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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 19 March 2018
Barbra Streisand says no #MeToo moment marred her life

By LYNN ELBER to come to the center," ing brought Streisand to
AP Television Writer Streisand said during Fri- tears on a 1991 interview
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barbra day's Paley Center for Me- on "60 Minutes."
Streisand said she's never dia event held at a packed Streisand said she demands
suffered sexual harassment theater. control in her work but only
but has felt abused by the Her reluctance to talk to in service to her art that's
media. news outlets is based on included directing, acting
During a tribute to Strei- years of what she called in- and producing TV movies,
sand's decades of TV accurate reporting, includ- among them 1995's "Serv-
music specials and other ing one story that claimed ing in Silence: The Mar-
programs, producer and she has an "awards room" garethe Cammermeyer
long-time admirer Ryan at home dedicated to her Story," about anti-gay dis-
Murphy queried her about Oscars, Emmys and other crimination in the military.
her career, the #MeToo trophies. But it was the late Murphy ("Glee," ''American
movement and her aver- TV journalist Mike Wallace Horror Story"), who admit-
sion to interviews. who came in for the sharp- ted to being nervous as
"Never," she replied when est criticism. he began his one-on-one
asked if she had been sexu- Streisand said he asked her conversation with the star
ally mistreated. "I wasn't like hurtful questions during a of "Funny Girl" and award-
those pretty girls with those TV interview and she called winning TV specials dating In this Oct. 11, 2012, file photo, singer Barbra Streisand performs
nice little noses. Maybe him afterward to complain. back to 1966's "Color Me at the Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
that's why." But on a subsequent show, Barbra," said he owed his Associated Press
She acknowledged the Wallace told viewers who'd career to her.
power of protests against objected to his treatment "People talk about Barbra The tribute, which kicked Paley Center president and
gender inequality sweep- of Streisand that she "loved" as the greatest female star. off the 35th annual Paley- CEO, said of her work as a
ing through Hollywood and the interview, according to I say, no, that's not enough," Fest LA television festival singer, actress, director and
society. the star. Murphy said, calling her a at the Dolby Theatre, was producer.
"We're in a strange time "I thought, I don't know groundbreaker for those capped by the presenta- Streisand also is known for
now in terms of men and what date rape is, it's terri- who don't fit the mold. "She tion to Streisand of the 2018 her political activism on be-
women and the pendulum ble ... but it was such a vio- was a touchstone, a bea- PaleyFest Icon award. half of Democratic candi-
swinging this way and that lation," she said. "Why lie?" con I followed my entire Streisand is a "truly magical dates and issues including
way, and it's going to have Wallace's tough question- life. artist," Maureen J. Reidy, gay rights.q