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>> larry: the legendary barbra streisand for the hour is next on "larry king live." >> larry: we are delighted to be at the home of the incredible, which is the only word to describe her, barbra streisand, the oscar, grammy, tony and emmy winning entertainer, singer, actress, and activist. she sold more than 71 million albums. her latest, "love is the answer" just nominated for a grammy. became a best-selling author with her debut book, "my passion for design." we are in the red room in the house that is the subject of that. this is more than a house. it's a barn. a main house. a grandma's house. a chicken coop. is this the house of your

dreams? >> yeah, i would say so. coming from an apartment in williamsburg, brooklyn. and then another apartment that was a railroad flat when i was 19 years old. so yeah, this is the house of my dreams, yeah. the houses of my dreams. >> larry: was it as tough to put together as it appears? >> well, actually, this main house i put together in three days. because -- that's why i love this house so much. because it was basically built. all i had to do was decorate it. and i did it in three days. because when you love things, when you love your collection of things, like a four poster bed or whatever it is, you know, it fits. it fits most everywhere. so i was able to take things from my house that i sold in town and storage and fill it up and it felt like i lived here

for years after three days. >> larry: are you a designer by nature? >> yeah, i think so. i think so. >> larry: do you think if you didn't have all this talent, you'd have been a designer? >> probably, yeah. i was once going to be a hat designer when i was young, when i made rounds as an actress and couldn't get any work. >> larry: why do you like it so much? >> designing? >> larry: yeah. >> well, composition and graphics and order, symmetry, appeal to me. they satisfy my mind. my eyes. my heart. i don't know. maybe it's because my mother, you know, we lived with slip covers out of plastic. >> larry: i know the bit. >> you know the bit? with the newspapers on the floor. >> larry: that's right, don't sit there. >> with the lamp shades covered with the plastic? it never appealed to me. i always thought it was so awful that i guess in rebellion for

that, i don't know how i quite developed this sense of what seem to be beautiful to me. >> larry: why did you decide to do a book about it? >> well, i was going to direct a movie and it fell through. and i guess i needed my creative process to work, and so i decided to work on a book about it. because i had taken about 57,000 pictures of the house in process. >> larry: they're all your pictures in this book? >> not all. i'd say three-quarters of the book are my pictures. so i was documenting the process. and then when things are beautiful to me i like to capture them. on film. and so my rose garden or, you know, a particular arch. the stonework. whatever it is. woodwork.

i just had to take the pictures. and then i thought, well, i'm halfway there practically. so this took two years, this book. >> larry: it shows it. it's a great book. >> really? >> larry: what do you want the reader to get? >> hmm, well, that it's not so easy to build. it's a difficult process. i know a lot of people love it. and they say -- they go away actually and the builder builds it and they love it. you know, for me, i guess i have such particular sense of detail of things that should be as i want them to look and so i had to be there. i had to -- i had to draw. >> larry: think you could have been an architect, too? >> well, if i went to architect school. >> larry: -- actually -- >> yeah, i love architecture,

especially around the turn of the century, when so many great architects were working at the same time. >> larry: yeah. >> like, for instance, greene and greene, who worked in california, and had such an inimitable sense of identity. how they saw things. the construction. the pegs. the roundness. the appreciation of japanese and chinese architecture. >> larry: they wanted me to ask you about a tiffany lamp story. what's the tiffany lamp story? >> oh, oh, oh. just because in the book there's a page of talking about my compulsion to -- as a collector, you know, i had to have -- had to find -- because part of the fun is the search. for these things. so tiffany had made the most beautiful base out of large red

turtleback glass. and mosaics. the colors of the rainbow. and this beautiful peony shade. when i was having an auction of all my art nouveau things, i put this lamp up for sale with many others. and i always regretted it. as i say in the book, i made a mistake. i should have given it to a museum. a, so that people could enjoy it. and that i could come visit it. and so i was very disheartened about it. and so i decided -- i decided to buy it back and give it to the museum. which is what i did. and, of course i had to pay more than double to buy it back. >> larry: that is so you. >> but now it will be there for everyone to see, including me. >> larry: it is a brilliant book.

it's appropriately titled, "my passion for design." lots of talk about -- on with us on our next to last "larry king live." >> i'm thrilled to be there with you. >> larry: barbra has given us an incredible look inside this house. watch. >> this section of the house is done in the arts and crafts style. also from the turn of the century. a macintosh hallway leads into a library inspired by the brilliant architects greene and greene. the furniture is covered in burgundy velvet. the color of a rich merlot. the lamps are by tiffany. the stained glass door was inspired by the gamble house. it leads to a tiny octagonal bedroom like on a boat. i was lucky to find an old burgundy sink for this vanity, based on an inlaid sideboard by green and green.

