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MARCH 12, 2010, 5:43 pm
New pictures of Barbra's rare appearance on Sunday, March 7th, at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles have been posted! To see images of her presenting the "Best Director" Oscar to Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win an Academy Award in that category, click here.
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MARCH 8, 2010, 7:15 pm
You can read Barbra's thoughts about the Oscar that she presented to Kathryn Bigelow last night at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
MARCH 8, 2010, 2:52 pm
Barbra made a rare public appearance last night at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, to present the "Best Director" Oscar to Kathryn Bigelow, the first Woman to win an Academy Award in that category.
Bigelow was only the fourth woman nominated for the prize. Her low-budget Iraq war film, The Hurt Locker, was the big winner at the ceremony. It took six academy awards, including those for best picture and best original screenplay.
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Bigelow was only the fourth woman nominated for the prize. Her low-budget Iraq war film, The Hurt Locker, was the big winner at the ceremony. It took six academy awards, including those for best picture and best original screenplay.
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MARCH 5, 2010, 2:09 pm
A new statement has been posted. Read it here:
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/us/statement/center-american-progress-pro...
MARCH 2, 2010, 10:56 am
It's true! Barbra is planning on attending and presenting an award at this year's Academy Awards.
Barbra won Oscars® in 1968 for her lead performance in “Funny Girl” and in 1976 for the Original Song “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born).”
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PT/ 8 p.m. ET. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.
MARCH 1, 2010, 3:31 am
Here's a first look of the cover art for Barbra's forthcoming release "One Night Only" -- Barbra's one off gig at the Village Vanguard, New York from September 2009, which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on May 4, 2010.
More information to follow.
More information to follow.
FEBRUARY 23, 2010, 11:45 am
Barbra's full length gig from September will be released on DVD on May 4. More details to follow.
FEBRUARY 15, 2010, 10:14 am
Barbra recently spoke to BroadwayWorld.com about her favorite Broadway Love Song:Read more »
FEBRUARY 11, 2010, 9:23 pm
Click here to read the truth alert:
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/us/truth-alert/truth-about-we-are-world-r...
FEBRUARY 11, 2010, 3:04 pm
World premiere of video to air exclusively on NBC during coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the Vancouver Winter Olympics; Fremantle Media Enterprises and GroupM partnered to secure international distribution for a simulcast airing the following day.
Downloads and exclusive content will be available on http://www.world25.org/ iTunes & YouTubeRead more »
FEBRUARY 3, 2010, 5:50 pm
To read the new (February 2010) truth alert, click here:
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/us/truth-alert/setting-record-straight-usual
To read the November 2009 Truth Alert (with additional comments), click here:
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/us/truth-alert/setting-matter-straight
JANUARY 28, 2010, 1:53 pm
A new statement, "We The Corporations? I Don't Think So" has been posted - read it here.
MARCH 8, 2010, 7:12 pm
1992 was called “the year of the woman” so in 1993 before presenting the award for best director I said, “Tonight the Academy honors women and the movies but I look forward to the time when tributes like this will no longer be necessary because women will be honored without regard to gender but simply for the excellence of their work.”
Well the time has come, it’s 2010 – 17 years later and it was with great pleasure that I presented the award for Best Director to Kathryn Bigelow.
MARCH 5, 2010, 2:07 pm
“Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said yesterday that there are limits to American military power and it's time for the State Department and other agencies to step up efforts abroad. "US foreign policy is still too dominated by the military, too dependent upon the generals and admirals who lead our major overseas commands and not enough on the State Department," he said.”
---From the Center for American Progress, Progress Report
FEBRUARY 23, 2010, 2:59 pm
By Barbra Streisand.
Last January, Barack Obama was sworn into office after being elected by an overwhelming majority of the country. His historic victory was a mandate for change. With new energy occupying the White House, and a re-invigorated progressive leadership at the helm in Congress, Americans believed that positive change was finally going to rattle the “business as usual” status quo that had plagued Washington D.C. for the past eight years.Read more »
JANUARY 28, 2010, 1:05 pm
I felt like I was in suspended animation as I read the Supreme Court decision which, essentially enables a corporate coup d’état of America’s Democracy.
Our country’s Founding Fathers never intended for monarchs or the business establishment to rule our nation. No, the Founders of our country began the Constitution with the words, "We the People of the United States…"
That sentiment was again expressed when President Lincoln in his famous Gettysburg Address said it simply but powerfully, that our government was of the people, by the people and for the people.Read more »
AUGUST 26, 2009, 4:52 pm
Ted Kennedy was America's Senator for so long and he inspired so many millions of us with his wisdom and compassion. He is gone but he leaves us with his vision of America to guide us and his clear voice that will reverberate forever. He was always a fighter for justice, working to help those left behind. He will be terribly missed.
