(02-04-2004) Bono Puts Janet?s Boob behind Him... - ShowBiz Ireland *

[Regina O'Numb]

Bono Puts Janet?s Boob behind Him... exclusive with photos.

Licking his wounds after being refused a gig at the Superbowl show and watching Janet Jackson make a tit of herself Bono launched Francesco Clemente's exhibition yesterday.

Just how much of a messed up place is the USA? The powers that be who refused to let Bono play a song during their famous half-time Superbowl show because he wanted to highlight AIDS and debt in the third world allowed Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake flash her breast to America because she has a new album out in a couple of weeks...

Commercialism over conscience, shame.

We're sure Michael Moore could get another few Oscars making a documentary about that one!

But while the world is more interested in Janet's boobs rather than millions dying in Africa Bono was out doing good as usual.

The U2 frontman was in the Irish Museum of Modern Art to launch Internationally Acclaimed Italian Artist Francesco Clemente's New Works exhibition and presented him with a book of his own artwork he created for the Peter and the Wolf book.

The exhibition, many of which are being publicly shown for the first time, consists of 20 paintings, 10 pastels, and 30 watercolours.

Artist's Guggi, Louis le Brocquy, Ann Madden, and Mannix Flynn attended the event as did Bono's mate Gavin Friday.

Duque de Lugo, the son in law to the King of Spain, was also at the show with his friend Louise but was less then friendly to ShowBiz Ireland's photographers... Riff-Raff!

Clemente's exhibition runs at the Museum of Modern Art in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham until 25th of April.

http://www.showbizireland.com/news/february04/04-u2159.shtml

 

[V Nura]

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Just how much of a messed up place is the USA?
http://www.showbizireland.com/news/february04/04-u2159.shtml

About as messed up as everywhere else...you can't blame the entire US population for the decision of the NFL and it's been made very clear the NFL didnt have anything to do with the boob incident.

the guy who wrote this can go f*** himself

 

[MrBrau1]

Blaming the US is a very popular position in the world now. After all, Americans are the cause of every problem on the planet.

 

[vlasak]

You know, after watching the half-time, I am mortified! It's not just Janet's boob either. I thought the whole thing was trash. How embarrasing!
But, I do love the USA!!

 

[MrBTH]

Its all symptomatic Arun... Commercialism over concience pretty much sums up the USA (its administration not it's people) at the moment...

 

[Regina O'Numb]

Re: Re: (02-04-2004) Bono Puts Janet?s Boob behind Him... - ShowBiz Ireland *

About as messed up as everywhere else...you can't blame the entire US population for the decision of the NFL and it's been made very clear the NFL didnt have anything to do with the boob incident.

the guy who wrote this can go f*** himself

hi dear, I posted this article, which, shows Bono yesterday in Dublin. I respect a lot USA and the American people. This expression, doesn?t reflect my own opinion. I have many, many friends, who are American. It was written by the guys in ShowBiz Ireland.

 

[mobonofo]

Hey NFL, bring back U2 next year!!!!!! & U2 bring back ZOOTV!!!!

First off, I love the US and appreciate the sacrifices people have made for our freedom, but I started worrying about our country's popular culture big time when TV show watchers started voting our pop stars off the television on shows like American Idol so we can have people to buy albums from. I can understand...maybe...why people watch it on TV, but why go out and buy their albums at the cash register at Wal-Mart and listen to it like it's art, like it's John Lennon??? I think what happened with Bono and the NFL touched on the theme of the ZOOTV tour in the early 90's. As Bono said on tour: "Why stop and watch something serious, when you can just...change...the channel."

MTV produced that mess of a halftime show, but I think MTV has been anti-music/anti-art since the late 1980s, when you started seeing less videos and more crap TV shows and so-called "reality" TV like THE REAL WORLD. Nothing more real than taking a bunch of teenagers and putting them in a lavish house in Los Angeles or Paris with caviar.

There's more demand by the masses for garbage like we saw on this year's super bowl than anything with any soul. But look at what's being offered to the public...CRAP!!! I guess that's what the writer is trying to say. No not all America is bad, but is Kid Rock the best person we can find to wear an American flag drapped over himself? I think not. In fact, I think Kid Rock sucks big time!!! I know there are a lot of Americans out there saying: "God this is lame!" The super bowl halftime was just more bad PR for the USA, which is a shame."

That doesn't make everyone in the US ignorant, just those that control what comes on our televisions and radios, and those who watch and listen contently, and it looks like they will be that way for some time to come...at least until U2 puts out another album, right?

