U2 Tour Dates - Now Official! — Page 124

Good one!

I think Jezebel is also of the male variety, but I could be wrong. But everyone else is female (or lives as a female).

Well, I am glad I melt a tiny bit of your aeortic glacier, Tiff.

Before too long, I'll have you throwing necklaces into the ocean and shouting cute catch phrases from the mast of a boat!

Oh. My. God!!!

Alanis is opening for The Rolling Stones at MSG!!! WOOO-FREAKING-HOOOOO!!!! Part of me is a little bummed that it couldn't be Beck or Wilco or someone great that I haven't seen before, but knowing that Los Lonley Boys and Maroon 5 are opening in other cities...YAY! Though, I read LLB are going to be performing w/ Dan Aykroyd (a la Blues Bros?!?!?) That could be interesting!

Anyway...now all we need is a good opener for U2!!

I wonder if she's going to be doing JLP acoustic or rocking out? You'd think the acoustic bit would be kind of a crap way to open for the Stones, right?!? Been there, done that...I want her to plug in and rock out!!! YEAH!!!


ETA: Tiff, did you see this about your man?!?!?

Christopher Meloni, the popular star of "Law and Order: SVU" may soon make his Broadway debut.

According to The New York Post's Liz Smith, Meloni may reprise his performance as Eddie in Arthur Miller's gritty A View From the Bridge in a commerical New York production; he played the role at the Gate Theatre in Ireland, and producers were impressed by his stage chops. As were critics--The Irish Times raved that he displayed "a tremendously forceful presence with all the confidence fame brings and none of the self-indulgence."

Meloni played Eddie Carbone, the Brooklyn longshoreman who is consumed and eventually destroyed by the secret lust he harbors for his niece Catherine. Originally produced as part of a Miller double bill in 1955 at the Coronet Theatre, the show, which starred Van Heflin and Eileen Heckart, was something of a critical failure at the time. Of course, it's much grown in esteem (partially thanks to Miller's '56 revision) and a 1997 revival directed by Michael Mayer starred Anthony LaPaglia, Allison Janney, Stephen Spinella and Brittany Murphy.

In addition to "SVU," in which he plays Detective Elliot Stabler, Meloni was a longtime cast member of HBO's prison drama "Oz." His other television credits include "Homicide: Life on the Street," "Brooklyn South" and "NYPD Blue." As a screen actor, he has appeared in Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle, Wet Hot American Summer, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bound, Twelve Monkeys and Junior.
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Personally, I find it rather hard to believe since it hasn't even been a decade since the last revival (which I missed, btw, so I'd have no problem being wrong about this!)

How was he, Jez?!?

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Updated On: 8/24/05 at 11:24 AM

I just read an unofficial report that Keane will be opening for U2 in Boston and NYC. I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm kind of excited about this! I know everyone thinks they're lame, and of course I'd rather see Franz or The Killers or Arcade Fire, but I'd rather have Keane than Kanye West...Unless the post on interference was a typo and they accidentally typed "Keane" instead of "Kanye." I'd actually be kind of bummed.

ETA: Apparently this is for sure now...only the dates in October though. No word yet on who's opening for MSG in November.

<------ a dork!


Jez, I'm glad to hear A View from the Bridge was so great. I hope they bring it back to Broadway w/ Chris (and Co, since you'd said they were all excellent). I saw Reckless in the fall and loved it, so another Brokaw show would be interesting!

ENJOY your concert tonight, and be sure to fill us all in! I'm kind of regretting not going for the FF show at MSG, but maybe something will turn up as it gets closer. They were supposed to do two concerts (10/16 and 10/17, but they cancelled the 16th).

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Updated On: 8/24/05 at 04:06 PM