It was just four days ago that lived and re-lived and re-lived some more the majesty of watching “Rock of Love” star Bret Michaels get dropped by a descending set piece at the Tony Awards. Since then, someone involved with the Tonys released a statement saying that Michaels “missed his mark,” leading Michaels’s publicist to fire back that Michaels had never been informed that there would be marauding backdrops targeting his face. Pretty dull stuff, so I didn’t cover it.
Now Michaels has posted these pictures on his MySpace page, and my first reaction to these images was “Wow, I had no idea that someone besides teenagers and pedophiles used MySpace.” Unless… Bret Michaels is a pedophile???? Nah, those girls are too young to have breast implants. And tattoos. And herpes.
After the jump, I’ve got newer and better and closer-upper video of Bret Michaels getting guillotined by the descending backdrop at last night’s Tony Awards. But before you go watching it for the 35th time, ponder this: the way that Stockard Channing goes straight into her song with gusto at the end of the clip totally makes her a real-life Keyboard Cat.
Now that I’ve drawn the parallel, I can’t think about anything else. I want the YouTube video to be called “Sing Him Off, Stockard.” And I like to pretend that there’s a quick cut of her standing and waiting while Poison performs, arms posed and ready and to sing. Of course, if someone just re-edited this to include regular old Keyboard Cat, I’d be fine with that, too. The important thing to remember is that Bret Michaels got hit in the face by moving scenery. WHERE’S YOUR COWBOY HAT NOW????
If you didn’t watch last night’s Tony Awards, you missed out on the greatest Tony Awards ever. Granted, I only watched about 15 seconds of it, but I’ve watched those 15 seconds about eight times now. Bret Michaels from “Rock of Love” (and, okay, Poison) performed live with the cast of Rock of Ages at the Tonys, and the end of “Nothin’ But a Good Time” was marred made awesome when a descending set piece damn near took off his head.
He was knocked to the ground, and while the extent of his injury was not known, he did not break his nose, despite wide speculation that he had. A publicist later told PEOPLE that Michaels was hoping to hit some after-parties but was “getting X-rays.” Calling him “a trooper,” she added that Michaels “had a blast performing.”
Doctors were impressed Michaels survived, calling the set “as dangerous as sex with the girls from ‘Rock of Love II’.”
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Neil Patrick Harris will host the Tonys this year, which will air June 7th on CBS. And seeing as how he singlehandedly raises “How I Met Your Mother” from “watchable” to “really pretty funny despite the tool who plays the lead,” I would be inclined to watch the awards ceremony. If, you know, it weren’t about Broadway.
In a statement Harris said, “The discipline of live theatre – doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week – never ceases to amaze me. I’m truly honored to have been chosen as the Master of Ceremonies for this year’s Tony Awards, and I hope to help provide a first-class evening for all.” [Playbill]
The real challenge to hosting the Tonys this year will be wresting the title of “Gayest Award Show” away from the Oscars. And yes, the host is gay, and the awards are going to celebrate Broadway musicals, and at some point Harvey Fierstein will appear… but they’ve still got a ways to go to out-gay what Hugh Jackman did. I mean, he just would NOT stop singing and dancing. So, okay, new rule: anyone who wins a Tony has to sing their acceptance speech. Bonus points for choreography.
