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Home Front: Politix

Bette Midler Suggests Biden Arrest Republicans, Allow FBI to Use Deadly Force to Regain Democrat House Majority

2024-07-07

[BREITBART] Singer-actress Bette Midler, star of Disney’s Hocus Pocus 2, suggested that President Joe Biden arrest Republican members of Congress and allow the FBI to use deadly force in order regain Democrat House majority.

Back before she got stupidly political, Bette Midler was the kind of performer who could be known as the bawdy Barbra Streisand of her generation. Now she is described by the latest stupid thing she said and a cheesy, straight-to-video Disney sequel. Sad.

“Now that Joe has total immunity, many are urging him to be GOP ruthless. Here’s a suggestion for implementing his new powers,” Midler wrote in a Friday X post, sharing a screenshot from an opinion piece published by The New Republic.

The Ruthless People actress shared a specific section of the article that fantasized about a scenario in which Biden orders the arrests of several Republican members of Congress, which included a scene depicting Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) getting shot and killed while resisting arrest.

“I regret to inform you that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has been arrested. A number of other members of the House Republican Conference have been taken into custody,” the fantasy read.

“Jim Jordan, unfortunately, attempted to resist arrest. After wrestling with an FBI agent, he met a tragic fate. In the sudden absence of those members, there is a new majority in the House,” it continued.

The hypothetical scenario concluded, stating, “I look forward to a long and cooperative relationship. I can say proudly, gridlock is at last broken. And we can all give thanks to the Supreme Court.”

Midler is not the only actress fantasying about killing Republicans and urging Biden to take measures that would result in assassinations.

This week, Netflix’s Orange is the New Black actress Lea DeLaria, literally and emphatically called on Biden to assassinate former President Donald Trump in response to the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity, posting a video for her 1.1 million Instagram followers urging Biden to “blow him up.”

“Joe, you now have the right to take that bitch Trump out. Take him out, Joe,” DeLaria said. “If he was Hitler, and this was 1940, would you take him out? Well, he is Hitler. And this is 1940. Take him the fuck out! Blow him up, or they’ll blow us up. Facts.”

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Home Front: Politix

Why I'm Rooting for the 1972 Landslide I Once Feared

2024-01-21

[FT] I want a Trump win so big it sends a message to the Ruling Class that we are mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore.

I am not supposed to be rooting for Trump and MAGA. I’m supposed to be one of the million and change who huddles on my couch in terror, watching MSNBC as the results from Iowa trickle in. I’m supposed to somberly nod when Rachel Maddow tells her viewers they won’t show Trump’s speech.

Shut down the speech! I am supposed to say, as if any of this is normal. I will not watch it. I will not listen for myself and think for myself and judge for myself. I will instead fill my head with what Lawrence O’Donnell, Joy Reid, and the Queen of media, the Multi-Million Dollar Baby, Maddow herself tells me!

"Yes, turn it off," Bette Midler says. "Yes please!" moans Barbra Streisand. "It’s the right thing to do," says Rob Reiner, "to save democracy."

A cri d’coeur from Sasha Stone: California woman, screenwriter, film critic.

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Home Front: Politix

Bye-Bye Biden

2022-07-21

[American Thinker] Would any other American president have committed as many gaffes and missteps as Joe Biden has and still be said to love America?

What other free-country world leader has treated his own people so badly and been allowed to stay in office?

What other world leader cannot string two cogent sentences together and still remain in office? Joe Biden is non compos mentis and should remove himself from the White House before he is removed by his own party or before he further collapses the American economy and its status on the world stage. It cannot get much worse.

Clearly, the man is cognitively in decline. His many gaffes, word salads, blank stares, popcorn temper flare-ups, weird demeanors, creepy whisperings, touchy-feely gropings with women and children, and his monumentally wrong-headed economic policies are enough to turn the strongest of stomachs.

Biden has single-handedly destroyed America's energy independence.

He has personally made America a ridiculous paper tiger in the eyes of our enemies who want us dead or conquered.

Joe Biden has fist-bumped the most powerful oil producer on the planet in a way that signals an utter lack of seriousness.

He has opened the borders and welcomed terrorists and murderers.

Biden seems to deliberately want to link arms with the socialists among us in order to drag America's standard of living down to that of Venezuela's. Food shortages, brownouts and blackouts, a severely reduced reputation as the planet's finest fighting force, and other admirable things America was known to have been destroyed or crippled by this impaired president.

Joe's policies are bankrupting America.

