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Streisand's friends also claim she has gotten a bum rap for her political activities. "I think she's a very, very serious person," says Larry Kramer, the AIDS activist who is working with Streisand on a screen version of his play The Normal Heart, which she will direct, produce and act in. "She's very interested in politics, she's very interested in the daily newspapers and journalism, and she's very interested in learning." Streisand fervently defends her attachment to the Clinton Administration during the Inaugural and after. "I think the press was jealous of the people...
Full of goofy laughter, angst and tears, Alek Keshishian's film about four Harvard students and the spunkiest bum you ever did see is nothing less than a "Love Story" for out time. A simple coming of age story that takes into account today's troubled economic climate, the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, and an impersonal health-care system run amok...
...remarkable thing is that Simon, although a bum, is one hell of a guy. One hell of a guy. He is full of jokes; when a stuffy Disability administrator asks, "What state were you born in?" Simon answers, "Infancy." He reads Zola. He cooks. He fixes cars. He defends the Constitution brilliantly in a classroom showdown with Money's thesis advisor, that sneering elitist bastard Professor Pitkannan (played with relish by Gore Vidal) who finds the document vulgar and crude...
Crimson: When you get to Harvard, the movie they show everybody is "Love Story." And I was thinking, "Love Story" is sort of boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl. And this is sort of boy meets bum, boy gets bum, boy loses bum. It's sort of a baroque variation of "Love Story" to me. I don't know if you had it in your mind when you filming the movie...
...Labadie even wore a "Throw the Bum Out" button she kept from the days of the Watergate scandal that eventually forced Nixon to resign...