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 Barbra Streisand opened her first U.S. tour in 12 years on Wednesday with a show that ridiculed her political nemesis, President George W. Bush. Before a capacity crowd of some 16,000 people at South Philadelphia’s Wachovia Center, Streisand gave assured renditions of standards from her long career as a singer and actress including "Funny Girl," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Love Soft as an Easy Chair," and "Somewhere." The show also featured a skit where an actor playing Bush uttered such lines as, "I’m concerned about the national debt, so I’m selling Canada," and "If I cared about the polls I would have run for president of Poland." Streisand, 64, a longtime liberal activist, said she was coming out of retirement to raise money for her foundation, which supports a range of causes related to the environment, education, health care and other issues. Wearing a black sequin outfit with a slit skirt for the first half of the show and a black gown and shawl with gold trim after the interval, Streisand sat at a tall swivel chair at the front of the stage and at different times during the two and a half hour show moved upstage on a series of walkways around the orchestra. She explained her reliance on a teleprompter by recalling that she had been so traumatized by forgetting the words to three songs at a 1967 concert in New York she had stopped giving live concerts for more than 20 years. She declared six years ago that she would not play live anymore. Ron Long, 62, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said he had been a fan of Streisand’s for 45 years and this was the first time he had seen her in concert. "Her voice is just as good as it was in the early ’60s. She is godly," said Long, who paid $750 for two tickets and was happy the money was going to the foundation. Dave Vignola, 55, from Gibbstown, New Jersey, paid $750 apiece for three tickets and called it a unique opportunity to see the singer he had been following for decades. "She may never come around again," he said.
Reuters
Maybe it is me, but I can not see spending that much money on concert? Well unless it is The Police, but that will never happen.
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You would think that by the age of 64, most women would be self-conscious enough to ensure their choice of evening wear does not expose parts of the body which have…well dropped below standards. But no one seems to have shared this with legendary entertainer Barbra Streisand as she stepped out in this rather unflattering black dress at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. Streisand seemed to forget what a photographer’s flash can do to a black dress as she unwittingly revealed she had left the black bra tucked up in her drawer at home. But this was not the first time Streisand has been left emmbarrased by the camera. Last month she was snapped outside her LA home looking like she had given her make-up artist and hairdresser the day off.
Daily Mail
Oh the horror, the image is etched in my memory and it just won’t go away.
This is not the ’60s, she is in her 60s. She needs to wear a bra!
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 Legions of Barbra Streisand fans are on high alert today, after an Internet ticket scam could render scores of ultra-expensive concert tickets useless. Oh, the humanity!!!! According to Ticketmaster, more than one thousand tickets to Bab’s upcoming national concert tour were illegally purchased using stolen credit card information. Now, the company is officially invalidating those tickets, mostly purchased through websites and other unauthorized sellers, leaving many die-hard Streisand fans praying that their stubs are legit. A list of the Streisand tickets that have been canceled to date is available for reference on Ticketmaster’s official website.
TMZ
I hope they go after big fat cellulite a$$! B!tch should not have been charging so much for her show anyways.
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OMG, how freaking scary are those pictures of Barbara Steisand checking out how the construction company is doing on her house. I think she should be less worried about them and more worried about herself. Dang she not an attractive woman to begin with, but boy those pictures are fugly.
And is it just me or does she look preggers? Hey if we think every other woman in Hollywood who has a rounded belly is knocked up why can’t we say the same about her?
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