Barbra Streisand's Meltdown

The National Enquirer | June 3, 2003 (Current Issue) | Patricia Shipp, Patricia Towle, Alan Smith and Maggie Harbour

[7 x 77]

Please forgive me, but I feel sorry for them.

[AHerald]

She and her son have my sympathies and prayers. I wonder, though, if she'd feel the same if a conservative icon were similarly afflicted.

[Bahbah]

I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

[modern_orthodox]

why wouldn't she?

[Texas Eagle]

The superstar's fiercely independent son Jason Gould, 36,....

HA ! Fiercely independent??? He's 36 years old ! ! ! He's SUPPOSED to be fiercely independent.

Sheesh.

I didn't notice anything in the article about how he contracted HIV. Gee, I wonder.

[Theresawithanh]

Sure, so do I. I may detest Barbra Streisand, but I would not wish this on anyone.

[DainBramage]

'Her biggest regret is that she doesn't have grandkids'

I guess thats impossible Jason cuth your a funny boy.

[SouthernFreebird]

Please forgive me .....I feel nothing for them.

[Pharmboy]

They said he came out as gay in '01...it's in the article.

[steelwheels]

She needs to visit with Magic Johnson.

[alisasny]

You can't support gay rights and then at the same time bitch that you can't have grandkids because your own kid is gay.

I don't feel bad either. He is of the age where he knew the dangers yet risked them anyway for his own gratification.

[Mears]

`Money and fame can't buy love.

[jocon307]

No forgiveness required. I feel bad too. I feel bad for Eliot Gould too. My brother died of AIDS, I miss him every day, it is no joke. He was under 40 when he died. He has missed so much. My sister-in-law committed suicide, she too has missed out on so much. These people were my daughter's godparents, we chose poorly, no? But Adam and Eileen were our fave sibs. I still don't understand why we had to lose them.

Sorry, sentimental moment on a rainy memorial day.

[7 x 77]

I suppose Barbra's child has had a towering resentment toward her. I'd have to pray long and deeply to get past that.

[Maigrey]

It was listed in the article that he came out in 2001.

[mombonn]

I didn't notice anything in the article about how he contracted HIV. Gee, I wonder.

Uh, it did mention that he came out as gay in 2001. Connect the dots.

AIDS is a horrible way to die. Prayer for him.

Prayer for her as well. I cannot stand her politics, but can understand her pain.

[billhilly]

"why wouldn't she?"

Charleton Heston? Ronald Reagan? I doubt it.

[Maelstrom]

Self-hatred

Weak father figure (or none at all)

Addictive personality

Low self-esteem.

The kid's a homosexual isn't he. (I say "kid" as a remark on his maturity level.)

[Texas Eagle]

Oh, yeah. I must've glossed right over that. But I was right!

Maybe if Babs had cut the umbilical cord 20 years ago he'd be a real man and he wouldn't have this disease.

[AHerald]

I don't know that she wouldn't. But her long history of hateful political rhetoric and irrational vitriolic personal criticisms of those who disagree with her makes me wonder if she's capable of compassion and empathy for the sufferings of political opponents.

Her rantings against coservatives and Republicans are generally indistinguishable from posters over at DU, who regularly cheer Heston's Alzheimer's or Michael Kelly's death as just punishments for their conservative views.