"I was a newspaper reporter with USA Today at the time, and I'd arranged an hour-long sit-down with the bandwhich they abruptly canceled shortly before we were set to meet. Why? Well, Robert Redford had made them a better offer. The Sundance founder (and Sundance Kid) had invited them to his mountainside Sundance Mountain Resort to have a drink at his personal watering hole."
"I get it. I'd have canceled on them for that, too. But the Sundance resort was more than an hour outside of Park City, Utah, where the premiere would be held that night. There was a window of downtime there, so I boldly proposed that hey, maybe instead of canceling the interview, we could just postpone it. I could meet them instead at the resort and we could have our conversation during their ride back to town. Unbelievably, they agreed."
In January 2008, the concert film U2 3D premiered on primetime Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival. A USA Today reporter had scheduled an hour-long interview with U2 that the band abruptly canceled after Robert Redford invited them to his Sundance Mountain Resort. The reporter proposed delaying the interview and meeting the band during their return drive; the band agreed. The reporter sat in the back seat as Bono rode shotgun and The Edge joined him. Redford shared tales that inspired Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. A crowd photographed the band as Bono and The Edge appeared unusually ebullient and fanlike.
Read at www.esquire.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]