Word: barbra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour specials, interviewing such constitutional experts as Supreme Court Justices Harry Blackmun, Sandra Day O'Connor and William Brennan. ABC's entertainment division is preparing a one-hour tribute titled The Splendiferous Wham-Bam Constitution Special that will feature a number of stars, including Michael J. Fox and Barbra Streisand. On a serious note, both the ABC and NBC news divisions will present specials on differing interpretations of the Constitution...
...stars are always out in the Los Angeles firmament, but last week it was political, not professional pull that ruled who was in what constellation. Giving her first public singing performance in six years, Barbra Streisand opened her Malibu ranch to the wallets of Jack Nicholson, Bette Midler, Jane Fonda and some 500 others who shelled out an astronomical $2,500 apiece for veal from Spago (very haute) and a backyard concert (very hot). Organized by the Hollywood Women's Political Committee to support six Democratic senatorial candidates, the affair was taped by HBO. Streisand crooned old favorites (People...
...Ashram, 30 miles west of Los An-geles in Calabasas, offers no pampering frills at all. Bedrooms and bathrooms are shared by the ten guests, even celebrities like Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda and Esther Williams (who ventured some hints on how to clean the pool). It's "purgatory," Owner Anne- Marie Bennstrom cheerfully confesses. Others would place it further below. "You can come to us anytime, even the middle of the night, if you feel like crying," Fitness Instructor Anniqa Foress says, to soothe newcomers. The twelve-year-old Ashram is notorious for hiking trails so steep and narrow that...
Cleverly crafted out of latex and foam rubber, the cast of caricatures ranges from Ronald and Nancy Reagan to Barbra Streisand, from William ("the Refrigerator") Perry to Charles Bronson, from Walter Cronkite to David Frost. Oops, Frost is actually the only real person featured on a special version of Spitting Image, the weekly satirical show of puppets and circumstances that is one of Britain's most talked-about TV programs. The two-year-old series is either adored or abhorred for such presentations as a Christmastime satire of the royal family regally addled by holiday cheer. Last week work...
...spent two years writing her own. Pinckney contends that most exercises do not reach far enough into muscles, and she has developed a combination of stretching and deep contractions aimed particularly at tightening the stomach and lifting the rear. She eschews aerobics, preferring many repetitions of gentle, nonjarring movements. Barbra Streisand was sold and wrote Pinckney, "Thanks for teaching me how to keep...