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i've always loved barns. ever since i can remember. they feel so american to me. and of course barns have to have chickens. mine happen to lay green eggs. >> larry: we're back with barbra streisand. remembering one of the great weeks we had in the history, when she was on in the same week as the middle east leaders. we've had some interesting times with you, barbra, over the years. there are photos in the book,

you point out mistakes in the house. it's a very honest book. i want to read something from the book about how a contractor got mad at you for make him change some beams. it says a lot about you. page 108, if you want to read with me, folks. difficult. i think it's a very misogynist attitude because when a man does this kind of thing, people say, man, he's precise, he cares. he made them change it to get it right. as i said in a speech for women in film in 1992, a man is commanding, a woman is demanding. a man it forceful, a woman is pushy. a man is a perfectionist, a woman is a pain in the ass. has that changed? >> no, not at all. no, not at all. >> larry: do you -- so therefore, when you want something done right, as opposed to a man wanting something done right, it's two different things? >> i think so. we've come a long way. we're not equal yet. >> larry: so, does that annoy you?

>> well, it's funny and sad at the same time. you know? it's odd and -- yeah, i guess it does annoy me. yeah. >> larry: because you must have had it all your professional life, right, in anything? >> yeah, yeah. >> larry: when you directed a film? >> right. >> larry: there are male directors who are tough. when you were tough, it must have been -- who was she to be tough? >> who says i was tough? >> larry: i'm guessing you were tough. >> no, as a matter of fact, one of my prized possessions is the cast of "yentl" actually wrote a letter to the press that no one would print, and all of them signed it, and it was about how quietly i spoke on the set and that i smiled or -- you know, i was very friendly, of course, with the crew. i needed them desperately to be part of the dream of the film. and care, you know? so it is odd, you know, what is tough?

because you say, you know, the light should move a little to the left? if a man says that that's fine. i guess it's just we're still differentiated, you know. we are still different. in a way, i'm glad hillary clinton wasn't the first woman president, because with this economic crisis, they would have probably blamed her gender. rather than the eight years proceeding, you know? >> larry: you're probably right. whoever is in will be blamed. as the first black has been blamed, has he not? we'll get to this a little later. are you also, therefore, a control freak? >> that i am. yeah, of course. but as i say in the book -- i tell a story about my friend. my good friend, ronnie myers. architect. and everybody was so admiring of him coming into the house and

saying, the wall is an eighth of an inch off and it won't work. and you have to replaster the wall. and everybody thinks, well, that's the mark of a great architect. but in a sense, yeah, like one contractor that i was trying to hire said, go away and i'll build the house. i said, what, are you nuts? you know? no. i had to -- i had to be there to make sure things were precise. >> larry: but architects more than any other profession are the most controlling of figures, are they not? i they so. i'm sure of that. it's their baby. >> it depends. no, no, no -- well, no, this was different. because, you know, maybe if an architect -- as a matter of fact, i had once asked quothme to once work with me on another house, something i wanted to build, like a southern plantation with spanish moss coming down and, you know, from the trees. but he said no, you have the

vision. it's too strong in your head. there's nothing for me. i want it to be my creation, not yours. but that's what's so hard. you want a great builder. you want expediters to carry out your vision. which i can do when i'm directing a film. then it's perfectly fine. because everyone respects the director. especially in england, by the way. when i was doing "yentl," because they had a queen and a woman prime minister. so it was no big deal i was a woman director. you see? >> larry: got it. barbra streisand's our guest. what an honor to have her with us. double honor to be in her home. we'll be right back. i have asthma. and when my symptoms came back i'd get this tightness in my chest. so i went back to my doctor again. we chose symbicort to help control my asthma symptoms all day and night. [ man ] symbicort improves my lung function, starting within 15 minutes. symbicort will not replace a rescue inhaler

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>> larry: i said to barbra during the break that ian chose for the profession of the driver and force of the fountain head an architect, a man who would blow up his own building if it was not done the way he wanted it done. as an example -- >> it's a great story. because of the people trying to destroy him because the mediocre against the real visionary, you know? >> larry: architects, they're their own people. even the mediocre architect. >> well, yeah. i mean, the problem that i had with architects is that when they came in to check the process, sometimes they didn't see what was wrong. and there were many discrepancies that had to be changed.

