.

"turning himself into a period piece": Billboard, May 25, 1963.

[>] "an Armenian folk song": Sat.u.r.day Evening Post, July 27, 1963.

"The last act of Tosca": syndicated Scripps-Howard article, as in the Albuquerque Tribune, May 13, 1963.

"a Flatbush gamine": Alan Gill's syndicated column, as in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 16, 1963.

"crawling under a table": syndicated UPI article, as in the Columbus (Nebraska) Daily Telegram, May 13, 1963.

[>] hosted by Keefe Bra.s.selle: According to the Hartford Courant, May 28, 1963, Bra.s.selle had four summer shows taped and "in the can"; according to Alan Gill's column, as in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 30, 1963, one of those shows was the one with Streisand.

"live in-between": Unedited transcript of a Kaufman Schwartz and a.s.sociates public-relations interview with Streisand, August 15, 1963, submitted to Sidney Skolsky, Skolsky Collection, AMPAS. An extraordinary unexpurgated account straight from Streisand's lips. Hereafter, Kaufman Schwartz interview.

[>] "down in her own purse": Merriman Smith, president of the White House Correspondents' a.s.sociation, wrote about the gala in a UPI report, as in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 26, 1963.

comedian Jack E. Leonard: Earl Wilson's column, as in the Idaho Falls Post Register, May 24, 1963.

an electric bread slicer: My account of the dinner and gala comes from the NYT, May 25, 1963, and various wire reports.

[>] "Just as long as you've been": This iconic meeting of Kennedy and Streisand has taken on much mythology over the years. Peter Daniels, who was there, gave his eyewitness account to Shaun Considine for Barbra Streisand: The Woman, the Myth, the Music, so I have based much of my account on his. However, Daniels told Considine that Kennedy used his back to sign Streisand's program. But a photograph of the moment shows the president signing it in his hand as Daniels and Streisand look on. Merv Griffin, in his memoir, Merv: An Autobiography, wrote that he asked Streisand the next day why she'd broken protocol, but he did not seem angry that she had done so, despite what subsequent accounts have implied. In addition, Griffin said that when he asked Streisand what Kennedy had written, she replied, "f.u.c.k you. The president." This was clearly a joke, a good example of Streisand's sense of humor. Kennedy wrote no such thing. But several accounts have presented the story as if it were true.

"Smart girl": Merv Griffin with Peter Barsocchini, Merv: An Autobiography (New York: Pocket Books, 1981).

[>] "He knows you well": Walter Winch.e.l.l's syndicated column, as in the Lebanon (Pennsylvania) Daily News, June 24, 1963.

"three-week showing": Chicago's American, June 13, 1963.

"somebody's living room": Chicago Sun-Times, August 21, 2005.

[>] "A cross between a sweet-voiced": Chicago Daily News, June 15, 1963.

"That's almost enough": Chicago Tribune, June 16, 1963.

"alive and thrilling": Chicago's American, June 13, 1963.

"A fantastic first!": Billboard, June 29, 1963.

[>] "do this [and] do that": Considine, Barbra Streisand: The Woman, the Myth, the Music.

"If I have ideas about sets": Playboy, October 1977.

[>] "We don't want to upset": Spada, Streisand: Her Life.

"a national reputation": Pageant, November 1963.

"demanded" a copy: Earl Wilson's syndicated column, as in the Galveston Daily News, May 31, 1963.

[>] "with the Bostonese": Earl Wilson's syndicated column, as in the Idaho Falls Post-Reporter, June 3, 1963.