Thursday, March 31, 2011
Let the Mascara Run - Vanity Fair - August 1985
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Hortense Hathaway and Lovey Lou sing I Surrender Dear
Can never get too much of Hortense Hathaway! I Surrender Dear from Bloodhounds of Broadway. Madonna and Jennifer Grey are fantastic here.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The Day After
Madonna by Steven Meisel for the Like a Virgin album at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, 1984.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Madonna - mixmag - March 2000
The only photographs that Dah Len took of Madonna that I like appeared in mixmag. Plus this is a great interview and article.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Keep It Together and Holiday - Blond Ambition Tour - Houston, Texas
Blond Date Weekend - MTV - May 4, 1990. Madonna kicks off her North American leg of the Blond Ambition Tour in Houston, Texas at The Summit. On MTV, they had a Madonna weekend and they showed Keep It Together and Holiday. Completely fantastic. I remember they showed all these video outtakes from the Express Yourself video. Interestingly, they played Keep It Together first.
Read news of Madonna's arrival in Houston HERE.
1983 - Everybody Live at The Roxy and the KA-KA Shirt!
Well, this is just everything - of course. I would have died for this footage growing up - and I want the whole thing!!! They played this footage on RAI television in Italy. I know for sure that she also sang Physical Attraction but I don't know about the other songs. This is right at the time she shot the Gary Heery pics for the Madonna/Madonna album. That hair is so freshly bleached, just the right length and it's the exact jewelry.
It's all about that bruja gypsy dance and outfit. .:And Betty's favorite flats!:. Who else can just throw on old pieces of trash, flash an old movie star face, move in that motion and blaze brilliant street style? Only Madonna. They all try too hard these days.
Also take notice of The Ultimate Fabulousness. I was always obsessed with her KA-KA shirt that we first saw in the devoted completely to Madonna magazine for A Certain Sacrifice in 1985. The picture was from the rehearsal footage that Stephen Jon Lewicki shot in 1979. And 5 years later she wore the KA-KA shirt in this performance!
She also wore the KA-KA shirt at the Peppermint Lounge performance in 1983.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Madonna's MTV 10th Anniversary - Making of and Final
November 3, 1991 - Madonna films her MTV 10 spot.
Letting all the nothings have it and just being utterly fabulous - here's the final:
You're absolutely right - we haven't had more fun with anyone else.
Friday, March 25, 2011
The Live Aid Jacket
And speaking of Live Aid...The Live Aid jacket was made for Madonna by Prince in 1985. And it's just fabulous that she wore it not only to the Pro-Peace Rally with Rosanna Arquette a few months after Live Aid but also four years later to the Women in Film Crystal Awards honoring Dawn Steel.
July 13, 1985 - Live Aid in Philadelphia, Pa.
October 6, 1985 - Pro-Peace Rally in Van Nuys, Ca.
1989 - Women in Film Awards
All Dressed Up - Back Stage at Live Aid with Madonna
This is video that they aired the day of Live Aid on July 13, 1985 on MTV. The commentators are MTV VJ's Mark Goodman and Martha Quinn - who was such a dingle!!! Sideline Trivia: Martha was always a Cyndi supporter and loathed Madonna for her overt sexuality. Here, she refers to Madonna's next single, Dress You Up as "All Dressed Up" - a long time joke among me and someone special ♥. She also confuses farckle Bette Midler as Madonna. As you can see, Bette was so eager to meet Madonna (and watching every move Madonna made) who was working maniacally backstage to get everything perfect and boy did she. She rocked those rock f*ck'rs! This was the day that the Disco Sex Bomb became the Rock Star.
Don't forget fans, that at Live Aid Madonna was the ONLY performer out there with background dancers and doing an entire routine. Something that the Rock Crowd, she was about to perform for, frowned upon and was not of the norm that we see EVERYWHERE today. At every award show, every concert, etc. It was our Miss Madonna that pushed all that shyt out there in everyones faces. Not to mention that the two background dancers were flamboyant and waving tambourines up and through. Ha! Also remember that Dick Clark lobbied hard to get Madonna on this show, the producers didn't want her - they thought of her only as a dancer and dance artist. Click HERE to watch Dick Clark defend Madonna in the last video. xo
It was so brilliant to have this footage and it was the first time we saw Madonna Behind the Scenes. This footage looks just the way mine does on VHS to this day.
