Not yet tired of hearing about the Princess Di tribute concert? Well, we didn't watch the broadcast on Sunday night, partly because we're tired of seeing Fergie from above the knee, but also, Big Love. But Eat The Press tuned in, at least enough to call the Matt Lauer-hosted NBC broadcast "an incomplete, seemingly random selection of acts from the full 6-plus hour programme."
Ouch-y!
Says ETP:
Hosted by Matt Lauer in the spirit of the Thanksgiving Day Parade (think glib, goofy puns and forced segues), the hour-long event was basically a straight cut-and-paste job of performances by Elton John, Duran Duran, Fergie, Rod Stewart, Nelly Furtado, P. Diddy, Joss Stone and Tom Jones — an impressive lineup but actually representing a fraction of who else crossed the stage. There wasn't even a brief news report about what other artists performed or what other features were mounted. If this was part of the deal to score that interview with the Princes, we'd say their royal Highnesses got royally screwed.
But at least Lauer got a chance to deliver lines like, "It's one of the eternal questions of pop music: Do ya think I'm sexy?" And audiences got to answer with a resounding, "Uh-uh."

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