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...Nuts, Barbra Streisand saw you in your underwear...
...heard. Madonna threw a Kabbalah cocktail party. Roseanne compares Kabbalah--favorably--to quantum physics. Elizabeth Taylor, Barbra Streisand and actress Sandra Bernhard study it. And Hardoon's Kabbalah Learning Center, the controversial organization that attracts many of the stars, is just the largest and most flamboyant of hundreds of courses in Kabbalah and related Jewish mysticism in places as diverse as Sudbury, Mass., and Boca Raton, Fla. Academic involvement in the discipline has multiplied, as have tangential pop artifacts like the best-selling Bible Code and an X-Files episode about a golem, the Jewish proto-Frankenstein monster. Publishers...
...whole thing builds gradually, powerfully, inevitably, and crests with a big golden payoff note. Three new albums would seem to be aimed at that need: Canadian chanteuse Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love (550 Music), vocal power lifter Michael Bolton's All That Matters (Columbia) and Barbra Streisand's Higher Ground (Columbia). These performers are of differing ages, but they are all from the old school. When they sing, they often go for the cheap seats, the rafters, the chandeliers. They evoke thoughts of shattering wineglasses and standing ovations and encores that go on and on until...
...Streisand has one of those voices that can take you places. Go back and check out her 1970 rendition of the title song from her movie musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: it makes you feel eligible for frequent-flyer miles. Streisand also has that rare ability to make show-biz emotions seem sincere; when she hits those big payoff notes, she doesn't do it just because she can; she does it because the song calls for it, because the big note she's holding is the only way to express what she's feeling. Higher...
...Streisand: And we're just about to fall asleep. And he says, "I don't want to fall asleep." And so I said, "Why not?" And he says, "Because then I'll miss...