Barbra Streisand and son Jason Gould sing duet (video)

It’s always interesting to read commentary on Barbra Streisand. It seems she’s either damned if she does or damned if she doesn’t – with reference to the duet with her son, someone said she couldn’t help but steal the show at the end, – if she backs off to much, she’s losing her voice or as others have said, her treated of Jason smacks of nepotism. Really, he’s 45 and had minimal exposure due to his mother, reportedly she did not want to cast him in “The Prince of Tides” until the author of the book saw Jason’s photo at the Streisand home and said, “who’s that” – Streisand’s response, “Oh, that’s my son Jason” author’s response to that? “that’s Bernard!” and the rest so it is said is history. So, I would imagine if someone with Barbra Streisand’s brand of world-wide star power wanted to promote a family member, she certainly wouldn’t have waited until that member was 45 years old. He’s an artist in his own right, directing movies, composing music and songs, and now singing them. In Barbra’s defense, there will always be naysayers, so what does one do? Continue with your art, let it speak for itself, test the limits of time for judgement and know that you did the best you could possibly do for the sake of artistic integrity. If anyone has bothered to really look at her life and career,… they’d see that no one has rained on her parade. 50 years of being in the public eye and showing no signs of stopping is no accident. I challenge any critic out there to either write a hit song, then sing it, act in a movie, direct, etc. or shut the hell up.