| Being a big-time TV nut from an early age, I am rather tickled at the classic TV moments I’ve had the fortune of seeing live in their original airings, before they were replayed thousands of times in news reports the next day. Sally Field’s “You like me!” acceptance speech at the Oscars. The revelation of “Who Shot J.R.” The winning “10” vault of Mary Lou Retton in the 1984 Olympics in L.A. (And for that matter, the very painful but winning vault of fellow gymnast Kerri Strug in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.) The loopy visit of Farrah Fawcett to the Letterman show. The baring-all visit of Drew Barrymore to Letterman’s desk! J.Lo in that controversial, barely there, filmy green dress at an awards show. And that moment when Sinead O’Connor ripped up the photo of the Pope on “Saturday Night Live.”
Talk about awkward. I remember the silence. It was deafening, as all of us in our living rooms were trying just as hard as the producers of the show were, to determine just what the heck this chick was trying to do. And ironically, this classic TV moment differs from the others above in one very key way: To this day, NBC refuses to allow the footage to be rebroadcast, according to Wikipedia.
But I haven’t thought about Sinead O’Connor in years, until I saw the local paper this morning (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, for me) and saw this photo of her, making a return to town for a concert:
http://projects.accessatlanta.com/gallery/view/events/1027sinead/
Wow. I’ll just let you form your own thoughts. As for me, I dunno … This kinda looked like Eminem to me. (And, hey, I like Eminem!)
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