James Brolin Said Barbra Streisand's Blunt Remark During A Blind Date 29 Years Ago Sealed Their Fate

After 27 years of marriage, James Brolin still vividly remembers each item of nan unsighted day that led him to autumn successful emotion pinch his wife, Barbra Streisand.

"That nighttime was something," Brolin, 84, told People about his first day pinch Streisand. "It was for illustration personification called and said, 'Would you beryllium willing successful a day pinch her?' And what I said was, 'I for illustration what she says betwixt songs,' and I was a existent seed for women singers — particularly jazz and barroom singers and romanticist singers astatine nan time. So that sewage my interest."

BARBRA STREISAND, JAMES BROLIN REVEAL HE WAS CELIBATE FOR 3 YEARS BEFORE THEY TIED THE KNOT

The mates first met connected a unsighted day successful 1996. (Kevin Mazur/VF19/WireImage)

"I had been retired of a matrimony for 3 years and really saying, 'Who needs that again?' But we some agreed to go. We're connected our measurement and halfway there, we some picked up nan telephone to cancel and thing told us, 'No. Let's conscionable do it.'"

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"We met there. I didn't look astatine each for illustration she had thought I would because I'd been, for 7 years, each bearded and curly-haired successful ‘Hotel.’ She saw maine and went, 'That's not nan feline I came to see.' I had trim disconnected each my hair. She yet came up to beryllium pinch each nan group astatine nan array and came down maine and said, 'Who f----- up your hair?'" he recalled. 

Brolin and Streisand tied nan knot successful 1998.  (Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Image)

"Well, that's erstwhile I fell successful love. I thought, 'This woman tells nan truth correct from nan beginning. I'm crazy astir her,'" Brolin added. "And past we've really been beautiful overmuch together ever since then."

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Brolin, who joined nan emotion of his life successful 1998, said Streisand has ever been"very giving" passim their marriage. 

"One point that she does that immoderate women person a unspeakable clip pinch is, 'Where were you? Oh, that only takes 20 minutes. You've been 2 hours.' Those benignant of questions conscionable destruct things. She ne'er asked maine anything," he said.

"And I conscionable consciousness this unthinkable loyalty, because of it, and truthful that it brings you together. With her, I emotion everything she does. I emotion her choices. People reason pinch her astir her choices and past successful nan end, erstwhile fixed capable time, they find retired she was correct successful nan first sentence."

Both Brolin and Streisand person praised each different passim their relationship.  (SGranitz/WireImage))

In her memoir, "My Name is Barbra," nan legendary character and vocalist explained why her matrimony to Brolin works. 

"I deliberation nan existent logic our narration has endured is that we’re some consenting to activity astatine it," Streisand wrote. "Jim and I are very different. As he’s said to me, ‘You’re an master astatine looking for what’s wrong, while I’m conscionable happy to aftermath up successful nan morning.’ (He’ll unrecorded overmuch longer than me. He keeps saying he’s going to unrecorded to beryllium 100, and precocious upped it to 110. He astir apt will, pinch that attitude)."

Streisand was antecedently joined to Elliott Gould betwixt 1963 and 1971. Brolin was antecedently joined to Jane Cameron Agee, and past Jan Smithers from 1986 to 19995.