Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Just Because...
She's the Greatest Star That Ever Lived.
Read the Interview with Gus Van Sant: HERE.
52 and beyond fabulous.
I became a fan of the song Revolver for the first time just a few weeks ago! That's Madonna, her work always ages great.
Deeper and Deeper - ReInvention Tour
One of the highlights from the ReInvention Tour for me was Deeper and Deeper. I was there opening night at The Forum. For the first time I was front row center, it was the closest I had ever been at that time, it was fantastic. Even more fantastic was Deeper and Deeper. Turning it from a disco number into a torch song was fab. One of my favorites.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Scavullo '90
Madonna in Truth or Dare lifts Scavullo print of her wearing Gaultier from the 1990 Cosmopolitan magazine shoot.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Madonna Leaving Office Building in New York (April 25 2011)
Daily Mail: Hats off: Madonna recycles her image and harks back to her Eighties style on classic Open Your Heart video with a hat
More Desperately Seeking Susan than Open Your Heart but cool nonetheless.
Monday, April 25, 2011
'Twas The Most Famous Belly Button in the World.
Madonna on her Belly Button - Spin Magazine 1985
Oh, that beautiful Italian puttana and her fuck me belly.Remember how infamous Madonna's belly button was? I mean seriously, it had a life of its own. From 1983 to 1985 Madonna's belly button was on constant display. From the first album's inner sleeve to the Borderline and Lucky Star videos, Madonna was our little peek-a-boo Italian whore. Whip me up a plate of puttanesca...
The Belly Button was properly immortalized by Ken Regan for her first ever People Magazine cover in March of 1985. I remember seeing that picture for the very first time and being mesmerized. I still am. Look at it. All the wanna-bes had to have was a pair of scissors and boy did they - shirts were being shredded from coast to coast. Everyone was exhibiting their belly buttons. It's all she and the media spoke about! Back in the day it was considered lewd and vulgar. Magnifico!
Madonna immortalizing that famous belly button for her first People Magazine cover feature - March 1985
Madonna on her Belly Button - Time Magazine 1985
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Dolce and Gabbana Girlie Show Outfit Sketches
Remember those Girlie Show handwritten notes regarding True Blue and shyt? Well, the dude that released those also released the costume sketches Dolce and Gabbana did for True Blue and Like a Virgin with Madonna notes on them. Thanks to Jamesy from madonna-tv.com for sending me these and Kamran Raja for releasing the gems. xo
Terry Wogan Interviews Madonna
Glamour Queen.
Listen, it doesn't get anymore gorgeous than this. Here in America we got little snippets (snippets!!!!) of this interview on MTV that my friends and I referred to "the green dress day", because we knew no better. It was our quest to get the entire interview. Well, of course, it didn't happen until the internet era - 5,000 years after the fact. But, it was well worth the wait.
Promoting Truth or Dare (In Bed with Madonna), Madonna sits down with Terry Wogan looking fabulous with a radiance that just won't quit. This is 1991 and take notice that her beauty mark above her lip is not present and it has gravitated underneath her left eye.
Madonna on the loss of her mother, homophobia, Catholicism, the Vatican, Evita, self love, dreams, sexism, honesty, her dad, Michael Jackson, Sean Penn, her friends, being a 'role model', her early years pre-fame, acting, producing, directing, even Easter and a plethora more. It's a long interview but she covers a hell of a lot. Also, I've always loved how she is absolutely perched in position for the camera and when they do the long shot, her legs are all over the place but she makes sure for that camera she is flawless. One of my all-time favorite interviews.
Wogan: You're a heroine, of course, to many billions of young people - young girls and even boys.
Madonna: Mmmhmm.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
OFFICIAL Madonna TRUTH OR DARE EPK Interview April 1991
Everyone pressured Madonna to forget the entire Truth or Dare project. Imagine? One of the most influential films of the 20th century. We're living through it as we speak.
This is the official promotional interview that was distributed to media outlets to promote the film.
From the fantastic Jamesy of madonna-tv.com - a true asset to the Madonna Community. xo
Visit his page for fabulous video rarities. www.madonna-tv.com
Madonna - The Early Show 2005
Confessions on a Dance Floor was Number One in 29 countries and Madonna had tied with Elvis Presley with 36 top ten hits when she gave this interview to Harry Smith for CBS's The Early Show in Japan. I really enjoy their exchange, they have a cool chemistry. And she's just so damn gorgeous here! Favorite bit for me is when he holds up her first two albums. Legendary.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Bad Girl
Bad Girl from Madonna's 1992 Erotica album is not just one of Madonna's greatest videos, but one of the greatest videos of all time. Over used words today like Epic should be attributed to works such as this. This is cinema, this is storyline, this is acting, this is David Fincher, and above all, this is Madonna doing what she does best.
Madonna solely brought Movie Star into the rock music world back in 1984 with Mary Lambert's Borderline playing a Lolita of the streets character. Nine years later with Bad Girl, we get what would be her Academy Award winning performance as Louise Oriole - an on the verge, alcoholic fashion magazine editor who has a sexual compulsion and flirts with death rather than deal with her feelings of depression from a dying relationship.
David Fincher directs this fourth and final video with Madonna. Christopher Walken co-stars as the guardian angel watching over Louise in discontent while protecting her every move until the one moment he falters while reading about the Bloody Rampage Killer in the New York Post that will eventually take her life.
We have great stuff here. Louise licking Friskee's cat food off her finger. Dropping her dirty lace underpants in the bathroom sink. Roaming the streets, bars and restaurants of New York with fabulous hair, face and Azzedine Alaia power suits. And Madonna giving one of her greatest on screen performances. This is what Body of Evidence should have been and she knows it, hence why we have this superb video. Madonna was not going to let this moment in time pass without giving it the punctuation mark she wanted.
Bad Girl trivia: Originally to be directed by Tim Burton (initially reported in Liz Smith's column in 1992). Cameo from James Rebhorn - whom Madonna abandons towards the end for killer - also had a role in Woody Allen's Shadow and Fog which Madonna had a cameo - as trapeze artist, Marie. Rebhorn also had a role in Fincher's 1997 film, The Game, starring ex-husband Sean Penn. Christopher Walken played Sean Penn's father in James Foley's At Close Range. Oriole, the main character's last name, is the street that Madonna lived on when she divorced Penn and was the house photographed for Vogue in 1989 - it is of the 'bird streets' that name that entire section of the Hollywood Hills.
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