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...weeks after the vote, Barbra Streisand raised the boycott banner: "We must now say clearly that the moral climate in Colorado is no longer acceptable, and if we're asked to, we must refuse to play where they discriminate." Later, she said she would respect the decision -- to boycott or not -- of "the people living in Colorado, whom this most deeply affects...
...EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA IS LOSING friends fast. The 30-year-old boycott suffered two blows in quick succession. First the U.N. General Assembly approved a Castro-sponsored call for an end to sanctions; then the - Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Pastors for Peace delivered 12.5 tons of illegally exported supplies to Havana...
...world's most influential filmmakers, has asked that Blacks boycott work and school to attend today's long-anticipated opening of his new movie, Malcolm X. But that request lacks rhyme or reason and preaches the wrong values to the very audience Lee is targeting...
Perhaps Billy Crystal said it best in a visit to Harvard last September, when a student asked the star if he would like to join Lee at Harvard with a teaching post. After responding that he wouldn't know what to teach, Crystal mocked Lee's request for the boycott. Crystal, who is Jewish, joked that when his next movie comes out, "I'm going to ask everyone to stay home on Rosh Hashana...
Patrons of the comedy club Catch a Rising Star were greeted at the door last week with serious business--a picket line of former employees handing out flyers urging the boycott of the establishment...