BBC News By Mark Savage It's shortly after midday and Barbra Streisand is taking it easy. "I just had my coffee and my blueberries and now I'm still in bed, but I'm talking to you," she says, on the phone from her home in Malibu. She's joined in the boudoir by her "precious little sweetheart" Violet, a fluffy white Coton de Tulear; while an assistant bustles around in the background, fetching lyric sheets and acting as a fact-checker. "Did Jim Henson bring Kermit with him to the recording studio?" Streisand asks at one point. The answer, sadly, is a "no".