and, in the "clutching your head like a stunned monkey" category, the prize goes to...

[rone]

JAKARTA, Indonesia — U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell donned a hard hat and tucked a hammer in his belt Friday to perform a version of the Village People's hit "YMCA" at the conclusion of Asia's largest security meeting — which tradition says ends with a night of skit and song.

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Air America News mentioned

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

that, among other performances at previous meetings, Madeleine Albright had played Evita. That's gotta hurt.

(My nameserver is protecting me from foxnews.com at the moment, so I don't know if this story mentions it too.)

Re: Air America News mentioned

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

It does. To be fair to Colin Powell, the other things seem just as outrageous, so fitting in rather than being standoffish is probably the right thing to do...

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You know, now that you guys put it this way, this sounds familiar, because i recall hearing about similar shenanigans a year or two ago. Still... i dunno, maybe i can just too easily see Colin living a quiet life in the Village with his handsome fiftyish Latino boyfriend.

[pootrootbeer.livejournal.com]

Well, it probably would have been inappropriate for him to perform in a kecak monkey chorus.

Besides, he probably didn't know the words (hint: cak cak cak cak cak cak cak...)

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

I love those! In fact I'll walk a mile to hear a gamelan.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

We're deep in the cack, laddie.

This just supports my theory

[bebopmonkey.livejournal.com]

that Surrealists have taken over the world governments.

video clip

[lara7.livejournal.com]

bbc has a video clip, but it's on my home machine, so I can't post it now. Powell's singing is almost as good as ass-croft's "Let the Eagle Fly".

found it:

[lara7.livejournal.com]

Realplayer Video of Powell busting loose:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40341000/rm/_40341727_song20_willcox_vi.ram