Ali Gator Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 Streisand's new 992 page memoir "My Name Is Barbra" was released on Tuesday, November 7 and the reviews have been rather positive. The NY TIMES addresses the hefty book right away, with the intro "Hello, enormous!" There's no index in the back (Streisand said in an interview she asked the publisher not to have one, so readers wouldn't look up specific people or titles and skip through the book), so you have to read through all 59 chapters to find your favorite movie, song or celebrity she's worked with. Skimming through the pages last night, I must say her writing is very engaging, as though she is having a conversation with the reader (and not just logging her personal history). I read just one chapter last night - the one covering her album 'Wet' and her duet with Donna Summer (three pages long). She had nothing but the kindest words to say about Summer, and her sentiments were very touching. She was with Summer just a few months before her death in May, 2012 and never knew she was sick (Summer told no one). She was shocked when she got the news. thomas, + WilliamM and Redwine56 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali Gator Posted November 14, 2023 Author Share Posted November 14, 2023 Except for Murdoch's 'Wall Street Journal', Streisand has gotten rave reviews for her memoir across the board. Just about every critic has commented on the size of the memoir, and the details she gives - but no one seems to mind. Except the WSJ, which headlined it's review: "My Name Is Barbra" Review : A Star is Boring". ‘My Name Is Barbra’ Review: A Star Is Boring WWW.WSJ.COM A capacious memoir from Barbra Streisand chronicles a career in which supporting roles were never an option. On the other side of the spectrum, fans are loving the book - especially the audiobook (which I haven't bought). They say listening to the audiobook is like sitting in your living room across from her, and she is having a personal conversation with you about her life. + WilliamM and thomas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali Gator Posted November 17, 2023 Author Share Posted November 17, 2023 Streisand's book debuts on the current NYT BEST SELLER LIST, dated November 26, 2023. It's listed in "Non-Fiction Print and eBook" (combined sales) and debuts at #2, while Brittney Spears holds on to #1 for the third week in a row. Similarly, on the list of just "Non-fiction Hard Cover" it's the same - Brittney at #1, and Barbra at #2. Over at the USA TODAY Best Sellers - where they combine hardcover fiction and non-fiction, alone with eBook fiction and non-fiction - she debuts at #6 and Spears drops from #1 to #4. Still very possible Streisand might bounce up to #1 during the upcoming Christmas season. I think she will be a 'popular gift'. + WilliamM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 The book made the NY Times best selling list for non fiction books ithis Sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali Gator Posted December 2, 2023 Author Share Posted December 2, 2023 On 11/25/2023 at 2:23 PM, WilliamM said: The book made the NY Times best selling list for non fiction books ithis Sunday The book remains in the TOP 10 of the NYT Non-Fiction Best Seller's List (which combines eBook, print book and audio book sales) but the book itself has been a major disappointment. On the USA TODAY Best Seller's List (combining fiction and non-fiction) she falls to #28, from #18 in its second week (and debuted at #6 three weeks ago). On Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Best Sellers, she has dropped out of the list in week 3. For the week of November 19-25, she sold only 20,0003 copies. And this covers the week which Amazon offered 'Buy 2 Get One Free' on her book (and other books) - so that didn't help her either. Over the three week period, she has sold just over 80,000 books according to her publisher. (Comparatively, Brittney Spears has sold just under 800,000 in five weeks on the bookshelves). She should have released her memoir 20 - 25 years ago. Her "Evergreens" CD - supposedly a 'tie-in' with the memoir, which was released a week before the book - has also been a flop. It has sold only 7000 copies. Her '40th Anniversary' Remasterd YENTL CD has sold about half of that. + WilliamM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ BOZO T CLOWN Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 (edited) Despite heavy promotion, Barbara Streisand’s memoir My Name is Barbra is flopping with readers, having sold a pathetic 212,000 copies since its release in November. A MAJOR FLOP. Exactly as Bozo had predicted. My Name Is Barbra, retails at $47 and is almost 1,000 pages. It has sold a paltry 212,000 and is way, way out of the top 25 bestsellers for 2023 according to Publisher's Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/94047-women-ruled-the-2023-bestseller-list.html 212,000 copies sold? That is probably a grossly overestimated number. Most copies were probably bought by libraries around the country. Who wants to pay $47 for a book where she pats herself on the back and spews out her political dogma? Take your book and leave the country - like you promised! If anyone here actually read thru the entire 1,000-page memoir, can you say whether this was in it - "During the COVID-19 pandemic, Barbra Streisand’s film company paid the groundskeeper at her $20 million Malibu estate using some of the $209,000 it received from Paycheck Protection Program loans."