AUGUST 14, 2009, 1:53 pm
Health Insurance Reform Reality Check
8 ways reform provides security and stability to those with or without coverage
Ends Discrimination for Pre-Existing Conditions: Insurance companies will be prohibited from refusing you coverage because of your medical history.
Ends Exorbitant Out-of-Pocket Expenses, Deductibles or Co-Pays: Insurance companies will have to abide by yearly caps on how much they can charge for out-of-pocket expenses.Read more »
JUNE 4, 2009, 1:00 am
There has been a lot of conversation lately about how the ability to identify with another person's circumstance makes one unqualified to wear the judicial robe. Since President Obama's nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the word empathyRead more »
JANUARY 26, 2009, 2:00 am
Please join me in donating to People For's work to defend constitutional values and confirm Eric Holder.
Then take a moment, if you've not yet done so, to sign the petition to the Senate.
I'm writing to you now to let you know about my friend and President Obama's nominee for Attorney General, Eric Holder. Read more »
DECEMBER 11, 2008, 2:00 am
Last weekend, I was in Washington DC to accept the Kennedy Center Honors, and I noticed that the kiss between me and the "soon to be former" President Bush created quite a stir. Read more »
NOVEMBER 5, 2008, 2:00 am
November 5thawhat a daya a new daya.finally Dr. King's words ring true that one day we will live in a nation where people "will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.&rdquRead more »
OCTOBER 30, 2008, 1:00 am
John McCain has declared from swing state to swing state, "I am a Teddy Roosevelt Republicana" Read more »
OCTOBER 28, 2008, 1:00 am
Americans can't take anything for granted on Tues November 4th. In the 2000 and 2004 elections, voter fraud, voter suppression and voter intimidation were rampant, especially in the critical swing states Florida and Ohio. Read more »
MARCH 11, 2010, 5:28 pm
Greetings to my conservative readers, who have vented and philosophized about President Obama's health reform drive in countless comments and e-mails. I want to talk today to you.Read more »
MARCH 9, 2010, 2:49 pm
The New York Times.
A hugely cynical Republican Party memo on the care and feeding of big donors disdains them as “ego-driven” check writers who can be bought by access to power and vanity tchotchkes. The memo, obtained by Politico.com, is exceptional for its candor about the crassness of the multibillion-dollar politicking industry.Read more »
MARCH 8, 2010, 6:06 pm
Robert Kuttner -- Huffington Post.
You couldn't blame Paul Volcker for feeling ill-used. He was one of the first of the financial Brahmins to endorse Barack Obama, back when Hillary Clinton was a sure thing for the nomination. Volcker was an earlier adviser to Obama than Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, Bob Rubin, or the rest of the Wall Street gang. Then, after Obama became the Democratic nominee, Volcker was trotted out as a senior advisor and his prestigious name was dropped for a top administration post.Read more »
MARCH 4, 2010, 4:04 am
The radical right has caught fire, as broad-based anger over the past year has ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation.
The radical right caught fire last year, as broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation.Read more »
MARCH 2, 2010, 2:56 pm
Click on the following link to read today's "Article of Interest".
MARCH 2, 2010, 2:53 pm
Click on the following link for today's "Article Of Interest"
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/rulings/promise-kept/?p...
MARCH 2, 2010, 6:42 am
By PAUL KRUGMAN -- New York Times.
“Don’t cut Medicare. The reform bills passed by the House and Senate cut Medicare by approximately $500 billion. This is wrong.” So declared Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, in a recent op-ed article written with John Goodman, the president of the National Center for Policy Analysis.Read more »
MARCH 2, 2010, 6:41 am
"Buyer's remorse" is the way Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate Republicans' fundraiser, gleefully refers to Wall Street moguls' current disenchantment with the U.S. president they thought they had bought. They didn't like it when Barack Obama, after a year of throwing trillions of American taxpayer dollars into the bailout sinkhole, dared remark that he had hoped there might be some return for ordinary folks trying to save their jobs and homes. Not just huge bonuses for the folks the president dared refer to as "fat cats."Read more »
MARCH 2, 2010, 6:39 am
by WALTER BRASCH, PH.D. in Politics, Society. TheModerateVoice.com
Sarah Palin stood before an audience of 600 at the first Tea Party convention and in her twinkly home-spun rhetoric, declared we don’t need a professor of law but a commander-in-chief. As expected, she received roaring applause. And, as expected, she was wrong.Read more »
MARCH 2, 2010, 6:38 am
TruthDig.com -- By E.J. Dionne
When word went out that Bill Clinton was hospitalized, the prospect that he was in danger made me wish that President Barack Obama had spent more time learning lessons that only Clinton can teach.
