One might imagine that the Live Earth concerts celebrating our communal guilt for hastening global warming would be a hot ticket, if you'll excuse the pun, but apparently not. The organizers, among them Vice President Gore, were hoping to attract 2 billion viewers to their cause but managed a slender 2.7 million.
You can put part of the fizzle down to the quality of the music. Whose bright idea was it to bring back the late unlamented the Police? Who thought that anyone would take a lecture on material restraint from the queen of conspicuous consumption, Madonna?
As for the all-smiling communist girl band live from Shanghai, it is little wonder everyone in America turned off the Maoist propaganda and tuned into the film, "Monsters, Inc.
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