Word: streisands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barbra Streisand was paid millions of dollars to give two New Year's concerts at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and she criticized the hotel's rooms and other facilities from the stage. Maybe she was just having a bad day, but she seems to have a lot of them...
January 1993 Streisand reportedly insisted that unless she introduces Clinton, she'll refuse to perform at the Inaugural Gala...
...Streisand is said to have snapped at Senator Arlen Specter, "How do you Republicans feel now that you've lost everything and are all losers...
...more romantic, personal terms. We're looking for sensual, extended gratification." In other words, Disney World is about tightly scripted smile-button fun for the kids; Las Vegas, despite the new theme-park accessories, remains the epicenter of the American id, still desperate to overpay schmaltzy superstars like Barbra Streisand, still focused on the darker stirrings of chance and liquor...
...Vegas impresarios took a dying strain of vaudeville and turned it into a highly particular Vegas style. Gamblers from Duluth and Atlanta came to see only-in-Vegas entertainments: Sinatra, Streisand, stand-up comedians, the trash rococo of Liberace, both flaunting and denying his gayness; hot-ticket singer-dancers like Ann-Margret; and shows with whiffy themes that existed as mere pretexts for bringing out brigades of suggestively costumed young women jiggling through clouds of pastel-colored smoke as overamped pop tunes blared. It was cheesy glamour, to be sure, but it was rare and one of a kind...