In order to kowtow to the climate cretins in Congress whose policies would further damage our economy, he has implemented policies and executive orders that drag America down from the Trump-high economy and energy independence to the Biden-low of scarcity, inflated prices, worker shortages, and supply line problems that would never have happened under Trump.

His failure to address the light-speed increase in crime is inexcusable.

He has done all that with the energy of an aging retriever and the political instincts of Barbra Streisand.

Joe Biden has done more to drop-kick America back to the political, fiscal, and energy Stone Age than any president in memory.

Under Biden, our social and economic infrastructure has been all but decimated. It is almost as if he has signed on to an America-last agenda. For that matter, does he even know what his agenda is? Or has he delegated his presidency to pre-Trump power brokers?

Worst of all, Joe Biden's policies regarding racial matters have reignited a previously placid racial state. He is now exacerbating a simmering situation between white and black that hasn't been seen since the '60s.

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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Yentl apologises for remarks on Michael Jackson's accusers

2019-03-25

[IMAGES.DAWN] Barbra Streisand apologised Saturday for her remarks about Michael Jackson and two men who have accused him of sexual abuse, saying that she should have chosen her words more carefully and that she admires the accusers for "speaking their truth."
"Slap me again, please!"
Streisand had received bitter criticism online after she was quoted in The Times of London as saying that Jackson’s accusers were "thrilled to be there" during the alleged abuse, which "didn’t kill them."
Rape, even statutory we are assured, is the single absolute worst thing that can happen to a woman. It's just a part of growing up for eleven year old boys.
After an initial statement Saturday to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in which she sought to clarify her remarks, the superstar of song, stage and screen posted an apology online that went further.
They were thrilled to be there, it didn't kill them. How much clearer can you get?
"I am profoundly sorry for any pain or misunderstanding I caused by not choosing my words more carefully about Michael Jackson and his victims," she wrote.
"Papa, can you hear me?"
Trying walking back: “His sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has. You can say ‘molested,’ but those children, as you heard say, they were thrilled to be there. They both married and they both have children, so it didn’t kill them.” Fail

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Home Front: Culture Wars

Barbra Streisand writes SF & Sarah Hoyt gives her a professional review

2017-09-26

h/t Instapundit
Look, we live in strange times. It seems that every time I turn around I hear of another science fiction magazine being in trouble, and yet, wouldn’t you know it, the Puffington Host has decided to publish some and picked Barbra Streisand to write it.

It’s not very good, of course. No one really expects this "celebrity written fiction" to be wonderful. Normally the done thing is to pair the "name in another field" and an experienced writer, like what is happening with Clinton and Patterson. But Barbra has decided to go it on her one and the result.... Well, it’s funny. We just don’t think it’s entirely intentionally funny. Also, we won’t lie: some of the funny had us crying a little, because, well... you know...

Props for her beginning, which establishes clearly that we are in a parallel world with the following:

May our country learn a lesson from this tragic mistake of 2016.

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Home Front: Politix

Hillary’s ‘deplorable’ Americans -- you talkin’ to me?

2016-09-21

[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] If you missed me at Barbra Streisand’s NY soiree to raise money for

Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edward Stettinius, Jr. ...
, well, I wasn’t invited. I never am. For this one especially I was snubbed because I happen to be among the "basket of deplorables" that Hillary mentioned when it was her turn to speak to a roomful of progressive sharpies.

I am not rich. I am not famous. No luck. No chance.

I am guessing that you were also skipped over since, according to Hillary, half of Trump’s supporters are deplorable ‐ and that amounts to millions of us across the country that don’t sing for a living, as Streisand does. She sang, "Send in the Clowns," which was meant to be a gag on Trump and a dig on you and me.

They laughed and a good time was had by all.

A couple of days later Hillary fainted and had to be dragged into her limo.

Since then she’s been recovering. But the rest of the country has still not recovered from her accusation that we, the common folk, the deplorables, are racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic and Islamophobic. That’s me all right. I will tell you why in a minute after I remind y’all that the attendees were the high and the mighty and to borrow a term, deplorably Liberal.

This means that they are ever mindful of being superior. Only they wear designer jeans and fly in and out by gas-guzzling private jet.

That must have been some price of admission to hear Hillary speak and Babs sing. The event was staged for moneybags only, not for the off-the-rack set.

Yes, finally, Greed is Good ‐ if you are a Liberal. For Conservatives, wealth is forbidden.

Since I wasn’t there, I can’t say what the ladies were wearing, but I assume it wasn’t the burka, or the burkini that’s been making the headlines.

So here’s a headline that turns people like me into all of the above, islamophobic and all the rest ‐ Obama is bringing in more than 100,000 refugees from Syria. Recall that for about a year the talk was about 10,000 and people thought that was too much.

