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Variety reports:

Barbra Streisand hasn’t stopped working since launching her professional singing career 65 years ago in New York City. The first performer to earn EGOT status, Streisand’s legacy spans music, theater, film and television.

Now 83, Streisand is releasing “The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume Two,” a collection of duets with Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Laufey, Hozier, Sam Smith, James Taylor, Sting, Tim McGraw and Josh Groban. Both Ariana Grande and Mariah Carey join her on “One Heart, One Voice.”

“The Secret of Life” comes not even two years after she published her massive 970-page memoir, “My Name Is Barbra,” which was accompanied by 48-hour audiobook that she read. She is also in production of a multi-part documentary about her life directed by Frank Marshall.

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Barbra Streisand says “they’d have to pay me a lot of money” to return as Roz Focker in “Meet the Parents 4.”

“I didn’t get paid what the other people got paid and so I’m pissed off. I was in the time when women were getting paid less than the men. The head of Universal was… pic.twitter.com/3j20m5j1os

— Variety (@Variety) June 23, 2025