? Streisand is a crook that should be in prison! She is also a hypocrite and a pathological liar - a pestilent boil on the buttocks of society. She is a typical elitist loudmouth. Barbara Streisand is a grotesque, over-medicated Hollywood cultist who sings like chalk on a blackboard (my apologies if blackboard is a racist word). Streisand was a 'B' lister back in the 1970s. It is 50 years past time for Streisand to shut up and retire. There are plenty of good charities, i.e. homeless vets, cancer prevention, etc. that could use the $47 a lot more than that ugly old hag who steals money from people. BTC Edited January 14 by BOZO T CLOWN EZEtoGRU, Seeker015, Bokomaru and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 I don't remember that Streisand as a failure in the 1970s. Not ool to donate her Malibu property in the canyons to a non profit So no much Money to keep the property up And she paid attention to Judy Garland ' advice The difference Judy had weekly tv show in 1973 1964 Streisand never had that I saw her Funny Girl in 1964 She was a usher on Broadway for The Sound of Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 (edited) On 11/8/2023 at 9:10 AM, Ali Gator said: I read just one chapter last night - the one covering her album 'Wet' and her duet with Donna Summer (three pages long). She had nothing but the kindest words to say about Summer, and her sentiments were very touching. She was with Summer just a few months before her death in May, 2012 and never knew she was sick (Summer told no one). She was shocked when she got the news. My favorite conspiracy theory about Mrs. Brolin seems totally plausible to me-- and not (just) because I made it up. NO MORE TEARS was really a battle between God and the Devil... I occasionally used to listen to Casey Kasem do America's Top 40. When NMT rocketed to #1 almost immediately, he noted that it was the 666th #1 in the history of the Billboard pop chart, but the 1st by 2 women (it might've been 2 unrelated women). Many people thought disco was evil and here was one of the world's great voices going over to the dark side to record a duet with the Queen of Disco... and it just happened to be released just in time to be the 666th #1?!?!? Obviously, this was the work of the devil. However, Mrs. Sudano was known to be a very religious woman, which is probably why the song had one of the fastest falls out of the top 40 (and top 100?) of any #1 song. On 11/13/2023 at 9:49 PM, Ali Gator said: the WSJ, which headlined it's review: "My Name Is Barbra" Review : A Star is Boring". I don't remember if it was the NYPost or Daily News that titled their review of her "A star is born" "A bore is starred." Edited January 28 by samhexum because he's bored as hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali Gator Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 17 hours ago, samhexum said: However, Mrs. Sudano was known to be a very religious woman, which is probably why the song had one of the fastest falls out of the top 40 (and top 100?) of any #1 song. It also had one of the fastest rise to the #1 position at the time - six short weeks. It stayed in the Hot 100 for 15 weeks, achieved Gold status (1M copies sold) on February 11, 1980 and Platinum status (2M copies sold) in 1997. It was the first 12" single to top the new 'Disco / Dance Chart' where it stayed for four weeks. + WilliamM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali Gator Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 On 1/14/2024 at 10:43 AM, BOZO T CLOWN said: Despite heavy promotion, Barbara Streisand’s memoir My Name is Barbra is flopping with readers, having sold a pathetic 212,000 copies since its release in November. A MAJOR FLOP. Exactly as Bozo had predicted. Heavy promotion ? She did the 'CBS Morning Show' on November 5 and 6, for a very brief interview (split into two parts; less than 10 minutes each ) with Gayle King. She did a ninety-minute interview with Howard Stern on his radio show, available on Sirius Radio (subscription only) a few days later. She did an interview with Stephen Colbert, a few weeks after the book release, in which he monopolized the whole interview and talked about himself. She did a 'virtual' meet and greet with B&N a month after the book's release, in which one had to buy the book from B&N (in person or online) to get a promo code to the 'private event'. You call that heavy promotion ? Meanwhile, a few weeks after Streisand released her memoir, politician Liz Cheney released hers. The difference ? Liz Cheney was on just about every morning talk show, every