Bab's Ex Auctions Off First Performance Tapes!
We're actually scared for him!
Barry Dennen, former boyfriend of Barbra Streisand, is auctioning off three tapes of her earliest performances, starting the bids at $1 million.
"I'm a little trepidatious. I don't know what the fallout will be," says Dennon. "I don't like upsetting Barbra, and I don't want her fans angry at me."
Damn right, you don't!
She'll cut you!
The two met almost fifty years ago as castmates in the off-Broadway play The Insect Comedy and soon began living together.
After hearing Streisand casually sing one night, he persuaded and coached her to begin performing in front of an audience.
The tapes include Babs singing A Taste of Honey and Two Brothers in Dennen's apartment, while he accompanied her on guitar. It also includes a rehearsal at the Bon Soir nightclub, where she performed Keepin' Out of Mischief Now, A Sleepin' Bee, I Want To Be Bad, When Sunny Gets Blue, Lover Come Back to Me, Nobody's Heart and Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
According to Dennon, the diva invited him to see Funny Girl long after they had parted ways. Babs kept him waiting for over an hour and a half before demanding the tapes back.
Obviously, she never got her way!
And how does Miz Streisand feel about it?!
"Our lawyers are dealing with this," said a member of her camp.
We'll be surprised if he gets out of this with his ballz intact!
[Image via WENN.]
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Puh-lease. The Divine Ms. S. is wa-ay over-rated.
The bidding should've started about 2k, certainly not 1 million.
Uh ohh!
If he truly did coax her to start singing in front of people, plus had the werewithall to even tape it so she could analyze herself, then he deserves every penny. How much would she have, had he not encouraged her to get up there? People should be given their due, no matter how large or small their contribution.
Oh let him have some $$$! someone who was "kind" enough to f–xxck barb in her ugly salad days deserves it….
Why does Babs look like a blimp in blue in this photo? Is she actually really fat or is her dress just very full??? Reminds me of a blue whale in this outfit! Oh, yes the guy should get whatever $ he can get from these tapes; especially if he's really the one that got her to start singing!!! Wow!!!
she has an amazinggg voice.
she looks like a hefty garbage bag…
at one time the term "ex" meant you were actually married to the person … now anyone can crawl out of the woodwork and rip you off
In good american tradition she must sue his balls off. That's the american way.
Did she get fat?
Haha, the bitch needs to buy them and then play the fuckers on her website as a piss-take of The Way We Were. "Hey fans, I wonder if Simon Cowell would have turned me down?" Kind of thang.
oh fuck her! What a stereotypical self-important jew-bitch!
Re: Mad Dog – when was she ever really in shape?
Re: wappi79 – Ah, a jew-bitch, but you still want to fuck her, apparently.
$1 million? I wonder how great the quality of those tapes are for $1 million. Even if Babs is trying to stop him from profiting greatly off of her name, what does she have to lose? That was 50 or so years ago those tapes were released. She's already accomplished so much, and can pretty much rest on her laurels now. She was a force to be reckoned with back in the 60s, however.
They didn't have a contract and I'm sure they're not copyrighted, so…her lawyers are dealing with what?
Re: Los Anjealous – @16 - Her dollars and lawyers can outlast his dollars and lawyers any day whether she actually has a case or not, sadly.
It sounds as though this guy did his tape before anybody knew her name (stroke of luck), and with all the money and good fortune she has, she wants that too.
Why doesn't she just buy the effing tapes from him? He must need the cash, so as an ex (friend) you would think she would just help him out and kill two birds with one stone. Litigate, schmitigate. Litigious b*tch?
…like her madison Square Garden Concert, she will say "Shut the f*ck up." To a dance beat.
My goodness, she's getting as big as Mama Cass Elliot. I hope she isn't sneaking any ham sandwiches on the side.
Re: @v@ –
They were actually more than friends…they were a couple, until he later "discovered" he was gay. He's already written a book about his relationship with her. FYI, he's in a small scene in the movie TITANIC, as the priest saying the last prayers as the ship is going down
Re: YoungTaurus – Interesting. I actually love Babs. If he was playing guitar on one, it belongs to him just as much. I'll bet she wants them for her own memories and to hand down, or to make money on it herself. It is her singing, after all. Tough call, the more I look at it. That's why there are trained judges.
Re: @v@ –
Not to mention, she's the ultimate control freak, and probably can't stand the fact these tapes could be released with her seal of approval.
Re: YoungTaurus –
er…"with her seal" = "without her seal"
His tapes, her consent. Her lawyers will be offering a settlement, I bet.
she needs to lose weight. oh, and some kilos off her ego too.
Barry Dennen was Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar!!! He is a handsome, handsome man. I wish their love story would become a movie.
What a skank. Women dont wear circus tents cause they're hot. Liberal douchebag skank her and Garafalo must chow eachothers carpet. Ewwwww
Re: Real American – 28 - Your agenda is showing. Tard. Besides, she has James Brolin. Enough said; and they both make more real American money than you do, I'd wager. It's also a solid bet that Jane G. is wittier.
WTF is up with that dress?.
babs is the shit she will cut his testes out with a buttah knife…..
babs we love u boobolah.. a real diva not like that whore madonna