People of the world, Spice up your life!

More rumors of a Spice Girls Reunion. This time from The Sun. Still no details but it looks like a reunion is definitely in the works! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Does that mean there will be a Spiceworld 2? Here's some more Spice Girl videos!

TNT, I got some beef with you

I watched Gone with the Wind this weekend on TNT. Great movie, but I have some questions for TNT about its five-hour broadcast.
Could you make the corner promos of the season premiere of The Closer and the broadcast premiere of Van Helsing any bigger? And, could you find any more inappropriate parts of the movie to put them in?
Here’s how it went. I’m watching as Scarlet lies and whines her through situation after situation, then when the movie finally comes to a dramatic part - bam! There’s a promo for Van Helsing, plain as day, covering up one-fourth of the picture.
The scene where the camera pan’s as Scarlett is yelling she “will never be hungry again,” there’s a promo for The Closer.
And every time it happened, I was like “Wow, really. You couldn’t do that at any other time?”
Now, I’ve come to accept that commercials will break up the flow of a movie. That’s fine. There’s a price for seeing things for free on television. But could you zip it on the promos?
It’s one thing when you put them up during your daily Law & Order marathons, but during Gone with the Wind? A movie that defined the grandeur of filmmaking for an entire era and even today is considered one of the most breathtaking films ever made - even when it’s on television. You’re going to interrupt that with a promo for The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines? Show a little class.
TNT. I didn’t want to do this, but you made me. You’re grounded. That’s means you have to come right home after basketball, no trips to the library, and no Changes of Plans. Not until you learn a lesson, buster.
Maybe next time you won’t interrupt GWTW for something from “The producers of Independence Day.” We’ll, you probably will, but just to let you know you’re walking on thin ice bucko.

Spice Girls may reunite!

I can't believe I'm admitting that I'm excited about this, but the Spice Girls may reunite. Ireland Online reported that Emma (Baby Spice) Bunton said she is preparing for a reunion with her fellow Spice Girls, but would not say when it would happen.
The last time the Spice Girls performed as a full group was in 1998, the same year Geri (Ginger Spice) Halliwell left the group.

Read More HERE.

Here's the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" for your viewing pleasure!

Get a Victoria Vox ringtone, FREE

Victoria Vox, who appeared on Mad Mad Media Podcast #3, has made her song, America, available as a ringtone for FREE.

I just put it on my phone, and it works great!

Click HERE to get Victoria Vox's America ringtone free.

You can also visit Vox on her MySpace site, HERE, and her website HERE. And her CD, pictured to the left, would make a great X-mas gift for anyone who loves music.

Click HERE to listen to the Mad Mad Media Podcast #3 featuring Vox along with Ani Difranco, Jane Jensen, Tamara Bedricky and Joan Jett.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I am looking forward to eating some turkey.
In celebration, here's Adam Sandler's classic Thanksgiving Song from SNL.

Missing the point

So, let’s see a show of hands from those of you who didn’t care to see O.J. Simpson hypothetically run through how he would have killed his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. I’m assuming that most of you are either raising your hands or nodding in agreement.
Now, how many of you feel News Corp. violated your right to free speech?
According to reports from IMDb, poet/playwright Jayne Lyn Stahl, in her column on Arianna Huffington’s blog, wrote: “What may (be) lost in the shuffle here is that one person, and one corporation, News Corp., has the power to pull the plug on a T.V. special, as well as the planned ... book. ... Few, if any, will lament the loss of the OJ book and interview, but make no mistake, unprecedented media, and newspaper consolidation poses the gravest threat to freedom of expression, and the First Amendment.”
I read this a couple of times and could not believe how far off of the mark on person could be.
The First Amendment is:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
My question is, Ms. Stahl, where did the government come into play in this O.J. scenario?
News Corp. is not “Congress,” nor is it any governing body. That gives it too much credit.
If O.J. Simpson wants to revisit the past, hypothetically confess to a crime, reopen the gaping psychological wounds of the Brown and Goldman families and make himself appear as horrible monster in the eyes of the children he fathered with Nicole Brown Simpson, he has every right to.
He can shout it from the rooftops, yell it at the subway and bus stations, post fliers everywhere and so on. He has the right to do it.
But no person or company is under any obligation to pay him. The First Amendment doesn’t guarantee a written work will be published.
That, Jayne Lyn Stahl, is what this is about. Profiting off of the unsolved murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman is the issue, not the freedom of speech.
Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chair, didn’t say ‘O.J. doesn’t have the right to say these things,’ he said News Corp. wouldn’t pay O.J. and give him a venue. Murdoch decided it wasn’t good for business.
In fact, any company that wants to step in and publish Simpson’s book has every right to. But, and I could be way off on this one, there probably isn’t a market for it.
Money will always trump vision. As a poet, I'm sure you've run into this before.
As a writer, I would be more pissed off that any celebrity with a half-baked idea can waltz into a publisher’s office and be offered a $3.5 million publishing deal and television special.
The “gravest threat to freedom of expression, and the First Amendment,” isn’t a media conglomerate rejecting written or filmed material. That happens all the time.
The gravest threat is not having an audience. Without an audience, it doesn’t matter what you say.

