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Girlie Talk: The Life and Times of the World's Most Famous Woman

The Ottawa Sun, Oct. 12, 1993

Rare Italian Body of Evidence Movie Trailer

It's not her - but it should have been! It's fabulous. Isn't it?

ISN'T IT?

Fever "The Girlie Show" - Fukuoka, Japan - HQ Audio/Video

This footage of Madonna singing Fever in Fukuoka, Japan in December 1993 for her Girlie Show is so clear and gorgeous that I thought everyone would enjoy it. My friend and I were watching this other night and commenting on everything from her singing, her hair (better than Australia), her flawless make-up, her translucent skin, her charisma, her command of the stage, the choreography, the discipline - just everything is fantastic from beginning to end. This is a great performance by the greatest star that has ever lived. Love Donna and the otherwise useless Niki giving us a little Burning Up in the beginning, too. This is a few weeks after her legendary Australian show that was broadcast on HBO.

Separate paragraph for THE BODY alone. Her strength and muscles are amazing to watch. Let's take note that Madonna was 35 years old here. A whopping 10 years into her career here and up until she kicked that door down, it was considered way past the expiration date of a pop star - especially a woman. I see some pop stars today that are in their mid 20's or others that are hitting 30 that are dire weaklings and/or are starting to balloon. So bow to the REAL QUEEN of not only pop but of LIFE. Because nobody ever will or has done it better.

Anyway, it's July and it's hotter than hell everywhere - it certainly is in Los Angeles - so let's all enjoy some sexy Fever.

Madonna at 1993 Versace Show

With Steven Meisel. Reader Brian sent this fab photograph. xo

Happy Summer!!!

Is anyone else as gorgeous as this? ARE THEY?

Paris Vogue October 1993

Since we got that beautiful Ellen Von Unwerth outtake of Madonna, here are my scans of the complete Paris Vogue magazine. Enjoy. xo

Ellen Von Unwerth 1993 Paris Vogue Outake

Fabulous!

Girlie Show Ticket Sales Brisbane, Australia

For Madonna's only appearance in Brisbane, Australia in November 1993 with The Girlie Show, it looks like a few had predicted that it would be a once in a lifetime opportunity. A girl that waited 8 days in the freezing cold and received queue number one got the much coveted Front Row Seat! 100,000 tickets sold in a matter of 5 hours.

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

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.

Maripol Interview about Madonna 1993

An interview with Maripol from 1993 that I've never seen. Fabulous! She looks like she could be Madonna's sister.

Express Yourself - The Real Deal

Why have an imitation of that putrid Lady Gaga's (Still)Born This Way when you can bask in this brilliance? Turn this shyt up and have a listen to the Queen of Life. Greatest Live Version Ever. Express Yourself from the Girlie Show. This is a life anthem. And it didn't have to be touted that way. End.

Here's what you gotta do...Don't go for second best baby.

BAD GIRL

EAT IT!

Snake Eyes

Madonna as Sarah Jennings in Dangerous Game.

Your Favorite Madonna MTV Music Video Award Performance

In 1984, at the inaugural MTV Music Video Award show - Madonna - singing the never before heard title track from her highly anticipated Like a Virgin album, was the bride in heat. Singing, moaning and slithering down that cake like a serpent. Virtually ignoring the audience - aside from kicking off her shoes and chucking her bouquet in their faces - the sex drenched lioness prowled that stage, searched and hit each camera man as if they were prey. This was the very first live televised performance of her career.

Madonna ruled MTV in the 80's but Express Yourself was only Madonna's second live appearance on the award show in 1989. This was the prototype of the version we would eventually see on The Blond Ambition Tour. It is also the first time we see Madonna vogueing. Although they were on the Who's That Girl Tour in 1987, this is also the first time we see Niki Harris and Donna DeLory as her primary background singers and dancers. Something that would last until The Drowned World Tour in 2001.

Fresh off the Blond Ambition Tour, Madonna returned to the MTV Music Video Awards stage in 1990 performing Vogue as we had never seen before - Madonna donning Marie Antoinette garb. This highly influential and phenomenal performance set the bar on what we would see singers do at award shows and concerts till date.

In 1993, after The Sex Book and Erotica backlash, Madonna had been rehearsing for her 4th tour, The Girlie Show. That September before she hit the road, she gave a preview of Bye Bye Baby at the 10th annual MTV Music Video Awards.

It had been 5 years since Madonna had performed live on MTV. In 1998, she returned with her highly acclaimed Ray of Light. She started this performance with the album track Shanti/Ashtangi. Lenny Kravitz joined her onstage playing the guitar.

Later that year, Madonna went to Milan and performed the Power of Goodbye from her Ray of Light album at the Euro MTV Music Video Awards.

A few months after the birth of Rocco, Madonna performed Music at the 7th annual Euro MTV Music Video Awards on November 16, 2000. She would then embark on the Drowned World Tour in 2001, her first tour since The Girlie Show.

In 2003, Madonna kicked off the MTV Music Video Awards with an echo of her first ever MTV performance, however, this time she would emerge from the cake as the groom singing Hollywood from her American Life album. Her two brides - Britney Spears and Christina Aguliera - performed Like a Virgin. Missy Elliot also joins this lezbatonical mash up while a sour pussed Mary J Blige, Justin Timberlake and a host of others watch in awe. The Infamous Kiss from this performance spread around the world like wildfire.

In 2005, after being written off by the critics and some of her fan base, Madonna came back to the MTV Music Video Awards with a bang, slaying her competition and stealing the show with Hung Up from her album, Confessions on a Dance Floor.

It's been said time and time again who put the M in MTV. As for live performances on the MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna set the standard and left her contemporaries eating her dust.

What is your favorite performance and why?

Girlie Show Interview with Molly Meldrum 1993

Madonna sits down with Molly Meldrum in Paris and discusses The Girlie Show.

"Do You Think That Your Fans Will Allow You to Age with Their Blessing?"

In 1993, while promoting Body of Evidence, Bryant Gumble asked Madonna a very interesting question, "Do you think that your fans will allow you to age with their blessing?" Of course, she had the best answer.

With what I've seen from her fan base ~ No, they won't.

Get off the Lord's bus if you ain't got correct change. Transfer!!!!