Adele’s Concert Special: Too Much Oprah, Not Enough Adele
by Mark Gabrish Conlan • Copyright © 2021 by Mark Gabrish Conlan • All rights reserved Throughout the last two weeks CBS had been promoting the special they were going to show last night about the singer Adele. It was billed as “Adele: One Night Only” and was a live show that took place in front of the iconic Griffith Observatory in Lous Angeles, where much of the film Rebel Without a Cause was shot. She performed on the famous steps where Sal Mineo’s character is shot in the movie and a little man in a suit, played by director Nicholas Ray, shows up at the end to open the observatory. The show promised a concert by Adele as well as an interview of her by Oprah Winfrey, and from that I was hoping that it would be the full interview and then the concert. Instead it was a ghastly format in which Oprah’s interview with Adele, filmed in the garden of Oprah’s estate, was cut up into segments and kept intruding itself into the performance. Through the two-hou9r length of the show Adele got...