We do not know what else he has in store now that his time in the White House is running out, but bringing in 100,000 new Democrats appears to be his next trick. Even members of his own administration admit that those multitudes may be stacked with ISIS.

That does not seem to trouble Liberals. As one of them said on CNN, "It’s all about winning and whatever it takes to win."

Also, whatever it takes to change our culture from Judeo-Christian to something resembling Merkel’s Germany.

So we could be talking about a million more ~~migrants~~ colonists from New York to LA by the time Obama leaves office, ready, set, go for Hillary.

We can’t be sure about these people bringing with them the disease of ISIS, but the disease of anti-Semitism, that’s for sure. This means that the BDS storm troopers bullying Jewish kids on campus will be joined by reinforcements. There is so doubt about this at all.

Now Barbra -- have you ever heard her sing Avinu Malkeinu? Even Hatikvah? Beautiful. Such naches.

Well that was before that particular synagogue, where the people kvelled, was turned into a mosque.

At this rate, like it or not, Streisand will start singing a different tune. Does she know the lyrics for Allahu Akbar?

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Home Front: Politix

Last Chance for the ‘Deplorables’

2016-09-15

by Patrick J. Buchanan
Former Reform Party candidate for president. He lost. Before that I think he was a paleo-Republican.
[TAKIMAG] Speaking to 1,000 of the overprivileged at an LGBT fundraiser, where the chairs ponied up $250,000 each and Barbra Streisand sang,

Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edward Stettinius, Jr. ...
gave New York’s social liberals what they came to hear.

"You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?" smirked Clinton to cheers and laughter. "The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it." They are "irredeemable," but they are "not America."

This was no verbal slip. Clinton had invited the press in to cover the LGBT gala at Cipriani Wall Street where the cheap seats went for $1,200. And she had tried out her new lines earlier on Israeli TV:

"You can take Trump supporters and put them in two baskets." First there are "the deplorables, the racists, and the haters, and the people who ... think somehow he’s going to restore an America that no longer exists. So, just eliminate them from your thinking..."

And who might be in the other basket backing Donald Trump?

They are people, said Clinton, "who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them. ... These are people we have to understand and empathize with."

In short, Trump’s support consists of one-half xenophobes, bigots and racists, and one-half losers we should pity.

And she is running on the slogan "Stronger Together."

Her remarks echo those of Barack Obama
If you have a small business, you didn't build that...
in 2008 to the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
fat cats puzzled about those strange Pennsylvanians.

They are "bitter," said Obama, they "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustration."

In short, Pennsylvania is a backwater of alienated Bible-banging gun nuts and bigots suspicious of outsiders and foreigners.

But who really are these folks our new class detests, sneers at and pities? As African-Americans are 90 percent behind Clinton, it is not black folks. Nor is it Hispanics, who are solidly in the Clinton camp.

Nor would Clinton tolerate such slurs directed at Third World im~~migrants~~ colonists who are making America better by making us more diverse than that old "America that no longer exists."

No, the folks Obama and Clinton detest, disparage, and pity are the white working- and middle-class folks Richard Nixon celebrated as Middle Americans and the Silent Majority.

They are the folks who brought America through the Depression, won World War II, and carried us through the Cold War from Truman in 1945 to victory with Ronald Reagan in 1989.

These are the Trump supporters. They reside mostly in red states like West Virginia, Kentucky and Middle Pennsylvania, and Southern, Plains and Mountain states that have provided a disproportionate share of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who fought and died to guarantee the freedom of plutocratic LGBT lovers to laugh at and mock them at $2,400-a-plate dinners.

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Home Front: Politix

Hollywood pumps cash to save Senate majority for Democrats

2014-08-14

[THEHILL] Hollywood is pouring money into the midterm elections, with A-listers such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Barbra Streisand all coughing up blockbuster bucks.

The donations are largely aimed at keeping the Senate in Democratic hands. Republicans, who have the political winds at their backs, need to pick up six seats to win control of the upper chamber.

Streisand, a longtime Democratic donor, opened her checkbook in several competitive Senate races, according to Federal Election Commission data collected and analyzed by The Hill.
In addition to a $10,000 donation to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and $2,600 to House Minority Leader

Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
(D-Calif.), Streisand gave $1,000 to the campaigns of Democratic Sens. Mark Udall (Colo.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Jeff Merkley, (Ore.) and Mark Begich (Alaska), all top GOP targets.

One of the biggest recipients of the entertainment industry's dollars is Kentucky Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, whose is in a tight battle against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R).

