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- <text id=93TT1951>
- <title>
- June 28, 1993: I'm Special
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jun. 28, 1993 Fatherhood
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 75
- I'm Special
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
- </p>
- <p> Elton John is to Israel what Mickey Rourke is to France: a foreign
- star adored for reasons that aren't intuitively obvious. When
- the singer backed out of a Tel Aviv concert-an event so significant
- a local high school canceled its graduation festivities-the
- country went into a collective furor. Elton flew back to London
- after his entourage was denied VIP treatment at the airport,
- and there was a scuffle involving his bodyguard and some fans
- and photographers. He did return to perform the next day. But
- the love fest is waning. Advised an Israeli newspaper: "Look
- for a banana republic that will salute you."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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