2023-11-14 22:38:00
“I don’t wanna miss a thing” It is one of the rock band’s best-known songs Aerosmithin addition to representing the main song of the successful movie “Armaggedon”, starring Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck. Far from being inspired by the father-daughter relationship shown in the film, it was learned that the story that gave rise to this ballad was a “tender” conversation they had in bed. Barbra Streisand and her current husband, James Brolin.
This was revealed by the multi-award-winning actress and singer in her recent memoir, “My Name is Barbra” (My name is Barbra), a culminating piece of his historic career in which he explores his childhood, his escape from Broadway and his famous love life in Hollywood, where he reveals countless anecdotes and details.
Barbra Streisand “regretted” not having fun in life and decided to reveal all her secrets in her memoirs
In it he referred to the most important song of the film directed by Michael Bay, which follows a group of oil drillers who are tasked by NASA with the titanic mission of drilling a hole in a huge asteroid that threatens to destroy the Earth. It also tells a love story between Affleck’s characters and Liv Tyler, hija de Steven Tylerleader of Aerosmith, with whom the director sought to make an emotional wink due to their bond in real life.
Unlike other songs by the group, “I don’t wanna miss a thing” was written by composer Diane Warren, who was inspired by the story Streisand had given in an interview with Barbara Walters in the mid-nineties for the program “20/20″. There, she made public her conversation with Brolin, who was her boyfriend at the time.
The song was nominated for Oscar for best original song in 1998 and debuted in first place in the Billboard Hot 100, where he remained for four weeks. It also occupied the first position in the popularity charts of other countries and in the United Kingdom it reached fourth place, being the band’s most successful song in that country at that time.
The dialogue that inspired the Aerosmith song
The story dates back to a romantic night in 1996 when Streisand and Brolin, who had recently begun their relationship, were lying next to each other in bed. At that moment, the actor Traffic Told him: “I don’t want to fall asleep (I don’t want to fall asleep)”.
Without understanding precisely the reason for this statement, Barbra asked him the reason, to which he responded: “’Because I will miss you (Cause I’ll miss you)”. In her memoirs, the actress and singer described this moment as “such a beautiful and poetic thing” that catapulted her into a moment full of physical and spiritual happiness.
A year after that, Barbra said that she was doing the interview with Walterswhere she recounted the sweet moment, something Warren was watching from home when this episode aired.
After seeing the success of the song, Barbra wrote moved: “It was so gratifying to see so many people responding to Jim’s words. No wonder, it was like that for me too!”
“My name is Barbra”
The long-awaited title arrived in bookstores on November 7. In it, the 81-year-old diva who won the so-called award combination known as “EGOT” –por Emmy, Grammy, Oscar y Tony– dove into the decades of his artistic work in the entertainment industry.
In almost a thousand pages (992 to be exact), Streisand, remembered in roles such as those in the films “Funny Girl”, “A Star is Born” and “The Way We Were”, talks about the pressures of the industry and the double standards for women artists: “Sometimes I felt like my nose got more press than me,” she wrote.
“I wish I could say none of this affected me, but it did. Even after these years, the insults still hurt and I can’t believe the praise,” the superstar wrote. in the fragments that were published in the magazine People.
“I guess when you get famous, you become public property. You are an object that must be examined, photographed, analyzed, dissected… and half the time I don’t recognize the person they portray. I never got used to that, and I try to avoid reading anything about myself,” she added.
She also talks in these pages about other of her most notable romances, such as those she had with her ex-husband. Elliot Gould -with whom he has a son, Jason-, Marlon Brando or former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
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