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The Osmonds do Star Wars

The Osmonds do Star Wars

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'osmonds, donny, marie, kris kristofferson, tv special' to 'osmonds, donny, marie, kris kristofferson, tv special, 70s, tv' - edited by Issykitty

Sinead O'Connor shuts-up a crowd booing her anti-popeness

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'anti pope, booing, sinead oconnor, bob marley, war' to 'anti pope, booing, sinead oconnor, bob marley, war, kris kristofferson' - edited by therealblankman

Related Videos Is Broken (Sift Talk Post)

lucky760 says...

These terms are common with the first related video with Cash and Kristofferson:
KRIS
"COMING DOWN"
STAR

Not broken. Just the best match available based on the criteria. Related videos are found by using the video's title+tags+summary to search for other videos with most weight given to matching titles then tags then summaries.

In this example, "kris" and "coming down" are both in the matched video's title and "star" is in the tags, so that's likely why it is related video #1.

Mark Lanegan - Wedding Dress (Live)

Ultra Sultry Country Duet- Help Me Make It Through the Night

lisacat says...

Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson were married for quite awhile. both appeared in the Peckinpah movie "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" with Bob Dylan. It's a quirky movie, worth a look-see.

The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price - Full Movie

choggie says...

awww, hell yeah, this film muy keen...Danke Thanky thanky

Price is kinda like Kris Kristofferson's character in blade, the zombie-vampires even know yer name, and shout at everyone to come and get some!![can ya'll tell that ise acthally' watchin' this whole mtfkca?]...after there is only slim pikkens' for the undead, and his blood bees tastin' nasty....

Johnny Cash: God's Gonna Cut U Down

silvercord says...

OK, here's the list:

# Iggy Pop
# Kanye West
# Chris Martin
# Kris Kristofferson
# Patti Smith
# Terrence Howard
# Flea
# Q-Tip
# Adam Levine
# Chris Rock
# Justin Timberlake
# Kate Moss
# Sir Peter Blake
# Sheryl Crow
# Dennis Hopper
# Woody Harrelson
# Amy Lee
# Tommy Lee
# Dixie Chicks
# Mick Jones
# Sharon Stone
# Bono
# Shelby Lynne
# Anthony Kiedis
# Travis Barker
# Lisa Marie Presley
# Kid Rock
# Jay Z
# Keith Richards
# Billy Gibbons
# Corinne Bailey Rae
# Johnny Depp
# Graham Nash
# Brian Wilson
# Rick Rubin
# Owen Wilson

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

dannymcanulty says...

On 3 October 1992, the Irish rock singer Sinead O'Connor was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. For her first song, Sinead performed the title track from her most recent album, Am I Not Your Girl? with a full backing band. For her second, she went with "War," a song by Bob Marley that had once been banned for its apparent advocacy of violence. In a very risky move, musically speaking, Sinead performed the song a capella. Dressed all in white, surrounded by candles and (as usual) shaven-headed, she was a riveting sight. With NBC-TV's cameras focused in-tight on her, Sinead ended her "War" by crying for another one to begin. "Fight the real enemy!" she called, and, out of nowhere, produced a copy of a photograph of Pope John Paul II, which she ripped into pieces. There was stunned silence, and then the station went to a commercial.

The NBC switchboard was immediately inundated by complaints (supposedly 4,484 in all) called in by outraged viewers. Denunciations of Sinead's "blasphemy" poured forth from all kinds of religious figures and celebrities, including Frank Sinatra, who was quoted as saying he wanted to "punch" the singer "right in the mouth." NBC was eventually fined $2.5 million dollars by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which had never before fined the network for content aired on Saturday Night Live.

In the meantime, Sinead herself said nothing about what she'd done or why she'd done it. (Simply changing one of Marley's lines so that it referred to "sexual abuse" instead of "racial injustice," as Sinead had done in mid-song, hadn't been sufficient explanation and so the press was filled with lurid denunciations of her.) When she returned to the United States on 16 October 1992 to perform at a birthday concert for Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in New York, Sinead was greeted by a weird mixture of cheers and boos. Despite the severely divided response to her presence, she once again sang an a cappella version of "War." Once she was done, she staggered offstage, where she was comforted by Kris Kristofferson. Shortly thereafter, Sinead O'Connor permanently retired from the "pop" entertainment industry.

Eventually, Sinead O'Connor made her peace with the Pope. On 22 September 1997, in an interview with the Italian weekly newspaper Vita, she asked the Holy Father to forgive her. She claimed that her attack on the photo had been "a ridiculous act, the gesture of a girl rebel," which she did "because I was in rebellion against the faith, but I was still within the faith." Quoting St. Augustine, she went on to add, "Anger is the first step towards courage." Another courageous step Sinead took in the late 1990s was to join the congregation of the controversial Irish Bishop Michael Cox, who eventually ordained Sinead as a priest. Lacking a sense of humor, the Vatican has refused to recognize Sinead's membership in the priesthood, which the Pope considers "bizarre." This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black, but the Pope is right: Sinead's story is a bizarre one.

And NBC? In the informative and relatively even-handed biography of the singer that airs on VH1 as part of the cable TV station's on-going "Behind the Music" series, it's said that, "even to this day," NBC refuses to allow the photo-ripping scene to be re-broadcast by anyone. VH1 itself had to settle with a blurry shot of Sinead in mid-rip that was published by one of New York's tabloid newspapers. You can catch a glimpse, but you can't actually see what Sinead did that night in 1992: you can only hear about it, thanks to the Vatican's clout and NBC's cowardice.

This would seem a good point to talk about censorship. But it isn't -- not yet.

The Comedy Channel shows back episodes of Saturday Night Live several times a day. In early August 2001, I happened to see the episode in which Sinead O'Connor is the musical guest. Everything goes as it should -- dressed all in white, Sinead performs "War" a capella as her second number -- until the end of the song. There is no war cry, no identification of "the real enemy." Sinead doesn't hold up a picture of the Pope, but a picture of a cute little black boy, instead. And then the song is over, and Sinead stands, smiling, holding the picture behind her back, as the crowd applauds and cheers.

It took a while for it to sink in that NBC hadn't simply blacked out or removed the photo-ripping scene. Instead, NBC had gone beyond mere censorship and either had replaced the Pope-ripping sequence with another one (the song as it was performed in rehearsal?) or had digitally altered the broadcast so that there was apparently nothing in "the original" to black out or remove in the first place. Why would anyone want to block or cut out Sinead's impassioned plea for the children? In times of war, don't we tend to forget about the children, especially the cute little black ones? Nice bullshit, but it wasn't Sinead's.

Like the authors of textbooks on Soviet history, who had to keep changing the past so that it would conform with Stalin's latest purges, NBC has created its own Sinead O'Connor and is now passing her off as the original.


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