Her donor list reads like a who's who of Tinseltown: producer J.J. Abrams, Ben Affleck, comedian Jack Black, "Avatar" director James Cameron, Nicolas Cage, Danny DeVito, Cameron Diaz, DiCaprio, Jennifer Garner, director Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Jerry Seinfeld, Mike Myers, and "Mad Men's" Jon Hamm all giving $5,200 each, the maximum amount an individual can give to a single candidate in a two-year election cycle.

Other Grimes donors include DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, Woody Allen, Ted Danson, America Ferrera, Leonard Nimoy, Streisand, "West Wing" writer Aaron Sorkin, Ben Stiller and Chris Rock.

While the Bluegrass State race has attracted lots of attention, less-headline-making political matchups also caught the eye of some famous names. Louis-Dreyfus, who plays a fictional vice president on HBO's "Veep," waded into the real-life political world with a $2,600 donation to Rep. Lois Capps's (D-Calif.) campaign coffers.

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Africa North

Al Qaeda weapons expert says U.S. ambassador to Libya killed by lethal injection

2013-06-06

At first I thought "Barbra Streisand" then I saw it was tagged "Bill Gertz"....

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Home Front: Politix

Ogabe Officially Loses The Limousine Libs

2010-07-08

H/T The Holy Blogfaddah
Youd think the well-heeled and enlightened eggheads at the Aspen Ideas Festival--which is running all week in this fashionable resort town with heady panel discussions and earnest disquisitions involving all manner of deep thinkers and do-gooders--would be receptive to an intellectually ambitious president with big ideas of his own.

In a way, the folks attending this cerebral conclave pairing the Aspen Institute think tank with the Atlantic Monthly magazine might even be seen as President Obamas natural base.

Apparently not so much.
If Bambi's losing THIS crowd, he is well and truly toast.
"If youre asking if the United States is about to become a socialist state, Id say its actually about to become a European state, with the expansiveness of the welfare system and the progressive tax system like what weve already experienced in Western Europe," Harvard business and history professor Niall Ferguson
, who's nobody's idea of a conservative Trunk,
declared during Mondays kickoff session, offering a withering critique of Obamas economic policies, which he claimed were encouraging laziness.

"The curse of longterm unemployment is that if you pay people to do nothing, theyll find themselves doing nothing for very long periods of time," Ferguson said. "Long-term unemployment is at an all-time high in the United States, and it is a direct consequence of a misconceived public policy."

"We are, without question, in a period of decline, particularly in the business world," Zuckerman said
(that'd be Mort Zuckerman, NYC real estate zillionairre and also nobody's idea of a conservative Trunk).
"The real problem we have...are some of the worst economic policies in place today that, in my judgment, go directly against the long-term interests of this country."
as Rantburgers have been saying ever since this nest of mooks, fixers, thugs, crackpots, bagmen and faculty-lounge Bolsheviks took office
Ferguson called for what he called "radical" measures. "I cant emphasize strongly enough the need for radical fiscal reform to restore the incentives for work and remove the incentives for idleness."
RTWT, as the wise man said. Co-starring Barbra Streisand and James (Mr. Barbra) Brolin in a jaw-dropping scene.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Duke lacrosse accuser charged with attempted murder, arson

2010-02-18

Durham police arrested Duke lacrosse accuser Crystal ~~Meth~~ Gale Mangum, 33, late Wednesday after she allegedly assaulted her boyfriend,
[THUMP! WHACK! BEAT! BEAT! BEAT!]
"Owwwwww!"
set his clothes on fire in a bathtub
"My clothes!"
and threatened to stab him.
"Honey! Put down the knife!"
"I'll put it down in your lung!"
Authorities charged her with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.
"Name?"
"Ummm... Amy Bishop."
"You ain't Amy Bishop. We already got her locked up!"
"Barbra Streisand."
"Lemme hear you sing, Babs."
Shortly after 11:30 p.m., police received a 911 call about a domestic dispute at 2220 Lincoln St. Authorities said they believe the call came from one of the three children inside the house.
"Help! Help! Crystal's been in the liquor cabinet again!"
When officers arrived, they found Mangum and her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, fighting.
"Put the ax down and step away from it witcher hands up, lady!"
According to police documents, Mangum scratched, punched and threw objects at Walker and told him, "I'm going to stab you, (expletive)!"
[CRASH! SMASH!]
"Honey! Put the knife down!"
"Yeah, lady! Put the knife down!"
She then went into a bathroom and set his clothes on fire in the bathtub, police said. Officers called the fire department to put out the flames. No one was injured.
"911. How can I help you?"
"This is the police. We got a bathtub fire at 555 12th Street!"
Milton was not charged in the incident, police said. The three children inside the house, ages 3, 9 and 10, were not injured.
"You can come out now, kids!"
"You sure?"
Police charged Mangum with identity theft because she gave them a fake name, "Marella Mangum," and age, authorities said. She also resisted the officers who responded to the scene, according to police documents.
"Lemme go! Lemme at him!"
"You've already been at him! Don't let her outta that headlock, Clancy!"
Mangum was being held in the Durham County Jail on no bond and was scheduled to appear in court Thursday morning. She has been ordered to have no contact with Walker.
"I'm warnin' you, lady! Let go!"
Mangum is the author of the memoir "Last Dance for Grace." She was a student at North Carolina Central University in 2006 and also worked as an exotic dancer when she performed at the now infamous Duke lacrosse party. It was there, she claimed, that three white members of the team trapped her inside a bathroom and raped and sexually assaulted her. David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann were indicted on rape and other charges on the basis of her allegations and were eventually exonerated after North Carolina's attorney general dismissed the case.
Some snarks just write themselves.
Prof. KC Johnson at Durham in Wonderland has thoughts. Not like Fred's, but thoughts.

