Hey, who needs those people?
Barbra Streisand‘s return to the road is already hitting a few bumps.
Monday night’s show at Madison Square Garden – the third in a 20-city tour following a 12-year absence from the concert circuit – started out like the lovefest you might expect as Streisand effortlessly crooned through a select repertoire of her four decades of hits.
Then she interjected a political skit, exchanging zingers with a celebrity impersonator playing President Bush as a bumbling idiot.
As it dragged on, the catcalls started.
“Come on, be polite!” Streisand implored. But when one heckler wouldn’t let up, she finally resorted to the mother of all four-letter profanities: “Shut the … up! Shut up if you can’t take a joke!”
Once the outburst (which she later apologized for) was over, Streisand noted that “the artist’s role is to disturb,” and delivered a message of tolerance before launching into a serenely beautiful rendition of “Somewhere.”
Happy campers again
After a yearlong feud that nearly killed the reality show that made them famous, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie have agreed to film a fifth chapter of “The Simple Life” together.
The 25-year-olds will be camp counselors in the next installment, which will delve into “what led to the breakdown in the friendship and maybe some of the misunderstandings and things that got in the way.”
Last season, they filmed their parts separately. Producers threatened to put them on a “deserted island with a bunch of survivalists” before their change of heart.
A lot to lose
Josh Holloway, who plays sexy con man Sawyer on “Lost,” says there’s little job security on the mysterious ABC series.
“Everybody in the cast worries about being killed off, and we wouldn’t know until they handed us the script – three days before shooting,” he tells Men’s Journal.
“It’s a sensitive issue. People have houses here, kids in school. Most of us aren’t in our twenties anymore.”
Another one to wash
“Scrubs” creator Bill Lawrence and his wife, series co-star Christa Miller, welcomed their third child, and second son, over the weekend.
Henry Van Duzer Lawrence weighed in at 6 pounds, 9 ounces.
Not-so-shining moment
Nicole Kidman flatly denies rumors that she’s expecting: “I am not pregnant. I will say right now, I am not pregnant.”
Meanwhile, serial lady-killer Jack Nicholson reveals in USA Today that he hit on Kidman at the Oscars in March – not realizing the guy next to her was then-fiance Keith Urban.
Quoteworthy
Jon Stewart, on fans promoting him and fellow Comedy Central talker Stephen Colbert for the White House: “Nothing says ‘I am ashamed of you, my government’ more than ‘Stewart/Colbert ‘08.’ ”
The birthday bunch
Singer Daryl Hall (Hall and Oates) is 57. Actress Joan Cusack is 44. Actor Luke Perry is 40. Actress Jane Krakowski (“30 Rock”) is 38. Actress Michelle Trachtenberg (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) is 21.