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The best-selling biographer of Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor instructs the electrifying history of how Barbra Streisand transformed herself into the greatest legend of her age, etching "an indelible family portrait of the musician as a girl" (Web publishers Weekly). In 1960, she was a 17-year-old Brooklyn kid with a lot of skill but no links and certainly no money; her mom helped bring her soup to ensure she stayed fed as she needed operating classes and scraped out a living. Just four years later, Barbra Streisand was the top-selling feminine recording artist in the us and the legend of 1 of Broadway's biggest visits. Now the acclaimed Hollywood biographer William Mann chronicles that dizzying ascent, telling the riveting behind-the-scenes history of how Streisand and her team transformed her from an unknown dreamer into an internationally superstar. Pulling on the private documents of Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse, and interviewing scores of the friends and lovers who knew Barbara before she became Barbra, Mann recreates the vanished world of 1960s New York City and uncovers the truth behind the misconceptions of her formative years. He shows us how Funny Gal was slowly and gradually improved, by Fosse and Robbins among others, from a Fanny Brice bio into a star-making vehicle for Streisand; needs us into the night clubs and onto the set for her early nightclub and tv set looks, including her torch-handing turn with Judy Garland; and introduces the canny marketing team whose strategies made her stardom seem unavoidable. The Streisand who emerges is a surprising rvelation: a woman who, for those her tough-skinned ambition, was incredibly susceptible in love. Everyone that has felt outside the gate, as she once do, remembers a period when the newness and difference of Barbra Streisand modified everything and rewrote all the rules. In Hello, Gorgeous, Mann incisively illuminates the girl before she became the icon and will pay tribute to one of the world's most favorite performers.
