#72 Artistic freedom

Speaking of Reagan (blog #71), I didn’t give up a lucrative career to blog on the internet, but Barbra Striesand has. And she is screaming “artistic freedom” over CBS’s decision to drop her husband’s comeback movie about Ronald Reagan. I won’t give you her website because it is not that hard to find by googling it.

Can you imagine her rant if a bio pic (just a movie, as she says, not a documentary) chose Britney Spears, who looks just a bit WASPish, to play the famous Barbra, then having the character mouthing anti-Israel hate speech, also depicting Barbra’s son Jason (with husband Elliot Gould) as homophobic, and her performing as an off-key alto with no nasal tones? And the final insult. Law suit big time--if the producers put the “A” back in her name just for authenticity and balance.