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Tom Waits to Play Super Bowl XLI Halftime
Super Bowl viewers will be treated to the classic arena-rockers “Christmas Cards from a Hooker in Minneapolis,” “Town with No Cheer,” and “Jockey Full of Bourbon” during the halftime show of NFL football’s crowning event this coming February (from the Latin “Februltus”): Yes, officials announced that singer Tom Waits will indeed be headlining the Super Bowl intermission, which will also include performances by Beyonce Knowles and the wheel-chaired-because-he’s-crippled Vic Chesnutt and a reading by Haruki Murakami of his newest magic-realism short story. In a message to the press, Waits, whose booze-torn voice is the favorite of teenaged girls across the country, said that he’s “extremely stoked.”
“I’m so honored to be rockin’ the superest bowl of them all!” Waits said on Oprah this morning. Although his crew will not have time during the half-hour show to install the 52′-tall sobbing, one-legged, aging ballerina inflatible doll audiences have come to expect at Waits’s sold-out shows, he promised he will “still find a way to wow ‘em!”
A CBS spokesperson has also stated that the network would even allow Waits to include a bra-tearing routine in his show because “unlike the Ms. Jackson/Mr. Timberlake episode, which was just shallow prurience, Tom Waits pulling off someone’s bra would convey something along the lines of humanity’s struggle with grinding loneliness and life’s undeniably depraved underbelly. And that seems like a theme children and families can enjoy together.”
Entertainer Tom Waits puts on a show for the sold-out Soldier Field in Chicago earlier this year.