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Trippy, Man: Hippie Bloomberg Meets Snooki, The Situation
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 28, 2010
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Last night, at the annual Inner Circle show, Mayor Bloomberg left this business attire for the hippie-stylings of Hair, as he spoofed the past year of his mayoralty in Mair: 3 Terms of Peace and Music. But it's possible that he was overshadowed by his special guests—Snooki and The Situation. Snooki was excited by the prospect of meeting Bloomberg: She Tweeted, "Enjoying some wine and waiten to fist pump with Mayor B!! He double fist pumps lmao!" The Situation was so thrilled he took off his shirt!
The Post said he "looked right at home in a groovy get-up of long, flowing locks, a headband, suede moccasins and custom-made bell-bottom jeans... festooned with funky patches, each symbolizing a city agency." The Daily News seemed scared, "This year, he went full-on psychedelic - looking like the sexagenarian love child of Howard Stern and Janis Joplin." And the Post and News eported that among Bloomberg's lines were, "Bette Midler will help us plant one million pot plants in the next 10 years," "I've already brought crime down at frat parties. Peeing in the bushes has dropped 15%," and, in response to whether he'd want to be Public Advocate after his mayoral term ends, "It'd have to be a real job."
Here's a video montage of the event—see Bloomberg arriving in a Volkswagen bus! see Snooki ask, "If you're doing a show with hair, don't you think I should be part of it?"
The Inner Circle show, which is put on by the city's political reporters and raises money for charity, also poked fun at Governor Paterson. The Post reports, "Act Two opened with an actor portraying Paterson as the captain of the Titanic. He steered right into an iceberg and ended up stranded on Governors Island, surrounded by "sharks," including Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch and Long Island Republican Rick Lazio."
Last year, Mayor Bloomberg went Under the Sea with the cast of The Little Mermaid, the year before that he wore a headband with the cast of Xanadu, and in 2007, he went all Mayor Poppins. But of course, the most famous instance of a mayor playing along with the Inner Circle crowd is Rudy Giuliani who appeared in drag as Marilyn Monroe.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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