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Haahaa.... If my sweet wife and I can ever get out of bed
(somedays it's noon)... I have long planned to paper our vintage barn's
outhouse walls, with these excremental egested rag articles that are
void of even a sniff of truth. Of course, she has held me back with
her gift for perfect decor. But I still say my idea is more
authentic,... Haahaa. Right?
Hillary and Bill Clinton have been friends now since I first
met them 16 years ago.... and without any interruptions... birthdaysRead more »
Her Heart is Our Mission
For women struggling with heart disease, the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute is leading the way in next-generation care. Our groundbreaking research and education have one goal: to wipe out the No. 1 killer of women.
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TechnoratiWatch the video below and enjoy something that an exclusive audience of some 200 Hollywood and political heavyweights will see Thursday night: a video showcasing why Barbra Streisand has taken on the cause of heart disease in women.
The video is being shown during an intimate fund-raiser tonight at the spectacular Malibu home Streisand shares with her actor husband, James Brolin. (iVillage is lucky to be one of only a handful of media organizations in attendance!)Read more »
By Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times
Barbra Streisand and donors such as designers Ralph Lauren and Diane von Furstenberg gave more than $22 million for the new research facility. Cedars-Sinai will announce the dedication at Streisand's Malibu home Thursday night at an event to be attended by Bill Clinton.Read more »
Observation of the Day:
“In the 23 years that Democrats have occupied the White House since John F. Kennedy took office, in January 1961, non-government jobs have increased by nearly 42 million, compared with 24 million jobs created during 28 years under Republican presidents.”
---Bloomberg.com
“The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements”
---Thomas Jefferson
Barbra’s Concerts at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Oct 11 and Oct 13 have been sold out. Keep checking BarbraStreisand.com for more information.
- BUSH IGNORED THE ADVICE OF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION REGARDING THE URGENT THREAT OF AL QAEDA.Read more »
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.Playing on the Abraham Lincoln adage, George W. Bush was quoted making this statement. The Bush AdRead more »
--- George W. Bush
By Henry Decker, National Memo
President Barack Obama presented an unabashedly liberal blueprint for his second term in his State of the Union address, repeatedly challenging Congress to enact policies that support a growing middle class - and the agenda that Americans voted for in November.Read more »
By Patrick Rucker, Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday gave Congress an ultimatum on climate change: craft a plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the dangers of a warming world, or the White House will go it alone.Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN - New York Times.
Last week Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, gave what his office told us would be a major policy speech. And we should be grateful for the heads-up about the speech’s majorness. Otherwise, a read of the speech might have suggested that he was offering nothing more than a meager, warmed-over selection of stale ideas.Read more »
By Jason Sattler, The National Memo
It turns out that it's a myth that more women are victims of domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year. But it is true that this is the first Super Bowl Sunday since 1994 that the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has not been in effect.Read more »
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Exactly a century ago, on February 3, 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, authorizing a federal income tax. Congress turned it into a graduated tax, based on "capacity to pay."
It was among the signal victories of the progressive movement - the first constitutional amendment in 40 years (the first 10 had been included in the Bill of Rights, the 11th and 12th in 1789 and 1804, and three others in consequence of the Civil War), reflecting a great political transformation in America.Read more »
By Nicholas Kusnetz, Rolling Stone.
Climate scientists have shed new light on a serious threat to our way of life: black carbon. (No, it's not a metal band, though there is one that's pretty close.) New research suggests that this substance - more commonly known as soot - is one of the biggest causes of global warming, second only to carbon dioxide in slowly making parts of our planet uninhabitable.Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Three years ago, a terrible thing happened to economic policy, both here and in Europe. Although the worst of the financial crisis was over, economies on both sides of the Atlantic remained deeply depressed, with very high unemployment. Yet the Western world’s policy elite somehow decided en masse that unemployment was no longer a crucial concern, and that reducing budget deficits should be the overriding priority.Read more »
By Robert Reich.
As President Obama said in his inaugural address last week, America "cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it."
Yet that continues to be the direction we're heading in.Read more »
By Andrew Young, Why Tuesday?Read more »
By Karen Tumulty, The Washington Post
President Obama on Monday became the first president to use the word "gay" as a reference to sexual orientation in an inaugural address, declaring the movement for equality to be part of the pantheon of America's great civil rights struggles.
"Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law," the president said. "For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal, as well."Read more »
By Ronnie Cummins, EcoWatch
A growing number of organic consumers, natural health advocates and climate hawks are taking a more comprehensive look at the fundamental causes of global warming. And its led them to this sobering conclusion: our modern energy-, chemical- and genetically modified organism (GMO)-intensive industrial food and farming systems are the major cause of man-made global warming.Read more »
This article is best viewed by clicking here:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/inequality-is-holding-ba...
Larry Kramer does not need me to publicize his beautiful play. It stands on its own. For the last time – I will answer his complaints, which rewrite history.
When I saw the play in 1985 I was very moved and immediately contacted Larry to acquire the rights. After going through several drafts with Larry, I hired another writer to develop a screenplay that was faithful to Larry’s play -- but adapting it to make it more cinematic. It was finished in 1995. Ralph Fiennes and Kenneth Branagh were interested in doing the version that I oversaw.Read more »
2cents.....
Haahaa.... If my sweet wife and I can ever get out of bed
(somedays it's noon)... I have long planned to paper our vintage barn's
outhouse walls, with these excremental egested rag articles that are
void of even a sniff of truth. Of course, she has held me back with
her gift for perfect decor. But I still say my idea is more
authentic,... Haahaa. Right?