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Home Front: Politix

What Does One Get a Queen?

2009-04-02

Yo. Find somebody that knows a buncha songs that old ladies like and upload a shitload of them on an Ipod...
President and First Lady Obama gave Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II a video iPod with inscription, songs uploaded and accessories, plus a rare musical songbook signed by Richard Rodgers.

Uploaded onto the iPod:

Photos from the Queen's 2007 White House State Visit
Photos from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown, Va., Visit
Photos from the Queen's 2007 Richmond, Va., Visit
Video from the Queen's 1957 Jamestown Visit
Video from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown Visit
Video from the Queen's 2007 Richmond Visit
Photos from President Obama's Inauguration
Audio of then-state senator Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and
Audio of President Obama 2009 Inauguration Address
Oh. Your speeches. How...lovely. Thanks so much...
Britain's Press Association reports that the Royal couple gave the Obamas "a silver-framed, signed photograph of themselves."
Calm down, Michelle. At least it's a nice frame...
UPDATE: And the Obama team confirms that these show tunes were also uploaded on Ye Olde Queen's iPod, as first reported by the AP:

"Oklahoma!"
"If I Loved You," Jan Clayton, "Carousel"
"You'll Never Walk Alone," Jan Clayton, "Carousel"
"There's No Business Like Show Business," Ethel Merman, "Annie Get Your Gun"
"Once in Love with Amy (Where's Charley?)," Ray Bolger
"Some Enchanted Evening," "South Pacific"
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," Carol Channing, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
"Getting to Know You," Gertrude Lawrence, "The King and I"
"Shall We Dance?" Gertrude Lawrence, "The King and I"
"I Could Have Danced All Night," Julie Andrews, "My Fair Lady"
"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," Rex Harrison, "My Fair Lady"
"The Party's Over (Bells Are Ringing)," Judy Holliday
"Maria," "West Side Story"
"Tonight," "West Side Story"
"Seventy Six Trombones," "The Music Man"
"Everything's Coming up Roses," Ethel Merman, "Gypsy"
"The Sound of Music"
"Try to Remember," Jerry Orbach, "The Fantasticks"
"Camelot," Richard Burton
"If Ever I Would Leave You," Robert Goulet, "Camelot"
"Hello, Dolly!" Carol Channing
"If I Were a Rich Man," Zero Mostel, "Fiddler on the Roof"
"People," Barbra Streisand, "Funny Girl"
"On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)," John Cullum
"The Impossible Dream," Richard Kiley, "Man of La Mancha"
"Mame," Charles Braswell
"Cabaret," Liza Minnelli
"Aquarius, Ronald Dyson, "Hair'
"Send in the Clowns," Judy Collins, "A Little Night Music"
"All That Jazz," Chita Rivera, "Chicago"
"One," "A Chorus Line"
"Tomorrow," Andrea McArdle, "Annie"
"Don't Cry for Me Argentina," Patti LuPone, "Evita"
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," Jennifer Holliday, "Dreamgirls"
"Memory," Elaine Paige, "Cats"
"The Best of Times," George Hearn, "La Cage Aux Folles"
"I Dreamed a Dream," Aretha Franklin, "Les MisDerables"
"The Music of the Night," Michael Crawford, "The Phantom of the Opera"
"As If We Never Said Goodbye," Elaine Paige, "Sunset Blvd."
"Seasons of Love," "Rent"
Maybe she can trade with Brown for the DVD's...

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