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Streisand Shocks Staff With Diva Demands
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Posted on 07/19/2007 7:08:31 AM PDT by YourAdHere

Barbra Streisand has shocked hotel staff in a top London hotel by issuing a long list of demands during her stay in the British capital. The diva is staying in a $12,000-a-night suite in the city's Dorchester Hotel, and has reportedly issued employees with strict rules - including a demand not to look the singer in the eye. A source tells London's Evening Standard, "We were given a list of requirements that had to be met. Her manager said she needed certain things to make her feel like she was at home. She is using her own security team and will hardly set foot in the main areas of the hotel. It is easy to enter and exit the hotel from her suite without ever being seen." A source from the Dorchester Hotel adds, "We are used to famous people here, but Miss Streisand is almost on a different level. Johnny Depp was here a few weeks ago, but was very low key. He just sat with friends in the bar. He was drinking a $1,200 bottle of wine, but he did not expect any special treatment. But we are expecting everything to be different for her." Streisand begins a series of live dates at The O2 in London on Wednesday


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KEYWORDS: ego; inflated; streisand; ugly
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To: YourAdHere

Retirement Tour IV


41 posted on 07/19/2007 7:33:25 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: YourAdHere
including a demand not to look the singer in the eye.

About 10 years ago, Babs was singing in Vegas. I had a friend who worked in the casino where she was performing. Babs got to the stage through the kitchen. Employees were told NOT to look at her or speak to her or they'd be fired. When I've told this story to people, few believed it.

I can't stand people who work to be famous, then complain because they are.

42 posted on 07/19/2007 7:35:28 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead)
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To: YourAdHere; Bacon Man; Hap

$12K a night.

That is my half of the mortgage on our house for the YEAR.


43 posted on 07/19/2007 7:35:31 AM PDT by Xenalyte (A good plan violently executed now is far better than a perfect plan calmly executed next week.)
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To: blue-duncan

I’d hate to meet that Fokker.


44 posted on 07/19/2007 7:37:50 AM PDT by YourAdHere (Buy My Book, Bradypalooza, from Amazon.Com)
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To: YourAdHere
including a demand not to look the singer in the eye.

No problem.

Who wants to look her in the eye?


45 posted on 07/19/2007 7:39:58 AM PDT by lowbridge (If YouÂ’re Gonna Burn Our Flag, Wrap Yourself in It First /No Oil for Pacifists)
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To: Little Ray
Is Babs worried that the staff will see that she doesn’t have a soul?

Shes doing them a favor (in lieu of a tip). She might turn them into stone.

46 posted on 07/19/2007 7:42:01 AM PDT by lowbridge (If YouÂ’re Gonna Burn Our Flag, Wrap Yourself in It First /No Oil for Pacifists)
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To: YourAdHere
strict rules - including a demand not to look the singer in the eye... Her manager said she needed certain things to make her feel like she was at home

Nothing makes you feel more at home than having those around you feel too intimidated to look you in the eye.

47 posted on 07/19/2007 7:46:12 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: YourAdHere

No talent and no class.Quite comment among today’s Hollyweird crowd.


48 posted on 07/19/2007 7:48:11 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
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To: Xenalyte
$12K a night.That is my half of the mortgage on our house for the YEAR.

Spent a week in London last month.An *adequate* (barely adequate) hotel in central London goes for at least 150 Pounds....which is $300 at current exchange rates.

49 posted on 07/19/2007 7:51:28 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
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To: YourAdHere
Quite comment=quite common
50 posted on 07/19/2007 7:52:13 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
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To: YourAdHere

They should have called over Robert Smith to the hotel.

51 posted on 07/19/2007 7:52:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: jdm; AppyPappy

They can feel good about their power and pretensions as long as they don’t have to chance seeing themselves as they really are in the eyes of real, unpretentious people.


52 posted on 07/19/2007 7:55:53 AM PDT by LucyJo
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To: trisham
The Celebrity complaint Department.

Bitch, Bitch, Bitch.

53 posted on 07/19/2007 7:55:54 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: YourAdHere

Liberal people hating, baby hating (abortion) at its finest. Streisand cannot bear the little people


54 posted on 07/19/2007 7:58:28 AM PDT by dennisw
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Well, for $12,000 a night the hotel shouldn’t gripe about eccentric celebs.

That "eccentricity" may be one reason hotels have to charge those prices to house them.

55 posted on 07/19/2007 8:03:09 AM PDT by LucyJo
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To: LucyJo

Agreed.


56 posted on 07/19/2007 8:58:48 AM PDT by YourAdHere (Buy My Book, Bradypalooza, from Amazon.Com)
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To: N. Theknow

Who’s the man behind Babs in the picture? Is that Brolin?


57 posted on 07/19/2007 9:09:34 AM PDT by YourAdHere (Buy My Book, Bradypalooza, from Amazon.Com)
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To: trisham

how many boobs in that picture?


58 posted on 07/19/2007 1:19:13 PM PDT by steveo (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: N. Theknow

Bitch, Bitch, Female Dog. Fixed it for you.


59 posted on 07/19/2007 6:24:31 PM PDT by Lawgvr1955 (You can never have too much cowbell !!)
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To: lowbridge

Not me!


60 posted on 07/20/2007 11:13:39 AM PDT by YourAdHere (Buy My Book, Bradypalooza, from Amazon.Com)
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