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...p.m.l in there. Madonna isn't the teen draw she used to be, but at her show there was no one in danger of violating the liquor laws. Mostly it was very stylish folks engaging in a little nostalgia. I've got no fight with aging artists and aging concert-goers, but what interested, and saddened, me, was that when you get older people with money in a concert hall, you get a very laid-back concert. Madonna's set list included almost her entire new album. It's a good album, but it's dance heavy, and the crowd...
...actually surprised that the Madonna audience was as young as it was - mostly people in their 20s and 30s. And I wouldn't call the concert laid-back. Programmed within an inch of its life, is more like it. The choreography, the elaborate video presentations, even Madonna's patter - there's almost no sense any more of an artist interacting spontaneously with the audience. Even the way the concert ends - her big hit "Hung Up," blackout, lights go up, goodbye! Not even an encore. Sure, encores have gotten to be as programmed as anything else, but at least there...
...That said, I actually liked the concert musically. I like her peppy, dance-beat new stuff...
...Last weekend, police released the names of three suspects, and the focus of the investigation settled on Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), a militant Islamic group based in Pakistan. LeT was suspected of working in concert with indigenous Indian Muslims from the banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). SIMI and LeT were accused of detonating eight bombs in Bombay in late 2002 and 2003, killing 70 people. Lashkar-e-Toiba, meaning army of the pure, has fought Indian rule in Kashmir since the early 1990s, and is believed to have links with al-Qaeda. Largely funded by Pakistan's Inter...
...loved it!" The two began speaking by phone daily. Says Peggy: "They can talk about things"--like what they plan to eat for lunch that day--"that we'd get bored with." Finally, with plenty of plotting by both families, Sujeet popped the question onstage after he played a concert for people with disabilities, a moment that can be viewed on his website, Sujeet.com Says Carrie, who has exemplary verbal skills: "There are not many words to express how much I really love him. He's beyond words...