Merchant’s band mates, who spend the lion’s share of the evening ogling Kim Basinger, shrug this off as vintage Natalie. Merchant sighs, shoots a look at the reporter next to her and says, “You’re going to put that in the story, aren’t you?”
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Merchant thanks her and, unaware that this particular nervous teenager, Sara Gilbert, is the costar of the hit TV show Roseanne, looks her in the eye and says, “Do you work for Rock the Vote?” After it is established that her young fan is a very successful TV star with no small following of her own, Merchant, flustered, apologizes. “In My Tribe is one of my favorite albums,” the girl giddily exclaims. Once inside the hotel, she finds herself a nice, anonymous wall to lean up against and then sips her mineral water in peace.Ī nervous teenager dressed in black with Gothic makeup approaches and introduces herself.
Traffic has clogged the streets of D.C., and so she hops out of the cab and walks the last three blocks to the Sheraton Carlton, eluding a horde of paparazzi staked out on the hotel drive-way and slipping through the hedges unnoticed. Not to mention that after a long day of rehearsals for the MTV Inaugural Ball, she’s thoroughly exhausted and feeling less inclined than usual to meet and greet – which is to say, not at all.
That the event is one of the hottest invitations in town is lost on the notoriously moody and publicity-shy lead singer of 10,000 Maniacs, who holds such empty concepts as fabulous parties in rather low regard.
Natalie Merchant slumps deep into the back seat of a taxi on her way to an inaugural-week cocktail benefit for Rock the Vote.
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