there's a riot goin' on

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Just when you think the Michael Moore "controversies" can't get any stupider.

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Singer Linda Ronstadt was thrown out of the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas on the weekend after dedicating a song to liberal filmmaker Michael Moore and his movie "Fahrenheit 9/11," a casino spokeswoman said Monday.
Ronstadt, who had been hired for a one-show engagement Saturday night at the Las Vegas Strip casino, dedicated a performance of "Desperado" to Moore and his controversial documentary, which criticizes President Bush and the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
That dedication angered some Aladdin guests who spilled drinks, tore down posters and demanded their money back, said casino spokeswoman Sara Gorgon.

"We had quite a scene at the box office," she said. ...

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I love the idea of someone dedicating "Desperado" to Michael Moore.

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Spilled drinks". Woah, crazy!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"quite a scene at the box office"?
heheheheheh!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

this is actually quite shocking really. John Titor is right - the next American civil war is imminent.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

They got the guns, they got the numbers...

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the next American civil war is imminent.

yeah?!
i.e. -- a "civil war" on american soil, for a change?
i wouldn't go as far as saying that's a 'good thing' (for it obviously wouldn't be, 'all things' considered but... but... ...BUT! ...?)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

If the kept the war away from Manhattan it might be a good way for them to exchange views without wrecking some of the best shopping this side of the atlantic.

― anthony, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

just your friendly neighborhood killjoy here to remind you that the last american civil war cost several million lives! :-)

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but they'd all be dead by now anyway, so what's the difference, Einstein?

― Huck, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronstadt was not immediately available for comment.

Apparently she wasn't available for a press photo from less than 20 years ago either.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

No, no, she's been frozen in time, she still looks like that, soft-lit and sepia-toned.

― Huck, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The picture in the first article linked at the top of the page is from '98!

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yikes! It's changed since I first viewed that page!

― Huck, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Aye, it has changed for me as well. It is now "shown in this 1996 photo"

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

oh dear what a bad picture

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Not to come of too Calzonian, but maybe that's the real reason they rioted?

― Huck, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://shots.oxo.li/food/calzone.gif

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

MMMMM, C-manzone!

― Huck, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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