Of Course, No One will Give Him a Hand
Singer George Michael sees the light side of his arrest for lewd conduct in a Los Angeles, Calif., restroom. “For a day I was humiliated as hell,” he said on BBC television. “But after about a day, or a day and a half, I saw the funny side of it. I just thought ...if you can’t laugh when everybody else is laughing you are in trouble.” Michael, 34, had exposed himself to an undercover police officer. He denied he got arrested intentionally as a publicity stunt. “If I was the bravest and most genius pop star in the world, maybe I would have done it deliberately,” he said. On the other hand, the arrest helped his career quite a bit — his current album is lingering at the top of the U.K. charts. “I’ve never had a record that’s done so well,” he admits. (Reuters) ...It’s the first police record to “go gold”.