How did a nice, talented, Jewish girl from Brooklyn get two Oscars and a Tony by the age of 27, without changing her name or getting her nose fixed or her teeth capped?
The obvious person to tell this story () was Maureen Lipman, who has followed Barbra Streisand since she was an ambitious schoolgirl in Hull, and read about magazine: ‘The shtick, the chutzpah… I felt her power 6,000 miles away.’