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        • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          6 个月前

          No, you’re thinking of Kristen Bell who is the “let it go” lady. Streisand is the one who famously lost out on Worst Actress to Kristen Stewart for her role in The Guilt Trip, in which she played the unbelievably original role of “obnoxious Jewish mother.”

          She also released at least one musical album back in the 1900s and appeared in a few movies.

          One such movie included Streisand portraying the daughter of a disappointed rabbi who also questions her father’s ability to hear her.

  • secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    6 个月前

    Even if you want to be mad at her for being rich and being part of the oligopoly that is creating suffering and impending environmental doom, can you blame her for requesting the portrait be taken down? It’s really unflattering and doesn’t look that much like her. She didn’t demand it, she asked. No one likes being humiliated, and that portrait probably made her feel terrible. There’s nothing wrong with making a request, most people in her position would do the same.

    She should create a foundation to called “The Institute for Reduced World Suffering” and make the charter bylaws include her picture on anything sent out, any website, any marketing material, and her photo must be on any material generated by the organization, and it can only be 1 type of picture that she chooses, then she should have an artist do a really flattering picture of her that makes her look nice. In the Institute’s first year, she should offer 10 10,000 grants to those who study reduced world suffering and in announcing the grants opportunity she could include her picture in the advertisements. She could let anyone apply and she chooses the winners. She could turn a strange situation into something wonderful if she wants.

      • blazera@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        6 个月前

        Yeah I seen em. It’s all awful. Looks like he’s got a famous great grandfather and he’s cashing in on the name.

  • MrShankles@reddthat.comEnglish
    11·
    6 个月前

    She’d have done better claiming, “It doesn’t even look like me‽ Kind of a shit artist imo, if we’re all just being honest.”

    Apparently, there’s no going back from the Streisand effect. And now, here we all are, looking at her actual gremlin face… understanding that the painting is somehow true. She should have let it go

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
    0·
    6 个月前

    if she weren’t rich, i’d feel bad for her. her status and authority, unfortunately, make her an acceptable target for nonviolent criticism, such as really ugly portraits.

    • SuperApples@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 个月前

      her status and authority, unfortunately, make her an acceptable target

      Agreed, but It’s really more that she’s a complete arsehole. As a nimby mining magnate, she is a sponsor of organised climate denialism and vocal about it herself, a race she clearly has a horse in. She’s also an active libertarian who wants to further dismantle the welfare system, and reduce taxation, and wants Australian workers to be cool like Africans and work for $2 a day. And a vocal Trump supporter.

      It’s not the painting that makes her ugly, it’s her behaviour and ideology.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 个月前

        Yeah no famous artist has ever felt the need to pain me ugly. Hell the most artistic depiction of me is a charcoal drawing by a guy who didn’t know we’d gone out for hookah a few times a few years prior. But regardless artists are only depicting her poorly because of how poorly she behaves.

    • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      6 个月前

      Its really wierd to me that Streisand effect became the accepted name for this.

      For example the 1st child’s play is saw In the UK was 3. Purely because it was banned

      Attempt at clarification edit

      I had no interest in yhe child’s plat movie franchises until the 3rd movie because it was banned

      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
        01·
        6 个月前

        The first child’s play movie wasn’t saw, the UK definitely wasn’t 3 when you had seen it, and saw was never banned in the UK although Grotesque and several Chainsaw Massacre films were. /s

        • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          6 个月前

          I haven’t seen a single saw. Just not interested.

          Childs play 3 was absolutely banned in the UK I’d rather not link the reasons why its pretty grotesque though

          That said I just learned the ban was lifted in 2002

          • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
            01·
            6 个月前

            I was making fun of your spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. I never even said Child’s Play 3 wasn’t banned lmao.

            • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
              0·
              6 个月前

              I dunno what it is the last wee while I can’t type on my phone keyboard. Pretty suew my brain is melting

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    6 个月前

    Maybe she could buy the painting? I’m sure the artist would be willing to part with it for a donation of a few billion to charitable causes.

  • cumskin_genocide@lemm.eeEnglish
    01·
    6 个月前

    It sucks that this unflattering portrait is put in a museum and my unflattering portrait of the whore who turned me down isn’t in one.