Word: barbra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...VEGAS, NEVADA Barbra Streisand In Concert The first diva will hold court at the MGM Grand. Also entertaining in Vegas: Elton John, Bette Midler and Celine Dion --500 to $2,500/ticket...
...look at pages dedicated to me! They are so wonderful, so full of passion and love. But my favorite page is the "Celine Dion Sucks" page which suggests that I am on a "quest for domination." But I am already #1! I have already won my Grammy! Barbra Streisand is my best friend! I must be more passionate! More beautiful! More full of love! They think that I sing so loud because I am "sexually frustrated." They compare my voice to a "screaming banshee who is being beaten with barbed wire and then being chopped...
Then, in his second stage, he couldn't. Even while he was making serious hay as Nike's and Canon's poster boy--"Image Is Everything"--he was hangin' with Barbra Streisand (!), asking Las Vegas to name streets after him, scarfing doughnuts and sagging on court like a sprung net. He dropped to No. 25 in the world and looked to be one kaput wunderkind...
...suicide by jumping from the GE Building); Winona Ryder (she performs an unusual exercise with Ping-Pong balls); Bill Gates (he is shot dead because Windows 98 isn't fast enough); Saddam Hussein (he has a gay affair with Satan and toys shamelessly with the Horned One's affections); Barbra Streisand (for all the old reasons); Liza Minnelli (don't ask); and God (who is vilified by one of the movie's guest kid heroes). Also anyone who lacks a bottomless tolerance for inspired comic rudeness...
...Harry Chapin song Cat's in the Cradle. Certain themes obviously undergird these works: dying fathers, dying athletes, dead fathers, dead athletes. These are romances, to be sure, but instead of the overblown, tear-jerking gestures of male-female romances, the car crashes and death caves and Barbra Streisand ballads ("Misty water-colored MEMMM-RIESSSS"), we have the tiny, crabbed, tear-jerking gestures of guyish intimacy: the game of catch, the hand on the shoulder, the locker room's dopey, he-really-likes-you insults. But no pats on the butt! One of the most curious things I've noticed...