Read Jayne Lyn Stahl's editorial HERE.

BREAKING NEWS

The Associated Press is reporting that Academy Award winning director Robert Altman has died at the age of 81.
Altman's career spanned several decades and included impressive works like "M-A-S-H," "Nashville" and "The Player."
Most recently, Altman directed the film adaption of "A Prairie Home Companion," based on Garrison Keillor's long-running radio show.
Altman was nominated for five Academy Awards, none of which he won, and was given a lifetime achievement Oscar in 2006.
Read More HERE.

Komedy King Kramer

Michael Richards took Seinfeld's battling a heckler plot 8,000 steps too far over the weekend, calling a black heckler at his show a very, very bad word. Of course, TMZ.com caught it all on video - and you can watch the video there. Richards, famous for playing Kramer on Seinfeld, apologized on the David Letterman Show. Check that out below.

FOX gets wise with OJ

Fox finally realized there are lines that can’t be crossed.
News Corp., the conglomerate that owns Fox and Fox News, said Monday it would cancel a planned TV special and book from O.J. Simpson called "If I Did It," where the former football player explained hypothetically how he would have committed the slayings his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994.
In the brief amount of time that has lapsed since the project was announced, just about everybody in the world has come forward to say this was a terrible idea. The families of the victims were shocked and outraged that they were going to be dragged through this horrifying experience, again, and news pundits from around the globe were screaming, ‘What is Fox thinking?’
Obviously, they were thinking about ratings.
The special was set to air during the last three days of November sweeps, at a time when Fox is without it’s ratings winners American Idol and (place name of hot reality show here). They needed a hit, and they were willing to pay for it.
The deal with O.J. was worth an estimated $3.5 million for the book and television special (and yes, Simpson does get to keep the advance he received for the project). When you’re willing to spend that kind of cash on a 12-year-old story, you expect a payout.
But it backfired. The backlash alone has hurt Fox, not permanently though because it didn’t air.
There have been worse ideas that have actually aired on television (Remember Geraldo’s primetime journey into Al Capone’s vault where he found NOTHING?).
And Fox is already doing spin control.
In a statement, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman, who isn’t exactly known for speaking out against anything on his networks, said, “I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project. ...We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.”

I usually applaud Fox for pushing the boundaries — especially with its Sunday night lineup. But this time, backing off was just the right thing to do.

Mad Mad Media Podcast 14

Mad Mad Media Podcast 14

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This show we talk with Craig Lile of My Old Kentucky Blog about the new Zune Player from Microsoft and hear music from Cedar Falls, The Broadcast Debut,Camelia Ashback and Vanessa Peters and Ice Cream On Mondays.

Here's the links

Craig Lile of My Old Kentucky Blog
http://www.myoldkyblog.com

Zune official site
http://www.zune.net

Cedar Falls
“Berlin”
http://www.myspace.com/cedarfalls

The Broadcast Debut
“Rollerskating”
http://www.broadcastdebut.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thebroadcastdebut/

Camelia Ashbach
“New York Is Burning”
http://cameliaashbach.com/
http://www.myspace.com/cameliaashbach

Vanessa Peters and Ice Cream On Mondays
“Anti-Hero”
http://www.vanessapeters.com/
http://www.myspace.com/vanessapeters

On this week's podcast

I'll be sitting down and talking with Craig Lile of My Old Kentucky Blog about the new Microsoft Zune MP3 player. Lile was handpicked by Microsoft to test the new Zune and has some interesting things to say about the company's first major foray into the world of MP3 players. We'll also have some music.

