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Desperadoes

July 21, 2004
 


 

Something went awry at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas last
Saturday night. Linda Ronstadt did what she has done at
several concerts across the country this summer. She
dedicated the song "Desperado"- an encore - to Michael
Moore and urged members of the audience to go see his new
movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11." 

Elsewhere, audiences have reacted to the mention of Mr.
Moore by cheering, booing, walking out and sometimes
glaring at one another in parking lots. At the Aladdin, a
few audience members tore down posters, threw drinks and
demanded their money back. According to one person who was
present - William Timmins, the Aladdin's president - it was
"a very ugly scene." Mr. Timmins promptly made it even
uglier. He had Ms. Ronstadt ejected from the premises. 

This behavior assumes that Ms. Ronstadt had no right to
express a political opinion from the stage. It implies -
for some members of the audience at least - that there is a
philosophical contract that says an artist must entertain
an audience only in the ways that audience sees fit. It
argues, in fact, that an artist like Ms. Ronstadt does not
have the same rights as everyone else. 

Perhaps her praise for Mr. Moore, even at the very end of
her show, did ruin the performance for some people. They
have a right to voice their disapproval - to express their
opinion as Ms. Ronstadt expressed hers and to ask for a
refund. But if their intemperate behavior began to worry
the management, then they were the ones who should have
been thrown out and told never to return, not Ms. Ronstadt,
who threatened, after all, only to sing. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/21/opinion/21wed4.html?ex=1091431149&ei=1&en=49ef3acb0437d236


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