Barbra Streisand gives moving speech for lifetime achievement award at SAGs: ‘Such a wonderful award’
nypost.comthe Screen Actors Guild Award for life achievement at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Saturday.“This is such a wonderful award to get, because you know in advance you’re gonna get it,” began Streisand, 81, at the 2024 SAG Awards. “And you don’t have to sit there and squirm.”The singer-actor-director spoke movingly to the celebrity crowd of her early days growing up in Brooklyn with dreams of being a performer.“I wanted to be in the movies, even though I knew I didn’t look like the other women on the screen,” she recalled. “My mother said, ‘you better learn to type.’”Streisand went on. “I remember dreaming of being an actress as a teenager, sitting in my bed in Brooklyn with a pint of coffee ice cream and a movie magazine.
Sometimes after school, I’d go to the Astor Theatre next door to Erasmus High School, which showed foreign films in black and white.”Later, she remembered buying a 25-cent ticket to the movie-musical “Guys and Dolls,” starring Marlon Brando as Sky Masterson.“And, oh my God, everything was so beautiful up on that screen — the colors, the sets.
The sets, oh my God, unlike our apartment where my mother covered everything in plastic. And then I saw the most beautiful actor — Marlon Brando.
And he was my first crush.” “Morning Show” star Jennifer Aniston introduced the “Funny Girl” star.“Barbra,” the actress began. “That’s all you have to say and you know.
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