Word: barbra
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...supporters such as Rush Limbaugh, a man so crucial that when he arrived in June 1992, Bush even carried his bags. But like Henry Ford, Clinton took an existing idea and perfected its mass production. In the Clinton White House, 938 guests trooped through. They included the famous, like Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg and Billy Graham, and the relatively obscure, including numerous personal friends of the Clintons and Chelsea. But at least a third of them were moved to make donations to the party before or after their stayovers, totaling $10 million in all, according to the New York Times...
...Screen (Random House; 203 pages; $21). Dunne is a journalist and novelist who, with his wife Joan Didion, another producer of stinging reportage and fiction, pays the family bills by writing movie scripts. Among those that made it to the cineplexes in one version or another are the Barbra Streisand remake of A Star Is Born and the Robert Redford-Michelle Pfeiffer showcase, Up Close and Personal, the subject of Dunne's new book...
...BARBRA STREISAND Skips Inaugural, sparking rumors that White House won't let her shack up with beau Brolin...
Reiner is one of dozens of celebrities who have joined Hollywood's latest children's crusade. Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston and Henry Winkler have all donated their names, their time and even their money to various kids' causes. Not only did Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw co-found the Children's Action Network, which makes educational films and sponsors immunization campaigns, but Spielberg also chairs the Starbright Foundation, an innovative charity group that deploys entertainment technologies to help ease the suffering of sick children...
...older and wiser and practiced in humility, Clinton is toning it down. He promised only modest enterprises and gestures during the campaign, and so the 53rd Inaugural is built to scale: smaller, shorter, cheaper, spread over three days, with eight tents on the Mall instead of 65. Gone is Barbra Streisand, who decided to attend a movie awards ceremony instead. At the "vital center" of this Inaugural are such artists as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and country music singer Trisha Yearwood. Cymbals and symbols have been muted: there will be no walk across the Memorial Bridge...