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Live 8
Rita Novel 2005.07.05 14:18
I didn't go downtown (Philadelphia) for LIVE 8, but I did watch some of the local news coverage as the concert started and later as it ended. (I don't have cable tv.) That's about the same thing I did the day of LIVE AID. Back then (the local Philly band) THE HOOTERS opened the show. I liked Will Smith's musical performance, and when Richard Gere introduced Smith's performance, after he (Gere) said he was born in Philadelphia, he should have said that his parents then sold their house to Smith's parents (just to make Smith laugh).
I drove through parts of Northeast Philadelphia in the late afternoon, and the street traffic was noticably thinner than usual. The waitress that served me dinner out near King of Prussia Friday nigth said she was going to LIVE 8 by train, so I assume a lot of locals did the same thing. After Saturday night dinner at my Mom's, we watched a little of the end of LIVE 8 on the local news (--it was the only news reported that night). There was lots of behind-the-scenes stuff, and when my mother saw Paula Abdul being briefly interviewed, she (my mother) said something and just started laughing. I said, "What did you just say?!" "Why doesn't she just let them hang out altogether?" Mom replied. Paula was wearing a low cut dress. I think that's my favorite LIVE 8 moment.
Crumpets, the crowd also compressed on the Parkway in 1979 the moment when Pope John Paul II arrived to serve Mass atop Logan Circle. I left (and walked back to my car parked behind the Art Museum) very soon after that happened too.
I have a feeling that a lot of "stars" are now Horace Trumbauer architecture fans, but they just don't know it in those terms yet.
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