Posted on 07/19/2004 7:12:24 AM PDT by Nevadan
Linda Ronstadt apparently got what she wanted -- to be 86'd from the Aladdin.
In a bizarre performance notable for its bridge-burning comments, Ronstadt inflamed more than her Aladdin audience on Saturday by taking potshots at Las Vegas and dedicating "Desperado" to "Fahrenheit 9/11" filmmaker Michael Moore.
When her show was over, the Aladdin had her checked out of her room and escorted off the premises.
Many walked out during the show, one concertgoer tossed a cocktail on her poster, others defaced her posters and the box office was "a mob scene" of people seeking refunds, according to an Aladdin spokeswoman.
"It's amazing how ugly it got," said Tyri Squyres, director of public relations at the Aladdin.
Ronstadt was a one-woman heat wave.
Early in the show she told the crowd not to expect her greatest hits and added a snide remark or two about Las Vegas and the Aladdin. Scores of fans filed out when Ronstadt made her dedication to Moore and his controversial political film.
"Our management is incredibly upset," Squyres said. "We're just very disappointed because we hired her for a good evening of entertainment for our guests.
"It was like she came in with a chip on her shoulder," Squyres said.
Ronstadt allowed no meet-and-greets and no photographers.
Squyres said Ronstadt "inaccurately" told the crowd she saw a billboard that promoted a greatest-hits show. Ronstadt's camp had provided and approved all ads, commercials, billboards and news releases, Squyres said.
"To be clear, the Aladdin does not condone the comments made by Ms. Ronstadt," Squyres said by e-mail. "Ms. Ronstadt was hired to entertain the guests of the Aladdin, not to espouse her political views. Following her performance she was escorted out of the hotel and immediately checked out of her room. And she will not be welcomed back."
In an interview with the R-J's Mike Weatherford before the show, Ronstadt said with a laugh: "I keep hoping that if I'm annoying enough to them, they won't hire me back."
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Guess they can count on me staying there next time I am in Vegas.
To the Hollyweird croud, Just shut up and sing!
HAHAHAHAHA! She always had to use someone else's songs....Michael Moore had to use ray Bradbury's Fahernheit title.....Al Franken had to use O'Reilly's Factor ttle. Pathetic.
Maybe they should just fire her outright...let her crawl back under the rock she came out from under...
The only place that Linda Ronstadt and Michael Moore could possibly be entertaining nowadays is at a pie-eating contest.
No one else knows the consumer better than the Vegas casinos. I love that place. I may have to stay at Aladdan next time I am out there.
Yep. Linda has definitely put on the poundage!
Seems as if these "entertainers" are getting a bit upset to find that they don't have the political sway they think they have.
On another note Tommy Daschle was "deeply saddened" by these fine Americans.
Seriesly.
Sounds like her White Rabbit has died.
She looks like the Clintoon's Monica!
Govenor Moonbeam....the first girlfriend on line One!
I believe these has-beens who sound off like this are just trying to stay on the "A" list of the liberal idiots (but I repeat myself) in Hollywood. Her "performance" will make the rounds of the cocktail circuit and perhaps generate a few invites and potential gigs that would not otherwise be forthcoming.
We think of these antics as self-destructive, but then we are the "little people" and what we think doesn't count.
I can't figure out whether dedicating 'Desperado' to Michael Moore is a compliment or an insult.
I guess she'll being singing an endless chorus of, "Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me.'
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow
When are entertainers going to wake up and realize that they are selling a product - themselves. If we don't like what they say, we won't buy the "product".
This isn't censorship or politics, it's consumer choice. What an idiot.
Linda Ronstadt still plays Vegas???????
"Desperado, why don't you come to your senses"
What am I missing? Is she dissing him or loving him.
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