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...your experience on the stage different from your movie sets? Scott Kagan, LAS VEGAS...
When Reed finally walks on stage in jeans and a sleeveless khaki-colored T-shirt, he looks - at least from the upper ranks of the auditorium - more like a Gap model than a 65-year old rock 'n' roll legend. He is joined onstage by an orchestra and a girl's choir, while a video-clip of a Berlin bar is projected onto the backrop. The atmosphere is tense; expectations are high. Does Reed still have "it" or has he "lost it", as the character Sick Boy maintains in the movie Trainspotting. Do these songs still resonate in a Berlin...
...tales of depression, drug abuse and disoriented expats, the audience for the most part sits quietly in their seats. The choir and orchestra add a strangely upbeat air to the songs, the bleakness of which had irritated critics when it was released. There is not much movement on stage, except a background singer in a red dress gently rocking back and forth in a chair. One cannot help but wonder, has Berlin become re-unified but boring? A clean, family-entertainment culture, as one man describes the show afterwards, "worse than Las Vegas...
This morning Blair held his last press conference in Downing Street, sharing the stage with the Governor of California. Arnold Schwarzenegger had come to discuss climate change and expressed his desire to see the man he praised for his "great leadership and great friendship" put his skills to work for the benefit of the global environment. Blair refused to be drawn on his plans for the future, and prepared to leave the podium, returning only for one last quip. "My press officer said whatever else you say today, don't say 'I'll be back,'" he remarked to laughter...
...would consider Ceuta in a pre-jihadist stage," says Javier Jordan, a terrorism expert at the University of Granada. "But it takes outside recruiters to transform a marginalized area into a real jihadist breeding ground...