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...Democrats, who need just six more seats to take the majority. He has raised more than $20 million for this election, doing 92 fund raisers so far this year. Some nights he sits at party headquarters until 11 p.m. dialing for West Coast dollars. He even cajoled Barbra Streisand out of retirement for a star-filled $500-a-ticket concert next month, to bring zing-and as much as $4 million-to the party's quest for the House...
...party and making wealthy friends from coast to coast. (Senate majority leader Tom Daschle is keeping up a similar pace.) Last December, Gephardt left Washington during a busy congressional session to fly to Los Angeles and present the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's Liberty and Justice Award to money magnet Barbra Streisand and then hopped a red-eye back to breakfast with President Bush...
DIED. DIANA STREISAND KIND, 93, mother of singer Barbra Streisand; in Los Angeles. The star's strained relationship with her mother, who raised her in Brooklyn, N.Y., and could be critical of her work, eased over the years. At a 1994 comeback concert at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Barbra greeted her mother in the second row and asked, "Are you proud of me now, Mama...
...star made just before her death--in a trifecta of teen queens turned screen queens. Girl power is back in the 'plexes, and this time it sings. Can the new batch of thrushes have the impact of Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, Lena Horne, Doris Day, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Bette Midler, Madonna, Whitney Houston and Jennifer Lopez? (Not to mention a couple of crooners named Crosby and Sinatra...
...Enron affair matured into a scandal just as it began to seem that the culture of celebrity was defunct; suddenly, we remembered that Barbra Streisand was not a political philosopher. Neither is Jack Welch or Bill Gates or, certainly, Ken Lay. In the '90s, we treated businessmen as if they were film stars (and we treated film stars like gods). But we lend stars our affections only; we lend businessmen our chance of future prosperity. A lesson from Enron: we would be wise to entrust that responsibility to those with their feet on the ground, not on a pedestal. Even...