ARTS, BRIEFLY; Streisand to Perform At a Grammys

12:10 p.m. | Updated

The Grammy Awards on Sunday will underline lots and lots of youth, with performances by Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Drake, Rihanna, Miranda Lambert, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, B.o.B. and Janelle Monae, nothing of whom are comparison than 27. And afterwards there’s Jaden Smith, age 12.

But some of a biggest appearances will be singers whose ages are multiples higher. Last week a Recording Academy announced that Mick Jagger would perform a reverence to Solomon Burke, and early Tuesday a academy pronounced that Barbra Streisand would join a show, in a opening to be introduced by Kris Kristofferson.

Ms. Streisand, who is adult for a best normal cocktail outspoken manuscript this year for ”Love Is a Answer,” will also be respected in a private cooking on Friday as chairman of a year for a academy’s free group, MusiCares. The Grammys will be promote live on CBS on Sunday during 8 p.m. Eastern time.

Meanwhile, Ms. Streisand reliable to The Los Angeles Times that she designed to star in a new film chronicle of a Arthur Laurents-Stephen Sondheim-Jule Styne low-pitched ”Gypsy.” Mr. Laurents and Mr. Sondheim told The New York Times in interviews final month that they had met with her to plead a purpose and a show; during a time, a orator for Ms. Streisand would usually say, ”There have been conversations.”

Ms. Streisand told The Los Angeles Times that a news about a film leaked ”a small early, since a understanding wasn’t finished.” She added, ”I am not certain about directing it. It might only be too much. we know we will be personification a part. It’s like a bookend starting with ‘Funny Girl,”’ a anxiety to a 1964 Broadway low-pitched (also by Mr. Styne) starring Ms. Streisand, who also reprised her purpose as Fanny Brice in a 1968 film version.

This is a some-more finish chronicle of a story than a one that seemed in print.