the seen
Alan Dershowitz’s Martha’s Vineyard
vacations are still prettay, prettay
uncomfortable. Larry David “screamed” at the prominent
legal commentator at a popular convenience
store on the island, the New York Post
reported, over Dershowitz’s ties to the Donald
Trump camp in recent years.
Those ties have made him a pariah at
the posh vacation spot since at least 2018,
reports have claimed. But the David episode,
involving two of the world’s most prominent
Jews, is circulating on the internet for its
humorous details.
David apparently hit Dershowitz with this
line, among others: “It’s disgusting. Your whole
enclave — it’s disgusting. You’re disgusting!”
The lawyer clapped back before he “drove off
in an old, dirty Volvo.”
Dershowitz didn’t fi nd the scene to be
funny, he said. After David critiqued him for
cozying up to former Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo, Dershowitz told the Post that he
worked with Pompeo, a former student of
his at Harvard, on the Trump administration’s
Israel policy.
“While [David] was writing bad jokes, I was
helping to bring about peace in the Middle
East,” Dershowitz said.
Dershowitz defended Trump against
impeachment calls through several TV
interviews during his presidency, and critics
have also pointed to the famed O.J. Simpson
defender’s ties to the late disgraced Jewish
fi nancier Jeff rey Epstein. In response, many of
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand sets another
record: A top 20 album in every
decade since the 1960s
Barbra Streisand has become the only woman to record a top
20 album on the Billboard charts in every decade from the
1960s to the 2020s.
The only other person to achieve that feat is Bob Dylan.
Larry David
Streisand’s latest album, “Release Me 2,” came out Saturday
and debuted at number 15 on the Billboard charts, Billboard
his liberal Martha’s Vineyard friends, such as
reported. The album features archival recordings as well as
David, now shun Dershowitz.
duets with Willie Nelson and Kermit the Frog.
“I’m reveling not whining,” he tweeted
Her fi rst album to chart in the top 20 was her self-titled
in 2018. “I’m proud of taking an unpopular, “Barbra Streisand Album,” which debuted at the 17th spot 58
principled position that gets me shunned
years ago, in 1963. Streisand, 79, is also the woman with the
by partisan zealots. It’s not about me. I
most albums to chart in the top 40, with 54. That’s more than
couldn’t care less about being shunned by twice as many as the runner-up, Aretha Franklin, who had 26.
such people.”
The overall record for top 40 albums is held by Frank Sinatra,
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