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...staff supports Barbra Streisand's defense of funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. Not only is goverment funding for the arts a waste of taxpayer money; it is potentially dangerous to artistic freedom to have the government making decisions about what constitutes artistic merit. We no longer live in Renaissance Florence. The government ought to have no role in this area...
...Barbra Streisand has proved time and again in her career that she goes where she wants to. She has been virtually unstoppable as an actress singer, producer and political activist. And with last week's performance, Streisand proved that even fair Harvard is not exempt from getting "verklempt" at her presence. The Kennedy School Was star struck--in more than one sense of the word...
Carnesale's taste in show tunes aside, his remark revealed the real purpose of Streisand's invitation by the Dean of the Kennedy School of Government. Harvard, for all its cultural elitism, is no less star struck than the fans who swiped her used tea mug after the speech and huddled in the February cold to catch a glimpse of Streisand...
...disputing Streisand's rights as a "citizen artist." She and her Streisand Foundation have given over 300 grants to a variety of causes ranging from pediatric AIDS research and gay civil rights to environmental protection and public school art programs. She has endowed two chairs at California universities and raised untold sums for a Democratic party that could sorely use the cash. And Streisand has, as she said Friday evening, let her artistic productions speak for her beliefs...
Friday's speech was such a performance. Streisand used her celebrity to focus the eyes of the national press on Newt Gingrich's war against Big Bird. Streisand did not say anything that the art community has not been saying about the right wing's threat to federal funding. But she did it with the attention of 650 of America's "cultural elite," 70 journalists and their viewers and readers...