>> larry: let's touch some other areas. we'll get back to the book. it's a great book. christmas is here. what a gift. you're the top selling female performer in u.s. history. with all you've done, do you ever say, i'm a little jewish girl from williamsburg, wow? >> i always say it. >> larry: me too. >> yeah, i always find myself saying that. isn't that funny? you know, it's funny, we went to a -- kind of fund-raiser for president clinton's library. no, foundation i think it was, the other night. and i remember something my grandfather said about my father. that i read about. my father had died, you know, many years before. but he said, he was so smart, about my father, he was so smart, he could talk to presidents. and there i was, you know,

talking to president clinton. and i thought of it. went through my mind, you know, that i'm talking to a president. i mean, it was -- i thought that's that little -- >> larry: two jews from brooklyn. what are we doing here? >> you never change, you know? >> larry: sure. so is it true you're out of brooklyn but brooklyn's not out of you? >> of course, it will always be. it will always be there, you know? a street sense. a pragmatism. >> larry: grow up there? >> oh, yeah, totally. people yelling ought of windows and sitting on the stoop singing, you know? the neighbors caring about you in some way. >> larry: you ever go back? >> i heard it's disappeared. >> larry: is it? the famous high school. >> i always gave money to it every year to support them. >> larry: because you and neil diamond went there at the same time, right? >> yeah, but we didn't know each other. i think he was a grade ahead of me.

>> larry: your bio says you're an actress, singer, director, writer, composer, producer, photographer, activist -- >> who said that? >> larry: that's what your official bio -- >> my official bio. >> larry: is there any one thing of those that you identify with the most? your driver's license would say what? >> self-employed. >> larry: good. when you think of yourself -- i asked you this once. >> you did? >> larry: are you a singer who acts or an actress who sings? >> an actress who sings. yeah. i mean, i really didn't start to sing but out of, you know, a need for a job, to pay the rent. i wanted to be a classical actress. shakespeare. i couldn't get a job. so i entered a talent contest and got work as a singer. >> larry: did you always know you had that voice? >> a little bit. when i was a young girl, i kind

of -- yeah, i was the kid on the block with a good voice. >> larry: you ever amazed at your own voice? you have an amazing voice. >> i'm critical. i'm self-critical. >> larry: of the way you sing? >> well, i just never paid that much attention to it. and after i was doing this house, you know, i was singing and i had to record. i was singing with a kind of hoarse voice because i was talking over buzz saws every day and dust and hammering, you know, for five, six years. so -- >> larry: i tell you a compliment a catholic priest told me once. you want to hear best record of "silent night," streisand's record of "silent night." >> wow. that is lovely. because last night we were at a party. we were all singing. i said to david foster. i said -- because he played some beautiful chord.

i said, i remember beautiful chords that peter mass had written for the arrangement of "silent night" in the middle of central park. on a hot summer night. >> larry: everyone should hear that recording. >> it's on "the happening at central park" album i think. ♪ sleep in heavenly peace ♪ sleep in heavenly peace

>> larry: so many things to talk about with barbra streisand. this historic week personally for me. going to tour again? >> not sure. part of me wants to go to places i've never been. that's where i'd go, you know? around the world. kind of a good excuse -- >> larry: vegas again? >> vegas? >> larry: vegas. >> i never say never but i'm pretty sure i wouldn't. >> larry: are you still very self-critical about your singing? you've told me in the past you've always wondered, did i get it? >> i'm less perfectionistic about that. >> larry: why? >> i don't know. because it's human.

