Legendary Hollywood actress, singer with millions of albums sold, Barbra Streisand is a star. Better yet, a diva! In more than 60 years, the actress and singer has rubbed shoulders with the greatest, from Robert Redford, her partner in the film Our best years, to Jeff Bridges, including the late Ryan O’Neal, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr, Queen Elizabeth II and even the Italian director Franco Zeffirelli. But of all the personalities she met, there was one with whom she had a very unique long-term relationship, between friendship, mutual admiration and physical attraction: Marlon Brando. This is what she says, among other things, in her autobiography, My name is Barbra, published on May 2, 2024 by Hugo Doc editions and that Tele-Leisure was able to read.
“A chemical phenomenon, like pheromones?“: Barbra Streisand recounts her meeting with Marlon Brando
In her book, Barbra Streisand devotes an entire chapter to the star ofA Streetcar Named Desire. A chapter that she mischievously titled At thirteen, I fell in love with Marlon Brando. As if in response to this teenage admiration, she writes that even before meeting him, her first contact with the actor came from a message. At a party, someone actually whispered in his ear: “Marlon Brando told me, ‘If you ever meet Barbra Streisand, tell that bitch she’s great.’“She was nineteen or twenty years old at the time and would only meet the actor one or two years later, during a charity evening. And this meeting was surprising to say the least… Indeed, the singer was in backstage when she feels someone kiss her on the back She turns around and sees Marlon Brando!You destroy my fantasy“, she says to him, to which he replies in a low voice: “When you have a back like that, it’s to be kissed“. After this disturbing episode, the two stars cross paths again at a party where, although all the Hollywood elite are present, Marlon Brando takes Barbra Streisand’s hand to take her into a room to talk one-on-one… for four hours!We instinctively feel that there is a connection… even before a word has been spoken. Two beings recognize each other. Is it a vibration? Or a chemical phenomenon, like pheromones? I can not explain it. It’s almost mystical… metaphysical“, she wrote.
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“I kiss you gently on the hollow of your thighs and on the mouth“: this ambiguous telephone conversation between Marlon Brando and Barbra Streisand
During this long conversation, Marlon Brando is, to say the least, direct. “I would like to fuck with you“, he asserts abruptly. Barbra Streisand responds to him straight away that she thinks it’s a “horrible proposal“, especially since the actor’s third wife, Tarita, is in the next room. However, she does not cut ties and the two artists continue to maintain a friendly relationship, regularly exchanging on the telephone to talk about their work or their respective loves Barbra Streisand notably remembers a two-hour conversation that the actor concluded by telling her: “I kiss you gently on the hollow of your thighs and on the mouth“This unwavering friendship will bind them until the death of Marlon Brando on July 1, 2004.”He was a complex, remarkable man, whose friend I am happy to have been.“, writes Barbra Streisand, recalling one of her best memories with him, a telephone conversation they had after the actor saw again Our best years on the television. “In the last minutes of the film, you were so vulnerable that I fell in love with you all over again. We should have done more things when we were young, fucked a lot, had kids“, he told her. Before concluding: “Go kiss yourself in the mirror for me“.
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My name is Barbra, by Barbra Streisand, translated from English by Laurent Bury, ed. HugoDoc, May 2, 2024 in bookstores.
