2 posts tagged “denmark”

I needed an Olivia injection after watching Kerry Butler. I’ve seen a few interviews now with the star of the stage version of Xanadu and she is intentionally taking the mick out of the role, the story and even Broadway itself—some of her singing style parodies Olivia Newton-John’s (see this clip from ABC’s Nightline). As the Australian accent is meant to be part of the parodying, I can forgive her!
   Meanwhile, here’s Olivia herself performing ‘Xanadu’ for the 200th anniversary celebrations of Hans Christian Andersen on Danish TV on April 2, 2005—which means she was 56. She hosted the show, which had a royal audience: Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary—the world’s most famous Tasmanian—were in attendance. I’m not sure of the connection between Xanadu and Andersen, but who cares?

Damn, why weren’t the Bikini Bandits in force when I was last in København? I even was there on graduation day and for midsummer, with drunk students all over town.
   I wondered if this was real. As my friend Ian points out, the name of the traffic cop is too fabulous to have been made up. But the reality is that it is part of a governmental campaign to get people obeying the 50 km/h speed limit. Sorry! Scandi is not as liberal as people think!

(Des membres du groupe Pub!: je suis désolé que cet article est en anglais, mais je voudrais le partager.)