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Since 2021, our researcher JJ Bersch has compiled dossiers detailing the development, production, and release of each of the films we have covered on the podcast. Below you can find a list of sources JJ used for our current miniseries. For a full list of sources for each miniseries, click here. For more on JJ’s process, click here.

Barbra Streisand Miniseries

  • The Mirror Has Two Faces

    • Anne Edwards, Streisand: A Biography.

    • Gregg Kilday, “Barbra Streisand on ‘The Normal Heart’: ‘I Tried Very Hard to Get It Made.’” The Hollywood Reporter, April 9, 2014.

    • Gregg Kilday, “‘The Normal Heart’s’ 30-Year Journey From Barbra Streisand to Ryan Murphy,” The Hollywood Reporter, April 9, 2014.

    • Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra.

    • Ramin Setoodeh, “Barbra Streisand on How She Battled Hollywood’s Boys’ Club,” Variety, February 27, 2018.

    • Barbra Stresiand, “Correcting Larry Kramer – The Truth About Our Effort To Make The Normal Heart,” BarbraStreisand.com, June 28, 2012.

    • Patrick McGilligan, Backstory 5: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s.

    • Sean Mitchell, “Barbra in One Take,” Los Angeles Times, November 7, 1996.

    • Linda Ellerbee, “Barbra,” Live! December 1996.

    • Bernard Weinraub, “Barbra Streisand, Still Not Pretty Enough,” New York Times, November 13, 1996.

    • “Barbra Streisand Special Issue,” The Hollywood Reporter, October 18-20, 1996.

    • “Dudley Moore has rare brain disease,” BBC, September 30, 1999.

    • Steve Hullfish, “ART OF THE CUT with Oscar Winner Alan Heim, ACE,” Pro Video Coalition by Filmtools, September 10, 2017.

    • Jeffrey Wells, “‘The Mirror Has Two Faces’ backlash?,” Entertainment Weekly, April 12, 1996.

    • Rita Kempley, “Caution: Objects in 'Mirror' Older Than They Appear,” Washington Post, November 15, 1996.

    • Roger Ebert, “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” Roger Ebert, November 15, 1996.

    • Army Archerd, “Babs high on ‘Dwarf’,” Variety, April 14, 2005.

    • Borys Kit, “​​Barbra Streisand to Direct Catherine the Great Biopic,” The Hollywood Reporter, December 3, 2015.

    • Kevin Jagernauth, “‘Skinny And Cat’ Loses Barbra Streisand & Cate Blanchett But Gains Rachel Weisz,” IndieWire, April 9, 2013.

    • Elio Iannacci, “In conversation with Barbra Streisand: ‘Rage is a motivator’,” Maclean’s, November 2, 2018.

    • Marc Malkin, “Barbra Streisand on Her New Album, Directing Again and the Only Time She Smoked Pot,” Variety, August 6, 2021.

  • The Prince of Tides

    • Hilary De Vries, “Streisand, the Storyteller : The Perfectionist Actress-Director Remembers All the Details, Except for the Good Times,” Los Angeles Times, December 8, 1991.

    • Anne Edwards, Streisand: A Biography.

    • Ed. Jeremy Kagan, Directors Close Up: Interviews with Directors Nominated for Best Film by the Directors Guild of America.

    • Kenneth Turan, “A Mainstream ‘Prince of Tides’,” Los Angeles Times, December 25, 1991.

    • Robert Epstein, “Magnolias, Palms: ‘Tides’ Author Meets Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times, December 26, 1991.

    • “Prince of Tides (1991),” AFI Catalog.

    • Molly O’Neill, “Pat Conroy's Tale: Of Time and 'Tides',” New York Times, December 22, 1991.

    • Kevin Sessums, “Queen of Tides,” Vanity Fair, September 1991.

    • “The Triumph of Barbra Streisand,” Cosmopolitan, October 1991.

    • The Director’s Chair, November 26, 2018, included on Criterion Blu-ray.

    • Stephen Holden, “Barbra Streisand: "Don't Get Me Wrong,” New York Times, December 22, 1991.

    • Aspel & Company, February 22, 1992, included on Criterion Blu-ray.

    • Criterion Blu-Ray, 2020.

    • Alison Beard, “Life’s Work: An Interview with Barbra Streisand,” Harvard Business Review, October 2012.

    • Joe Otterson, “‘Prince of Tides’ Series in Development at Apple,” Variety, May 4, 2022.

  • Yentl

    • Shaun Considine, Barbra Streisand: The Woman, The Myth, The Music.

    • Susan King, “Streisand revisits ‘Yentl,’ her mitzvah,” Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2009.

    • I.B. Singer, “I.B. Singer Talks To I.B. Singer About The Movie 'Yentl',” New York Times, January 29, 1984.

    • Anne Edwards, Streisand: A Biography.

    • Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra.

    • Anna Fadiman, “Barbra Puts Her Career On The Line With 'Yentl' — And Learns New Lessons About Her Power And Her Femininity’,” Life Magazine, December 1983.

    • “Yentl (1983),” AFI Catalog.

    • Dale Pollock, “‘I caught myself saying, well, I’ll ask the director. Then I went, Ohhhh!’ Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1983.

    • Rachel Syme, “Mandy Patinkin Is Still Singing,” New Yorker, October 11, 2020.

    • Jenni Frazer, “Who died during the making of Yentl? Actor Mandy Patinkin wants to remember,” Jewish News, October 5, 2023.

    • Ramin Setoodeh, “Barbra Streisand on How She Battled Hollywood’s Boys’ Club,” Variety, February 27, 2018.

    • Ed. Jeremy Kagan, Directors Close Up: Interviews with Directors Nominated for Best Film by the Directors Guild of America.

    • Chris Chase, “At the Movies,” New York Times, November 18, 1983.

    • Janet Maslin, “‘Yentl,’ A drama with Drama Streisand,” New York Times, November 18, 1983.

  • A Star Is Born

    • Anne Edwards, Streisand: A Biography.

    • Shaun Considine, Barbra Streisand: The Woman, The Myth, The Music.

    • John Gregory Dunne, Quintana & Friends.

    • James Spada, Streisand: The Woman and the Legend.

    • Frank Pierson, “My Battles With Barbra And Jon,” New West, November 22, 1976.

    • Alison Beard, “Life’s Work: An Interview with Barbra Streisand,” Harvard Business Review, October 2012.

    • Stephen Holden, “FILM; Barbra Streisand: Don't Get Me Wrong,” New York Times, December 22, 1991.