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Gorbachev visits Hard Rock Live in Hollywood24 April 2008FLORIDA -- As reported by the Broward New Times: "...Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood last Wednesday night, a guest of the Seminole Indian Tribe. He addressed an audience that had come to see the former communist leader and Louis Vuitton pitchman cashing in on a trip to the land where the grotesqueries of capitalism are matched only by modern-day Russia. "Though Seminole Hard Rock would not say how much they paid Gorbachev (the tribe being no fan of glasnost), he's reportedly paid $125,000 an hour for speeches, and it was surely the call of such easy money that brought the individual most responsible for the end of the cold war to the sacred spot where Anna Nicole Smith expired. "Everywhere he went, Gorbachev was surrounded by men in black suits and bombarded by flashing cameras. The 77-year-old former leader was silent as he walked the halls backstage before his speech, billed as 'Peace in the 21st Century.' "...Red-jacketed Hard Rock ushers guided older attendees, who paid up to $85, and college students who'd been given free tickets when sales failed to meet expectations. "...The talk focused on what Gorbachev sees as the three most important issues facing the world in the 21st Century: security, poverty, and the environment..." |