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WEEK IN WOMEN: Barbra Streisand receives Honorary Palme D’or at Cannes 2026 – Brandy McDonnell reports

May 21, 2026May 24, 2026 Brandy McDonnell barbra streisand, Cannes 2026, Honorary Palme D'or, twiw, week in women

In recognition of her career, world-renowned actress, director, producer, screenwriter, singer and songwriter Barbra Streisand will receive an Honorary Palme d’or during the Cannes Film Festival Awards Ceremony, to be broadcast live May 23 from the Palais des Festivals stage. However due to a knee injury, she won’t be able to attend the Festival Awards Ceremony to be honored in person.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Barbra Streisand to receive SAG-AFTRA Lifetime Achievement Award – Brandy McDonnell reports

February 13, 2024February 7, 2024 Brandy McDonnell barbra streisand, sag life achievement award, sag-aftra, the week in women, twiw

Legendary actor, singer, producer, writer, and director Barbra Streisand has been named the 59th recipient of SAG-AFTRA’s highest tribute, the SAG Life Achievement Award for career achievements and humanitarian accomplishments. Streisand will be presented the performers union’s top accolade at the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will stream live on Netflix Feb. 24 from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles. Given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession,” the SAG Life Achievement Award will be the latest of Streisand’s esteemed catalog of international industry and public distinctions recognizing her masterful performances on screen and the stage.

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MOVIE OF THE WEEK August 18, 2023: BELLA!

August 13, 2023October 11, 2024 Jennifer Merin Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, barbra streisand, Bella Abzug, Bella!, betsy bozdech, Cate Marquis, documentary, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, Jeff L. Lieberman, jennifer merin, leslie combemale, liz whittimore, loren king, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, nell minow, nikki fowler, Pam Grady, Re-Emerging Films, sherin nicole

In a USA that’s lucky enough to have strong women like Kamala Harris, Maxine Waters, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, and Katie Porter speaking up, persisting, reclaiming their time, and generally schooling the White male political old guard, it’s important to remember that Bella Abzug did it all first. Jeff L. Lieberman’s engrossing documentary Bella! reminds us what a trailblazer — and force of nature — Abzug was, detailing her impact on American government and culture.

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BELLA! – Review by Loren King

August 12, 2023August 13, 2023 Loren King barbra streisand, Bella Abzug, Bella!, hilary clinton, Jeff L. Lieberman, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, lily tomlin, Marlo Thomas, Nancy Pelosi, shirley maclaine

Enlightening, passionate, nostalgic and endlessly riveting, Bella!, a documentary about feminist trailblazer and force of nature Bella Abzug, is all these things and more. One thing I didn’t expect is that the film is also sad. That moment happens when Abzug’s friend and fellow activist, the writer Letty Cottin Pogrebin says that Abzug, who died in 1998, is all but forgotten now because she’s not being taught in schools and Pogrebin’s own grandchild had no idea who she was. All the more reason that “Bella!” needs a release as wide as the whole world.

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BELLA! – Review by Jennifer Merin

August 12, 2023August 13, 2023 Jennifer Merin barbra streisand, Bella Abzug, Bella!, hilary clinton, Jeff L. Lieberman, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, lily tomlin, Marlo Thomas, motw, Movie of the Week, Nancy Pelosi, shirley maclaine

Bella! And, yes, be sure to include the exclamation point in the film’s title because the subject of Jeff L. Leiberman’s well researched and beautifully crafted documentary deserves emphatic punctuation. Bella Abzug (1920-1998) was a champion of civil rights for women in every aspect of our lives. She was the feminist activist politician who fought fiercely to enact laws to establish and protect equity in the workplace, in government representation, in family matters — all of the women’s civil rights that we are now at such high risk of losing in our nation’s current regressive climate.

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SIDNEY – Review by Martha K Baker

October 5, 2022October 9, 2022 Martha K. Baker (Archived Contributor) barbra streisand, biodoc, Diahann Carroll, halle berry, Juanita Brady, lou gossett jr, Lulu, Morgan Freeman, oprah winfrey, richard hudlin, robert redford, sidney poitier

Sidney Poitier became a legend, as an actor, as an activist, as a Black man in racist America. He died in January, 2022, at age 94. This documentary honors him as that legend, avoiding hagiography but certainly raving about the contributions of one hard-working actor, the first Black man to win an Oscar. Within the adulation of the bio-doc, Poitier stands out from the many interviewees, who include his five daughters and two wives. His voice, largely from a 2012 interview with Oprah Winfrey, remains quiet and sure, modest and cool. Winfrey produced the laudatory film of her friend, whom she called her “great Black Hope.”

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