Barbra Streisand on Her New Album, Directing Again and the Only Time She Smoked Pot

It’s 3 p.m.

on a beautiful Southern California day and Barbra Streisand is in bed.

“I’m still in my nightie,” she says.

“I love being in my bed.”Of course, her dogs — Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett — are by her side.

“They take their naps in my bed,” Streisand tells me on today’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast.Leave it to Streisand to work from her boudoir.

She’s promoting her new album, “Release Me 2,” a collection of 10 recordings from the Egot winner’s vault that have never been released.

On the recording that debuts Aug.

6, she sings “I’d Want It to Be You” with Willie Nelson on a recording that was first produced for her 2014 album “Partners.” “The Rainbow Connection” with Kermit the Frog was recorded in 1979.

“I did it basically for my son [Jason Gould], who was a big fan of ‘The Muppet Movie

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