Yes, Clinton put his presidency at risk over a sex scandal, and his infuriating moments around the 2008 South Carolina primary disheartened even his most loyal supporters.Read more »
MARCH 2, 2010, 6:36 am
By BOB HERBERT -- New York Times.
It was primarily a symbolic gesture. Way back in 1979, in the midst of an energy crisis, Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the roof of the White House. They were used to heat water for some White House staffers.Read more »
MARCH 1, 2010, 5:42 pm
By AL GORE -- Op-ed Contributor (New York Times).
It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.Read more »
FEBRUARY 11, 2010, 9:20 pm
To clarify the ridiculous assertions relating to Barbra Streisand's participation in the new "We Are The World," the recording of which I attended with her, Barbra hit it on her first take, but then asked Patti Austin, who was producing the vocal session, if she could do a few more to see what else she might come up with. Patti thought the first take was perfect, and she thought the fourth one was more perfect. They stopped at "more perfect."
---Jay Landers / SVP A&R Columbia Records.
FEBRUARY 3, 2010, 5:45 pm
I discovered in a recent book of rather serious intent, and in which I was otherwise fairly treated, that the author chose to print some of the silliest fabricated tales about me even after acknowledging that they were “perhaps more apocryphal than true.” I was surprised that this author would not even bother to check his facts. I don’t care if someone doesn’t like my work or tells a story that is unflattering…as long as it’s the truth.Read more »
NOVEMBER 11, 2009, 6:58 pm
An Addendum to my Truth Alert about Pete Hamill’s 1963 Article in The Saturday Evening Post.
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I wanted to write an addendum to the Truth Alert I posted below because I couldn’t stop thinking about which “friend “could possibly have so misjudged me. I decided to track down Pete Hamill, who wrote the 1963 article that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Read more »
MAY 18, 2009, 1:00 am
Just for the record...the claims and statements attributed to me in Jon Peters' book proposal are either completely distorted or simply untrue.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2007, 1:00 am
Rush Limbaugh is plugging a new book whose conservative agenda attacks liberals. But the facts the book alleges about Barbra Streisand, as reported in the WorldNetDaily website, just aren't factual.Read more »
JULY 3, 2007, 1:00 am
It seems we have yet another example of irresponsible journalism. A falsehood masquerading as fact has somehow made its way into a reputable newspaper. An unsourced and fictitious claim from over 10 years ago has been printed as fact in a recent UK daiRead more »
NOVEMBER 1, 2006, 2:00 am
In view of press speculation that there was a political aspect to an incident at one of the recent Ft. Lauderdale performances of the current Barbra Streisand national tour, the star wishes it known that she discoveredRead more »
APRIL 7, 2006, 1:00 am
The New York Post Page Six column, as usual, intentionally and maliciously lied by omission! Their story today (April 7) starts off: "Barbra Streisand has finally gotten around to reading" the latest unauthorized biography on her, when in facRead more »
AUGUST 11, 2004, 1:00 am
TABLOID MISSTATEMENT: In the August 16 issue of the National Enquirer, the tabloid's "gossip editor"
asserts that Barbra Streisand was not filming "Meet The Fockers" during the Democratic National Convention
and further asserts that, thereRead more »
JUNE 9, 2003, 1:00 am
A software tycoon has prominently featured Barbra Streisand's name on his website along with photos of her home and has been sued by the artist who is seeking the same anonymity he provided to thousands of othRead more »
NOVEMBER 5, 2002, 2:00 am
Answer: They DON'T!
It seems from a flurry of fabricated stories about Barbra Streisand
in the conservative New York Post that this publication feels that
freedom of the press only applies to those who own the presses.
