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...launch full scale war against the diva. But just as they pulled back their bows and sharpened their arrows, the political arena called-George W. Bush started gaining in the polls and Al Gore '69 needed help building momentum before he announced his running mate. Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Barbra Streisand and other celebs all went on the record about Bush's incompetence and the stars suddenly started turning out for Gore just as they had for Clinton. Meanwhile Liz Hurley goes incognito...
...BARBRA STREISAND has always taken two things very seriously: performing live and Barbra Streisand. But having decided she needed more time to "live my life," she said farewell to her days as a concert performer with two sold-out nights at New York City's Madison Square Garden designed to drain the tear ducts of anyone who has ever even considered humming The Way We Were. She duetted with a videotaped Frank Sinatra on I've Got a Crush on You, bantered (albeit with aid from a TelePrompTer) with Shirley MacLaine about the Y2K virus, and dedicated a love song...
...Before the event, there was grumbling among Democratic ranks that the Brentwood party for Hillary's campaign and a brunch 24 hours later at Barbra Streisand's house to benefit the Clinton presidential library were taking liberal Hollywood dollars away from the Al Gore presidential campaign. Indeed, the partygoers in Brentwood paid $1,000 for the concert; $25,000 for the concert and supper afterward. Was it worth it? Only if Hillary's Senate campaign was near and dear to your heart. The concert took place on the lawn, where big trees blocked donors' views. And there was some understandable...
...town, said he had been invited to 340 parties - and counting. Variety, the chronicler of Hollywood's party-hearty ways, says there were over 40 events on Sunday alone. Chelsea Clinton, the Gore girls, the Kennedy men were everywhere, grabbing the spotlight next to mega-party throwers like Barbra Streisand and the ever-ubiquitous Melissa Etheridge...
...listen to the Democrats - Dickensian in their tenderness for the little folk, for the janitors and maids and, presumably, for the Chicano pool boys in attendance at the homes of Barbra Streisand and Warren Beatty - who would know of their own party's rich corruptions and fat-catteries? One would think that Clinton had invented this giant watermelon economy all by himself, and that the Los Angeles convention was a kind of multicultural communion of saints...