Joan Rivers, Barbra Streisand and the Truth About Driftwood
For a great many years, Joan Rivers painted a ribald lesbian picture of 1959 (Way) Off-Broadway play Driftwood.
In her 1986 autobiography Enter Talking all the way through to interviews like this one in 2008 with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rivers talked about a crucial last-minute role gender switch (from male to female), Barbra Streisand’s kissing abilities and wielding a knife in her “love scene” with Streisand’s character Lorna. (Although Streisand was just 16 at the time of the play, she portrayed an adult character age 35.
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