The latest, ironic, homage paid to him by Paul Thomas Anderson in "Licorice Pizza" when Bradley Cooper in the role of Jon Peters, the hairdresser of the Hollywood stars who later became a producer of blockbusters, makes a joke about his then partner, Barbra Streisand: "Do you think I have a bad temper? You have never seen her angry."
It is a story of the 70s and it is only a small point in the life of a legend who will turn 80 years old tomorrow.
Last year she released her latest album of hers, "Release Me 2" and now she is busy finishing her autobiography.
Meanwhile she enjoys her family, alongside her husband James Brolin,
with whom she has been married for 23 years and to her grandchildren after a romance romance with a marriage (with Elliot Gould) and a series of real or alleged relationships and flirts with stars of all kinds and even rumors about Prince Charles and Bill Clinton.
In her sixty-year career, Barbra Streisand has become something more than a diva, because she was one of the first women to take on a role of great influence in the world of show business and beyond, given her activity as a great supporter of the Party Democrat with important fundraisers: in 1983 with "Yentl" she was the first woman to write, direct, produce and interpret a film for a Hollywood major, the culmination of a path that after the successes on the big screen of the 70s, he had seen her impose her own control over her career on industry.
Streisand is part of the small circle of EGOTs, the artists who have won the most important awards, Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, Tony, not to mention the eleven Golden Globes and over 150 million records sold.
An inimitable career built on an unmistakable voice, perfectly poised between Broadway and Pop and modeled on the style of Judy Garland, the myth of her with whom she has also collaborated.
The Jewish girl who lost her father too early and who performed in gay clubs in New York at the dawn of the 1960s - Streisand is an icon for the gay world (remember the movie "In and Out"?) - it took little to become a star,
since with her first album she already won two Grammys and that at the time of the British Invasion she placed three discs in the first three places of the chart while she was already nominated for a Tony for "Funny Girl", whose adaptation signed by William Wyler earned her the Oscar for Best Actress in 1969, ex aequo with Katharine Hepburn.
Her second was won in 1977 for best song, with "Evergreen" from "A Star is Born", in which she starred alongside Kris Kristofferson.
The pairing of successful films with big hits is a constant element of her career, just think of the commercial triumphs of "They way we were", title song of "As we were" the comedy that made generations cry with the complicity of Robert Redford.
There are very few artists who have managed to maintain the double career with the same success without losing any of their credibility and all in all that unattainable aura that comes from a very strong personality and formidable skill: still today "People" is a song that has the trappings of the classic.
But, above all, hers is the sensational story of personal affirmation of a woman who started from nowhere who in her career as in life has claimed and obtained to make her own choices, in a world that saw a completely different role for the female universe.
Having a similar story behind her, she can also afford to look at the passing of time with a certain serenity: also because in 2009 thanks to "Love is the answer"
which topped the charts became the first female artist to have released a number one album for five consecutive decades, ranging from 60 to 2,000.
In the meantime, she has also returned to the hit comedy with Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro in the family saga "Meet Me Yours".
One thing is sure: whoever takes her as a role model will have a hard time going through her achievements.
