The first of the nearly thousand pages of My Name is Barbra opens disarmingly, heading off accusations of narcissism at the pass. “Am I a Babylonian queen or a basset hound?” Barbra Streisand muses about the contradictory descriptions she’s earned over the years, before deciding she’s “probably both (depending on the angle).” But not before recalling some of her unflattering descriptions, such as being described as “an amiable anteater,” “a seasick ferret,” and “a furious hamster.”
I’ve been a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma since joining the sorority in college. But according to the organization’s standards, I should be expelled from the group and barred from associating with it. In fact, I might even welcome such a move.
It is good and prudent that Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is dropping out of the Republican presidential race, but it’s a real shame he failed. The South Carolina senator failed not only to poll well or to raise funds, but he also failed to make a strong case for his candidacy — because he failed to take on the front-runner, former President Donald Trump.
The Beatles ended as a rock band in 1970, the year John Lennon sang that “the dream is over” on his first solo album. Yet the Beatle business rolls on, revising the history of the band’s miserable demise in Peter Jackson’s 2021 documentary Get Back, and now through the necromantic futurism of the AI-powered “Now and Then,” the last song and video to feature all four Beatles.
I was taking a walk through my neighborhood with a friend yesterday. We were doing our usual “cigar walk,” during which we smoke cigars and stroll along the streets of Greenwich Village.
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