Vegas Casino gives singer Linda Ronstadt the boot for opening her fat stupid mouth...

Post-9/11 Era Forum

LAS VEGAS - Singer Linda Ronstadt not only got booed, she got the boot after lauding filmmaker Michael Moore and his new movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" during a performance at the Aladdin hotel-casino.

Before singing "Desperado" for an encore Saturday night, the 58-year-old rocker called Moore a "great American patriot" and "someone who is spreading the truth." She also encouraged everybody to see the documentary about President Bush.

Ronstadt's comments drew loud boos and some of the 4,500 people in attendance stormed out of the theater. People also tore down concert posters and tossed cocktails into the air.

"It was a very ugly scene," Aladdin President Bill Timmins told The Associated Press. "She praised him and all of a sudden all bedlam broke loose."

Timmins, who is British and was watching the show, decided Ronstadt had to go — for good. Timmins said he didn't allow Ronstadt back in her luxury suite and she was escorted off the property.

Ronstadt's antics "spoiled a wonderful evening for our guests and we had to do something about it," Timmins said.

Timmins said it was the first time he sent a performer packing.

"As long as I'm here, she's not going to play," Timmins said.

Ronstadt had been booked to play the Aladdin for only one show.

Calls to Ronstadt's manager were not immediately returned.

In an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal before the show, Ronstadt said "I keep hoping that if I'm annoying enough to them, they won't hire me back."

Looks like she got her wish.

SOURCE: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...people_ronstadt

Hehe
I guess she dosent know her fan base very well do she.

She should go to fRANCe. Im sure she will do well there singing Desperado and propogating fat Mike's little film.

BTW... Calling Ronstadt a "rocker" is a real stretch

They should get together.

Ronstadt's Vegas Comeback?

by Charlie Amter
Jul 22, 2004, 10:00 AM PT
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0...4,00.html?tnews

Forget Cirque du Soleil, Celine Dion or Wayne Newton, Linda Ronstadt--and her new duet partner, Michael Moore--could soon be the biggest thing on the Vegas strip.

Just days after getting booted from the Aladdin Hotel Casino for praising Moore as "patriot" and dedicating her encore song, "Desperado," to him, Ronstadt is already entertaining offers of a comeback.


On Wednesday, one of the prospective new owners of the Aladdin, Robert Earl, issued a statement of support for Ronstadt.

"We respect artists' creativity and support their rights to express themselves," Earl said. "We were very sorry to hear about the unfortunate circumstances of this past Saturday night and want to make it clear that Planet Hollywood has never, in our 13 year history, restricted any artists' right to free speech and we will continue with that policy once we take ownership.
"Upon the assumption of ownership, and with a new management team in place, we would like to offer the use of the Theatre of Performing Arts to Linda Ronstadt for a second concert and further to take Michael Moore up on his offer to join her on stage to introduce her and sing a song," Earl continued. The group Earl represents (a division of Planet Hollywood) expects to take control of the hotel as early as September.

Neither Ronstadt nor Moore immediately responded to the presumptive invite.

And Ronstadt's not the only artist to find a sympathetic ear for her political commentary.

On Tuesday, Bonnie Raitt dedicated the Issac Hayes-penned classic "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)" to President Bush on stage at the Stockholm Jazz festival in Sweden.

According to published reports, Raitt swooned, "We're gonna sing this for George Bush because he's out of here, people!" to raucous applause from the audience.

While conservative commentators have attacked Ronstadt, and now Raitt, for speaking out, the reaction has been nothing like what happened to the Dixie Chicks when lead singer Natalie Maines made comments critical of President Bush at a London concert last year. The country group was roundly criticized over Maines' quip that the trio was "ashamed to be from Texas."

Although the remarks certainly hurt the Dixie Chicks in the short-term (several Clear Channel stations took the Chicks off their playlists, while one station in Kansas City held a Dixie "chicken toss" party, where protesters trashed the group's CDs), the trio eventually emerged a bigger, stronger band. Their subsequent U.S tour sold out in almost 60 markets and their most recent album, 2002's Home, went on to sell more than 2 million copies.

She will have tomatoes and cabbage thrown at her, the fat pig!

Vegas is Bush country! Capltal of Conservatism. I am not worried about the blimp trying to succeed there again. She won't.