Barbara Streisand blasted for Melissa McCarthy comment

Barbra

Is that considered rude? I really don't know, or care 🤷‍♂️

Pastels, Debbie?

Perhaps she thought it was a direct message she was posting and mistakenly posted it publicly?

I honestly wondered the same thing, only Wegovy, not Ozempic.

After reading her book I'm convinced our Babs is on the spectrum.

So, it seems that Barbra and Melissa did a duet together at one point, so they do in fact know each other. I doubt this is shade or intentional rudeness. (And to answer the clueless dude upthread, yes, it would normally be considered rude to ask this publicly in front of millions.) She probably meant to sent this privately (or was so out of it she wasn't thinking about it being on instagram). Of course, people who have nothing better to do than to become outraged for someone else on twitter (sorry, X) and the entertainment "journalists" have picked up on it and it's become a thing. And now we're talking about it on DL. Oy.

^ I'm not clueless, I was asking a question honestly like, "Are you always an asshole?"

Well, did she?

R6 - me too

Barbra has Carole Bayer Sager's back in the ancient Carole vs. Melissa feud. And Carole never needed Ozempic.

Old people get overly honest. hahahaaa

She did take Ozempic btw

Babs was putting her in her place.

Babs will be eating up a pancake storm with Trump back in the White House.

Speaking of eating, Barbra, I have a question for you. Is it true that they used to call you birthday cake in the 1970s and 80s because you made sure everyone had a piece?

Old people say the darndest things!

R3, didn't she say she didn't get the humor in What's UP Doc? the director had to explain to her why certain scenes were funny?

What a cunt. Someone needs to call Streisand out on all her bad plastic surgery.

Babs has got the fat gals all riled up this morning 😂

r17 Bogdanovich had good things to say about Barbra

Kelly Clarkson is avoiding saying she is on Ozempic too. If they are that ashamed of it maybe they shouldn't be taking it. A famous person who has been fat for years is going to raise suspicion when now they lose the weight.

No one has a good thing to say about Babs. Peter must have wanted something from her. She’s a complete nightmare and uneducated to boot.

Melissa, you look like I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buttah!

R21, who is saying Melissa is ashamed of anything?

It wouldn't be so bad except a few years ago Barbra Tweeted Melissa, "For a fat girl you don't sweat much"... Guess Melissa was still stinging a bit

I know a lot about her, cause you see: Barbra is an awful lot like me. Addicted to ice cream, and popping Ozempic.

If Ozempic came in pill form and I could afford it I would be tempted. But since Murphy's Law is my life I am afraid I would be one of the few that gets permanent damage from it.

fun fact: Melissa dueted with Babs on "Anything You Can Do" (from Annie Get Your Gun). Arriving at the recording session Melissa was not happy with the rewritten lyrics that made humorous references to her zaftigness. Babs had them rewritten for her on the spot.

Years earlier the song had been prepared for Barbras "The Broadway Album".The intended duet partners were Madonna and Bette Midler who showed interest to do it. That version was supposed to end with Bette and Madge kvetching in the ladysroom about Barbra being a divabitch unaware that Babs was inside on of the stalls.

Yes R17

She also claims not to understand the popularity of Stony End.

BUT - she WILL be glad to tell you what dress she wore to go grocery shopping 50 years ago

I really think she thought this was a private message. She is 82 after all.

You just know Renata was fired!

Actually, Craig Hall runs all of her social media and forums. R31

R6 you know I had the same thought watching her Lifetime Achievement speech. Aspergers is thought to express itself differently in women with some of the qualities associated with it like coldness not being present. I still remember the fuss she made on the Mike Wallace interview over how she was lit.

Plus it would explain the relationship with Jon Peters who is certainly neurodivergent (exceptionally talented hairdresser but functionally illiterate.)

“I might be fat, but you’re irrelevant.”

"I may be irrelevant, but I have my own mall... Top that, tubby"

“Malls aren’t a thing anymore, they were when you were relevant!”

Is Glenn Close trying to start a feud with Barbra by posting "GORGEOUS!!!" under Melissa's pic?

Glenn is still smarting from Barbra being offered the Sunset Boulevard movie over her. Glenn, honey, you'll never be considered the "nice" one.

I guess you know her personally, huh, R22?

At the end of every day I drive through the city of Santa Monica and I cross the bridge that will take me home. I feel the words building inside me, I can't stop them, or tell you why I say them, but as I reach the top of the bridge these words come to me in a whisper. I say these words as a prayer, as regret, as praise, I say: “Ozempic, Ozempic.”

@r36, “Malls aren’t a thing anymore, they were when you were relevant!”

"My mall has a Lane Bryant AND a Cinnabon. Eat your heart out, lardo"

This is why very old people are expected to go out to pasture...and stay there!

Hopefully R41 goes soon

Every now and then she comes out with the strangest comments in public.

A few years ago, when the special "Surviving Neverland" aired on Showtime (?) she was asked what she thought of the young men who were Kackson's victims. She replied, "They seemed to turn out okay, didn't they ?" She had to back-track on that comment when she came under attack.

When Sondheim died, she responded oddly with "Thank the Lord..." and finished with something about the contributions he made to B'way. Everyone questioned 1) How often do Jews ever say 'Thank the Lord' (next to never), and 2) Why didn't she mention her personal relationship with him that spanned half her career ? It was a comment that someone who hardly knew him would've made.

I'm wondering if we're all seeing the start of dementia, and her family is doing their best to keep it hidden from the public.

Nice to see the aspie troll hop on…

OP, do you have anything else to do but start threads? Well, at least this one isn't bashing Biden.

