Celebration Cake
December 22, 1977
Barbra Streisand cuts a cake after she and Jon Peters renewed their affiliation with Columbia Records in New York.
Streisand kin together at Jon Peters' party
December 29, 1977
By: Earl Wilson
Barbra Streisand's humor prevailed when she saw a few hundred of her fans including Shirley MacLaine and Bella Abzug at a Christmas party honoring her love Jon Peters. He's producing the film Eyes [of Laura Mars]. Arriving at the party, Barbra announced, “Jon can't be here. He has the flu.”
“Is he running a temperature?” I happened to ask.
Barbra pretended to be exasperated.
“You used to ask Jon questions about me. Now you ask me questions about him. He must be making out very good.”
Barbra, in a blue silk and satin dress she said was similar to nightgown materials in the 1920s, trailed up and down stairs at Le Premier Restaurant to meet relatives like Uncle Irving and Brother Shelley, all invited by Columbia Records to honor its renewal of a contract with Barbra and a new deal with Jon Peters. Barbra will make more albums, naturally. She made probably a couple of million dollars on A Star is Born.
Barbra glanced at my pad and asked me whether I was still taking notes on things. “This is the only way I get to meet my family,” she said, as one by one, they came to pose for pictures.
(Above, left to right: CBS Records President Bruce Lundvall, Walter Yetnikoff, and Streisand)
To the several kinfolk, Barbra said, “You wait, I'll be back, OK?” Then Shirley and Bella arrived, they huddled. They ate a piece of cake. Whatever they said was, I would guess, of little good for the male of the species.
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