A nationally televised performance by a skimpily-dressed Beyonce at the Manhattan site where Ulysses S. Grant is entombed has been denounced as “inappropriate” by the head of the Grant Memorial Association.
“This memorial also happens to be the man’s tomb,” said Frank Scaturro, who is demanding that any future entertainment at the 18th US President’s tomb show less skin and more solemnity.
Beyonce performed in front of Grant’s final resting place for an NBC TV special, surrounded by a band, gyrating dancers and hundreds of screaming fans.
She “clearly crossed the line of appropriateness,” Scaturro told the New York Daily News.
A spokesman for the National Park Service, which gave permission for the show, said: “The feeling was if this was something that would be approved for broadcast on NBC, there is some level of appropriateness.”