Check it out on Friday night by either coming back to Mad Mad Media or subscribing through iTunes.

Wow, um, just WOW!

More that 400 people visited Mad Mad Media yesterday. I am still in shock.


How did it happen? On Tuesday, my editorial on Internet piracy and breaking news on the Bloc Party's new CD got a lot of hits, 60. I told the Press' tech grrrl, Jamie, about the increase in traffic and she decided it was enough of a push to mention it on the front page of The Sheboygan Press' online edition.


By 10 a.m., I had passed 60, by 1 p.m. more than 200 people had visited, after I posted the clip from The Daily Show, 200 more followed.


I won't have exact numbers until tomorrow, but here's how the numbers looked on my sitemeter graph.

Needless to say, I am incredibly grateful. Especially for those who stopped by and spent 10 or 15 minutes on the site, checking out some of my old posts and podcasts.

I guess now I'm really going to have to up the ante, and give you guys something to hold your interest.

Thanks again for checking out the site.

200 visitors and counting

WOW! Thanks to all of you for visiting. So far today we've had more than 200 people stop by Mad Mad Media, one heck of a record considering I was thrilled about yesterday's 60 visitors.

To celebrate, I am posting my favorite Daily Show clip from the last couple of months. Think of it as my gift of humor to you. In it, Jason Jones tries to get to the bottom of sleazy television journalism. Very funny stuff.

The video does contain adult humor (no swearing but plenty of innuendo). So for those of you sensitive to those kinds of things, please, please, PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THIS!

But it you're ready to laugh at the media, television media that is, take a look and enjoy. And thanks once again for visiting Mad Mad Media.

Big day yesterday

I don't want to brag, but yesterday we had about 60 hits. That doesn't seem like a lot, but for Mad Mad Media, which has little promotion, it's HUGE! Here's a quick reference to what people are looking at!

What is the real cost of Internet piracy (CLICK HERE)

New Bloc Party CD leaked onto the Internet (CLICK HERE)

All of MP3-Too Legit To Quit (CLICK HERE)

So, welcome to all new visitors and thanks for checking out the site. Bookmark Mad Mad Media, come back and leave plenty of comments!

New Bloc Party CD leaked onto the Internet

OK. I have it on good authority (Good Weather For Airstrikes and Phoenix.com) that the new Bloc Party CD has been leaked onto the Internet.
I haven't heard it yet, but fans aren't happy.

Check out their comments HERE.

I don't know what to tell you

Last week was a huge week. The Democrats stormed Washington, Britney kicked K-Fed to the curb, Borat invaded America - very nice.


This week seems so blah!


Of course, here in Wisconsin the sun decided to take a vacation, so maybe that has something to do with it, but this week isn't doing anything for me.

It's not like nothing is going on.

New Bond coming out on Friday ... meh.
New Simpsons Movie trailer aired ... meh!
30 Rock is moving to Thursday ... interested but meh.
So, there you have it.


Here's to hoping the week starts picking up!

Photo: K-Fed, last week's news. AP photo.

Britney Dumps K-Fed Live

Here it is again! This is awesome. You have got to love YouTube.

Oh, snap!

Reports surfaced today that Britney dumped K-Fed by sending him a text message.
Ouch!
Of course, he has since hit back, filing papers requesting spousal support and custody of the couple’s two children. Way to be the man K-Fed! Do you want the aprons and the mixer too?
Wow, that has to hurt. Getting dumped with a text message. What do you think it said?
“K I H8 U. NOT LOL. U SUK. BYE X 3. U N I R OVA.”
I remember when dumping someone over the phone was a big smack. Now that’s a courtesy! E-mail? A gift. At least they took the time to log on.
Text messaging? Wow. Geez. She really wanted to say “it’s over” right now. Not even a phone call.
I’d feel bad for K-Fed, but, well, I don’t care. Good luck with all of that!

