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NEW YORK (AP) – Barbra Streisand has been honored for her film career with the 40th annual Chaplin Award from the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Friends and fans celebrated the legend of song and screen at Lincoln Center Monday, where highlights of her films were screened.
She says as a young child what she wanted most was to be an actress. But nobody really wanted “a 15-year-old Medea,” she says. “Thank God I was given a good voice.”
Among those saluting Streisand were former president Bill Clinton, Liza Minnelli and Tony Bennett. The awards gala raised $2 million for the film society.
Streisand, who turns 71 this week, is one of the few entertainers to have won Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards.
NEW YORK (AP) – Sharon Osbourne says she and husband Ozzy aren’t splitting.
Osbourne addressed recent rumors of their family problems on Tuesday’s edition of “The Talk,” the CBS chat show she co-hosts.
She told viewers she had not been aware of her husband’s year-and-a-half-long relapse into prescription drug and alcohol abuse, which he made public in an apologetic Facebook post last week.
She says she is “devastated” by their struggles, but she added that the couple has dealt with worse before.
The TV personality and music manager blinked back tears as she said, “This, too, shall pass.”
Ozzy Osbourne was a founding member of heavy-metal pioneers Black Sabbath, but he left the group in 1979. The 64-year-old has since rejoined, and the band’s new studio album is out in June.