Posted on 06/15/2010 1:13:08 PM PDT by rface
Add Elton John to those who were not expecting him to get an invite to Rush Limbaugh's wedding.
"To put it in Elton's exact words, when he got the invitation, he was 'a little surprised,' " his partner David Furnish told PEOPLE on Sunday at the Tony Awards in New York. "And then, when it turned out to be a genuinely sincere invitation … Elton said, 'Life is about building bridges, not walls.' "
John also saw it as another opportunity, in his words, "to go where people wouldn't expect me to go."
"And maybe if I can make a great impression," Furnish quoted him as saying, "people might change their perspectives on life."
Furnish was in Europe and couldn't attend the wedding. But John told him it was a beautiful event and Limbaugh and his bride "were incredibly gracious and very welcoming and very sweet and very appreciative."
"Elton, during the performance made a lot of cracks: 'I suppose you all wonder why I'm here tonight?' " says Furnish. "But ultimately, it's a bit like an olive branch, I guess."
By all accounts, John and the couple got along well. "I wasn't there, but from everything Elton told me, he said Rush and his bride were incredibly charming and welcoming. And they have said they want to come and have dinner with us in England, if they pass through in their travels."
The tentative offer was welcomed. "We have to bring the world together, not apart," said Furnish, who produced Next Fall with Sir Elton on Broadway.
Don’t you hate it when someone does this ....................................... kwim?
The movie of the Lion King is something I must have watched 10 or 12 thousand times. My youngest daughter, now 18, was absolutely the demographic for that movie when it came out.
LOL. When Rafiki held Simba above his head, presenting him to the pride, my daughter would be about 9 inches from the TV holding her Simba stuffed animal above her head.
Bad grammer and spelling is a series problem on FR. Some people just don’t pay attention to what their typing. Sometimes I loose track of what there trying to say. It’s a hugh problem.
“Many of us have gay friends (whether we know it or not)...”
And pedophile friends, and murderous friends and schizophrenic friends. What’s your point?
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