4,000 and counting

Mad Mad Media hit another milestone last night with its 4,000th visitor! That totally rocks! Thanks to all of you who stop by and keep on coming back. And tell all of your friends! I'm trying to reach 5,000 visits by the end of the year!
And leave a comment every once in a while! I don't want to just force my opinions on you, I want to know what you think as well!
Later, and thanks again for visiting!
Eric

What is the real cost of Internet piracy?

For years the entertainment and software industries have said piracy is taking a huge swipe out of their sales. And while the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America recently appealed to Congress for help in sinking “The Pirate Bay,” saying piracy cost the music and movie industries up to $250 billion a year, a new study is showing that losses from piracy may have been inflated.
A report by the Australian Institute of Criminology commissioned by the Australian Attorney General’s office has concluded that industry statistics concerning financial loss due to piracy are “unverified and epistemologically unreliable” and that statistics used by the copyright holders are “absurd.”

Read More HERE
Of course, since this report was a confidential study that was leaked to The Australian, Mad Mad Media does not have access to the report, but this announcement is far from shocking.
I think we can all agree piracy exists. I mean you can go to any flea market and find CDs with Xerox copied covers and hand written disc art, any anyone can see fire-sharing services and BitTorrent files aren’t going anywhere, so we can all agree there is piracy.
How big the problem is has been blurred by this study.
It would seem that the recording industry may be taking a page from the anti-tobacco advocate’s handbook — if everyone agrees there’s a problem, a little white lie will add a sense of urgency to solving it.

Let me explain. We all know smoking is bad for you, but what about second-hand smoke? Some anti-tobacco advocates have gone as far to say that a half-hour of exposure to second-hand cigarette smoke can permanently damage your heart — with absolutely no scientific evidence behind the claims except that people already know smoking is bad.
Why do this? People didn’t stop smoking in public places until several key smoking surveys were released linking smoking to cancer after cancer after cancer. Now that science isn't linking it to any new diseases (there are only so many) they still have to get the word out, so some advocates decided to massage the facts.

If the AIC’s report is true, and piracy damages are being over inflated, then one could expect that groups like the International Federation of Phonographic Industries, RIAA and MPAA are doing just that — massaging the facts.
According to the IFPI’s 2006 Piracy Report, the group estimated $4.5 billion in pirated discs were sold and 20 billion tracks were illegally swapped or downloaded on the Internet in 2005. Using Apple iTunes math, $0.99 a song download, that’s $24.3 billion a year in losses for the music industry.
The same organization said there were $33.6 billion in physical CD sales in 2004 (and about $1.1 billion in digital music sales in 2005), so saying there are $24.3 billion in losses because of piracy looks like they could be stretching it a bit, even half that amount would cause a raised eyebrow.
This morning an RIAA spokeswoman said told me they had not yet heard of the survey. The IFPI’s Website had no response to the study, and because this study was not supposed to be made public, there may never be any public responses to it.
But now that it’s out there questioning these organizations statistics, it’s time to get the facts straight, especially since the US government has gotten involved, spending tax dollars to hunt down pirates they may or may not be sailing the seas of the World Wide Web.

Read the IFPI's 2006 Piracy Report HERE.

Also check out this Mad Mad Media Editorial: All of MP3: Too Legit to Quit

Make way for the SOV

British rapper Lady Sovereign has been a small blip on the indie music radar for some time but she's about to break through in a big way. Her latest single, Love Me or Hate Me, from her first full-length CD, Public Warning, has been getting regular rotation on MTV (during the two hours a day the network is playing videos) and is slowly infecting the airwaves.

Though she's about as easy to understand as Brad Pitt in Snatch, The SOV has an amazing lyrical flow that bests everyone else in her subgenre including Missy Elliot.

Pitchfork Media recently put her first single up on line as a free download. If you miss this, you're really missing out.

Download "Love Me or Hate Me" by clicking or right-clicking HERE.

Visit Lady Sovereign by clicking HERE or on MySpace HERE.

So tired. Need coffee

I know this is just a repeat of my profile picture, but I am so tired after last night's election coverage, this is what I going to be doing all day today.

