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Barbra Streisand Heads Back to the Big Screen
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - She may have given up singing in public, but Barbra Streisand (news) hasn't bowed out of the limelight altogether.
The 61-year-old performer is heading back to movie screens for the first time in eight years to play Ben Stiller (news)'s mom in a sequel to the hit comedy "Meet the Parents." A spokesman for Universal Pictures said Friday Streisand is in final negotiations for the role.
The sequel, "Meet the Fockers," is set to go into production April 5 with Jay Roach back as director. The film is slated for release on Dec. 22, the studio spokesman said.
All the principal cast members from "Meet the Parents" -- Stiller, Robert De Niro (news), Blythe Danner (news) and Teri Polo (news) -- are returning for the sequel, along with Dustin Hoffman (news), who has been cast as Stiller's father.
Stiller starred in the original box office hit film as accident-prone male nurse Greg Focker, who goes through hell when he visits the childhood home of his intended fiance, Pam Byrnes (Polo) to meet her mother (Danner) and father (De Niro), an overly protective former CIA (news - web sites) agent with a lie-detector in the basement. Greg ultimately wins them over.
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - She may have given up singing in public, but Barbra Streisand (news) hasn't bowed out of the limelight altogether.
The 61-year-old performer is heading back to movie screens for the first time in eight years to play Ben Stiller (news)'s mom in a sequel to the hit comedy "Meet the Parents." A spokesman for Universal Pictures said Friday Streisand is in final negotiations for the role.
The sequel, "Meet the Fockers," is set to go into production April 5 with Jay Roach back as director. The film is slated for release on Dec. 22, the studio spokesman said.
All the principal cast members from "Meet the Parents" -- Stiller, Robert De Niro (news), Blythe Danner (news) and Teri Polo (news) -- are returning for the sequel, along with Dustin Hoffman (news), who has been cast as Stiller's father.
Stiller starred in the original box office hit film as accident-prone male nurse Greg Focker, who goes through hell when he visits the childhood home of his intended fiance, Pam Byrnes (Polo) to meet her mother (Danner) and father (De Niro), an overly protective former CIA (news - web sites) agent with a lie-detector in the basement. Greg ultimately wins them over.