It's strange, I was really upset about U2's album delay, but it now makes even more sense why we need Bono out there doing what he's doing. He's being the "stone in the shoe" to indifference and God bless him for it...

 

[V Nura]

Re: Re: Re: (02-04-2004) Bono Puts Janet?s Boob behind Him... - ShowBiz Ireland *

hi dear, I posted this article, which, shows Bono yesterday in Dublin. I respect a lot USA and the American people. This expression, doesn?t reflect my own opinion. I have many, many friends, who are American. It was written by the guys in ShowBiz Ireland.

yes Regina ...I do understand that.

 

[V Nura]

You want to say MTV is trash....fine...you want to say the NFl is catering to commerical interests..that's fine



is it really fair to blame the entire US for it though? NO

the halftime show is getting raked over the coals by the press here.

Frankly I've seen a lot of thigns on european tv that dont' exactly epitomize taste.


Bottom line the US doesn't need the European press and more specifically the Irish press to be it's moral conscience.

 

[u2philly]

I personally think the whole Janet Jackson and Timberlake performance was planned. janet had a pasty on her breast that was showing Full of crap this whole halftime was. I personally rather see Bono up there, then the trash that superbowl had. .trash trash! trash!!!

 

[Eternal Heart]

Re: Re: (02-04-2004) Bono Puts Janet?s Boob behind Him... - ShowBiz Ireland *

American foreign policy has a great influence in the world and its the world's largest economy - I think it could use its influence for good, the greater good.

 

[u2grace]

Pretty much agree with mobonofo.
For what it's worth, I (an American) and all my American friends, family and co-workers (many of whom I don't even like!) watched the SuperBowl, and I don't know a single person who didn't HATE the halftime show and was embarassed by all of it (not just Janet and Justin).

Broadstroke statements in the press like the one by the Showbizireland writer is one of the reasons we have such misconceptions about each other. To think that all Americans (in a country of such size and diversity) are all reflected in one stupid performance is ridiculous. We hear all the time how biased US media is - but not the only ones!

Reminds me of a conversation I had w/a European a few years back regarding work - this person watched Dallas on tv and actually thought all Americans lived in places like that! A dramatic example maybe, but you get the point (I hope).

 

[Regina O'Numb]

Re: Re: Re: Re: (02-04-2004) Bono Puts Janet?s Boob behind Him... - ShowBiz Ireland *

yes Regina ...I do understand that.

thank you so much, Arun V.

 

[mobonofo]

I never said the entire US is to blame.

 

[wolfeden]

I found it wryly amusing that a letter to the Boston Globe specifically mentioned Bono and U2's Superbowl performance in direct contrast to this year's debacle.

Blah.

 

[Elvis]

I personally think the whole Janet Jackson and Timberlake performance was planned. janet had a pasty on her breast that was showing Full of crap this whole halftime was. I personally rather see Bono up there, then the trash that superbowl had. .trash trash! trash!!!

That wasn't a pasty... it was a piecing. Unfortunately, I was FWDd the close-up pictures by a friend via email. Oh, the wonders of email.

 

[V Nura]

Re: Re: Re: (02-04-2004) Bono Puts Janet?s Boob behind Him... - ShowBiz Ireland *

American foreign policy has a great influence in the world and its the world's largest economy - I think it could use its influence for good, the greater good.

I urge you to find me one super power historically that has been more benevolent than the united states.

 

[A Maaaaaaan]

That`s right.

They even supported poor guys like Bin Laden and Hussein.

 

[V Nura]

That`s right.

They even supported poor guys like Bin Laden and Hussein.

I didn't say we were perfect...I just said I urge you to find a more benevolent superpower

There's no questions mistakes have been made, but this thread is digressing what was an argument about a general asanine statement made by a member of the press, is turning into a politcal debate (partially my fault).


Bottom line what was doen at the superbowl was a disgrace to america, but the fact that a large number of us view it as disgraceful, is reason enough that I feel to accuse an entire nation of being "messed up" based on one action by a private entity is in fact very stupid.


Ireland isn't perfect, England isn't perfect, France isn't perfect, India isn't perfect,China isn't perfect, south africa isn't perfect...........



I'd continue the list but it'd take me some time

 

[Seabird]

I knew America, or its government, was somehow to blame for everything wrong in the world but this is ridiculous. Two crappy artists decide to pull a cheap stunt on TV and it's America's fault, the administration's fault? Well remember this folks, MTV is very left wing and anti-Bush and they were the ones responsible!!

 

[Seconds]

Re: Re: Re: Re: (02-04-2004) Bono Puts Janet?s Boob behind Him... - ShowBiz Ireland *

I urge you to find me one super power historically that has been more benevolent than the united states.

