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Barbra Streisand Cloned Her Dead Dog Twice

You're living in 2018, Barbra Streisand is living in 2028.
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Celebrities are mostly kind of boring these days. Gone are the fabled Hollywood eccentricities of yore: 2018’s famous people are mostly just high-key Instagram influencers with beauty lines and vague political causes.

Enter Barbra Streisand, the eternal diva. The woman who wrote, directed, and starred in Yentl, and who lives in an opulent mansion with a shopping mall in its basement. The woman who, according to Variety, cloned her dead dog Samantha. Not once, but twice.

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In an incredible feature-length interview titled “Barbra Streisand on Oscar Snubs, Sexism in Hollywood & Her Clone Dogs”, Streisand casually explains that two of her three Coton de Tuléar terriers are clones of a beloved pet who died last year. Before Samantha departed this world, Streisand, a woman with a lot of money, asked scientists to harvest cells from the dog’s mouth and stomach. These were used to produce two clones: Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett.

“They have different personalities,” Streisand tells the magazine. “I’m waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have her [Samantha’s] brown eyes and seriousness.”

In order to avoid confusion, Streisand dresses the identical dogs in different colours.

The frankly incredible interview, timed to run before the upcoming Academy Awards, also touches on sexism in Hollywood—particularly the snubbing of female directors.

You can read the whole thing here.