A great deal of folks commenting on social media do not blast Babs for the comment. They have a chuckle because it reminds them of their mums and aunties doing the exact same thing. Firing away sligthly un-pc,combining three thoughts without punctuation. Probably while balancing their dogs,coffe ice cream cones,peeking over their reading glasses and yelling at their stoic husbands.

Babs didn´t have a personal relationship with Sondheim,she had a professional one. She commented on the passing of a highly gifted peer- who denied her a last hurrah in movies because of his mummy issues.

r46 thinks Barbra can do no wrong and is excused from every single thing she's ever done.

R43 I don’t think it’s dementia. She’s been so sharp in interviews and in speeches lately. If anything, I think it’s wine and just old lady things.

Why doesn't Melissa just powerwalk around her basement mall instead? It's much healthier and more respectable.

Hilarious. And yes, very much like those old aunties and grandmas at family functions. They usually start by congratulating the plump ones on their pregnancy.

R45 is the “why did you start a thread? How pathetic!” troll

Weird people on here who think everyone else who are on here are pathetic. Talk about insecure and mentally unstable.

R47 Nope. Just having fun with pointless counter bitching

She’s not being rude- it’s a simple statement and question. Internet nonsense.

I saw the pics and wondered same, because she looks trimmer and great. But I'd never comment it under her photo! Jesus, Babs! You're old enough to know that some things are better left unsaid. This is what years and years of social media exposure has done to people -- removed most sense of decorum.

…and what’s wrong with taking the Ozempic? Is it shameful? Is there something wrong with losing weight and being asked how did you do it?

“Did” not do

R15, sounds more like Joni Mitchell.

Wegovy sounds like a website that tracks peoples’ political contributions

Give Babs a break!!

LMAO. Boomers on social media.

^ You dumbfuck, Barbra Streisand is NOT a Boomer 😂

Does anyone else picture her doing this in a silk teddy seated in a popazon chair surrounded by hanging Boston ferns and sipping a glass of white wine while using her enormorsly long nails to scroll on her phone?

Food is Love!

[quote] Barbara

Please turn in your gay card.

NOW.

Well bless her heart...

Same here, R62. Except instead of a glass of wine, I pictured her with a bowl of coffee ice cream.

Streisand doesn't drink alcohol.

Streisand could use a few drinks.

In her book, Barbra BRAGS about being tactless and blunt. It’s her distaste for small talk. Trouble is, Babs, unlike children, adults learn to be polite and tactful. Not being so is not about being “truthful” or a serious artiste, it’s about being RUDE.

R20, that's nice. I didn't mean to imply that there was acrimony -- just that some people have more awareness when it comes to humor.

I don't know how anyone could NOT see the humor iin WUD? Every scene, every moment is hilarious. Kahn stole the film and there wasn't an unfunny performance in the cast. The judge with the pills....I am Hugh. My jewels my jewels. The list goes on.

Maybe she never saw the final film, R70. That happens.

I thought this was about Melissa Manchester and made some dumb posts that make no sense now that I know it's about a different Melissa.

Nothing says “late stage capitalism” like adults posting almost 80 comments about whether an elderly singer referred to an actress as possibly using ozempic.

R5 Seems you're the cunt here.

R5, Im sorry. This is R75. I meant to say R18 is the cunt here.

Barbra since you are talking about eating, is it true that you’ve been passed around more than a canapé tray at a cocktail party?

All is forgiven.

R64 nailed it. They are friends and the question simply is not rude. Please tell me why? When someone loses significant weight and a friend or acquaintance wants to know how, why is it rude?

R74, that’s pretty funny. And I’m a life long fan!

"All is forgiven"

People wonder the same question when any of these celebrities suddenly lose 40 pounds

R79, as someome who is trying to lose weight without prescription meds, it would hurt me that someone didn't think I could do it on my own. It's just a little sad that Ozempic or whatever is the go-to reason for weight loss and not eating less and moving more.

Melissa who's the schvartze?

Melissa darling I've found a great script for you. It's about a loud, fat, obnoxious white trash bitch. Just like every other part you've ever played. Mazel tov!

R83, you must remove the stigma society places on weight loss drugs. You lose weight by hard work and that's great. Others use the drugs to lose weight and that's great too. There is no shame in losing weight no matter the course of action.

R79 It's rude because it's personal, and McCarthy may not want the public to know how she's losing weight. As we can see, McCarthy gave no public answer to Streisand's question.

^ Yeah, she did, she said the old bat was a "treasure"... You know, like your crazy old aunt in the home 🤪

R88 That's not an answer to the question 'Did you take Ozempic ?'

McCarthy gave a statement tonight.

She said she still loves Barbra, and knows the question came from a place of friendship.

[quote] McCarthy gave a statement tonight.

She said she still loves Barbra, and knows the question came from a place of friendship.

Translation:

Senile, old cunt! Confiscate her fucking phone!

"Come on, Barbra, let's get you back to the mall before you say anything else that's stupid"

I guess James was working the late shift at the Orange Julius at the Mall and couldn't get upstairs in time to monitor Babs on her phone.

[quote] I guess James was working the late shift at the Orange Julius at the Mall and couldn't get upstairs in time to monitor Babs on her phone.

These 30 years of torture will be worth it one day.

Soon.

Why is there nothing in this post that has to do with me!?

R83. You importantly said “trying to lose weight”. That provides the explanation why it is so frequently assumed that these medications are the answer. Sorry to be discouraging, but your chances of losing weight if you have been significantly overweight for a long time are pretty low. Your chances of keeping it off long term are almost nil. You should be thankful for these medications and, if you are severely overweight, look into them.