‘They say there are three possible soulmates in your entire life so I don't think it's something that's easily attained. I have found that it's not -- you can never force relationships. ‘I believe in destiny and what is meant to be will be. Twenty years ago James went into a building in New York to rent an apartment and I had just been there and didn't take the apartment and he did. It's like we weren't ready to meet then but we were in each other's paths and then when the time is right you meet someone and it's a smile of recognition. ‘It's like: ‘'Oh, I know you. You know me. You see me and you don't get frightened by my flaws or my baggage or whatever but you find it intriguing and you find it cute.'' He never even knew my movies -- after we met he went and rented them. I never saw him on his television shows. ‘I'd seen him here and there, I suppose, because I always thought he was a good actor and I always somehow liked him but I didn't know why. He remembers following my career and seeing when I started a company and every time he passed my Malibu ranch he thought of me. ‘Why? You know, why? What do we manifest in our lives? When we're really ready? ‘I don't know. Once in a while you're fortunate enough. I've waited long enough to meet that special person and now I can have that sigh of relief and say:'' I'm home.'' ‘Things become more beautiful to you when we love someone or something.I happen to have a boyfriend who is quite beautiful physically. I admire him. He has perfect teeth.Perfect nose. I've often thought:'' Would I love him as much if he were four foot tall and bald?'' It's an interesting question. ‘I met him after I'd finished filming the movie. I told him that if I'd met him while I was still filming -- I was totally consumed, tunnel vision -- I might never have had a second date. As it was, I would edit until midnight . When my friend Christine said I want you to meet this guy because I think you are going to like him the dinner party was at 7pm . I didn;t show up until 8.30 pm . You know what it's like to leave work and go to a dinner party -- I don't have dinner parties. I don't have lunches. I don't have time....so this was different. ‘I actually walked right by him and went down to play with my godchildren.He wondered what happened to me. Where did I disappear to? Not until they called everybody for dinner did I sit down because I'm veryshy. You know, you're supposed to meet somebody, they're supposed to meet you. ‘What are you going to say first? But he remembers. It's funny for the first thing I said to him was I thought he was going to be brown haired with a beard and he had this short, grey hair. I looked at him and I touched his hair and I said:'' Who screwed up your hair?'' And he said he fell in love with me because he knew his haircut was screwed up and I babbled:'' You see, it needs more width on the sides and I promised my son I would never be critical of him. He never likes me to talk about his hair. I'm sorry I did that. I didn't mean to be critical but I've just come from directing a movie where I did this to Jeff Bridges every day....'' ‘Another man might have thought:'' My god, what is this?'' But he was charmed by. We've been together ever since. I'm very fortunate to have found my soulmate.' Streisand has a son Jason,29, from her marriage (1963 to 1971) to actor Elliot Gould. He appeared with her in 1991's ‘Prince of Tides' but despite good reviews has not made a movie since. At present he is writing a biography of one of his idols the late, gay actor Sal Mineo who appeared with James Dean in ‘Giant' and ‘Rebel Without a Cause'. Her son is also active in AIDS fundraising. Of him she says:' When he was young I felt a lot of guilt at being a working mother but I look at him and he's like a divine human being. I'm very proud of him. I say to him:'' Hey, I did a pretty good job.'' I know how important it is to hear praise from your mother.' Streisand has taken James Brolin to meet her mother Diana Streisand. Since her divorce from Gould she has never entertained marriage despite a long relationship with hairdresser turned producer Jon Peters and ice cream tycoon Richard Baskin. She's also been involved with actor Don Johnson, composer James Howard and tennis star Andre Agassi. She is coy about her marital future. It's all, it seems, in the karma. She certainly does not see age as a barrier. She still sounds like a delicatessen when she wants to and despite presenting a formidable facade remains a curious mix of self-confidence and self doubt. Like organised chaos it's not possible but what she's saying is there are two sides to every story. ‘Age? Katharine Hepburn said aging is not for sissies. Great line. Inside I feel 35,38 -- 40 tops. Sometimes four, sometimes 18. Forty is certainly tops. It's hard to concede because just as the mind starts to mature -- you start to accept yourself and like who you are for the first time -- you look at your face and you're dropping so. I think the answer to it is spiritual. I'm looking for it! ‘ In the movie people have said that Rose is the ugly duckling but it's not true. I never wanted to see her that way. I've always had controversial looks. People have either liked the way I look or not so it's a confusing issue to me on my own terms. ‘Perception is reality so how you perceive yourself is what is real to you and then if your perception changes about things or life or yourself then reality changes.' That said, could Barbra Streisand then change the world? ‘Only my own world.' She was 15-months-old when her father Emmanuel Streisand, the son of an immigrant fishmonger who taught English literature at Brooklyn High School, died of respiratory failure following an epileptic fit. He was 35. Diana Streisand, ashamed of her husband's epilepsy, told her daughter her father died from a cerebral haemorrhage brought on by overwork. The lie concerned Streisand for three decades:' I thought I might die from overwork too. My mother never talked to me about him because she thought it would upset me. |
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