Barbra Streisand has been telling all in her new almost-1,000 web page memoir, My Name Is Barbra, dishing left and proper about every part from forgotten flings to recommendation from Judy Garland.
The 81-year-old icon and EGOT winner reminisced about many a paramour, however one she discovered particularly memorable was Kris Kristofferson. The now 87-year-old award-winning nation singer, songwriter, and actor co-starred with Streisand within the 1976 musical romantic drama movie A Star Is Born, however even earlier than then she felt an attraction. The actress recalled noticing Kristofferson look “extremely horny” throughout a efficiency at West Hollywood nightclub, the Troubadour.
After that preliminary spark, Streisand wrote how the pair started seeing each other in what gave the impression to be a reasonably passionate relationship. “He gave me hickeys on my neck. Thank God I had a two-piece bathing go well with by Rudi Gernreich with a turtleneck prime to cover them.”
Though their romantic relationship wasn’t imply to final, Streisand and Kristofferson appeared to have maintained a friendship even all these years later, exemplified by their 2019 reunion to sing a duet from A Star Is Born collectively at Streisand’s British Summer Time pageant present at London’s Hyde Park.
A video of the track reveals Streisand introduce one among her “favourite main males” earlier than Kristofferson entered to embrace his former main girl. The two demonstrated that their straightforward chemistry and comfy connection had been nonetheless very current as they held arms all through the efficiency of “Lost Inside of You” in entrance of the sold-out crowd. Their different A Star Is Born duet, “Evergreen” was the one to finally win Streisand and Paul Williams an Academy Award, Grammy, and Golden Globe.
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