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Barbra Streisand Had Her Dog, Samantha, Cloned Twice
By Curtis M. Wong
Fans joined Barbra Streisand in mourning the death of her beloved dog, Samantha, last fall. After all, the 14-year-old Coton du Tulear had been a con- stant presence at the legendary singer-actress’s concerts and public appear- ances, as well as on Instagram.
Turns out, Samantha lives on... well, sort of. In a new inter- view with Variety, Streisand revealed that her two new
pups, Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett, were cloned via cells extracted from Samantha’s mouth and stom- ach.
“They have differ- ent personalities,”
Streisand said. “I’m waiting for them to get older soIcanseeif they have [Samantha’s] brown eyes and seriousness.”
Her third dog is a relative of
Samantha’s, named Miss Fanny, a nod to Streisand’s iconic Broadway and movie role in “Funny Girl.” Incidentally, the breeder who brought Streisand the pup had
named her own dog Funny Girl.
When Streisand posed with her canine trio for a portrait to accom- pany the inter- view, she sug- gested captioning the photo “Send
in the Clones,” a wink to Stephen Sondheim’s bal- lad, “Send in the Clowns,” which she recorded on 1985’s “The Broadway Album.”
The remainder of
Streisand’s Variety interview is just as dishy, tackling every- thing from her forthcoming memoir to the Academy Awards to
the Me Too movement.
The famously outspoken Democrat has a lot to say about President Donald Trump, too, blasting the commander-in- chief as “crooked” and “a liar.”
“I really believe [Hillary Clinton] won the elec- tion,” she
said. “I’ve talked to senators from Michigan and Wisconsin. I do believe, like I believed during [President George W. Bush], they were playing with those voter machines.
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