Commenting on the Pope in NYC
NY Daily News, via the Corner.
NY Press ran an article listing supposedly funny things about the Pope's death. This other NYC publication indignantly complains, and gets some high profile New Yorkers to do so as well.
Takes me back to Sinead O'Connor. On Saturday Night Live, she sang a song which somehow involved an abortion or women's choice, and at the end she ostentatiously took out a picture of the Pope, and tore it up. The crowd booed.
A few weeks later, there was a tribute concert in honour of Bob Dylan, also in NYC. This one I saw on TV. Sinead was scheduled for a certain time, and I guess the organizers expected trouble. Kris Krisofferson came out to introduce her, and praise her courage. When she came out, she was booed to the point that she was unable to perform.
Like 9/11, there are reminders that a lot of working people in NYC are Catholics of some kind--raised, nominal, practising, or something. One lady who escaped from the Towers said: I'm not a religious person, but as I went downstairs, I kept saying the Rosary."
UPDATE: I don't know who this is, but the piece includes a brief overview of the two TV episodes. I don't think "a mixture of cheers and booing," and finishing the song at the Dylan show, is correct; I'm pretty sure she was booed off stage.
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