As geopolitically convenient as this might seem, this seems like it actually could’ve been a human error accident with that dense fog. Also, what regime puts their top 4-5 officials on the same helicopter? Don’t top US officials travel separately for this exact reason?
Very cool writeup, thanks for posting. I love that bus clip PJ20 where they’re working out that song.
Another interesting fact about Daughter is that it ends with “the shades go down..” as in, the shades are being shut and some bad stuff is about to happen. At the end of Rearviewmirror, a song about getting in a car and getting away from something, the lyric is “finally the shades are raised”
Supposedly, the story with this is McCready checked himself into a hospital for exhaustion immediately after this show. It was the last show of the tour. It was step one of his long journey to sobriety.
Supposedly, Rickman crushed it so hard in some scenes, the studio decided to delete them from the final cut to protect their golden boy leading man from being upstaged. Test audiences walked away calling it a Rickman movie. The director was so mad about this, the studio had to lock him out of the edit suite to finish the movie.
In Costner's defense, he was on the set of Robin Hood in England just days after wrapping up a years long passion project in Dances With Wolves. It was a fast shoot that saw Costner in New Orleans just ten weeks later to start filming JFK. Robin Hood's production was a tiny blip sandwiched between two of the biggest projects of his career.
I think he’s lived a little harder than most and he’s almost 60. Seems to be in good health and still a very active surfer and whatever, but hard to visually hide decades of heavy smoking and drinking. He kinda already had the puffy face thing in the early 90’s MTV era interviews, too. Jeff, Stone, and Matt look great for their age. McCready looks like the last 20+ years of sobriety have treated him well, too.