SAG honoree Barbra Streisand on acting, Oscar snubs and singing with Bob Dylan

LOS ANGELES — Barbra Streisand's 970-page memoir, "My Name Is Barbra," took her 10 years to complete. So it didn't seem like that much of an ask for me to spend 48 hours listening to her read it, which I did over the course of a couple months.

Exhaustive, but never exhausting, digressive, sure, but usually to fine effect, intimate and honest, Barbra — I feel like we're on a first-name basis now that we've spent so much time together — made for good company. I'd listen while making dinner, making lists of what I'd heard and, by the end of it, making up for lost time because, again, 48 hours.

Streisand will receive a lifetime honor Saturday at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, another trophy for a woman who joined the EGOT club long ago. Even after that deep dive into her life, I still had questions, which Streisand was happy to answer — by email. (If you've read the book, you know she likes to fuss over the details.) After spending so much time focusing