This one's even worse... Who ever thought one of the Duke boys (Wopat) would turn into such a little bitch.
Rosie Shoots Down "Gun" Lyrics
by Bridget Byrne
May 24, 1999, 1:15 PM PT
"Gun." It says "gun" in the title, as in Annie Get Your GUN.
Evidently, Rosie O'Donnell's passionate anti-gun stance has triggered another controversy.
Reportedly, Bernadette Peters, Tony-nominated star of the current revival of Irving Berlin's 1946 musical, has backed out of Tuesday's scheduled taping because she was asked to cut the line "I can shoot a partridge with a single cartridge" from the show's show-stopper, "Anything You Can Do."
The brouhaha comes less than a week after usual-softballer Rosie confronted Tom Selleck about the National Rifle Association ads he did a while back.
According to Monday's New York Post, Peters refused to make the change and shot down any plans to appear on the show, though costar Tom Wopat and other cast members have agreed to step in to perform "My Defenses Are Down," which contains no firearm references.
O'Donnell denied there was any real problem, telling the Post, "It's all been worked out. We worked it out."
Meanwhile, O'Donnell's spokeswoman, Lois Smith, told Associated Press the song change was not caused by any controversy but simply because Peters could not be there to sing "Anything You Can Do," which is a duet.
Wopat, the former Dukes of Hazzard star who plays Annie's fellow sharpshooter, Frank Butler, supports O'Donnell's views on guns. He told the Post, "I just do what I'm told. I'm a good camper."
Why, one wonders, didn't they all just choose to sing "There's No Business Like Show Business"?
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,4807,00.html