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Amused.
(Washington Post) Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne made their debut with official Washington Saturday night at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, and in spite of itself, this segment of capital society went as crazy as the rest of the country over the stars of MTV's new reality hit, "The Osbournes."
The tourists in the lobby shouted "Ozzy," the professional photographers shouted "Ozzy," and the Osbournes disappeared into a tsunami of reporters and fans, including reporters who were fans.
Ozzy, what do you want to tell the president? a reporter called out.
The man whose mumbly British dialogue is frequently unintelligible on television -- with lots of words bleeped out, as in "I hate [bleeping] Christmas!" -- must find the rest of the world equally unintelligible, for his first quote for official Washington was: "I beg your pardon?"
The question was repeated. And he replied, "I hengh heenth hunh president denngh hmmhmme he ng!"
Later in the evening, a reporter tried the question again. "Dual citizenship," said the Beverly Hills-ensconced Brit of his message for the president, should they ever meet. "I want to be American. America is the coolest place on the face of the Ear th. You've got freedom of speech. You've got McDonald's."
Then they did meet, the commander in chief and the one-time satanic-singing, bat-chewing television anti-dad.
Bush was seated at the head table, when Ozzy, at Table 168, saw his chance. He made h is way forward until he was separated from Bush by only the 10-foot security no man's land: men commanding two kinds of power, face to face, silently taking each other's measure.
Ozzy put his hands together in an almost prayerful acknowledgment, paying respects. The president nodded.
Then Ozzy grabbed a fistful of his stringy brown-and-pink hair and shouted:
"You should wear your hair like mine!"
(Washington Post) Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne made their debut with official Washington Saturday night at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, and in spite of itself, this segment of capital society went as crazy as the rest of the country over the stars of MTV's new reality hit, "The Osbournes."
The tourists in the lobby shouted "Ozzy," the professional photographers shouted "Ozzy," and the Osbournes disappeared into a tsunami of reporters and fans, including reporters who were fans.
Ozzy, what do you want to tell the president? a reporter called out.
The man whose mumbly British dialogue is frequently unintelligible on television -- with lots of words bleeped out, as in "I hate [bleeping] Christmas!" -- must find the rest of the world equally unintelligible, for his first quote for official Washington was: "I beg your pardon?"
The question was repeated. And he replied, "I hengh heenth hunh president denngh hmmhmme he ng!"
Later in the evening, a reporter tried the question again. "Dual citizenship," said the Beverly Hills-ensconced Brit of his message for the president, should they ever meet. "I want to be American. America is the coolest place on the face of the Ear th. You've got freedom of speech. You've got McDonald's."
Then they did meet, the commander in chief and the one-time satanic-singing, bat-chewing television anti-dad.
Bush was seated at the head table, when Ozzy, at Table 168, saw his chance. He made h is way forward until he was separated from Bush by only the 10-foot security no man's land: men commanding two kinds of power, face to face, silently taking each other's measure.
Ozzy put his hands together in an almost prayerful acknowledgment, paying respects. The president nodded.
Then Ozzy grabbed a fistful of his stringy brown-and-pink hair and shouted:
"You should wear your hair like mine!"
