THE BUZZ.Byline: - Daily News Wire Services Not-so-funny girl: Thar n. 1. (Zool.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. she blows! Barbra Streisand Noun 1. Barbra Streisand - United States singer and actress (born in 1942) Barbra Joan Streisand, Streisand gives John Kennedy Jr. an earful ear·ful n. 1. An abundant or excessive amount of something heard, such as talk or music. 2. Gossip, especially of an intimate or scandalous nature. 3. A scolding or reprimand. in the current issue of his George magazine. The diva has fired off a blistering (and almost endless) letter to the editor to set the record straight about her get-out-the-vote Internet chat last November. Streisand charges it was unfair for the mag to criticize her political activities as a free hourlong advertisement for the Democrats. ``The next time you write something, it would be good to check your facts, not to mention the Constitution,'' Streisand writes. ``Who could have imagined that in this day and age, journalists would question a person's right to express his or her views? So much for freedom of speech.'' Streisand also bristles over the mag's contention that she ``wasn't familiar with all the (congressional and gubernatorial) races,'' so ``her advice was based almost entirely on blind faith in Clinton.'' ``Your comment ... continues a long-standing prejudice that when people in the arts, and particularly in Hollywood, address political issues, they are overstepping their bounds,'' she writes. ``It is just not true.'' Streisand argues that ``my staff and I examined voting records of various candidates.'' Out of 434 Democratic candidates, she reckons, ``I endorsed fewer than 200.'' Despite the length of Streisand's epistle epistle (ĭpĭs`əl), in the Bible, a letter of the New Testament. The Pauline Epistles (ascribed to St. Paul) are Romans, First and Second Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, First and Second Thessalonians, First and , Kennedy did leave room in his mag for some other articles, including his chat with former White House press secretary Mike McCurry. The prez's one-time mouthpiece says he admires Clinton but has more faith in the first daughter. ``She has her head screwed on a little bit better than her mom and dad in many ways,'' he says. More Barbra: In their first partnership since the 1969 film adaptation of ``Hello, Dolly,'' Barbra Streisand will executive-produce Jerry Herman's ``Mame'' as a three-hour musical for ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. next season. ABC's all-time biggest-budget movie, ``Mame'' is the second TV project for Streisand and Cis Corman's Barwood Productions. (The first was 1995's Emmy-winning ``The Margarethe Cammermeyer Margarethe "Grethe" Cammermeyer (born March 24 1942) is a former colonel in the Washington National Guard and a gay rights activist. Born in Oslo, Norway, she became a United States citizen in 1960. In 1961 she joined the Army Student Nurse Program. She received a B.S. Story,'' starring Glenn Close.) ``Mame,'' starring Angela Lansbury, enjoyed a five-year run on Broadway beginning in 1966. Buzz in the biz is that Streisand may decide to star in the TV version if a mondo mon·do Slang adj. Enormous; huge: a mondo list of pizza toppings. adv. Extremely; very: a mondo big mistake. director is signed. It would be the first TV musical for La Barbra. By George: In his first post-ER project, George Clooney will co-write and co-executive-produce ``Kilroy,'' a comedy for HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy . A semiautobiographical sem·i·au·to·bi·o·graph·i·cal adj. Of, relating to, or being a work that falls between fiction and autobiography: a semiautobiographical novel. Adj. 1. series, ``Kilroy'' is about a 22-year-old aspiring actor trying to break into Hollywood. No laugh track. Like Garry Shandling's late great ``Larry Sanders Show'' on HBO, ``Kilroy'' will be a show within a show. The young actor will visit real sets for actual guest shots on current series. Clooney will appear occasionally, too. HBO has ordered a pilot and six scripts. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: STREISAND |
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