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...Clinton, Streisand has lately become even more entrenched in progressive causes. Her personal blog reads like the DailyKos, filled with statements about the upcoming midterm election. Furthermore, her political beliefs are also becoming part of her onstage persona as never before. No longer content with mediocre renditions of standards, Streisand??s new tour now includes a professional George W. Bush impersonator, who engages in an extended skit with Streisand in which the president is depicted as a bumbling moron...
...starters, Streisand??s banter with her faux Bush dragged on a little too long in the evening’s show. A “Dubya double” has the potential to be humorous but it was decidedly unfunny for her crowd to have this long partisan commercial foisted upon them between songs. People came to the show to hear Streisand sing (already a boring proposition) not to hear the current president belittled (even more...
This was not lost on Streisand??s New York audience. Everyone knows that Dubya is not that bright, and any skit over 30 seconds long merely belabors the point. As Streisand??s lackluster satire went forward, order collapsed faster than Air America’s ratings. One audience member began to heckle Streisand and her Bush lookalike, setting off a major showdown with the Brooklyn-born diva. Not to be upstaged by someone offstage, Streisand decided to meet chutzpah with chutzpah...
...subsequent apology Streisand pretentiously told us that the artist’s role is “to disturb.” While this is true to some extent (Streisand??s behavior has certainly seemed disturbing to me for a number of years), actors and singers should realize that political advocacy should not be their primary focus. Politics should be left to politicians, not to singers, and if an entertainer does feel the need to opine, it should be done with as much tact as possible...
...Coop Café last Wednesday evening. The former New York Magazine Theater reviewer and current Bloomberg News Drama Critic and Harper’s Book Reviewer is one of the most erudite, powerful, and notoriously unforgiving critics of his time. Not many men can print that Barbra Streisand??s nose “towers like a ziggurat made of meat” without getting sued. Careers turned on his acerbic tongue, and enmity followed it. The New York Drama Critics Circle voted to refuse him membership in 1969. Actress Sylvia Miles once overturned a plate of spaghetti onto...
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