Britney's in the divorce Zone!

AP is reporting Britney Spears has filed for divorce from K-Fed. No details yet. No surprise either.

Click HERE.

Updated link at 5 p.m. HERE

Spears and K-Fed when they were happy in love. Photo courtesy of China Daily.

A Mad Mad guide to voting

So, today people all across this great country of ours are getting out and casting their votes (or rocking the vote for you Gen-Xers out there), hoping to change the world a little bit. I’m more interested in changing the rules of voting.
For me, voting is a science that desperately needs to be revised. What 10 things would I do different?

* All parties must be included. The U.S. is not a two-party system, so “they” say, but nationally recognized political parties are not necessarily recognized in individual states. They should be, and that’s that.

* All referendums must be binding. Elections are not a time to gather opinions on political issues (here in Wisconsin we have a non-binding referendum question on instating the death penalty). Elections are in place to put people in office and enact change. If the government wants to know the public opinion on a subject, it should hire a telemarketing firm and call people at home.

* All binding referendum questions must have three choices: yes, no and I don’t care. Majority rules. If the majority is yes or no, the referendum passes or fails. If the majority doesn’t care, the issue must be dropped and not revisited by the government for 40 years.

* Felons should be allowed to vote once they have been released from prison. Once convicted felons have “repaid their debt to society,” voting privileges should be reinstated. In fact, because felons are the most likely to be affected by the law and do contribute financially to the government in the form of fines and cheap labor, maybe they should be allowed to vote twice.

* No one, and I mean no one, should be allowed to park in the lot of a polling site with a “Vote for (place name of popular television comic or radio personality here) for President.” I don’t want Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart or Rush Limbaugh to be elected president. No, I get that it's a joke. It’s just not funny. That’s why no one went to see Man of the Year — it’s not funny. People with these stickers on their cars should be convicted as felons and have their voting privileges taken away. And their debt to society will never be repaid.

* There should be free candy at polling stations. I like candy. Candy makes everything fun and enjoyable.

* Election results shouldn’t be released for a week. Let ‘em sweat, that’s what I say.

* There should be pop elections. Remember the fun and excitement of pop quizes? We could have it again in the adult world. You could be sitting at work, minding your own business, when POW, time to vote. Wooooweeee, that would be fun!

* You should be able to vote from home. Why should I put on pants and leave the house when I don’t have to?

* And last but not least: If you vote, you can’t be chosen for jury duty. Not that the two are connected, but I have been selected for jury duty three times in my life; quite frankly I want a way to get off of the list.

Of course, these are my views and my views alone. But it’s something to think about. Happy voting!

Mad Mad Media Podcast 13

Mad Mad Media Podcast#13

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I'm going to grab me an ice cold beer tonight. Enough about me though. The new Mad Mad Media Podcast is here featuring music by:

Roisin Murphy
“Sow Into You”

http://worlds-fair.net/roisin_murphy/
http://www.roisinmurphy.com/
http://www.myspace.com/roisinmurphy

The King Of France
“Mexico”

http://worlds-fair.net/king_of_france/
http://www.thekingoffrance.com
http://www.myspace.com/thekingoffrance

Moloko
"Sing it Back"

http://www.moloko.co.uk/
http://worlds-fair.net/moloko/
http://www.myspace.com/molokoengland

Morcheeba
"Everybody Loves A Loser"

http://worlds-fair.net/morcheeba/
http://morcheeba.co.uk/
www.myspace.com/morcheeba




Brookville
"Nothings Meant To Last"

http://worlds-fair.net/brookville/

http://www.brookville.com/

http://www.myspace.com/brookville

Pela
"The Trouble With River Cities"

http://myspace.com/pela

Christopher Willits
"Yellow Spring"

http://www.christopherwillits.com

Worlds Fair

http://worlds-fair.net

Mad Mad Media Podcast coming tonight

Hey everybody. I'm busy working on the latest Mad Mad Media Podcast, with will be ready later tonight!!!
Come back after 10 to check it out!

