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SOMEWHERE: THE REALITY PLAY
FROM THE KENNEDY CENTER: A BRIEF HISTORY OF SHAKESPERE'S "ROMEO AND JULIET"--
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/randj/artsedge.html
PROLOGUE: A SPACE AGE LOVE STORY
The year was 1961………The Kennedys occupied the Whitehouse….Marilyn Monroe was the reigning material girl and America began it’s journey to the moon…..The Beatles had yet to discover America… and Elvis turned down the role in one of the most beloved musicals in the history of American cinema…. The Jets and the Sharks were to become forever known to a modern day society as the keepers of the flame for a modern day Romeo and Juliet romance between their two star-crossed lovers. The film went on to capture our hearts and 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture.
CLICK BELOW TO HEAR JFK BEING SWORN IN AS THE YOUNGEST U.S. PRESIDENT
The following articles were compiled by BBC-News:
1961: Kennedy pledges man on moon
President John F Kennedy has called for millions of dollars to fund a space programme to get the first man on the moon by 1970.
In a speech to a joint session of Congress broadcast on TV and radio around the United States, he asked for an extra $1,700m (£600m) on the federal budget.
The largest proportion of this - $9,000m - would be spent on researching and developing ways of getting an American on the moon by the end of the decade.
"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth," he said.
He said "this very urgent request" would not need to be funded by extra taxes provided the economy continued to grow and companies exercised wage and price restraint.
This was his last address to the country before his meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. He is still basking in the glory of Russia's latest achievements in space exploration - last month Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.
Three weeks ago, when Alan Shepard became America's first astronaut, President Kennedy said the country had to "work with the utmost speed and vigour" to develop its space programme.
Today he demonstrated his total commitment to the project.
"If we were to go only half way or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty," he said, "it would be better not to go at all."
The director of Nasa, James Webb, was encouraged by the president's speech and said the US and the USSR were on a level playing field in their ambitions to land a man on the moon because as yet no Russian rockets were capable of such a mission.
Other NASA officials told the Times newspaper that most of the funding would be used to research ways of reaching the moon, surviving on it and returning safely to Earth.
BY 1969: America lands men on the Moon
American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon.
The astronaut stepped onto the Moon's surface, in the Sea of Tranquility, at 0256 GMT, nearly 20 minutes after first opening the hatch on the Eagle landing craft.
His colleague Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin watched from inside the lunar module and spoke the first words of man on the Moon: "Tranquility base. The Eagle has landed."
As he put his left foot down first Mr. Armstrong declared: "That's one small step for man but one giant leap for mankind."
He described the surface as being like powdered charcoal and the landing craft left a crater about a foot deep.
A further 10 astronauts traveled to the moon in another six missions with the final manned lunar landing, Apollo 17, completed in December 1972.
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What follows next is what I like to call a futuristic, modern-day, Romeo and Juliet, fairytale, love story of the heart and soul. As we leave the world of poetry and enter into the world of real-life make-believe, please keep in mind that the world of study now engrosses our daily lives in many ways, shapes and forms….Be it in literature, motion pictures, television, music and song, theatre or dance, the world of study belongs to each and every one of us.
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“I will take you away….take you far, far, away out of here….far, far, away until the walls and the streets disappear….SOMEWHERE….
….There’s a place for us….Somewhere a place for us…..peace and quiet and open air wait for us….SOMEWHERE….
….Hold my hand and we’re half-way there….hold my hand and I’ll take you there….Somehow…Someday….SOMEWHERE….”
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-Taken from the song “SOMEWHERE”
- Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
- From the musical West Side Story
THE YEAR IS NOW 1976 AND N.A.S.A."s VIKING SPACE CRAFT RETURNS THE FIRST COLOR PICTURES FROM MARS (SEEN BELOW)
A STAR IS BORN
BARBRA "ESTHER HOFFMAN HOWARD"
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: You Don't Bring Me Flowers
Streisand was a struggling actress and nightclub singer in the early 1960s, before landing her first part in a Broadway show, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, in 1962. Her first record was the cast album for that show, and she shot to national stardom after an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. She quickly signed with Columbia Records, and her first solo album, The Barbra Streisand Album, was a top-ten, gold-selling record in 1963.
On Broadway, she starred in Funny Girl, which ran two years, and her first top-ten single, "People", came from that show. A series of network television specials (back when there were only three networks) helped sell her albums, and Streisand won an Oscar starring in the film of Funny Girl in 1968. Her movie work includes romantic comedy (The Owl & The Pussycat), screwball comedy (What's Up Doc?), and the big tearjerkers The Way We Were and A Star is Born. She has also occasionally directed films, always starring Barbra Streisand: Yentl, The Prince of Tides, and The Mirror Has Two Faces.
Streisand has had more albums go platinum than any other female singer, and with forty-seven gold albums, she's in second place on the all-time list, trailing only Elvis Presley but ahead of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Almost every album she's made has sold at least a million copies. In 2000, she sang a series of "farewell concerts", with tickets selling as high as $2,500. Anti-fans, meanwhile, hate Streisand's music and films with a passion beyond measure, deriding her as overly melodramatic, big-nosed, and in love with herself. Yentl, for example -- there aren't many movie musicals where one singer sings all the songs.
Some of Streisand's biggest hits have been collaborations. She's recorded duets with Neil Diamond ("You Don't Bring Me Flowers") and Donna Summer ("No More Tears/Enough Is Enough"). The Bee Gee's Barry Gibb produced her biggest selling album, Guilty, which included the #1 hit "Woman in Love."