in other words, as a person gets older, their vocal chords get older. i can't expect the same sound all the time. but it is fun. you know, the -- you said before i was up for a grammy this year for "love is the answer." do you know, i love numerology because when i got my last grammy, it was 24 years ago. i was born on the 24th. and i said that -- i had my son when i was 24. and my lucky number was 24. and the day that the grammys were on, 24 years ago, i really didn't think i would win against madonna, tina turner, cyndi lauper and there was another person. i didn't think i'd win. except for the fact that it was february 24th. the day of those grammys. and i won. for the broadway album. and i said in that speech, you

know, who knows, maybe 24 years from now, i'll be up for another grammy. and here it is, 24 years later. isn't that funny? >> larry: that's funny. frank sinatra told me that right before he goes on, he still gets that little "will i have it." is it there? do you have that too? >> god yes. i used to have total stage fright. you know, that's why i didn't sing for a long time. but there's always that feeling of, you know, yeah, will i make those high notes? will the audience be really receptive? will my feet hurt? everything. it's all -- >> larry: stage fright? you got stage fright? >> oh, yeah. >> larry: of what? >> because when i sang -- when i sang in front of 135,000 people and the free concert in central park, 1967, i forgot the words

to three of my songs. and that was it for me. i never sang professionally -- meaning where i charged for the tickets. i did it for charity, you know, and political things. but for 27 years i didn't sing. till i went back to the mgm grand in 1993 -- >> larry: because of those mistakes -- >> yeah, uh-huh. i just -- until they developed teleprompters. that's what it was. when i did the 1986 concert in my backyard for the democrats. and they had developed teleprompters. the funny thing what they were standing on the ground, and i was singing "america the beautiful," and the people stood up in front of the teleprompters and it totally freaked me out. so i forgot the words. i kept moving around the stage to see the teleprompters. so we had to use actually that performance from the night before, the dress rehearsal, and there was nobody there. >> larry: you mentioned the

democrats. were you politically active as a kid? >> well -- >> larry: did you give out fliers on the streets in brooklyn? >> no, no. about 1968. whenever i started campaigning for bella abzug -- >> larry: height of the vietnam war? >> yeah. i was very much against that war. so i did campaign. even went on the back of a truck with a bull horn and thank god she won. i was even campaigning for a republican mayor lindsay who was very -- >> larry: why do you think you particular -- so many people in your business are active. why are you singled out more than most -- right winger radio hosts will often refer -- barbra streisand. why you, do you think? >> woman? big mouth? i don't know. speaks what she feels?

or if they feel i have any influence, which i don't know, i could be influencing one person, i don't know, you know? >> larry: but you are -- >> what do you think? >> larry: -- controversial. i don't know. i guess you're controversial. maybe because you have such talent that your talent is so overwhelming -- >> i have no idea. >> larry: -- that all people think, well, what is she butting into this business? >> well, that's as if you're not an american citizen first. first and foremost, i am an american citizen. and, you know, it was teddy roosevelt who talked about what makes america great is the fact that we have an obligation to speak out about what we feel about our government. as citizens. >> larry: our guest is barbra streisand. we'll talk about president obama. want to talk about her work with women and heart disease as well. and more about her book after this.

>> larry: has obama, president obama, disappointed you? >> at first. maybe a little. because i would have liked to

have him use his executive privilege to -- if that's possible legally, you know, to get rid of something like don't ask, don't tell. i think people admire real strength, even though it's misguided, you know? reagan -- first george bush -- second george bush i mean. he is -- you know, he has an open mind. he has an open heart. and -- >> larry: obama? >> obama. and he's cool. and he's very smart. >> larry: is there a but coming? >> well, i had wished -- i even left town. i went to europe because of this last election. i couldn't face -- i didn't want to be here for this bloodbath. there was no reason for the republicans to win that many seats in the house i didn't think. and that was a -- you know, a

mistake on the democrats part for not getting their message across, not communicating. all that they've done that's good. >> larry: what do you think of this deal to permit the tax decreases for the wealthy in return for the other things -- >> well, i think it's unfair but necessary. i mean in other words, to get the republicans to extend unemployment benefits, you know, which they only gave for 13 months as compared to two years of extending tax cuts for the wealthy? i mean, i'm one of those people who are going to benefit, as i'm sure you are, but it's not fair to working people in america. it's just not fair. so -- but i think, you know, hearing president clinton also say that this is the best we can do now. i think that's true. >> larry: when he spoke the other day, when obama introduced him, said he'd speak briefly and he did 35 minutes.

