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 Tinseltown's greatest illusion of all: its own inflated self importance.
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