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    Amazon.com
    Directors: Nathan Rissman & Nick Wickham
    Format: Surround Sound
    Region: All Regions
    Number of discs: 1
    Studio: WEA/Reprise
    Release Date: April 6, 2010
    Run Time: 105 minutes
    Track-listing:
    Intro: The Sweet Machine
    Candy Shop Medley
    Beat Goes On Medley feat. Kanye West
    Human Nature
    Vogue 2008
    Die Another Day 2008
    Into The Groove 2008
    Heartbeat
    Borderline
    She’s Not Me
    Music 2008
    Rain/Here Comes The Rain Again
    Devil Wouldn’t Recognize You
    Spanish Lesson
    Miles Away
    La Isla Bonita Medley
    Me Darava/Doli Doli
    You Must Love Me
    Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
    Get Stupid Medley
    4 Minutes feat. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland
    Like A Prayer 2008
    Ray Of Light
    Like A Virgin
    Hung Up Medley
    Give It 2 Me
    BONUS FOOTAGE:
    Behind-The-Scenes

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    Jason Derulo, who is no stranger now to storming the charts and working with powerhouse pop divas, is about to work with another legendary artist who is certainly familiar with the Top 10.
    The rising R&B star, 21, just saw his first two singles off of his self-titled debut album hit the Billboard charts, has toured with fan Lady Gaga and this week nabbed the top spot in the Us Weekly Buzzometer. So what’s next? He’s on his way into the studio to work with Madonna! Derulo told our own Zach Johnson all about it plus other future plans (including his love life!) when he gave Us a ring the other day. Read on for more from Jason!
    Us: Are there any other artists you’d like to tour with or maybe collaborate with musically?
    JD: Yeah. I’m about to work with Madonna, and I’ve been watching her for years. I would love to be a part of another reinvention. She’s been able to reinvent herself time and time again. I’ll probably be part of that.
  4. asimina
    from The Sun:
    Madonna is moving back to London after rekindling her love for Britain.
    It’s less than a year since her Madgesty stuffed her leotards and conical bras in a bag and returned to New York while in a strop about her marriage to Guy Ritchie going pear-shaped.
    But she has rediscovered her passion for all things British while preparing to direct her new film W.E. all about the 1930s tale of Edward VIII abdicating the throne to marry his forbidden lover, American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
    And that means Madge is on her way to take her throne in Marylebone for a six-month spell this summer.
    A source said: “The Big Apple hasn’t gone sour. M has just rediscovered her interest in Britain.
    “She still owns her place in Marylebone and will be moving back there.”
    “She’s going to be filming her new movie about Wallis Simpson in London so it made sense for her to move back.”
    She has surrounded herself in the history of the great Royal scandal and that has played a part in stoking her love of all things British once again.
  6. asimina
    from Swide.com:
    Madonna isn’t just a friend, muse and model to Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana; with new eyewear brand MDG she has become a fellow designer, ready to wow us with shades fit for a film noir screen siren, of which we exclusively reveal a few models.
    Tne Internet has been buzzing with rumours of the various design projects taken on by Madonna herself and details on what is perhaps the most exciting line yet were officially announced by WWD earlier today.
    Madonna caught in the act with a beautiful stranger – a familiar stranger who is none other than our dearest Tyson Ballou. The paparazzo for the occasion was Steven Klein no less, and lending him a hand was legendary art director Fabien Baron.
    Reading the words of happy Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce one definitely understands why this was a match made in accessories heaven: “Designing an eyewear line with Madonna was a new experience for us. The oversized and wraparound designs are sexy and very feminine, like our clothes. Madonna’s creative contribution and unique point of view were key, even in designing the MDG logo.”
    Not just another celebrity collaboration – MDG is a whole new brand with Madonna, Domenico and Stefano as colleagues on the design team. Just imagine a day in *that* office… So far six models have been designed.


