The post-menopausal tribulations of Canada's beloved singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell continue. In the last instalment of Up Front, we told you of Ms. Mitchell's rage and despair at being pushed out of the music industry by Madonna and a subsequent generation of young hotties whose cup size exceeds their musical IQ. In that light, it is probably a bad time for her hometown of Saskatoon to commission a commemorative statue of Joni--but that is what they have done, the Canadian Press reports November 26. Her reaction was part pleased, part rueful. "It's just such a strange question to be woken up to," she told CP's reporter. "It would be a true honour. It really would. But is this not something usually done post-mortem?" Two hundred units of Prozac for Ms. Mitchell--stat!
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