Streisand is also one of show business's most outspoken advocates of leftwing politics.
Father: Emanuel Streisand (grammar teacher, d. 4-Aug-1943)
Mother: Diana Ida Rosen (school secretary)
Husband: Elliott Gould (actor, m. 21-Mar-1963, div. 1971, one son)
Son: Jason Gould (actor, b. 29-Dec-1966)
Boyfriend: Ryan O'Neal (actor)
Boyfriend: Jon Peters (Hollywood producer)
Boyfriend: Don Johnson (actor)
Boyfriend: James Newton Howard (composer)
Husband: James Brolin (actor, m. 1-Jul-1998)
Boyfriend: Richard Gere (actor)
Boyfriend: Andre Agassi (tennis player)
Boyfriend: Liam Neeson (actor)
Boyfriend: Pierre Trudeau (Canadian Prime Minister)
Boyfriend: Kris Kristofferson (1970s)
Boyfriend: Peter Jennings (1990s)
High School: Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, NY (1959)
amfAR National Council
Citizens for a Moratorium on Federal Executions
Dean for America
EMILY's List
Friends of Hillary
Gore 2000
Hillary Clinton for President
Hollywood Women's Political Committee
John Kerry for President
Midwest Values PAC
New Leadership for America PAC
Obama for America
Progressive Majority
Sharpton 2004
Voters for Choice
Grammy Legend Award (1992)
Grammy Best Pop Vocal Performance (female), The Broadway Album (1987)
Grammy Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocal, "Guilty" (1980)
Grammy Song of the Year, "Evergreen" (1977)
Grammy Best Pop Vocal Performance (female), love theme from A Star Is Born: "Evergreen" (1977)
Grammy Best Vocal Performance (female), My Name Is Barbra (1965)
Grammy Best Vocal Performance (female), "People" (1964)
Grammy Best Vocal Performance (female), The Barbra Streisand Album (1963)
Grammy Album of the Year, The Barbra Streisand Album (1963)
Golden Globe World Film Favorite (female) (1977)
Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy, A Star Is Born (1976)
Golden Globe Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical, A Star Is Born (1976)
Golden Globe Best Original Song, "Evergreen" from A Star Is Born (1976)
Golden Globe World Film Favorite (female) (1974)
Golden Globe World Film Favorite (female) (1970)
Golden Globe World Film Favorite (female) (1969)
Golden Globe Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Motion Picture, Funny Girl (1968)
Emmy Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, Barbra Streisand: The Concert (1995)
Emmy Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special, Barbra Streisand: The Concert (1995)
Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievement in Entertainment/Actors and Performers, My Name Is Barbra (1965)
Oscar for Best Actress 1969 for Funny Girl
Oscar for Best Music Original Song 1977 for A Star Is Born (with Paul Williams)
Tony Best Actress of the Decade (1970)
American Film Institute Life Achievement Award 2001
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6925 Hollywood Blvd
National Medal of Arts 2000
French Legion of Honor 2007
Risk Factors: Smoking, Yoga
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
The Mirror Has Two Faces (15-Nov-1996)
The Prince of Tides (25-Dec-1991)
Yentl (18-Nov-1983)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Meet the Fockers (16-Dec-2004)
The Mirror Has Two Faces (15-Nov-1996)
Barbra Streisand: The Concert (21-Aug-1994) Herself
The Prince of Tides (25-Dec-1991)
Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (1991) Herself
Nuts (20-Nov-1987)
Yentl (18-Nov-1983)
All Night Long (6-Mar-1981)
The Main Event (27-Jul-1979)
A Star Is Born (17-Dec-1976)
Funny Lady (15-Mar-1975)
For Pete's Sake (26-Jun-1974)
The Way We Were (17-Oct-1973)
Up the Sandbox (21-Dec-1972)
What's Up, Doc? (9-Mar-1972)
The Owl and the Pussycat (3-Nov-1970)
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (17-Jun-1970)
Hello, Dolly! (16-Dec-1969)
Funny Girl (19-Sep-1968)
Official Website:
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/
Appears on the cover of:
Life, Dec-1983, DETAILS: Streisand -- The way she really is, BYLINE: (photo by Greg Gorman, Streisand with perm, close up)
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The song SOMEWHERE was updated with a space theme by Barbra Streisand with a music video produced in 1985 and found on her "Broadway Album". She asked Elvis to star with her in "A Star is Born" in 1976 but he again turned down the role. She went on to play the part of Esther Hoffman Howard, won an Oscar for best song, and the Earth received it's first color pictures of MARS from NASA's Viking Spacecraft.. history was made. Madonna has again changed her name to Esther as she follows her Kaballah religion for a new generation of fans. We now enter into a “reality play” with the world as our stage. Act 1 is where we met…..”Romeo and Juliet they never felt this way I bet, so don’t underestimate my point of view”…Madonna has become the new material girl for a new generation. It seems that although a new material girl is born into each new generation....their sex-appeal continues to captivate both men and woman as the female body continues to be the cradle of love. The new material girl sings,dances, and expands our minds through her body and voice. As Madonna becomes Esther...Another Star is Born to lead a new generation into a new millenium of time, space and sex. Her words in a song called Cherish may yet turn out to be true…Chapter 1 now opens our play for me and for you…
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