I was amused to read of Barbra Streisand’s latest bout of control freakery (Streisand takes issue with Siri over surname, 23 August). Some years ago I was chairing a press conference for The Mirror Has Two Faces, an oddly appropriate title for a mediocre film which she both directed and co-starred in. After being asked first to move to her right side, presumably to enjoy a kinder profile, she then reacted again after I introduced her to my press colleagues as “Barbara Streis-n’d”. “It’s Streis-AND!” she hissed noisily in my left ear, to which I reacted with a nervous titter.
Quentin Falk
Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire
• All my life I’ve been telling people my surname is pronounced with a V, not a W. Could Barbra Streisand start phoning the heads of global corporations for me and others who live with a similar affliction, to make them get it right?
Mark Lewinski
Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire
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