Carla Bruni Mandela Day Dress Rehearsal Photos At Radio City Music Hall

France's First Lady Carla Bruni rehearses for her performance at NY's Radio City Hall Mandela Day concert. See more photos of Bruni and her husband President Sarkozy on their trip to NY.

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[MedinaM]

Hmm...I wonder how she got that gig! lol

[HekmabaJuzimax]

She cannot sing, therefore she will sell on the European market.

[stanschurman]

Right, and the American market is sooo sophisticated.

[palmseast02]

The American market is the one that sets the pace - and if you don't like it, then foreigners like Bruni who are just opportunists without talent shouldn't be grandstanding at this Tribute. She is not in the league of Aretha Franklin. She's not even in the league of Alicia Keys, for that matter.

[Giz]

You've got to be kidding. What's more catered for mass, pop appeal than mainstream American music? To get something other from the same music different band sound you have to listen to indie or leave the states altogether...

[Bafun]

I am sure you can sing and are a superstar on the US market! America is soooo superior!

[Joyana]

Notice how the HP "pix" lately are actually one pic at several different angles and zooms!! Obama's pic at his daughter's soccer game, Nic Sarkozy's NYC pic and now this one of Carla are in this one pic/several angles variety. What's w/ that -- dumbing down pix or pix recession style?!

[CloseToTheEdge]

Isn't France wonderful?

[Arrecho]

Indeed.
And beautiful. I am watching the Tour de France, mostly for the panoramic views.

[noweknow]

Why? Isn't Sarkozy loaded? She could just continue to sponge off him.

[ABXNOMORE]

I don't think she needs his money. She comes from a wealthy family that owed the tire company that became Pirelli Tires. She grew up in a very "elite" world and went to private boarding school in Switzerland.........where the "elite" go.

[stanschurman]

He might be sponging off her.

[Bafun]

She earned millions of dollars during her Top model career too.

[MosheContini]

She was also one of the original supermodels - always liked that word: do they fly? Shoot laser beams out of their bony ass? - i.e. when models used to make a LOT of money. So no, definitely not after his money.

[lykitis]

"continue to sponge"...you're ignorant.

[itsme leclerc]

http://www.livestream.com/mandeladaytv

livestream above

[hopefull2008]

Thanks !

[nilotic]

Excellent. Thanks!

[Bitsko]

Must be nice being a super rich automobile tire heiress.

[Gunga-Din]

Gorgeous.Chic.

[Jaqu]

This is definitely not the first time she performed since marring Sarkozy. She played a song on a German show called Wetten Dass in 2008 for instance.

youtube.com/watch?v=Rj1KvCpUtvA

[Bitsko]

Please do not expect the US media to know anything about other countries. They fired most of their foreign correspondents years a go.

[HekmabaJuzimax]

You are wrong. We do know about this show. Wetten Dass is a show about contestants who get their rearends hosed with water. The first one to drownwins a fabulous prize!

[MIKEinNYC]

She's easy on the ears because she's easy on the eyes.

A meekeit with similar talent would never achieve any renown.

[1088]

Live stream on the concert!

http://www.livestream.com/mandeladaytv

[capricorndevil]

thank you for the link...i am watching Mandela Day!

[stanschurman]

She has that characteristic poise of so many Italian or French women.

[Bafun]

Is this bad?

[Arrecho]

Not at all

[mazaza]

She is a top-model, extremely rich (her own money and inheriting big industrial fortune), sings OK pretty nice songs but she married a conservative bully who lacks any sort of culture which makes her not so hot. A few thousand miles from France is the only place where she can hope to sing as she and hubby are not too popular. The lady made a mistake in marrying the man. Michelle Obama behaves like a grown up woman and certainly showed much better judgement in her choice of a spouse.

[ModernTimes1]

Marrying the President of France is a good move for any aging hipster. And vice versa.
Not every President can stand being married to a mousy housewife with no sense of fashion.

[Arrecho]

Bush did

[Bafun]

The conservative bully is not as conservative as your democrats. He would never vote against a single payer health care system!

[Arrecho]

Conservative bully! Wake up, dude. His policies are similar to those proposed by John Edwards. read his book, "Testimony".

That will give you an idea of how far to the right USA is.

[Bafun]

and how right some "democrats" are....

[palmseast02]

John Edwards is the best you can do? Figures, considering where and how he wound up. Sarsleezy never spent time with John Edwards -- but he certainly did with George Bush. Weeks. Bush and his administration were thrilled to death at the time when Sarsleezy came to power. They're like two peas in a pod -- thanks to their conservative racist identical politics. As if there were no "right" in France -- especially the one in office who is on record as calling French muslims nothing but "s .cum" (his words). Yeah, wake up. DUDE. lol

[palmseast02]

You are right about the U.S. appearance. They need to grandstand away from home just like when they were going out and they made sure the media was there for all those pictures wearing jeans at the pyramids in Egypt. Yuck, what a sleazy lowlife twosome. They degraded the whole Mandela tribute with their opportunism.

[Michele Himmel]

Classless. She should wait until hubby is out ofoffice.

[propitiousmoment]

What for? She had the career before she ever met him, why should she give it up?

[stanschurman]

Classless? I guess your idea of class is a grossly overweight American girl in a gravy stained T-shirt carrying a tray of French fries and 3 double Big Macs.

[Bafun]

French fries? you mean Freedom fries...LOL

[Arrecho]

And Diet Coke, LOL

[Bafun]

She had a life before him and will have one after him.

[Zen0469]

Rock on, Carla.