Without rancor or meanness I think Condoleeza Rice is one of the most unattractive women in the history of female public figures......not that it effects her performance or she should be judged on her looks...she's useless regardless of her appearance IMO.....
swolf wrote:All indications are that Ronstadt created a scene and ruined the evening for the people in attendance at that event (Vegas).
So they didn't want to see her? And why did they come?
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The vehement reaction to Ronstadt's comments comes as something as a surprise, as the singer had been dedicating the song to Moore each night of the tour. The singer has been outspoken about her liberal views throughout her career and had a very public relationship with then-California Governor Jerry Brown in the Seventies.
In an interview that ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal the day before the show, Ronstadt said that the reaction to her nightly Moore dedications had been mixed. "They say the country is evenly divided, and boy is that true," she said. "One half of the audience cheers and the other half boos."
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RollingStone.com
swolf wrote:
McGentrix wrote: There WAS a concert at Wolf Trap at which Ronstadt/Moore fans and normal people were about evenly divided
Wowie, zowie!!! Why am I bothering responding to someone who possesses such a thought process!
Walter, people who go to hotel shows go to see "a show." They don't go there specifically to see any given performer. (Generally) But some people are too dim to understand the distinction.
I understand that Milosevic just made a plea bargain to get out of prison. In return for a full confession of his war crimes, he has agreed to perform in Vegas, dressed in full drag, with Linda Ronstadt. For those who feel her weight gain is obscene, perhaps they also feel that staying on cocaine would have been better for her figure.
Harper wrote:swolf wrote:
McGentrix wrote: There WAS a concert at Wolf Trap at which Ronstadt/Moore fans and normal people were about evenly divided
Wowie, zowie!!! Why am I bothering responding to someone who possesses such a thought process!
He's from the Adirondacks dear. Bigfoot lives there.
Hold on just a minute. I did not say any of the things that I am being attributed to saying. Please fix your quotes people!
Harper and Swolf, if you are going to quote people, at least quote the correct people!
Quote:Meanwhile, Ronstadt doesn't seem too phased by the incident. The next night, she performed an equally political concert in San Diego and, according to a newspaper report there, again heard a mix of boos when she dedicated "Desperado" to Moore. She also reportedly dedicated a version of Nat King Cole's "Straighten Up And Fly Right," to "the good folks at Enron, who brought you the California energy crisis."
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2004/07/2010.cfm
The girl's having fun with this. Gotta appreciate that.
At least Ronstadt did her rant on American soil which, in my way of thinking, is somewhat more acceptable than doing it on foreign soil. Still, I would have been major pissed to have set down $30 or $40 bucks for a concert ticket and then got slapped in the face by a bunch of political rhetoric.
I think it is annoying when performers do this kind of stuff too, but I think the people in the crowd, if the Fox story is accurate, totally overreacted. Mountain/molehill.
Foxfyre wrote:Still, I would have been major pissed to have set down $30 or $40 bucks for a concert ticket and then got slapped in the face by a bunch of political rhetoric.
If $30 or $40 means that much to someone, you'd hope they'd know something about who they're going to see. Which, in this case, means knowing they're going to see someone who has been supporting centrist and left-of-centre causes for several decades. I know that I wouldn't throw my money away on a Toby Keith concert, because I know he'd piss me off.
See, I told you she was once a babe.
you should see her on the front page of michaelmoore.com. hot pants, roller skates - i'll always understand why my beau of the late 70's just craaaaaaaaved her.
Big deal. Whats in this story that anyone should get upset about? Linda's an artist, she's a singer - she's not a wage-slave like many of us, when she's on stage she can do pretty much anything she chooses to. If people dont like it, they can go to another concert next time. The hotel owner? Its his place - if he dont like the artist he hired or the way (s)he behaves, he can boot her and hire someone else for the next night. Is his right. And the audience, too - if they dont like it, they can boo (I mean, its not like they went to a classical concert or something) - and if they like it, they can applaud. I really have trouble seeing what anyone's problem with any of this should be.
Foxfyre wrote:At least Ronstadt did her rant on American soil which, in my way of thinking, is somewhat more acceptable than doing it on foreign soil.
Oh yeah - imagine an American singer telling a
French audience that Moore is a "great American patriot" and "someone who is spreading the truth" and that everyone should see his "documentary about President Bush" - what a vile defiling of American honour such "ranting" would be!
Advocacy for Moore okay. That just makes her an idiot, not necesarily one who trashes her country to others.
Is there a difference between "trashing your country" and "trashing your government", to your mind?
(I know, I know, we had a long discussion about this general topic - but I dont think I've actually asked this straightforward question yet)
