Louise Oriole
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I thought the fallout was with Guy Oseary instead? He dropped him as a manager and didn't want to be associated in the A-Rod drama. Someone claimed he went to see W.E. during the 1-week Oscar qualifying run it had in LA, but I don't know if that's true. Did he go to SST 09?
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The pics that Isis posted aren't showing up for me either.
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Glenn Close is another big Madonna fan, unfortunately so are Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, and others like that
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Someone who totally gets it!
Thank You, Madonna, for Still Being Madonna
Daytime TV host Wendy Williams got herself all worked up over Madonna's flashing of her bare breast two weeks ago during a concert in Istanbul, asking, "Okay old lady how desperate can we get?" The women on "The View" also weren't having it, and neither was Star Jones and ad man Donny Deutsch on the "Today" show. But I think they're all missing the point, and definitely not getting the context.
Yes, Madonna is striking out at the ageist critics who say a woman of her age should act a certain way. In that sense she's doing what she's always done, pushing buttons about how women are supposed to behave. Now it's simply about how 50-something-year-old women are to behave. And yes, she has great breasts, on a par with those of many 30-year-olds, so why shouldn't she flaunt them?
But more significant is context, lost on the critics entirely. Madonna didn't show her nipple in New York or Los Angeles or Miami. She did it in Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country where many women do not show much of their bodies in public, and where women's rights are under attack by a conservative government, sending many marching into the streets in recent weeks.
Back in the 1980s, when Madonna burst on the scene, the U.S. was in a scary place on the issue of homosexuality. For a generation of gay men, Madonna was our antidote. As our friends died around us during the callous Reagan era, as conservatives like William F. Buckley Jr. called for putting tattoos on people with AIDS, as Senator Jesse Helms was writing laws against us, Madonna was pushing back culturally. She struck at the Catholic church. She flaunted sexuality. She crashed through stereotypes about gender. She did in those very oppressive years what Lady Gaga does for gays more overtly in this much more gay-accepting time.
So, by assertively flashing her nipple in Istanbul, Madonna was, in the cultural realm, doing something similar for the women of Turkey, perhaps helping to liberate them just a little bit. And what would she follow that up with? A few days later, last week in Rome, she flashed her butt to the crowd. I happened to be in Rome, and I got a chuckle when some in the Italian media actually took note that Madonna's ass was facing the Vatican. Was she mooning the Pope?
Last night I appeared with PR guru Howard Bragman on Joy Behar's new show on Current TV, and Howard made the point that Wendy Williams scored simply by having her name in the same headline with Madonna's.That may be true. But Madonna always scores bigger in these battles, and with her, so do we all.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/thank-you-madonna-for-sti_b_1619143.html
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Really???
Yes. I don't know when his first show was, but people have seen him at a couple tours and Britney has gone to every one of them from DWT onward at least 1 time per tour. Sarah Jessica Parker and Kelly Rippa I think also do the same. SJP said she has to stop herself from wanting to stalk M
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What about spending week number 12 in the Italian album chart at #6?That's the MDNA Tour effect on the new Madonna album that jumps up five places from last week's #11 and storms back in the Top Ten of the official Album chart compiled by Fimi/GfK.
And there's more: Girl Gone Wild jumps up 10 places in a single shot and also re-enters the Top Ten of the Top Digital Download chart this week moving up from #18 to #8,
Still any doubt that Italians Do It Better?
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There were a lot of Bollywood stars at Abu Dhabi (and some Middle Eastern ones). Other local stars too in Turkey. I think we'll see more in London and the US. Leo DiCaprio usually goes to at least one show for every tour (so does Britney).
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Divina Madonna (the Spanish fanclub) did the whole balloon thing.
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It was INCREDIBLE.
She was in such a great form, I'm really impressed.
The show is flawless. She spoke a few words in spanish.
She began too late for Papa Don't Preach and missed the first line.
Anyway... My highlights of the show are definitely : Girl Gone Wild, Candy Shop, Like A Virgin, I'm Addicted.
Can't wait for tomorrow to see it again.
+ Barcelona : great crowd !
Thanks!
What did she say in her speech before OYH or Masterpiece?
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I think they have 4 stages going around.
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I think those screens are the standard size used for arenas. At all the arena shows I've seen concerts at, they have been like that even for different artists
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The show should be the same. Minus the giant roof, side structures, screens for stadiums & all that, but the main stage itself is likely the same.
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Thanks Gordon for the stories, love hearing them
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GMAYL was more like $1.5m
Does this "tattoo" say Ginger Jones?
What's going on?
I hope it's more than just a sort of "Music" video rehash-instead of going to the strip joint and picking up strippers, now she's picking up random people off of the street...
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I think the guy in the white wifebeater might be her security guard because he was running along side her when she was riding her bike to the stadium.
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Before the show
credit- andifeel (Neil)
1987
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The director is Munro. He's wearing the grey tank with shaved head. Looks like the gardener is there too. This is all from the video posted.
No sure if want...
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This was posted at Mix, but the poster only has like 3 posts so I don't know how reliable they are
Today (18 June) the TV news annouced that concert organizers is trying their best to bring Madonna MDNA to Taiwan. If every goes smoothly the concert will be held in March 2013. The three venus that taken into consideraton are Banqiao Stadium at Taipei, the second is the Kaohsiung National Stadium which held the 2009 World Games and the last is Kaohsiung Arena. Let's keep our fingers and legs crossed.
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http://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/06/17/foto/madonna_il_suo_pubblico-37374423/1/?ref=FRAG-3
Pictures of the crowd. That's making me feel claustrophobic
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I think it's a Henna tattoo as one of the letters had faded off at one of the Italian shows.
I wonder if Madonna saw this
Talented guy
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The rumour in Florence yesterday was that the video will be be based on Faster, Pussycat Kill! Kill! with cars scene and stuff like that. Very Tarantino.
That would be amazing although a bit too good to be true (& the connection with GGW is the character, Varla, which M sort of references).
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^ There has to be a car somewhere
So they're filming only Monday? At least there's a storyline of some sorts.
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I wonder if Drowned changed their story based on Bea being there with M?
The "Turn Up The Radio" Video Thread
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I hope they don't mess it up again like they did previously.