NewsMax.com Staff
Tuesday July 8, 2003

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Barbra Streisand was at the crest of her power and fame, not yet a Hollywood has-been and household joke, while attending the 1992 presidential inauguration of her idol Bill Clinton.

As James Hirsen reveals in his blockbuster new book, Tales From the Left Coast: True Stories of Hollywood Stars and Their Outrageous Politics, Streisand pulled a stunt that showed just how maniacal the Hollywood left had become.

Streisand was certainly a welcome guest of the Clintons. Few people in Hollywood had made more use of their influence and money to get Bill elected. What a triumph for the former gawky girl from Brooklyn. This high school graduate was now an eminence grise of the Democrat party, one whose memos and directives would be heeded as if they came from an old-fashioned party boss.

Streisand decided, there at her political bat mitzvah, that she would show how her ego was bigger than even the Clintons, that she would demonstrate how much power she thought she wielded.

Soon after arriving at her Washington hotel, Streisand demanded to know whether she had the biggest suite.

The management confessed there was one bigger, but it was occupied. La Streisand insisted the hotel expel the offenders. Alas, it was impossible: They were the parents of Hillary Clinton.

Battling Babs flew into a hissy fit. "I don't care! Get them out, or I will stay in another hotel!" she raged. The hotel did the right thing, and she was the one sent packing.

This is just one of the scores of laugh-out-loud anecdotes in Tales From the Left Coast that reveal Tinseltownıs greatest illusion of all: its own inflated self-importance.

The new book exposes the celebs' attacks on freedom of expression, their blacklisting of conservatives, their hypocritical environmental activism, their animal "rights" extremism, their own corporate scandals and their love of Fidel Castro and other tyrants.

Hirsen knows Hollywood. An entertainer himself - he was the keyboardist for the Temptations in his younger days ­- Hirsen became a prominent Los Angeles attorney and frequent critic of Tinseltown.

He writes NewsMax.comıs widely read Left Coast Report, and serves as Hollywood's critic-in-chief on outlets such as Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNN, the Sean Hannity show, the Michael Reagan show and many others.

People Who Boss People

Even though she hasn't made one movie since the panned 1996 vanity project The Mirror Has Two Faces, and hasnıt had a successful movie since 1991's The Prince of Tides, Streisand hasnıt retired from dabbling in politics. Some Democrats, however, wish she would. Her attempts to order about the House minority leader still elicit guffaws.

Tales From the Left Coast recounts how Streisand sent misspelled and error-ridden orders to Rep. Dick "Gebhardt," demanding that the Democrats derail the Bush administrationıs opposition to genocidal Iraqi dictator "Sadam" Hussein.

Stung by the mockery that greeted her pea-brained political posturing, the former movie star further humiliated herself and her party by describing her "deep opposition to the 'Iranian' dictator, Saddam Hussein." As Hirsen notes: "Iran, Iraq, whatıs the difference. Guess if Babs were in charge of the military, thereıs no telling who might get hit with a cruise missile."

Dick Gephardt's red-faced handler Erik Smith tried to explain: "We take advice from many people. People who need people are the luckiest people in the world."

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