Sunday talk show, every cable TV talk show - even those by 'liberal hosts' (as they acknowledged) where nobody would think she'd ever show up ('The Rachel Maddow Show', 'The View'), to be interviewed about her book. She made herself accessible to all - didn't do subscription radio interviews, didn't do a private event. She even did a 'book tour' in between, signing copies at local bookstores. NOW THAT'S HEAVY PROMOTION. She landed at #1 and stayed there for most of the two months since her book's release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwine56 Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 On 1/14/2024 at 10:43 AM, BOZO T CLOWN said: Despite heavy promotion, Barbara Streisand’s memoir My Name is Barbra is flopping with readers, having sold a pathetic 212,000 copies since its release in November. A MAJOR FLOP. Exactly as Bozo had predicted. My Name Is Barbra, retails at $47 and is almost 1,000 pages. It has sold a paltry 212,000 and is way, way out of the top 25 bestsellers for 2023 according to Publisher's Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/94047-women-ruled-the-2023-bestseller-list.html 212,000 copies sold? That is probably a grossly overestimated number. Most copies were probably bought by libraries around the country. Who wants to pay $47 for a book where she pats herself on the back and spews out her political dogma? Take your book and leave the country - like you promised! If anyone here actually read thru the entire 1,000-page memoir, can you say whether this was in it - "During the COVID-19 pandemic, Barbra Streisand’s film company paid the groundskeeper at her $20 million Malibu estate using some of the $209,000 it received from Paycheck Protection Program loans."? Streisand is a crook that should be in prison! She is also a hypocrite and a pathological liar - a pestilent boil on the buttocks of society. She is a typical elitist loudmouth. Barbara Streisand is a grotesque, over-medicated Hollywood cultist who sings like chalk on a blackboard (my apologies if blackboard is a racist word). Streisand was a 'B' lister back in the 1970s. It is 50 years past time for Streisand to shut up and retire. There are plenty of good charities, i.e. homeless vets, cancer prevention, etc. that could use the $47 a lot more than that ugly old hag who steals money from people. BTC @BTC - why don"t you tell us what you really think of her? Bab's voice is like "chalk on a blackboard"! My oh my. I am stunned at such insulting comments. There is no one comparable to Babs. Her voice is powerful, meaningful, beautiful, effortless. She is one of my few all time favs. Political views, book writing, acting, all else aside, you cannot take away her vocal talents! + sync 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ BOZO T CLOWN Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 16 hours ago, Ali Gator said: Heavy promotion ? She did the 'CBS Morning Show' on November 5 and 6, for a very brief interview (split into two parts; less than 10 minutes each ) with Gayle King. She did a ninety-minute interview with Howard Stern on his radio show, available on Sirius Radio (subscription only) a few days later. She did an interview with Stephen Colbert, a few weeks after the book release, in which he monopolized the whole interview and talked about himself. She did a 'virtual' meet and greet with B&N a month after the book's release, in which one had to buy the book from B&N (in person or online) to get a promo code to the 'private event'. You call that heavy promotion ? Do I call that heavy promotion? Yes. VERY HEAVY. Certainly compared to the top 25 of 2023 on in the Publishers Weekly list (with the possible exception of Taylor Swift's tome). And, btw, you forgot to mention all of the free publicity the book received with the four-page spread in PEOPLE Magazine and its sister website, PEOPLE.COM, following the book's release. That was something none of the Top 25 books received: Stage Fright, Romance and Elvis: All the Biggest Revelations from Barbra Streisand's New Memoir PEOPLE.COM Barbra Streisand gets candid in her new memoir 'My Name Is Barbra,' out now Not to mention all of the free publicity the book got in this forum thanks to @Ali Gator three threads on the book. IMHO, $47 is a coffee table book price. For that, Bozo expects large, full-color photos of something beautiful and interesting, not idiotic political opinions illustrated with photos of Barbra Streisand. You'd have to pay me 47 bucks to look at that. That hypocritical old harlot wants to steal from the poor and middle class while she gets wealthier, brainwash them with her politics, and demonize those who dare to disagree with her. Just another rich Marxist grifting off the taxpayers. Barbra Streisand's philosophy is: Of course, who cares if I'm an ugly old hag that steals money from people? it's me me all the time, I'm so perfect I'm so beautiful. Sure keep saying that in the mirror. Nobody else thinks so. You have to wonder how much she pays her undocumented maids and servants. One would think the