Showing posts with label Will Ferrell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Will Ferrell. Show all posts

Sunday, October 23, 2011

One of my favorite scenes in Will Ferrell's one man show about Bush, was the dance sequence with Condi set to Michael McDonald's "I Keep Forgeting." Everytime I read about Condi I think of it.

She has a memoir of her time during the Bush years coming out.
First as national security adviser and later as secretary of state, Ms. Rice often argued against the hard-line approach that Mr. Cheney and others advanced. The vice president’s staff was “very much of one ultra-hawkish mind,” she writes, adding that the most intense confrontation between her and Mr. Cheney came when she argued that terrorism suspects could not be “disappeared” as in some authoritarian states.
As for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, who was killed Thursday after a revolution, Ms. Rice adds details about his well-known “eerie fascination with me.” She writes that he made a video showing pictures of her while a song called “Black Flower in the White House” played. “It was weird,” she writes, “but at least it wasn’t raunchy.”
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For the most part, though, Ms. Rice defends the most controversial decisions of the Bush era, including the invasion of Iraq. The wave of popular uprisings known as the Arab Spring this year, she writes, has vindicated Mr. Bush’s focus on spreading freedom and democracy.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Oh No, Performers Coming Into Audience
PITTSBURGH - Audience members at the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts are reporting that, oh God, no, approximately 20 extremely enthusiastic actors are approaching the edge of the stage and appear determined to continue their current musical number in the main seating area.

"Oh, man, are they? Shit," one audience member was overheard saying as the energetic ensemble began filing down previously unseen stairs and past the front row. "Shit, shit, shit."

Increasingly uncomfortable audience sources have also confirmed that the performers are proceeding down the aisle with crisp, larger-than-normal steps timed perfectly to the music. Even more shocking, some appear intent on interacting with non-cast members.


I caught Will Ferrell's live show George W. Bush: You're Welcome America and it was hilarious. Surprised at how much audience interaction there was. At one point he'd ask audience members their name and occupation and give them a nickname. One guy had a big beard so Ferrell nicknamed him China Grove.