Entertainment dynamo Barbra Streisand's foundation is so busy that she pays an executive director $128,000 to run her charity operation. In 1997, Streisand parted with a total of $658,159 in grants and contributions. Along with a slew of predictable lefty causes, Streisand gave $10,000 to Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government (where Babs once delivered a, um, stirring lecture) and $5,000 to a transplant awareness group run by James Redford, the son of actor Robert Redford, Streisand's co-star in "The Way We Were." (9 pages)
 
 

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