Wheres Joni Mitchell?
: We heard Joni Mitchell during Friday night’s sparkling opening ceremonies, crooning Both Sides Now. But where was the Canadian folk songstress? Absent, it turned out. “She just wasn’t available for us,” said Vancouver Organizing Committee official Suzanne Reedes, who insisted she didn’t know why. But Mitchell, 66, had cast doubt on her attendance in an interview with the The Vancouver Sun last month. “I’m trying to get well enough to make that,” she told the newspaper, detailing a debilitating illness. “What I have is accumulated from … a lot of diseases in my life — polio, chicken pox, scarlet fever, dengue fever, three kind of measles,” Mitchell said. “All these things are viral and they stay in your system so my body is like Afghanistan. It’s full of syndromes. It all pools into a disease called morgellons, for which there is no cure. It’s a complex infection. I can’t afford to get a flu on top of it or anything. I’m pretty fragile, and it’s pretty uncomfortable.” A second famous
