The Art of Being Barbra

Let me get this straight: Barbra Streisand gets “very upset when I see big business and corporations getting [favored] over working people” (“No Place Like Home,” by Robert Hilburn, Nov. 3).” Yet she tells the interviewer that she “bought a portrait recently of George Washington that was painted during his lifetime. It’s hanging in Mount Vernon now, but when I hang it back in my house, I want it next to this chair.... “

Barbra Streisand purchases a painting of national historical significance and brings it from a place where it can be seen by all “working people” who are visitors to Mount Vernon to her home, where it can be enjoyed only by the chosen few who visit her. Now I understand celebrity liberalism.

SALLY YOUNT

Oxnard

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After her liberal trashing of George W. Bush during and after the election, Barbra Streisand now agrees (reluctantly, I suspect) with nearly 90% of Americans that “Bush is doing a good job” and that “he has grown in the position.”

Funny, girl, I thought that Bush was fairly well grown up when he thrashed Gore in all three presidential debates.

BOB BALL

Anaheim