Streisand Focusing More on Personal Life [AP Puff Piece Alert]

AP via NYTimes.com ^ | 12/05/2002

[Lorenb420]

``I'm kind of content in my own life, and therefore I don't need work,'' Streisand said in a recent phone interview. ``I'm very busy with my life and my family and stuff like that, and I try to have a good time without having to work.''

What a bunch of crap. If any of this was true, she wouldn't spend so much effort trying to tell everyone else how to think and live.

[Illbay]

Shouldn't she be "focusing more on her personal life" somewhere else, like France?

[ohiobushman]

Nothing here. Just a waste of space,like b.s.'s head.

[Frank_Discussion]

A favorite target of conservative pundits, she says: ``What I resent is, one is kept in a box, like if you're an artist, you can't have political opinions?''

Uh Barb, nobody said you couldn't have an political opinion. However, if you broadcast that opinion for public consumption expect it to be challenged in public.

[Paul Atreides]

and she's been spending much of her time overseeing construction on their new home and trading stocks.

Yeah, she's one of the "little people" alright! How many homes has she had, over the years?

[Lorenb420]

However, she says, ``this kid Eminem is really interesting. I can relate to the truth, and I can relate to emotion, and I can relate to him in some strange way. ... I was raised in the projects. I was born in Brooklyn. We were poor. I relate to that stuff because that's my roots, my heritage.''

Babs in ta hood! That's rich. What a maroon.

[Paul Atreides]

A favorite target of conservative pundits, she says: ``What I resent is, one is kept in a box, like if you're an artist, you can't have political opinions?''

That coming from a woman who wanted to create a news network that would not allow ANY conservative opinion to be heard.

[stanz]

she's been spending much of her time overseeing construction on their new home and trading stocks.

A la Martha Stewart?

[Tacis]

I hope this does not mean she is leaving the political arena. The nation owes her a great debt. We are now on the way to freedom from democraps because of her brave stand. She energized so many good guys that we were able to oppose the dem special interests and elect Republicans all over the place. I only hope that she would say a few words about the race in Louisiana.

We will truly never know how many Republican victories came as a direct result of her silly comments. Thanks, Streis!

[My2Cents]

Maybe now she'll get than needed nose job.

[mombonn]

likes to spend time tending to her rose garden . . .

She's in the right place - a thorn among the roses.

[onedoug]

What would Shakespeare say?

[Lizavetta]

She's in the right place - a thorn among the roses.

Or a piece of **** among the compost.

[Txslady]

hmmmmm... maybe she could help out Mary Landrieu in LA

[bribriagain]

How about this mental picture:

"They like to go out on long drives in their truck"

I can just picture Bab's and Jim tooling around in there F150, with there "Easy Rider Rifle Rack" fully stocked and cocked.

[i_dont_chat]

Bummer. I was hoping she was packing -- to leave the country.

[doug from upland]

Stuck Freisand.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

"..and I try to have a good time without having to work"

TRANSLATION: I can't get a job!

[Greybird]

["]... I was raised in the projects. I was born in Brooklyn. We were poor. I relate to that stuff because that's my roots, my heritage."

Only half true. She was born in Brooklyn, and her family was poor after her father died when she was 15 months old -- but she never lived in "the [housing] projects."

She had a fairly stable but lower-middle-class existence, with a stepfather she despised, until she set out to conquer show business in 1959 after graduating from high school -- and underwent quite voluntary poverty, schlepping her cot from one friend's apartment to another.

Don't you love her bloviating about "the truth"? Some actually did get out of "the projects," such as Whoopi Goldberg. Streisand's pretense is an insult to her.