What famous musician played at the iconic Fall of the Berlin Wall?
will never forget the look that Ben, the German exchange student living with my family in high school, gave to Paul, a clever classmate, when he dropped the H-word: Hasselhoff. Though I didn’t get the joke at the time (beyond finding it amusing that my host brother was being mistaken for the Baywatch star), Ben’s eyes seemed to pierce Paul’s soul, silently commanding him to hold back on the Hasselhoff humor or face serious consequences. Since our stay in Germany, we’ve caught on that the Hasselhoff thing comes up a lot for Germans. Rumor has it that he’s “big,” as they say, in Germany. “It happens every time I have visitors here,” revealed Ayla Kiran, our host in Berlin. “One of the first things they ask is ‘Is he really a star here?’ ” Denials or explanations must then be made to put the whole story into context, and, if all goes well, put it behind them Sources:
