named Dustin Hoffman: Streisand spoke about Hoffman being the "janitor" at the Theatre Studio on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, BBC, October 2, 2009. Hoffman was quoted about being at the Theatre Studio with Streisand in the National Enquirer, January 2, 2005.

[>] Socrates, Euripides: Kaufman Schwartz and a.s.sociates transcript of interview, August 15, 1963, Sidney Skolsky Collection, AMPAS. In this interview, Streisand said she "never read any of our American authors."

"Can you imagine": Playboy, October 1977.

"ever did in high school": Unsourced magazine clipping, circa 1970, NYPL.

"Acting is the only art": Theatre Studio pamphlet, 1960, Curt Conway file, NYPL.

"very awkward, emotionally": Randall Riese, Her Name Is Barbra (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).

"the political niceties": Riese, Her Name Is Barbra.

[>] "real ugly kid": Ladies' Home Journal, August 1966.

"couldn't bear to look": Life, March 18, 1966.

"very pretty and attractive": Spada, Streisand: Her Life.

[>] "You'll get a disease": Playboy, October 1977.

"the s.e.xiest scene": Riese, Her Name Is Barbra. Streisand also described performing the scene in Playboy, October 1977.

[>] "a big deal": Streisand's att.i.tude toward Vasek Simek comes from an interview with Barry Dennen.

What exactly did she "vibrate": Playboy, October 1977.

"supersonic hearing": Playboy, October 1977.

[>] "right to the top": Time, April 10, 1964.

"Where did you ever": I have based my description of Barbara's shopping expedition with Terry Leong on interviews with Adam Pollock, Barry Dennen, and another friend of Terry's who asked to be kept anonymous. I have also used newspaper descriptions of Third Avenue during the period and of the various boutiques that operated along it. Terry's friend recalled he shopped at Stuart's.

"delicately attenuated": Barry Dennen, My Life with Barbra (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997).

[>] Terry sat her down: That Terry Leong taught Streisand a great deal about fashion and style was insisted upon by Adam Pollock: "Knowing her background, she'd have had no idea who those designers were. I'm sure he had a hand in her education whether she wants to admit it or not."

"secrets, and codes": Dennen, My Life with Barbra.

[>] "about love and life and s.e.x": Playboy, October 1977.

She accepted the news: Interview with Adam Pollock.

"You know, once": Players Magazine, Spring 1965.

"double-dealing, marauding": New York World-Telegram, June 4, 1948.

[>] "remotely adolescent": Redbook, January 1968.

After Barbara played: Vanity Fair, September 1991.

The Cormans were now: The description is culled from various interviews Barbra and Cis gave over the years, as well as from the recollections of a friend of one of the Corman children, who remembered seeing the young Streisand at the house in the early morning, watching the goings-on without saying a word.

grandparents' living room: O, The Oprah Magazine, October 2006.

"an amazing thing": Vanity Fair, November 1994.

[>] one friend out of her atheism: Playboy, October 1977.

"I am deeply Jewish": Playboy, October 1977.

"Christmas, Christmas, Christmas": New York, September 9, 1968.

"I don't remember": Rogue Magazine, November 1963.

[>] "last chance of freedom": Streisand made this statement when she appeared as a guest on What's My Line? on April 12, 1964.

ninety-four average: Pageant, November 1963.

"Why isn't this kid": O, The Oprah Magazine, October 2006.

"further experience": Streisand's mother's note to her teachers is quoted in Spada, Streisand: Her Life.

"actual beatniks": Pageant, November 1963.

"You'll get paid": O, The Oprah Magazine, October 2006.

[>] "You're smart, you're pretty": 60 Minutes, November 24, 1991.

"Don't go out in the rain": Playboy, October 1977.

left her at the same time: 60 Minutes, November 24, 1991.

Her paternal grandmother: Interview with Stuart Lippner.

"rubber tummy": New York, September 9, 1968.

[>] taught her mother how to smoke: O, The Oprah Magazine, October 2006.

"allergic to kids": Playboy, October 1977.

"I tried to imagine": Ladies' Home Journal, August 1966.

[>] "kind of a wild": O, The Oprah Magazine, October 2006.

"you weren't supposed to do": Inside the Actors Studio, March 24, 2004.

[>] The first thing: I have based my description of Diana Kind's apartment, her life, and her att.i.tudes toward her daughters on interviews with Stuart Lippner, Mo Fisher, and two others who knew her well. I have also referenced an interview Diana gave to the Daily Mail, April 23, 1994.