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Would a young Barbra Streisand make it big in show business today? The question is not as stupid as it sounds. Much to the annoyance of baby boomers, their kids often prefer rapping to singing and consider rhythm and riffs more important than melody. And dowdy Broadway, the birthplace of Streisand's fame, is not producing pop stars these days. To the MTV generation, a videogenic image can count more than musical talent...
Soon they might have that chance. This week Kramer is in Hollywood to begin work with Barbra Streisand on her long-deferred film of his AIDS play The Normal Heart. Robert Altman will direct the Angels in America film. The independent Propaganda Films is developing two projects: Good Days, a gay coming-of-age story from John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday); and, with Oliver Stone and HBO, an adaptation of Conduct Unbecoming by Randy Shilts (And the Band Played On). "Nothing takes the taboo off of anything in Hollywood like box office," says Propaganda's boss Steve Golin...
July 1993 Streisand is reported to have complained about Bill Clinton's meeting with Sharon Stone, saying, "Why Sharon Stone? She doesn't know anything about policy...
...interview with the Los Angeles Times, Streisand bitterly condemns journalists who made snide comments about her interest in politics...
December 1993 Streisand lights into billionaire Marvin Davis after he sends her a photo of her with Clinton at Davis's home. Streisand says she didn't authorize the photo and it's of her bad side...