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| Hasselhoff Wants Credit for Berlin Wall Coming Down. |
| 2004-01-29 |
| David Hasselhoff has complained to museum curators after finding his photo absent in a collection of memorabilia about the fall of the Berlin Wall. The actor and producer, who says he is working on a film version of TV series Knight Rider, claims he is partly responsible for the fall of the concrete divide. Speaking to German magazine TV Spielfilm, Hasselhoff said in 1989, the year the wall fell, he had helped reunite the country by singing his song ’Looking for Freedom’ among millions of German fans at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. He said he felt he had moved people on both sides of the wall, although he admitted hardly any of the East Germans could speak English. He said: "I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Check-Point Charlie. "After my appearance I hacked away at pieces of the wall that had the black, red and yellow colours of the German flag on it. I kept the big piece for myself and gave the smaller pieces to colleagues at Baywatch." Hasselhoff said he doesn’t mind that Americans make fun of his popularity in Germany and says he feels it is his second homeland. What happens when your career is over in Hollywood? It dies and goes to Europe. He said: "Many Americans joke about my popularity in Germany. But they have no idea how beautiful Europe is and how rich it is in culture and fun and warmth and children. He has peered into the minds of Americans and determined their contents, yet another example of the widespread belief in clairvoyance among the Hollywood pseudo-elite. In Germany children have brought me thousands of flowers. Delusions of Grandeur, anyone? Unlike many Hollywoodists, Hasselhoff at least seems to think that the collapse of Communism was a good thing. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #12 Here's a story for you. My wife used to bodyguard for the kids of a Middle Eastern ruler back in the eighties (don't ask who). One day they're in the Ritz Carlton in New York and she spotted two guys eyeballing her charges pretty good. So she grabs up the kids, heads for the first elevator that shows up, and who's on it? THE David Hasselhoff, who's chatting up two babes on the elevator and taking his sweet assed time getting off. She grabs him by the collar, yanks him out, throws the kids in and they're out of there. She says five more seconds and she would've pulled her gun and shot the bastard. Thank God she didn't because, after reading this, who knows how world history would've been changed. We'd probably still be in the midst of the Cold War. If only David knew how close he was.... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-1-29 11:10:01 PM |
| #11 "I was on tour in Berlin with the Baywatch girls when a shift in one of Pam's implants knocked over the first section..." |
| Posted by: snellenr 2004-1-29 9:25:40 PM |
| #10 lol! |
| Posted by: B 2004-1-29 7:02:14 PM |
| #9 Speaking to German magazine TV Spielfilm, Hasselhoff said in 1989, the year the wall fell, he had helped reunite the country by singing his song ’Looking for Freedom’ among millions of German fans at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. So, what happened? Hasselhof was on the East German side of the Brandenburg Gate when he started singing, and everyone was running away from him, screaming hysterically and overran Checkpoint Charlie? |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-1-29 6:01:23 PM |
| #8 It's like Norm MacDonald always said -- "The Germans love David Hasselhoff!" |
| Posted by: Tibor 2004-1-29 5:54:29 PM |
| #7 ruprecht, the pathetic male ego in shame/"honor" societies reflects their own sick weakness, and images or viewing of women is not the problem |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-1-29 5:43:23 PM |
| #6 Half-naked women running in slow motion, no wonder the repressed Mullahs around the world can't stand the US. The problem is that Mullahs seem to feel that a woman whose face isn't covered is half-naked. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-1-29 4:58:06 PM |
| #5 I had another thought. How reponsible is Baywatch for the current view of America in the Muslim world? Half-naked women running in slow motion, no wonder the repressed Mullahs around the world can't stand the US. Hasselhoff may have ended the cold war and sewed the seeds of the current conflict. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-1-29 4:52:24 PM |
| #4 In his defense, its nice to hear someone from Hollywood say good things about Europe without bashing the US at the same time. But delusions of Grandeur is right. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-1-29 4:50:26 PM |
| #3 Bwaahaahaaa!!! |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-1-29 4:43:06 PM |
| #2 Yes! Yes! We must be free to run and play and laugh and sing! Meme, Meme, Meme, BaBaBaBaBA, Strangers look so slight, a trolling in the nite. |
| Posted by: Napoleon VII 2004-1-29 4:09:04 PM |
| #1 In Europe we are free to run and laugh and play and sing! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-29 4:05:21 PM |