Is That A Nobel Prize In Your Pocket?
10/23/03 Filed in: Hogwash
Christopher Hitchens lays it out re the beatification of
Mother Teresa. We all know that the Pope is on
his last go-around, and it seems that JP2 decided on
the fast track for MT soon after her death. I wonder,
though, if it was a toss up between Teresa and Diana
of Wales. Maybe his holiness and Sir Elton got
together and flipped a coin: "Heads, Teresa gets the
song, Diana gets sainthood. Tails, Diana is
immortalized in pop claptrap, and Teresa sits two
chairs from the right hand of God".
I'm glad it came up tails. Candle in The Wind was maudlin enough when it was about Marilyn, and got downright syruppy with the Diana remake. World-Wide diabetic coma certainly would've been a possibility if The Rocket Man had won the toss. Or lost it.
I'm glad it came up tails. Candle in The Wind was maudlin enough when it was about Marilyn, and got downright syruppy with the Diana remake. World-Wide diabetic coma certainly would've been a possibility if The Rocket Man had won the toss. Or lost it.
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