>> did he do 35 minutes? >> larry: there are many say that we miss him. you miss clinton? >> oh, well -- >> larry: as a president? >> i'm so glad he's coming into being appreciated. you know, he had eight years of great prosperity. and he raised taxes on the wealthy. and he left us with 22 million or more jobs and a surplus. >> larry: largest in history. >> oh, yeah, yeah. so i'm very happy that he's being appreciated now. he's a great president. and we need, you know, we need strong leadership. >> larry: you think we'll see don't ask, don't tell end? >> i'm not so sure in the near future. but i think it should go. can you imagine, you have citizens who want to die for their country, they want to

fight for freedom, they want to fight for their country, and are willing to die for their country, and they're not allowed to? you know, it's interesting, because i think allen touring i think his name was, he broke the code in world war ii. >> larry: janese code, yeah. >> right? he was gay. >> larry: right. >> george washington's second in command was gay. what is the big deal? what is the big deal? why should anyone's sexuality, you know, prevent them from being a great soldier? >> larry: i guess they think that because there would be, for want of a better term, fraternization among the troops. >> no. i think according to most of the generals, that's not true. that's not true. >> larry: will you -- will you support obama again? >> oh, of course, yeah. i admire him. and i think he's -- you know, he avoided a huge financial crisis. people think this is bad.

what it might have been, you know, a full-on depression. the health care thing is wonderful. i don't know why it's being put down. i mean, can you imagine? pre-existing conditions and making the change in age to cover children up to 26 years old? please. >> larry: want to talk about women and heart disease next. you may be surprised what you're going to hear. don't go away. >> i've never been in the watergate. other people were in there. >> i have no question that it was the right thing to do then, and i'm more certain today. >> never to prevail or win but for every hostage to come home safe. >> before was the soviet union and they kept dying. >> they'd do much better learning about the views sitting here on "larry king live."

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heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined. it's the leading cause of death for women worldwide. now, more women die from heart disease than men. >> larry: if someone said right now, someone's having a heart attack out there, we all expect it to be a man. the odds are equal, maybe more so, it will be a woman. >> well, did you know more women die of heart disease now than men do?

>> larry: more women have it than have breast cancer. >> well, for every woman who dies of breast cancer, ten die of heart disease. heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined. and that's what i was shocked to find out. that's why i got so interested in this. that research about women's heart disease has been done on men for the last 50 years. well, that's ridiculous. we have a different physiology. >> larry: you've launched a $10 million fund-raising effort. my wife attended the luncheon you held to kick that off. you will personally match the first $5 million. people can donate at www.crowdrise -- >> no, crowdrise. >> larry: crowdrise.com/barbrastreisand. >> it's so unfair. it seems to be easier to raise money for cancer than heart

disease when it's the number one killer of women in the world, not even just in our country. >> larry: why do you think that has been done? some say because when women go to the cardiologist, to the doctor, with a chest pain, it's regarded as sort of like you're having a bad stomach. they don't get treated immediately, as quickly. >> women could have totally different symptoms than men. they don't have to have a pain down their arm. they could be nauseous and it could be a heart attack. 40% of women die in their first heart attack. >> larry: what do you want people to do? >> i thought obama sort of set a rule how he raised money with the internet, small donations, not from rich people necessarily. my point is if whoever cares about a woman in their life, whether it's their wives, their daughters, their sisters, if

everyone sent in a dollar, $5, whatever they can afford, you know? think of how many lives we could save. i mean, because we need this research. we need stem cell research for hearts. and there's amazing things going on now with growing a heart, a human heart, in a petri dish. guess what, it's female stem cells that find their way to become any organ, you know, in the body. rather than males. male stem cells tend to get lost. is that funny? >> larry: are you making a comment? >> yeah, slight, slightly. but it's such exciting things going on. but it all needs funds. >> larry: so you're matching the first $5 million? >> oh, yeah. then i'll do more too. yeah. >> larry: let's hope it works. let's hope we -- you know, i

have a foundation that helps people who can't afford it to get -- we help as many women as men. babies too. >> babies too. >> larry: babies have heart problems. >> oh, that's great, that's great. >> larry: okay, why do you do "the focker" movies? and the newest one "little fockers" is coming next week. >> because it's a short-term job. i mean, when i'm lazy and i'm doing other things. >> larry: how'd they come to you? >> the first time? >> larry: yeah. i mean, i would imagine, let's call up barbra streisand to play ben stiller's mother? >> yeah, well, i guess -- i don't know, i guess they wanted me. >> larry: did you like it right away? >> no, i think i turned it down at first. and then -- then it sort of came together. i thought it would be a bit of fun. >> what is that? that is your own personal yarmulke. one of those little jewish hats. cute. >> we know that you're into that

