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| Prince crippled by sexy dancing |
| 2008-02-24 |
| Pop legend Prince the artist formerly known as "the Artist Formerly Known as Prince", is having a secret HIP REPLACEMENT at the age of just 49—after being crippled by years of sexy dancing. The pint-sized US star would develop a severe limp and have to use a WALKING STICK without surgery. So he is booking himself into a private hospital. Aides are keeping his diary clear for two months to recover—but they're not letting on why he cannot work in that time. During the two-hour op . . . the Purple Rain singer will have the ball and socket of his damaged hip taken out and titanium replacements cemented in. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "tragically hip," don't it? |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #9 Years of sexy dancing??? I admire and respect his work, and DIANE was a loyal self-proclaimed super-fan, but really the man has been a near-total recluse since 1990 and that THE ARTIST/MAN-FORMERLY-KNOWN-AS-PRINCE, MALE-FEMALE SIGN, CAREER AND MARKETING FIASCO. I am surprised he hasn't turned into MICHAEL "JANET/WHITE GIRL" JACKSON - BE GRATEFUL FOR THAT. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-02-24 21:20 |
| #8 I've gotta add: I'm a Prince fan - the man's talented |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-02-24 21:19 |
| #7 Prince is a brilliant composer and musician, damned first by grotesque lyrics, then by an all-consuming record label, and then by a stifling religion. In a strange way, he is like Tom Hulce in Amadeus. For all his faults, he won me over when that worthless bunch of political musicians insisted that he had to perform with them in "We Are The World", and he told them to go get knotted. He has also mastered about every major instrument out there, keyboard, woodwind, brass, percussion, and string. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-02-24 21:12 |
| #6 Not to mention, indeed. ;-) |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-02-24 20:04 |
| #5 Not to mention all the wild dancing and gyrating. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-02-24 19:23 |
| #4 Talk to my knees about that, rj. Had an injury that was misdiagnosed about 10 years ago. By the time it was correctly diagnosed the cartilege in that knee had worn away/shredded, causing the ends of the bones to grind together and stretching the ligaments so that they don't hold the bones in the joint as well as they used to. The bones develop spurs and growths and the joint no longer functions well -- and hurts. So I compensated in my posture, straining the knee and ankle on the other side. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-02-24 19:22 |
| #3 How does a hip wear down? I can see how it might break but its a bone, I just can't imagine it being replaced for anything short of actual breaks. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-02-24 19:10 |
| #2 Prince, if he desires to remain one of Jehovah's Witnesses, must resolve his faith on the 'Blood Issue' and not eating it (consuming; taking it into his system[see Lev. 17:11, 12, 14, & Acts 15:28, 29]), and relying on his firm faith in a resurrection should the risk present itself from the operation. Also he might consider, like Job, this test to his endurance of faith, is placed to help him overcome the snares and entanglements such a profession (such as erotic singing and dancing) will burden him with; in his hope for a better standing before Jehovah God, allbeit from this 'system of things' and what it have to offer. |
| Posted by: smn 2008-02-24 19:05 |
| #1 Between this an the Brother Bullethead story, I don't know why most people say the news is depressing. Reading this is like a tonic that leavens the spirit. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2008-02-24 13:31 |