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...Acts who broke through in the '80s and '90s opened the show. A newly blond Sheryl Crow strutted her stuff in Victorian hippie garb followed by Hendrix aficionado Lenny Kravitz (playing rather louder than the comfort zone for most middle-aged Democrats), a soberly besuited Jon Bon Jovi and a beaming k.d. lang. The performers each contributed one or two of their hits, an astute choice for a benefit crowd that nuzzles more contentedly on familiarity than new terrain. When the artist roster first reached back into the 1970s it yielded the laid-back Buffet, who revealed the "play...
...Young Guns But in an evening where musicians perform their own hits, the most telling statements come from the songs specially chosen for the occasion. Far and away the night's most unexpected choice (and most successful) was the collaboration by Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow and Lenny Kravitz. Bon Jovi, wryly acknowledging that Gore and Lieberman's favorite band was more likely the Beatles than his own Bon Jovi, announced their choice. The three teamed up on a powerful rendition of John Lennon's 1968 political proclamation "Revolution." Not the genteel doo-wop version from the White Album...
...Republican" right between "reptile" and "repugnant" was a an easy crowd-pleaser, but seemed oddly incongruous in the new Lieberman era. Salma Hayek was so enthused with saying "Al Gore rocks!" that she walked offstage forgetting to introduce the next act, and had to dash back to announce Jon Bon Jovi. Perhaps the most enthusiastically received line of the night came from the boyish Matt Damon who equated George Bush with Fredo from the "Godfather" movies. "And they wouldn't even let him run the family business...
...definitely going to increase the size of the store," said C'est Bon's manager...
...whole Square is changing, so you have to go with the flow," the C'est Bon manager said...