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Boots N' Ronstadt Tuesday continues, as a reader points us to this post on The National Review's The Corner blog. [Ed. note—Don't worry, children, we don't know what TNR is either.] A witness to Linda Ronstadt's bedlam-provoking, F 9/11-supporting, termination-inducing song dedication says the event was light on both bedlam and provocation, unless you were a fan of her rock catalog:

My wife & I were at the Linda Ronstadt performance in question, at the Aladdin in Las Vegas, and quite frankly, Aladdin President Bill Timmins' account of what happened is complete crap. There was mixed booing and cheering at Ronstadt's pro-Michael Moore comment, and that was about the extent of the "bedlam" that supposedly broke out.

I saw no posters being torn down or cocktails being thrown in the air, and if people stomped out of the theatre unhappy, it was because 1) that was the last song Ronstadt performed; it was her encore; and 2) she mainly sang her standards repertoire, with the Nelson Riddle orchestrations, and a large part of the crowd wanted to hear more of her rock-'n'-roll stuff; she got the biggest round of applause for doing a lackadaisical run-through of her version of "Blue Bayou."

Frankly, my suspicion is that Timmins is way overdramatizing what happened, in order to justify giving Ronstadt the boot. It simply wasn't that big a deal.

No posters being torn down? No cocktails launched chandelier-ward? What about the hookers, man? What about the hookers?

Start stockpiling confetti now, because we expect a Hollywood Boulevard parade in Ronstadt's honor (with a bullhorn wielding Michael Moore serving as Grand Marshal) later in the week.