' ' . ' \. THE CHANGE that came over Gary her records, photographs, and Nugent, computer . Qperator, was seeing all her films. · realiy quite stagg,ering: from Then one day he looked at him­Barbra ~treisand's most doting fan sel! I In the mirro·r, mucked about to: Barbra Streisand's· double! with his hair a bit, and decided that

Gary, from Sydney, Australia, was : his likeness to the great Streisand just a shy, retiring nobody,.ln-par- was lrideed striking. The change­

- ticular 'Vhen the Funnr G!~l herselt - over was under way. '· · ~ took his country by storm, . But he Gary, · now 26, took hormone

wisn't backward ' in collecting au treatment, legally changed his name to Laura Parker, and .got a job as a waitress to learn about ~!ng a girl.' ·

. He learned about . men, t~and " how to tu~n them down when they · tried to ask me out/' , , .

Then · the Big Break; A Sydney : night ' club , hired him for a new i

· female . impersonation show. Gary 1;' .had already done some acting. Ile 1 can also sing. But who In the world

can sing like Streisand? . \'I

Bust operation I '

'Mime was the answer. Now, he's doing 40 shows, a week and is some-.

~ .' thlng of a stai: in his own right. ' · ·Recently he , had an .. operation '

"', which gave • him a 36-ln. bust, and · even ·o1T . stage he now lives . like

,·: another1 Barbra Streisand. . , ·~;% .. "A,s Gary I was timid and shy," !~! , he said. "Now I get instant atten­' .. ' tion. · I demand - and get - my

; ~ rights." " . i . , It's not too diflcult to pick out

' the real Streisand in these pictures, .'. but·who's who on Pa'ge One? Barbra

-/-.ts .in · the BOTI'OM picture. , ·