Eric

Editorial: War on YouTube

The media has been covering wars since its inception. Early journalists, which we would now refer to as embedded reporters, lived with the troops and wrote about battles they experienced first hand. As technology advanced, so did the reports — first on radio, then in movie newsreels and finally on television.
In the early 1990s, when cable television news pioneer CNN started reporting live from Desert Storm, war coverage reached a new frontier, bringing the sights and sounds of war home to watch live in our living rooms.
But even then the television viewers, radio listeners and newspaper and magazine readers were only able to experience so much. News organizations aren’t given all-access passes by the armed forces to go everywhere, especially during battle, and the governments (United States and others involved) have tried kept a tight wrap on what can be shown and reported on.
Even more, not all of the information delivered to news organizations could be aired. There are FCC regulations and ethical concerns to consider when covering war, in fact one of the three forms of speech that is not protected by the First Amendment is giving out military secrets during wartime, so many news organizations have chosen to air on the side of caution.
Plus, words can only describe so much. After hearing phrases like “the horrors of war” and "enduring freedom" over and over, they tend to lose their meaning both in delivery and interpretation.
That has changed. Several months ago, video clips of the war in Iraq shot by US soldiers (like the one below) started showing up on YouTube, as did videos from the insurgents. They are reports from the frontline, sans the reporter, that are both fascinating and hard to watch.
Without the commentary from trained news professionals, lowered sound of fighting compressed to allow for voiceovers, graphics and maps and quick edits to maximize points of coverage, the raw footage is horrifying. Soldiers scream as they fire their guns, bullets and smoke flying around them as curse words are echoed every couple of seconds.
After watching less than a minute of it, you start to feel sick. For someone who has never been in that position, it’s hard to imagine what these people must be going through.
And while it is hard to watch, this is an amazing development for the media.
The Internet basically has no regulations on content, especially when it comes to broadcasting. You can swear, shoot, blow up things and so on, and there are (basically) no federal regulations against it (so long as you prove you are 18—even at YouTube). For news organizations, this could be huge.
We can’t show you everything on TV or in print, and you can’t hear what war and other sensative situations really sound like. We just can’t do it. But we could on the Internet.
According to the US Census data from 2003, 54 percent of homes have Internet access, and it appears that number is rising by 2 percent a year. At this rate, nearly 68 percent of homes will have Internet access by 2010, possibly more.
While this doesn’t compare to the 98.2 percent of homes that have a television set (according to the FCC), it’s still a sizable amount of people that have access to these images and accounts at their fingertips.
And as interest in these actual accounts rises, which it will, the news organizations of the world will be able to give you more of them — undistorted, untwisted, unedited, leaving the interpretation of facts up to you.
It’s the media in its purest form, and it can be yours for the asking.
For now, it’s just an awesome experience that these little voices are being heard all over the world, whether it’s a soldier in Iraq fighting to stay alive, or a college student with a webcam trying to make sense out of their life.
While the images are sometimes unsettling, they are at least being seen.

Oh Yes, there will be blood

After earning massive bank at the box office this weekend, IMDb is reporting that Lionsgate Films said it would produce Saw 4 for next year.
The Saw films are a feather in Lionsgate's cap, earning more than $200 mil at the worldwide box office so far (that doesn't include video and dvd sales and airing rights for cable). Since producers have spent a mere $17.5 million to make all three films, making another Saw is a no brainer!
Also in movie news, IMDb is reporting a new Stanley Kubrick film is in the works, despite Kubrick's notable handicap of being dead. Kubrick's son-in-law is shopping around a script he found in the late director's belongings called Lunatics at Large. Will Kubrick be the next 2Pac? Stay tuned to find out.
Peter Jackson's vision for the movie adaptation of the popular video game, Halo, is proving to be too expensive for everyone, including Microsoft. Looks like it's game over man, game over.
And in the most bizarre example of comeuppance I have ever seen, Barbara Streisand had a drink thrown at her during a concert. According to AP, Streisand was performing a skit mocking Pres. George Bush when an audience member threw a “cup filled with liquid” at her. Of course, Streisand is charging between $100 and $700 for tickets, so it’s easy to see why anyone would be mad when she stops singing and starts acting (since all of her movies are in the dollar bin at Family Video-much less than her concert price).Another way to look at this is: The Republicans are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. And they ain’t bringing flowers anymore. Read more about it HERE.