When you are in the public maelstrom, sooner or later your true colors will show. Bono, Chris martin, Bruce, all of them have an aura that feels entirely manufactured and it gets pierced, they trip themselves up. Forget the 200 acres of farmland, the $1M pony, the fining staff members, how about the sponging down his arms during a concert and pretending its sweat as documented by New York Press? When Bruce doesn't like the question, he ignores it.
As for Bono? If Julie Taymor's case against the producers of the Spiderman Musical goes to court, Bono's reputation is going to be riddled. As Michael Reidel reported in the New York Post, Julie has begun sniping at Bono (who co-wrote the score0 and theyhit me as warning shots across the bow.
Earlier this week it was reported that Bono showed up drunk to a business meeting with a handful of supermodels. Very dog bites man I thought at the time and didn't write about.
The second shot is more interesting. Julie claims she begged Bono to write more songs for the score and met with very limited success. Which begs the answer to this question: if he wouldn't write for Julie, the score is a disaster, whose fault is the lousySpiderman. I saw the before and after and while both were crap, all changes in the second one sucked and the music was equally atrocious. Surely, if the musical highlight of a Bono-Edge musical is the Green Goblin playing standards at the piano, perhaps somebodyisn't doing their homework.
Anyway, there is more to come, you can be sure and Reidel thinks they will settle out of court for at least one reason: a source claims "Bono thinks he's Jesus" and won't want the dirt to come out.