  7. asimina
    I understand you did a Madonna cover….
    Yes, “Oh Father.” I personalized the words to make sense to me.
    Have you met Madonna before?
    Never. But I grew up wearing fingerless gloves because of her. Then one day about three years ago she put one of my songs, a remix of “Breathe Me,” on her iTunes playlist. She said it was a great song to work out to. Then I got excited, because someone who was staying at my house was working for this jeans company and Madonna had asked for a bunch of their jeans. This girl was packaging the jeans at my house, so I slipped a note in one of the boxes for Madonna and said, “Hi, this is Sia. You put my song on your iTunes playlist and I wanted to say thanks. I love you.” And that’s the extent of our relationship.
    Did she find the note?
    I doubt it. But if she tried on the jeans I’ve come pretty close to her bum! [Laughs]
    from Spin Magazine Interview
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    Fresh from signing a deal to create her own range of clothing, Madonna has teamed up with old friends Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana to design a collection of sunglasses for the Italian label. The sunglasses, which bear the letter M on the arm, mark the first co-branded collaboration that the design duo has ever undertaken.
    “We’re so excited,” Gabbana told WWD. “This further strengthens our relationship with Madonna, and it was a very constructive experience for us. She is very exacting and a professional who seeks perfection in everything she does, and this was no exception.”
    The collection, which will be produced and distribute by Luxottica, Dolce & Gabbana’s eyewear licensee, will go on sale this May retailing from €180 to €210 at Dolce & Gabbana stores worldwide and at the Sunglass Hut.
    Madonna, who fronts this season’s Dolce & Gabbana campaign, also stars in the advertising images for the sunglasses line. They were also shot by Steven Klein, inspired by “film noir”, and will be released in May to coincide with the launch.

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    Steven Madden Ltd. is about to tie up another celebrity deal.
    Multiple sources told Footwear News last week the company is teaming up with Iconix Brand Group Inc. and Macy’s Inc. to produce the shoes for Madonna’s new Material Girl juniors’ line, set to launch exclusively at Macy’s in August.
    Last week, the superstar and Iconix announced the formation of a joint venture called MG Icon LLC. A number of projects are expected to bow as part of the partnership, with the Material Girl line hitting first.
    “Footwear and accessories are going to be an essential part of the Material Girl collection,” said Iconix CEO Neil Cole. “Footwear is an easy way for juniors to change their look, and we are going to offer them a wide array of trend-right items that will fit into their style.”
    WWD
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    MG ICON, the newly formed joint venture between Madonna and Iconix Brand Group, Inc., announced its first direct-to-retail license agreement with Macy’s, Inc. for the “Material Girl” collection. “Material Girl” is a newly created, fast-fashion junior collection that will launch exclusively in approximately 200 Macy’s stores and online at www.macys.com in August 2010 for the back-to-school season.
    As part of the direct-to-retail agreement, Macy’s will have the opportunity to launch additional brands with MG Icon in the future.
    The “Material Girl” collection was inspired and designed in collaboration with Madonna and her daughter Lourdes, along with Iconix Brand Group’s in-house fashion department. In addition to the back-to-school apparel collection, “Material Girl” will also launch in multiple categories including footwear, handbags and jewelry. The collection will retail from $12.00 to $40.00, comparative with pricing strategies at junior specialty stores. The strategy for growth will include additional categories in the lifestyle and beauty sectors, including fragrance, beginning 2011 as well as a rollout into additional Macy’s stores.
    Neil Cole, CEO and Chairman, Iconix, stated, “We are excited to announce the first in a series of new brands that will be developed under our partnership with Madonna. ‘Material Girl’ has a powerful retail partner in Macy’s and we look forward to working together to deliver an innovative launch for our consumers.”
    “We believe that ‘Material Girl’ will be a dynamic exclusive brand for Macy’s, and we look forward to working with Madonna, Lourdes and the Iconix team. Madonna is a fashion icon who can bring a new dimension to our juniors customer,” said Jeff Gennette, Macy’s chief merchandising officer. “‘Material Girl’ will enhance the excitement of fast fashion at Macy’s.”
  11. asimina
    Hardcover: 240 pages
    Illustrations: 200
    Binding: hardback with jacket
    Publisher: Damiani
    Release date: April 30, 2010
    Language: English
    One of today’s foremost fashion and celebrity photographers, Tom Munro has been making defining images since the mid-1990s.
    Munro achieves his results by encouraging his subjects to reinterpret their personalities for his lens, reveling in seductive roleplay or darkly-lit melodrama.
    The subjects gathered here include some of the biggest names in pop culture today – Ashton Kutcher, Brooke Shields, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christina Ricci, Courtney Love, Daniel Craig, Dustin Hoffman, Ewan McGregor, Isabella Rossellini, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Aniston, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Julianne Moore, Justin Timberlake, Lauren Hutton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Linda Evangelista, Madonna, Marion Cotillard, Matt Dillon, Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Campbell, Patrick Dempsey, Rob Lowe, Scarlett Johansson, Stephanie Seymour and Tom Cruise, to name only a few.
    Available for pre-order at Amazon
    Portion of the proceeds will go to two charities working in Africa: Raising Malawi and M.E.A.K.
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    Madonna

