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...certain segregation when it comes to megashows to give foreign performers more credit," says de Castro. Rock in Rio, he believes, will place Brazilian acts alongside big foreign stars where they belong. That day, I decided to take a train ride up to the summit of Corcovado, the famous peak that Antonio Carlos Jobim celebrated in song...
...real test will come later this afternoon, from around 4 to 7 p.m. Pacific Coast Time, the typical peak demand during the winter. If the state can manage that period - and it already did OK during this morning's peak -things should be fine. But everyone cautions that in this tight a market, one problem - like another plant unexpectedly going down - could throw everything else out the window. Still, by 2 p.m. on the West Coast today, state officials were hoping to have a "boring weekend." Of course, with the state still scrambling to get more power plants built...
...reach Sugar Loaf and take a car suspended by cables to a lower peak, called Morro da Urca. It's a pretty exotic name, I decide, for a place that has the cheesy Kathleen Turner/Michael Douglas adventure comedy "Romancing the Stone" playing on the television in the bar next to the gift shop. We take another car to a second, higher peak. I find out that Portuguese explorers thought the peaks looked like the clay molds used to press sugar into conical lumps, so they called the place Sugar Loaf; plus they mispronounced the original Indian name. Whatever the Indian...
...Still riding to the top peak, I look around. The cable car is made of steel and glass panels, and I notice some cracks in the panels and try not to think about the safety record of cars suspended from steel cables in Third World countries. The cable car sways a bit in the breeze and I suddenly have a brief vision of George Clooney in "A Perfect Storm" being buffeted by winds, but since that wasn't a very good movie I try hard to think of George Clooney in "Out of Sight" and then I think...
...From the peak of Sugar Loaf (which is 1,299 feet high) you can see all of Rio, as well as the neighboring peak of Corcovado, the famous mountain with the huge statue at its peak of Christ the Redeemer (Cristo Redentor) with his arms stretched out like he's welcoming you home after a lifetime of really screwing up big time. The statue is visible from pretty much everywhere in Rio. Corcovado inspired Jobim to write the song of the same name (called "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" in English), which even today endures as one of the finest...