This concerns the latestRead more »
OCTOBER 16, 2002, 1:00 am
FLAGRANT USE OF FABRICATED QUOTES AND DISTORTION OF STREISAND'S COMMENTS Read more »
A conservative Republican candidate desperately tying to unseat respected Democratic Congresswoman Ca
DECEMBER 11, 2008, 2:00 am
Last weekend, I was in Washington DC to accept the Kennedy Center Honors, and I noticed that the kiss between me and the "soon to be former" President Bush created quite a stir. The Today Show even proclaimed that it was a sign of the apocalypse. The timing is ironic. After eight years of President Clinton and on the cusp of at least four years of President Obama, I get selected to receive this prestigious awardaduring the Bush Administration. I have never met George W.Read more »
NOVEMBER 5, 2008, 2:00 am
November 5thawhat a daya a new daya.finally Dr. King's words ring true that one day we will live in a nation where people "will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.&rdqu
November 5thawhat a daya a new daya.finally Dr. King's words ring true that one day we will live in a nation where people "will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." After 2 stolen elections, this time, in this election over 57 million Americans made their voices heard.Read more »
OCTOBER 30, 2008, 1:00 am
John McCain has declared from swing state to swing state, "I am a Teddy Roosevelt Republicana" Does McCain realize that President Roosevelt advocated for progressive taxationajust like Senator Obama. McCain has labeled Obama a socialist for his position on taxes. However, in his own words Roosevelt stated: "We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community.Read more »
OCTOBER 28, 2008, 1:00 am
Americans can't take anything for granted on Tues November 4th. In the 2000 and 2004 elections, voter fraud, voter suppression and voter intimidation were rampant, especially in the critical swing states Florida and Ohio. This year, we are likely to break voter turnout records. Hundreds of thousands of voters have lined up to vote early around the country, and we have already heard numerous accounts of electronic voting machine glitches, registration and ballot issues and long lines.Read more »
OCTOBER 22, 2008, 1:00 am
Thought of the Day #1
Sarah Palin became Mayor of Wasilla by a margin 203 votes! She won 616 out of a total 1,029 votes cast. That's like running for student body president of a high school.
OCTOBER 20, 2008, 1:00 am
Since voter fraud and voter suppression is still very much an issue in the upcoming election, I wanted to post a section on some of the best articles written by experts on this complex issue...
Since voter fraud and voter suppression is still very much an issue in the upcoming election, I wanted to post a section on some of the best articles written by experts on this complex issue and provide information on who to contact if you experience voting problems. It's so important that Americans are aware and educated so they can insure that their votes are properly counted.Read more »
OCTOBER 13, 2008, 1:00 am
Until the Republican Convention, very few had ever heard of Sarah Palinaand now this mean-spirited campaigner is asking who is Barack Obama???
I'm asking who is Sarah Palin???
OCTOBER 1, 2008, 1:00 am
The Republicans fight dirtyathey take every opportunity to shift the political conversation from substance to frivolity. They don't want the public to see the huge differences between the two parties. Less than two weeks ago, John McCain mocked Senator Obama's appearance at a Hollywood fundraiser.
And where do you think John McCain was supposed to be tonight? On Monday it was announced that he himself was coming to Hollywood for a fundraiser charging up to $40,800 a plate. The hypocrisy... Read more »
SEPTEMBER 27, 2008, 1:00 am
A couple of weeks ago, I turned on my television to tune into the Sunday morning news shows hoping to get a glimpse of Sarah Palin in order to learn more about her. I remember hearing from Bob Schieffer that McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis...
A couple of weeks ago, I turned on my television to tune into the Sunday morning news shows hoping to get a glimpse of Sarah Palin in order to learn more about her.Read more »
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008, 1:00 am
The McCain machine has attacked Barack Obama again using the tired Republican myth of the "tax and spend liberal." BARACK OBAMA IS GOING TO GIVE 3 TIMES THE TAX CUTS AS JOHN MCCAIN TO 95% OF THE PEOPLE!!!... only the wealthiest Americans will pay a little more. How else can we pay for our country's enormous budgetary needs? Read more »
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008, 1:00 am
We are in the worst financial crisis this country has faced in modern times. During these eight long years of Republican control, we have seen runaway greed, the deregulation of financial institutions and the mismanagement of the housing market...
We are in the worst financial crisis this country has faced in modern times. During these eight long years of Republican control, we have seen runaway greed, the deregulation of financial institutions and the mismanagement of the housing market resulting in the skyrocketing number of home foreclosures.Read more »
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008, 1:00 am
The media has labeled John McCain a "moderate maverick" and a reformer. That moniker could not be more misrepresentative of the core values of the current Republican candidate running for President. The real John McCain has a history of voting against women, veterans, education and the preservation of our civil liberties, in addition to abstaining completely from voting to safeguard our environment in 2007.Read more »
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