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...think being politically active means getting on Air Force One and going to dinner at the White House," he says. "I've scorned a few liberals in this town, and I get a kick out of that." Only six weeks ago, he called a press conference to attack Barbra Streisand as "the Hanoi Jane of the Second Amendment" for a TV movie she had produced on the 1993 mass shooting on the Long Island Rail Road...
...what is still arguably her best picture, 1968's "Funny Girl," Barbra Streisand dreamed of being "Sadie, Sadie," a married lady. Today, she is. The Brooklyn-born entertainer, 56, and actor James Brolin, 57, tied the knot Wednesday -- the second anniversary of their first date -- at her Malibu estate in a highly romantic but high-security ceremony...
...wedding took place at sunset in the living room of Streisand's Mediterranean-style mansion. The singer's son Jason, from her one previous marriage (to actor Elliott Gould), gave her away, and Brolin's son (actor Josh, from one of his two previous marriages) acted as best man. Streisand's half-sister Rosalind Kind served as maid of honor in the ceremony conducted by Rabbi Leonard Bierman. Streisand's swimming pool was filled with white orchids, her favorite flower...
Among the guests: John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Streisand's mother, songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman (the only invitees who knew the wedding date well in advance; all others were invited on short notice over the phone), "Tootsie" director Sidney Pollack, designer Donna Karan (who made the wedding dress), music producer Quincy Jones and composer Marvin Hamlisch, who conducted a 16-piece orchestra playing "Here Comes the Bride." Despite one L.A. newscast's report that Streisand's close friend President Clinton planned to cut short his China visit in order to attend...
...ceremony's opening video montage blasts the crowd with classic perfume-related moments in film, far too many of which involve Barbra Streisand. Then Annette Green, president of the Fragrance Foundation and creator of the FiFi, is escorted onto the stage. Green, who has spawned annual FiFi award shows in Britain, France, Germany and Spain, announces that the vast proceeds from this event will go to a worthy cause. That cause is not homelessness or AIDS babies, but the Olfactory Research Fund, which Green also heads. The fund counts among its latest projects a joint study with the Kinsey Institute...