'I'M SURE President Bush is a very nice guy, but some people voted for him because they thought he was a person they could have a beer with. What is that about?! Do you want to have a beer with the doctor who's going to operate on you, or do you want him to be the top of his class . . . be a bit in awe of him?"
So says Barbra Streisand in the new issue of O, talking to Oprah herself. Streisand, schmoozing in anticipation of her next concert tour, says of her image, "I have found that the myth of the 'diva' is much bigger than me. If you look at the ad for my concert, the shadow is much bigger than the person."
Listen, shadow, schmado - in an era of people famous for absolutely nothing at all, we have a still-functioning and vital giant like Barbra Streisand. A woman famous because she has a unique talent, great ambition, an unstoppable work ethic. She ain't easy, but if she were, would we be talking about her 40-something years since she first made her mark?
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