Hillary and Bill Clinton have been friends now since I first
met them 16 years ago.... and without any interruptions... birthdaysRead more »
“The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements”
---Thomas Jefferson
Boy, Barbra must sell a lot of papers. That tabloid keeps re-telling the same lies.
I asked my wife if I could borrow her Truth Alert to respond to the latest tabloid nonsense, an outrageous story that I oppose her doing "Gypsy." These scandal sheet guys only print stuff that is the exact opposite of the truth. I'm already lined up to buy the first ticket for that film. Her youthful beauty will perfectly complement her singing and performance. But the point here is that tabloids only traffic in bad news, bad news that they have to maliciously make up in Barbra's case.Read more »
I was just made aware of a ridiculous story in one of those weekly rags. This is just to say that the story is untrue in every respect, just unmitigated, sloppy, and malicious invention. The madness of the constant inaccuracy of these publications is evidenced by the fact that in this recent story the main photo they use of "Jason" is not even Jason!
One of the tabloids is recycling a fabricated story which we truth-alerted as false in 2004.
It's ridiculous to dredge up a 7 year old story about having a polyp removed. It must be a slow news day.
I’ve endured Larry Kramer’s outbursts in the past, not wishing to dignify them with a response. But at a time when we are all pulling together to achieve such giant steps toward gay equality, it is anguishing to me to have my devotion to this cause so distorted. I think my efforts for the gay community and my immersion in securing its constitutional entitlement and other equitable rights is quite evident and a matter of record.Read more »
I was happy to hear recently that the Loew's Kings Theater in Brooklyn, New York will be undergoing renovations for a reopening in 2014 . It was one of those beautiful old movie palaces of the past. I was 13 years old when I first started spending many a wonderful afternoon there, partly because it had double features, air conditioning and great ice cream cones.Read more »
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.
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 »
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 »
What the famous singer, actor, and director is doing to change the state of women's heart health.
WebMD the Magazine - Feature.
Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD
On screen, Barbra Streisand's newest role as therapist Rozalin Focker (seen in Little Fockers, which opened in late December 2010) alongside Robert DeNiro, Ben Stiller, and Dustin Hoffman, shows just how in tune the legendary performer is with matters of the heart.Read more »
This holiday season, more than one woman treated by the Cedars-Sinai Women’s Heart Center is celebrating with her family because our gender-specific heart care saves lives.
Without the generous support of Barbra Streisand and other forward-thinking donors, we would not be privileged to make this statement. Because Barbra and many others believe in our work, we have made great progress in understanding how women’s hearts are different from men’s and treating women accordingly. But we have more knowledge to gain and more hearts to heal. Read more »
Teasers from Larry King (CNN). Full interview to air on December 15:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2010/12/14/lkl.streisand.obama.cnn
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2010/12/14/lkl.streisand.on.her...
Congratulations to Jason Chamikles, who has won two free tickets to the New York Premiere of Little Fockers, thanks to his very kind donation to Barbra's campaign to RAISE FUNDS FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ON WOMEN'S HEART DISEASE. He and a friend will attend the screening of Barbra's new movie, Little Fockers, followed by dinner for two.
We're very proud to announce a new contest which started yesterday (December 14th, 2010) and runs until January 3rd 2011.Read more »
Barbra will be doing some TV Interviews this week - and we thought you'd like to know:
Good Morning America - Wednesday 15 December - 8am ET/PT
Larry King - Wednesday 15 December - 6pm / 9pm / 12am PT
Nightline - Wednesday 15 December - 11.35pm PT
Well now's your chance!
Donate $29 to Barbra's campaign to benefit the Women's Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai Hospital and you could win a pair of tickets to the Little Fockers World Premiere in New York on December 15 at the Ziegfeld Theatre.
Not only could you win tickets to the premiere, but you'll also be invited to have dinner after the screening.
You can make your donation at www.crowdrise.com/barbrastreisand. The contest will end on 13 December, and we'll notify the winner as quickly as possible.Read more »
By Bob Tourtellotte
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It's not exactly opening your home to guests at a holiday party, but for film and singing star Barbra Streisand and her fans, it's pretty close.
This week Streisand has seen her first book land in stores, but it's no memoir of star turns in films such as "Funny Girl" or "The Way We Were," nor does it recount the making of albums that have sold over 71 million copies.Read more »
BARBRA STREISAND'S FIRST BOOK, "MY PASSION FOR DESIGN,"
DEBUTS AT #2 ON NEW YORK TIMES "ADVICE, HOW-TO & MISCELLANEOUS LIST"
Barbra Streisand's first venture as an author and photographer, "My Passion For Design," has entered the New York Times bestseller book lists in its first week of publication, registering as Number Two on the Advice, How-To and Misc. list. It is a significant achievement in consideration of the fact that, at a price of $60, it is the most expensive book on the list, according to the volume's publisher, Viking, a member of the Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Read more »
We're thrilled to announce a NEW contest which starts today (24 November).
Donate ANY amount at www.crowdrise.com/barbrastreisand - and you could win a SIGNED copy of "The Ultimate Collection" - a new CD that has never been released in America, containing many of Barbra's greatest hits over the years.
The contest will run from November 24 and will end on December 2. Full rules at www.crowdrise.com/barbrastreisand
Best of luck to you all!Read more »
Each year, The Streisand Foundation contributes to a wide variety of causes. Click the banner above for more information.