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...cabaret in the early 1950s for $800, Banducci installed a brick-wall backdrop, now standard in comedy clubs, and urged artists to be themselves. In addition to nurturing Sahl, known for his edgy political satire, the flamboyant, beret-clad enthusiast helped launch such performers as Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Lenny Bruce, Bill Cosby and the Kingston Trio. Banducci...
...Coop, whether or not to get a TV, and whether bed risers are a delightful use of space (or just a drunken fort waiting to happen), are all serious questions that every undergrad has to grapple with at some point. Hitler posters and shrines to Barbra Streisand are usually good indicators of latent wacko tendencies (and bad b.o.), but extreme cases aside, how much does your room really say about you? In order to answer this question, FM grabbed two strangers and tested each on the other based solely on their rooms. Sort of like “Room Raiders...
...nothing new, and has always been mutual. Bill Clinton's candidacy and presidency - like John F. Kennedy's 40 years before - was closely tied to Hollywood, first because of his old pals, producers Linda Bloodworth and Harry Thomason, and later through friendships with industry bigshots like Spielberg, Barbra Streisand and others...
...Hillary Clinton is likely to draw on those friendships for her own possible Presidential bid."People in Hollywood who care about changing the world see people in Washington as a way to do it,"observes Marge Tabankin, Streisand's political guru and former director of the now-disassembled Hollywood Women's Political Committee (HWPC), of which Streisand was a founder."And people on the Washington axis recognize that Hollywood has been an incredibly generous zip code for political giving. They view celebrity as a megaphone which can be useful...
...director Rob Reiner, George Clooney, to name a few. There will be breakfasts, private get-togethers in Hollywood homes, parties to recruit younger Hollywood supporters and bigger fundraisers. Just which candidate most of the Hollywood crowd winds up back remains to be seen, but one thing is fairly certain: Streisand will sing. "Barbra has been performing for every major Democratic candidate for almost 20 years," says Tabankin. After all, not only can she help raise a lot of money, but she can teach the pols a thing or two about working a crowd...