Barbra Streisand’s hair still falls in blonde sheets below her shoulders. The eyes are the same pale, powerful blue, small but piercing. She looks impossibly young for a woman of 72. There's almost a childlike eagerness about her. And on her head she's wearing a grey beret reminiscent of her A Star Is Born period. She has an interesting tale to tell about the Oscar-winning film in which she starred opposite Kris Kristofferson in 1976, the classic story of a famous rock star who fell for an unknown singer who then eclipsed him.

‘Elvis was the first person we approached to play opposite me in A Star Is Born. Barbara opens up about how she lost her ugly duckling tag to become one of our generation's biggest stars He was going through hard times then. He’d gained weight and was losing esteem. We thought, “Why not go for him? He’s really going through this time in reality and to tap into that might be magnificent.” I flew to Las Vegas to talk to him. He wanted to do it but the Colonel [Tom Parker, his manager] wouldn’t let him.

It was some strange reason which I can’t remember, but I finally got to sing with him.’ There’s a track with Elvis on her new duets album, Partners, using an old recording of Love Me Tender where she says she felt their souls touched. They first met in 1969. ‘I was giving myself a manicure when he came backstage. I was so shy I didn’t know what to do. I just found myself polishing my nails while he was talking to me. I remember he had this big silver belt with jewels.’ She couldn’t look into his eyes.

‘He was very sweet. I didn’t get Elvis when he first became popular, then as the years went by I found myself listening to his records and appreciating him.’ Barbra has always had a rather exciting choice of boyfriend. Kanye West 808 And Heartbreak Zshare Downloads.

Dominant characters – Warren Beatty, Ryan O’Neal, Don Johnson, Andre Agassi and her husband of 16 years, actor James Brolin. ‘All my men are really attractive. I love beauty whether it’s in a vase, a piece of furniture or a design. There are some people who are very fortunate to be beautiful. My husband has a perfect forehead, a perfect jaw, perfect teeth, perfect nose.