That's kind of silly....how are we supposed to look up the information on past super powers...let me see, according to my records The Roman Empire was a very giving society.....

Besides, the European community gives more per capita to third world coutries, than the US. You're assuming too much without looking up the real facts.

I do agree that we shouldn't blame all Americans for the current administration's decisions. Not all Americans support all of Bush's policies. Although, I'm sure most will vote for him again...

 

[Inis]

I am American and please don't stone me. Many of us felt, this year's superbowl halftime show was trash and there has been a lot of backlash over it. We had absolutely no say, about who performs at sporting advents. We do not hold special elections for this. But as far as condeming an entire country, I feel that goes too far. Sure, we have our problems here and our government im my opinion, has made some very bad choices. But so does Ireland and every other nation. Northern Ireland still has not resovled their "troubles." And the only reason I even singled that out was because, the article was published in Showbiz Ireland.

Inis

 

[Michael Griffiths]

I think many are mssing the point of the sentiment here. The Janet and Justiin "performance" isn't the thing everyone should be so distraught over. For that is no worse than 90% of the things we see in the media today, and is certainly nothing compared to the violence and killing in film and TV everyone seems to be perfectly okay with in popular American culture. No, this is more about the fact that someone (Bono) who has a human emergency to address to a huge audence was denied such an opportunity in favour of pure commmercialism. Something's wrong with our priorities from a cultural standpoint. That's the point.

 

[Inis]

I completely agree with you Michael. But the original tread posted was about reactions, to Showbiz Ireland's statement ...just how messed up is the U.S.A.?

Inis

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

I would say something is wrong w/ the NFL's, CBS', and MTV's priorities, not w/ the country of the USA as a whole. Believe it or not, many people in the US do care about AIDS in other countries, and about many other problems as well.

Honestly it doesn't surprise me at all that this writer would make such a generalization (ShowBiz Ireland often writes like that). And people on Interference make these types of generalizations fairly often as well.

 

[theblazer]

HAHA The world we live in is weird, where Bono has become the civilized of all celebrieties. The Edge must shake his head.

 

[V Nura]

I think many are mssing the point of the sentiment here. The Janet and Justiin "performance" isn't the thing everyone should be so distraught over. For that is no worse than 90% of the things we see in the media today, and is certainly nothing compared to the violence and killing in film and TV everyone seems to be perfectly okay with in popular American culture. No, this is more about the fact that someone (Bono) who has a human emergency to address to a huge audence was denied such an opportunity in favour of pure commmercialism. Something's wrong with our priorities from a cultural standpoint. That's the point.

thank you for educating us the point of this discussion.

if it weren't for a the exposure of a nipple, this half time show owuld be unremarkable.



Honestly I've said this before, I dont' think the NFL was wrong to deny bono. Is it so wrong that they feel that the superbowl should in fact be about entertainment?


let's face it football really isn't different for movies or TV.


I say if the movie industry is willing to give bono time to talk about aids int eh middle of their films...the NFL should cave.


so you go in to watch your flick...pay your 8 dollars...or whatever you sit down and one hour into the movie...it stops...and bono comes on and talks about aids. And then the film continues


anyone up for this?


the NFL is in the entertainment business I can fully understand why they wouldn't want politics mixed with their halftime show.


Would I rather watch bono talk about aids than the garbage they aired this year...yes...but it's not my decision it's the NFLs.

He wasn't denied the stage cos americans dont' care about AIDS, we was denied it because Maybe the NFL felt it wasn't an appropriate venue for it.

 

[sue4u2]

Arun V, I don't think Bono wanted to talk about Africa. They wanted to perform a duet, you know a song. Why the power's that be didn't feel that was entertainment is beyone me. (lets not even start with what everyone feel's about the duet) Anyway, they found out it's not nice to turn down Bono (see what happens when someone tells him no )

 

[verte76]

I don't think it's the US as a whole that's under indictment here, just the crass, superficial, and sensationalist aspect of our popular culture. This has generated so much outrage in the U.S. that the Grammies have pulled the plug on Janet presenting Luther Vandross his award. This is people realizing that they've gone too far, I think. It hasn't been announced who is going to replace Janet. It'll be interesting to see who it is.

 

[Drive]

You know, the whole thing with Janet exposing her boob was crap. It was such a cheap ploy. But the reaction to her exposition here in the U.S. is even worse. How about the advertising for alcohol and "pecker" enhancement? The last time I checked the breats represented nourishment...among other things.

Drive