genealogy stuff. >> we thought it would be fun to trace your lineage all the way back. >> it turns out, jack, you are 1/23 israelite. >> welcome to the tribe. >> larry: are you watching it? >> i never watch -- no, i don't watch any movies i made unless i have to. >> larry: why not? >> ben did. ben called me to be his mom. oh, yeah, she remembers. >> larry: ben called and said be my mother? >> yeah, it's funny, because i knew his parents actually in the old days, you know? >> larry: the best. >> yeah, yeah. it was kind of a funny idea. and dustin and i go back to acting school together when i was -- >> larry: wanted to be an actress? >> 18. no, lower -- 17, 16. >> larry: did you find them fun to do? >> well, it depends what you call fun. it's all hard work. you have to get up early in the morning. you have to put makeup on and

wigs and all that. but while we're on the stage, while we're, you know, working together and -- especially with dustin, we love to improvise together. so we play. and the director, jay roach, who did the first one, loved it, so he encouraged us to do that. we still do it now. >> larry: what makes de niro so good at comedy? >> it's because he's an actor who uses the truth and whenever you use the truth, it's funny. and sad. i mean, it works in both mediums. the truth is what works. >> larry: we'll be back with more of barbra streisand. don't go away. itbut every decemberg to the eas31st, we always make it.s.

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>> larry: you're so passionate about obama you wanted to add to the pitch. >> he appointed the first latino to the supreme court. and a woman. you know? so that was incredible. i have a list of 32 things that i could read to you about what he's done that's great. and especially the tax cuts for 95% of middle america. how come he's not getting more credit for that? >> larry: i take it you'll stump for him. if he asked you to go out, you'd go out. >> sure. absolutely. >> larry: how as your marriage worked -- >> oh, by the way, the idea of the stimulus and how he was fought on that and how it's paying off and the economy is recovering and i was -- on television yesterday, see citigroup paid back their loan and a $12 billion profit, gm

also is paying back the profit. that's the american taxpayers. >> larry: the perception, though, can be improved. >> the perception. they're not -- they're not selling the message right. and it's the truth. sell the good stuff. >> larry: well said. how's -- you and brolin work, huh? >> it's been 14 years. >> larry: what's the -- >> how long have you been married? >> larry: 13. >> so we're more than you. my, my. >> larry: what's the secret? >> he does his thing in one room and i do mine in another. i don't know. you know, opposites attract. >> larry: they're definitely opposite, right? >> i think so. yeah. >> larry: he's more laid back than you. >> yeah. oh, yeah. much more laid back than me. >> larry: josh brolin has taken off. >> isn't that great? yeah. i just saw him in "true grit" and he was wonderful in that. he's wonderful in everything he does.

and i have a very talented son. he's not in the headlines, but -- >> larry: but he directs, too. >> he has, and acted, and now he's into music and pottery. do you remember when he was born? >> larry: i remember when he was born. back with our remaining -- goes too fast. >> i know. please. >> larry: back with our remaining moments with barbra. don't go away.

>> larry: we're back with our remaining moments with barbra streisand at her lovely home. this is a great book. the republicans are having too good a year, barbra wanted to add something. >> it was just, i was totally

shocked at the people voting against their own self-interest. most people are not wealthy. it's just the top 2%, right, that are that wealthy. so i couldn't understand them voting for the republicans who are, in a sense if you want to simplify it, are the party of for, by, the corporation rather than the democrats who are for and by the people, the working people. so it just -- it confuses me. do you know the answer as to why people vote that way? >> larry: i just ask questions. i don't have answers. >> yeah, i don't understand. especially since the republicans left us with a $1.3 trillion deficit. so -- >> larry: who knows. you can figure it out.

you're better than me. >> i'll call you if i could ever figure it out. >> larry: a couple other things, why is there no second "a" in your name? >> well, i wanted to be the only barbra. now, how could i be the only barbra? there's millions of barbaras. so when i was 18 years old, i didn't want to change my name to joan sands or something like that, which people recommended i do. >> larry: really? >> yeah. so, have your nose cut off, you know, change your name, so forth, sing different songs. so i decided, oh, if i took out one "a," i would be barbra. it's still barbara, but, it would be more original. >> larry: barbra, it's always a delight being in your presence talking with you. >> oh, thank you. i look you too, a lot. and i wish you well. i wish you well. we're going to miss you. >> larry: hope i didn't upset any makeup.