Photo: Douglas Kirkland/Corbis via Getty Images Barbra Streisand is supernaturally good at almost everything: singing, acting, writing, directing, cloning. She is chutzpah in human form, an iconoclast who has looked both Nick Nolte and death in the face and said, “Feh!” She is so hard-core that she once made Larry McMurtry vomit out his car window after a friendly game of tennis. In other words, it’s nearly impossible to capture Barbra Streisand’s essence, because she has hundreds of essences, all of them awe-inspiring in the Old Testament sense. So it’s inevitable that, in the flurry of tributes surrounding her recent 80th birthday, bits and pieces of her expansive brilliance have been…