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...Before the event, there was grumbling among Democratic ranks that the Brentwood party for Hillary's campaign and a brunch 24 hours later at Barbra Streisand's house to benefit the Clinton presidential library were taking liberal Hollywood dollars away from the Al Gore presidential campaign. Indeed, the partygoers in Brentwood paid $1,000 for the concert; $25,000 for the concert and supper afterward. Was it worth it? Only if Hillary's Senate campaign was near and dear to your heart. The concert took place on the lawn, where big trees blocked donors' views. And there was some understandable...
...town, said he had been invited to 340 parties - and counting. Variety, the chronicler of Hollywood's party-hearty ways, says there were over 40 events on Sunday alone. Chelsea Clinton, the Gore girls, the Kennedy men were everywhere, grabbing the spotlight next to mega-party throwers like Barbra Streisand and the ever-ubiquitous Melissa Etheridge...
...listen to the Democrats - Dickensian in their tenderness for the little folk, for the janitors and maids and, presumably, for the Chicano pool boys in attendance at the homes of Barbra Streisand and Warren Beatty - who would know of their own party's rich corruptions and fat-catteries? One would think that Clinton had invented this giant watermelon economy all by himself, and that the Los Angeles convention was a kind of multicultural communion of saints...
...Will the Democrats offer more appropriate music next week? Will we get Barbra Streisand wailing "Hava Nagila"? We will have to wait...
...Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison 2. I Did It My Way - Sinatra 3. Your Cheatin' Heart - H. Williams 4. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Irene Dunn (Roberta) 5. Like a Rolling Stone - Dylan 6. Satisfaction - Rolling Stones 7. Memory - Lloyd Webber 8. Evergreen - Barbra Streisand (from "A Star Is Born") 9. As Time Goes By - from "Casablanca" 10. Lily Marlene - Marlene Dietrich...