Jed: When I predicted a rise in blood pressures, I didn’t expect
yours to be among them. But it may be calming to learn that I
didn’t shell out big bucks to see Streisand on the screen. The
movie I mentioned was on HBO. Further, it didn’t do to well at the
box office — precisely because Streisand’s performance, along with
Dustin Hoffman’s as her husband, was savaged by the usually adoring
liberal critics. Evidently they like their Streisand humorless and
cold. My reaction, on the other hand, was thoroughly conservative:
tolerant, appreciative of humanity, undogmatic.
By the way, I didn’t know John Wayne was in those flicks with
Maureen O’Hara. She sure was prettier than he was.