52 years old in 1995, Barbara Streisand received the highest price ever paid to a performer for one night - one million dollars on New Year's Eve 1993 in Las Vegas. James Spada's portrait of this accomplished woman is also a depiction of modern American showbiz - Greenwich Village clubs in the 1960s, Broadway's brash musicals, and Hollywood in the last 30 years, when the studio system broke down when confronted by ambitious independent companies like Streisand's. Once married to actor Elliott Gould, she has had affairs with Omar Sharif, Ryan O'Neal, Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg, Canada's former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Richard Gere and tennis champion Andre Agassi.