Never mind, I found the editorial. No pic, though. Thanks for the tip, Earnie Shavers!
Here's the link, and the article:
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,18465608-5001035,00.html
Bono shames stars who'll have nun of it
March 15, 2006
FAKE is one of the worst things you can call someone and the world of celebrity is certainly full of them.
Out of control egos, plastic appearances (literally with the help of cosmetic surgery) and concerts such as Live 8, which allow filthy-rich rock stars to give the impression they really do care about starving AIDS-infected Africans.
To be fair, some do, others use it just for the exposure.
Enter Bono, lead singer of "the world's greatest band", U2, and the butt of one of my favourite jokes:
What is the difference between God and Bono?
God doesn't think he's Bono.
Boom, kitish.
Then I watched his interview with Andrew Denton on Monday night's Enough Rope and in a manoeuvre that would make my yoga teacher proud I found myself pulling my foot out of my mouth.
Not all the way. Because in part he sounded like the well-briefed politician who, with the best spin doctors money can buy, could sell ice to the eskimos. However, for the most part he impressed.
Firstly, because of the lengths he has gone to, to educate himself about the battles he picks.
Not only does he command respect for the list of economists he has met -- and studied under -- in his bid to rid the world of Third World debt (mind you, they're not all believers in his endeavour), his comments on celebrity were impressive, considered and interesting.
"Celebrity is at ... [an] oppressive level and it's a pretty ridiculous thing if we're honest," he told Denton. "But it's currency, and I want to spend mine well."
Spend it he is. He has met George W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Bill Clinton and his Treasury Secretary Robert Reuben, and former chairman of the US Federal Reserve bank Paul Volker in his quest to make a difference.
Yet as he name-drops he also talks GDP, avoidable malaria, TB and AIDS deaths, free trade and debt relief and he scatters it all with statistics.
I'm not saying they add up nor that his ideas will solve Africa's problems once and for all, but after listening to him I must admit the bloke deserves credit for being well informed.
Bono is, to steal his own phrase, spending his celebrity currency well.
But there are others cashing in on their celebrity for which nobody but themselves gets anything in return such as Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Anna Nicole Smith and Ozzy Osbourne's kids.
Pointless Paris for instance, who cannot claim to even entertain devotees of homemade porn. She's a constant on the red carpet, having achieved what to deserve an invite?
She is a trustafarian, whose occasional masquerades of altruism at a charity event are probably chosen by the label of French champagne which is being served.
Maybe it comes with age. After all, Bono is now 45 and readily admits that in his younger days he pretty much broke all the commandments and the ones he hasn't he has "probably wanted to".
That said, I doubt that when Paris turns 45 she will suddenly abandon vanity and adopt a love of humanity.
Then there are those whose use of their celebrity leaves them looking ill-informed and silly beyond belief, such as actors Sharon Stone, Toni Collette and Judy Davis.
In Stone's case her "celebrity currency" is currently being spent on a peace mission to Jersualem to help solve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
"I would kiss just about anybody for peace in the Middle East," she said from there this week. I suppose she must have at least united both sides on one issue: The gross dislike of dumb actors.
In 2003 we saw Davis cashing in her celebrity currency to protest for peace outside the Prime Minister's house in Kirribilli but then again just a few weeks ago to stop -- no, not the war in Iraq -- young soccer players training at night across from her Birchgrove home. While her celebrity relies on the spotlight, she clearly doesn't like the floodlights these children need.
Which leads me to Collette and mulesing -- a procedure to prevent flystrike in sheep. One minute she is against it spending her celebrity to garner support against fashion labels using Australian wool, the next she is sending a letter to farmers saying she had changed her position after being presented with the facts.
Theirs are classic examples of why the currency of celebrity is easy to devalue.
Like him or loathe him, nobody can deny filthy-rich rock star Bono is getting cheques written and some cashed.
They may be just Band-Aids -- only temporarily healing the ills of Africa -- but even I have to admit he's persuasive.
And while many of his ill-informed fellow celebs continue to do bugger all, I'm happy to be persuaded.
anitaq@dailytelegraph.com.au
) and many more outrageous statements I won't share. Hub understands, he knows Bono is "the other man" 
I was quite touched when hub said after the interview "he spoke well didn't he?" Even he loves him. He also said "when you go to Ireland ,you better make it a Sunday...open house at Bono's" 
newbies who think they have Bono and his causes sussed but haven't done their homework 
and that was when he wasn't bashing his mike on his jacket as he was waving his arms around.
