Not such a funny girl (Mean/funny UK anti Babs hit piece!)

Scotland on Sunday ^ | 10/19/2003 | "Siobhan"

[kaylar]

OK, so Babs isn't the most important thing right now, especially considering the ongoing obscenity in Florida. But this piece is so hilarious and dead-on, I thought others might enjoy a look at it.

[Tacis]

I think Babs is cranky because she knows that, the world over, the phrase "b**l s**t" is no longer represented in polite circles as "BS," but by "barbra streisand."

[Consort]

[Savage Beast]

You forgot: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you."

[kaylar]

I wish I had a link to it, but awhile back, I read a hilarious hit piece on BS, particularly about her penchant for casting herself as a beautiful object of desire for younger people of both genders.

[ccmay]

Wow. What a hatchet job. I love it!

-ccm

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Omar Sherif once said about Babs...something to the effect:...She believes she is a beautiful woman. She is neither.

[veronica]

"We talk deeply and we feel deeply," enthused the second Mr Streisand. "We’ve been known to wake up and suddenly it’s dark again." Either this is love, or they live near the Arctic Circle.

Bwaaaaa. Great article. Thanks for the read. :)

[IncPen]

Merciless ping

[kaylar]

Ouch! That's as vicious as Talleyrand's remark on Madame de Stael's novel Germaine ,"She made us both women in her book."

[kaylar]

Could be!

[RonDog]

Hey, Babs!

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[kaylar]

I wish, though, that the author had focused more on her hypocrisy. BS is another megarich star who likes to lecture the middleclass for their "greed" in not turning over more of their income to "the poor"...Meanwhile, BS does not seem inclined to share much of her income. There were pieces on FR about her lecturing the middleclass on not using dryers or other electric appliances,and about how she stiffs waitresses, just like HRC, and how she tried to keep the public from using parts of a PUBLIC beach that were "too close" to one of her many mansions (she apparently thought that the public is full of people who want to spy on her and snap shots of her 60+ body as she sunbathes...Shudder!)

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

I’m sorry. I know it’s vicious, but I couldn’t help passing this on. The devil made me do it.

[Rocko]

I had no idea the Scots made such fine razors.

[kaylar]

Scotland on Sunday is a great site-I wish they'd change their name and become a daily, but who knows if they'd be able to retain their present high quality of journalism if they did that? One of their regular columnists is Gerald Warner, who is to the UK media what Mark Steyn is to the North American media. He has a fine antiEU piece today:The Queen is right to be concerned about constitution that will lead to Fourth Reich.

[Let's Roll]

Definitely - thanks for sharing. "Barbra Strident" - excellent. Want to add what a good actor Robert Redford must be to have sold us on his affection for la Strident in "The Way We Were".

[EllaMinnow]

Walter Matthau also said, "I have more talent in my smallest fart that she has in her whole body."

[Moonmad27]

Great article! Funny Lady, the sequel to Funny Girl, was on TV not long ago and out of curiosity I watched a few scenes. It was the worst. Even when another actor should have been the focus of the scene, the camera lingered on BS instead. The men - who could have been interesting - were reduced to cardboard figures worshipping at the altar of BS. A film of a good Broadway play, On A Clear Day, was remade into a BS vehicle, ruining it forever, even making the crucial-to-the-plot songs that in the play were sung by the male lead into solos for BS, making them pointless. At least the thought of her anger at living in a state governed by Republican Governor Arnold makes me feel a bit better.

[kaylar]

I remember when Yentl came out, and didn't do as well critically and commercially as BS and her adorers thought it should : And of course, that was due to antisemitism and misogyny. The idea that maybe-just MAYBE-people sincerely thought the film (to use a film school term) "sucked" never crossed her, or their, minds.