pathetic sales #'s of her 1000-page book would serve as a wake-up call? It would to most, but not to this elitist egomaniac. Likely, it will be an excuse to write another 1000-page overpriced autobiography. She's probably yelling at her husband: "Oy, these people are so stupid! Don't they realize how great I am? James, get me an aspirin. And be quick!" Someone should have told Streisand's publicist that the book's poor sales were a timing problem. If Barbra had released it during the toilet paper shortage at the beginning of the pandemic, sales would have been higher. Much higher! ♫" You don't send me flowers,..... aaanymoooore..." BTC Marc in Calif 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Travis69 Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 4 hours ago, BOZO T CLOWN said: Do I call that heavy promotion? Yes. VERY HEAVY. Certainly compared to the top 25 of 2023 on in the Publishers Weekly list (with the possible exception of Taylor Swift's tome). And, btw, you forgot to mention all of the free publicity the book received with the four-page spread in PEOPLE Magazine and its sister website, PEOPLE.COM, following the book's release. That was something none of the Top 25 books received: Stage Fright, Romance and Elvis: All the Biggest Revelations from Barbra Streisand's New Memoir PEOPLE.COM Barbra Streisand gets candid in her new memoir 'My Name Is Barbra,' out now Not to mention all of the free publicity the book got in this forum thanks to @Ali Gator three threads on the book. IMHO, $47 is a coffee table book price. For that, Bozo expects large, full-color photos of something beautiful and interesting, not idiotic political opinions illustrated with photos of Barbra Streisand. You'd have to pay me 47 bucks to look at that. That hypocritical old harlot wants to steal from the poor and middle class while she gets wealthier, brainwash them with her politics, and demonize those who dare to disagree with her. Just another rich Marxist grifting off the taxpayers. Barbra Streisand's philosophy is: Of course, who cares if I'm an ugly old hag that steals money from people? it's me me all the time, I'm so perfect I'm so beautiful. Sure keep saying that in the mirror. Nobody else thinks so. You have to wonder how much she pays her undocumented maids and servants. One would think the pathetic sales #'s of her 1000-page book would serve as a wake-up call? It would to most, but not to this elitist egomaniac. Likely, it will be an excuse to write another 1000-page overpriced autobiography. She's probably yelling at her husband: "Oy, these people are so stupid! Don't they realize how great I am? James, get me an aspirin. And be quick!" Someone should have told Streisand's publicist that the book's poor sales were a timing problem. If Barbra had released it during the toilet paper shortage at the beginning of the pandemic, sales would have been higher. Much higher! ♫" You don't send me flowers,..... aaanymoooore..." BTC Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center WWW.CEDARS-SINAI.ORG The center, part of the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, plays a leading role in identifying female-pattern heart disease, developing diagnostic tools and advancing... Redwine56 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 On 1/29/2024 at 2:58 AM, Redwine56 said: @BTC - why don"t you tell us what you really think of her? Bab's voice is like "chalk on a blackboard"! My oh my. I am stunned at such insulting comments. There is no one comparable to Babs. Her voice is powerful, meaningful, beautiful, effortless. She is one of my few all time favs. Political views, book writing, acting, all else aside, you cannot take away her vocal talents! Judy Garland had Ethel Merman and BS on her weekly variety show on CBS in the Fall of 1963 She held her own against Garland and Merman not easy ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 I saw Babs in person three times: I Can Get I For Y oou Wholesale Funny Girl In Concert in Philly Redwine56 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwine56 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 14 hours ago, WilliamM said: Judy Garland had Ethel Merman and BS on her weekly variety show on CBS in the Fall of 1963 She held her own against Garland and Merman not easy ! And it appeared that Babs and Judy got along well together. Judy did herself in shortly afterwards. I found Liza with so much of her mother's style. She was great as well. + WilliamM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali Gator Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 On 2/2/2024 at 11:08 AM, Redwine56 said: And it appeared that Babs and Judy got along well together. Judy did herself in shortly afterwards. I found Liza with so much of her mother's style. She was great as well. Shortly afterwards ???? She died 6 years later - not six months. Six years is not exactly 'shortly afterwards'. + WilliamM and Redwine56 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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