Elizabeth Platt ([email protected])
Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:53:27 -0800 (PST)
Time to catch up on a few digests that have backlogged:
Might as well start with this one:
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:22:28 -0500
> Subject: BONO IN CALIFORNIA FOR "HOTEL" & etc.
>
> I heard on a local radio station today (unfortunately after hearing the
> dufus d.j. say "bone-o"), that Bono will be working in Ca. at the end of
> this month on his project "Million Dollar Hotel". The guy said Mel Gibson
> is supposed to be in it too.
About this shoot for "Gazillion Dollar Hotel" (allowing for inflation):
Don't get too excited, they may only be doing exterior shots. So there's
no _guarantee_ that Bono will be there. Oh, and film shoots can be
v-e-r-y boring to watch. It all looks a lot more interesting once it's
been edited together. ;-)
Curious fans in the LA area might want to spy a bit, or check out what's
listed about in in Daily Variety.
Then there was THIS one:
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:28:24 -0800
> From: Chino <[email protected]>
> Subject: Satanism (Inverted Cross)
>
> I have been wondering for a looooong time about this. You know the cross
> Bono swings during the live performance of "Helter Skelter" in Rattle and
> Hum, is it an inverted cross or something else? I have seen also 2 or 3
> live pictures of Bono having that thing around his neck. It is ironic if it
> was an inverted cross because on top of it he is wearing the normal
> Cristian cross.
>
> CHINO
To which was replied:
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:52:46 -0800
> From: Robbie Robinson <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Satanism (Inverted Cross)
>
> I can't tell you for sure what kind of cross Bono was swingin' or
> wearing, but I can tell you that there are tons of different types
> of crosses that are and have been used in Christianity.
> I've seen books on Christian symbolism that have pages and pages of
> different types of crosses used over the past 2000 years. A lot of
> them were not configured like the most commonly used cross today.
> Bono's was probably some sort of Celtic variation on it.
> The church I go to uses the Tau Cross. It's shaped like a capital
> T and has a snake coiled around the top bar. It's an old and
> perfectly legitimate Christian cross. It's an interesting subject.
> I like unusual and obscure cross designs. Take a look at a book
> on the subject whenever you wandering into a library next time.
>
*groan*
Somewhere deep in my brain, a few cells dimly remember discussing this
very bit of jewelry during the '87 tour. It is indeed a cross, an
Ethiopian cross that Bono picked up and/or was given when he and Ali did
their relief work stint in Ethiopia, post-Live Aid. It's not an inverted
or "Satanic" cross.
And I really can't believe that so much bandwidth got tied up discussing
this!
Thanks to Robbie et al for a bit of common sense in all this silly "U2:
Spawn of Satan" thread!
Slan,
Elizabeth Platt
[email protected]
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