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...Kids have staked out all the hotels around town where the performers are staying. You can now tell which acts are staying where by whose albums are being clutched by the throngs of fans outside the lobby. R.E.M. and, apparently, Sting, are at my hotel, The Copacabana Palace. Everything is far away from everything else - it's a half-hour ride to the Inter-Continental Hotel to pick up my passes for the concert...
...NEXT: Rock in Rio begins with an opening day that features Gilberto Gil, Sting, Daniela Mercury, James Taylor and, in all probability, lots of overpriced concession-stand food...
...outrageous sum for the ride from the airport to my hotel. Ahhh, I'm feeling at home already. I'm in town to cover the Rock in Rio Festival, a two-weekend-long extravaganza (January 12-14, January 18-21) featuring a wide array of international acts (Beck, Sting, Papa Roach, Dave Matthews Band, Britney Spears) as well as Brazilian acts (Gilberto Gil, Daniela Mercury, Carlinhos Brown, Tom Ze, Nacao Zumbi). The organizers have billed it as one of the largest concerts in history, with five stages, more than 150 acts scheduled and more than one million attendees expected...
...maid of honor Stella McCartney, an antique veil and a 37-carat diamond-cross necklace on loan from Harry Winston; the groom, 32, sported a kilt, as did the couple's four-month-old son ROCCO. Among the 60 or so invitees were some famous people (Gwyneth Paltrow, Sting) and some people famous for knowing famous people (Debi Mazar, Trudie Styler). After dinner, an imported Miami deejay spun records in the castle basement until the early-morning hours. By that point, Madonna had changed into a pantsuit, while the groom remained in his skirt. Just in case you wondered...
Even before the clock struck midnight, you knew it wasn't happening. Prices had been slashed for undersold events--even ones that involved Sting. The Champagne shortage, despite an ever increasing number of rap video shoots, never materialized. So when the global odometer first flipped in New Zealand--a place experts believed was so dependent on technology it would surely implode if its computers believed the year was 1900--it was only a little shocking that absolutely nothing happened anywhere on or above the globe. Airplanes stayed in the air. Y2K bunker dwellers began to pack up canned food...