British Vogue - The New Madonna - February 1989
Another New Madonna. Ha! One of my all-time favorites. Of course - look at it! My best friend Roy had this cover blown up 6x4 feet. It was fabulous.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Raising Malawi: Madonna Will Serve as Chairperson of the Board
.:The chairman of Pepsi-Cola:.
I don't know, I just read this New York Times piece (click below) about Madonna's girl school in Malawi and I'm still clueless. Didn't we hear about the school not happening a few weeks ago? Then my friend forwarded a Michael Berg email to me saying:
Finally, I would like to announce that Raising Malawi has elected a new board of directors; Raising Malawi co-founder, Madonna, will serve as Chairperson of the board, Richard Feldstein will serve as Treasurer, and Guy Oseary will serve as Secretary.
So, like...is Raising Malawi still happening?
NYT - Madonna’s Foundation for Malawi Girls’ School Collapses
Desperately Seeking Susan Premiere
Madonna graciously accepts a rosary from a fan at Century City Plaza during her premiere of Desperately Seeking Susan.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Madonna Makes Statement to Elizabeth Taylor's Passing
"I am so sorry to hear that this great legend has passed,"Madonna, 52, tells Us exclusively. "I admired and respected her not only as an actress but for her amazing and inspiring work as an AIDS activist. She was one of a kind."
Update:
Was waiting for this! Life long Taylor fan, Camille Paglia talks about Elizabeth Taylor's lush sensuality to Salon.com and, of course, ends with the sexually potent Madonna.
BRAVO CAMILLE! xo
R.I.P. Elizabeth Taylor
This is the worst news. I can't really explain it here but I loved Elizabeth Taylor. So sad today. R.I.P. Elizabeth. xo
The last of the great movie stars.
Giovedi 2 Marzo 22:25 - Madonna and Pepsi - The Big Bang
The Italian Madonna Pepsi Teaser Commercial. I always loved how there was a commercial for the commercial. The American version of this was first shown on February 22, 1989 during the Grammy Awards revealing the forthcoming March 2 debut of Madonna's Pepsi commercial that would feature the new song from her new album, Like a Prayer.
The actual commercial was shown just once on March 2, 1989 during America's number one television program, The Cosby Show. It was simultaneously shown in 40 countries around the world to 250 million viewers. The first time in media history that a commercial had an around the world satellite premiere.
The following day on MTV, Madonna premiered her fabulous video for the song, Like a Prayer. The shyt hit the fan. Pepsi withheld further airings of the commercial which were to be edited down 30 second spots of the original. Madonna was also supposed to shoot a second commercial that would announce her upcoming tour with the Pepsi logo all up and through. Never happened.
Christian groups went berserk. Christian fundamentalist, Reverend Donald Wildmon was so appalled with Madonna's video that he threatened to have his American Family Association 380,000 subscribers boycott Pepsi. Then Catholic Bishop, Rene Gracido also called Madonna's video offensive and threatened to not only going after Pepsi but it's other multi-million dollar fast food restaurants, as well. To top it all off, the Pope and the Vatican released a statement damning Madonna. Pepsi bowed out. We never got the second commercial and Madonna said, Eat It!!! - (not an actual quote) - and kept the 5 million bucks.
Click Here for a previous post that shows a great program explaining and illustrating not only the Pepsi controversy but also one of Madonna's Greatest Videos of All Time - Like a Prayer: Videos That Rocked The World.
Trivia: On March 3, 2010 - 21 years to the day Like a Prayer premiered on MTV, Rev. Donald Wildmon stepped down from the American Family Association.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
From Penny Marshall's "Big". Virgin Tour Pics.
A screen cap from Penny Marshall's 1988 film, Big. I bet Penny wanted to take a byte out of Madonna's crime years before A League of Their Own.
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