    By asimina,

    from RaisingMalawi.org Newsletter
    In my life, I’ve had the opportunity to meet strong, smart, independent women from every walk of life. They’ve inspired me in many ways, and continue to remind me that women around the world are connected by many common threads.
    Sharing stories of women’s achievements on International Women’s Day is an amazing way to honor and pay tribute to the incredible women who have inspired us to be the people we are today. My dear friend and the CEO of the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls, Anjimile Oponyo, recently shared a story with me that I will never forget.
    Please take just a few minutes to read a story from Anjimile that brought a smile to my face and tears to my eyes.
    Shared by Anjimile Oponyo:
    Sometimes, if we’re very fortunate, we meet the one person who will forever change the course of our lives. Working in the Planning Unit of the Ministry of Education in Malawi I met mine.
    I met Nwanganga Shields, a Nigerian woman who was heading the World Bank team that was working on the Education and Health programmes in Malawi. I could not believe that this African woman had so much power; every time she sent a message that she was bringing her team to Malawi everybody in the Ministry was running around preparing for her visit.
    She requested that I work for her, and with every meeting she gave me more challenging work — including me in the studies and giving me more responsibilities on the ground.
    One day she said to me, “If you are doing this work without training then you need to go to graduate school.” She found a place for me at the George Washington University at the School of Education. The battle now was to convince the men in the Ministry to let me go.
    She noticed that when we had meetings, I was always sent to go and inform the kitchen to bring the tea. One day as I stood up in the meeting she asked me why I was going to call for the tea when I needed to contribute to the meeting. She said this is the last time you are doing tea duty, you have a degree and you are going to graduate school. She asked the meeting if anybody had an objection, everybody was quiet. She said she would take it as agreement since nobody had objected. Nwanganga is an African woman and she knew that there was no agreement, the men around the table were just shocked and stunned.
    After she left, I was called and informed that I would not be going to graduate school at the George Washington University — I was devastated. I believed I wanted an American education because I wanted to be like Nwanganga Shields, fearless, confident, knowledgeable and proud to be African. In all the time I knew Nwanganga, and even though she was married to an Irishman, I had never seen her put on western clothes! She was so proud to be African, even though her views and attitude were completely western.
    I was so crushed to be calling Nwanganga to tell her that I would not be taking my place at George Washington as planned. I should have known this fearless, determined woman would not be stopped. Nwanganga immediately sent me to the British Airways office where she had a ticket to America waiting for me.
    It took a month after I arrived, but she managed to convince the Ministry to allow me to start school. She helped me find a place to stay, she got me a tutor to learn even basic skills like keyboarding, and she got me a job at the World Bank so that I could continue to work on research projects.
    Every time I was homesick or discouraged she would invite me to her house and cook me African food and remind me that it was important that I succeed for the sake of other Malawian women who had never been given the same opportunity because of the assumption that they couldn’t do it.
    She not only inspired me to strive to be like her, she inspired me to fight to open doors for other women.
    If this one woman had not made that decision to fight so that I could go to graduate school I would have never left Malawi. I owe that one woman my education. Because of her I have educated my own children, and because of her my daughters do not think they might go to graduate school, they know they will. And because of this woman, every time a woman tells me that she wants to do something and there is a stumbling block in front of her, I start looking for solutions right away.
    Nwanganga showed me that you should stop at nothing to open a door for a fellow woman. My way of saying thank you to her is helping other women the way she helped me. I took the job as Head of Raising Malawi Academy for Girls because it gives me the opportunity to do for hundreds of girls what Nwanganga did for me. What an opportunity, to be able to say thank you to Nwanganga over and over again.
    I hope that one day, when Raising Malawi Academy for Girls is open she will come to Malawi and speak to the girls in the school and give them the same inspirational talks she gave to me.
    Please honor a woman in your life, by sharing your story with us now:
    http://www.raisingmalawi.org/WomensDay
    Madonna
  13. asimina
    “Collaboration. I like being his muse,” Madonna told us, explaining her relationship with photographer Tom Munro at a private party and opening last night, to celebrate the photographer’s first book, a collection of celebrity portraits. (Partial proceeds of of the book will go to Madonna’s charity, Raising Malawi, and M.E.A.K.) Madonna, wearing black fishnet stockings, leather skirt and dark sunglasses at 10 p.m. in a dark room, blew off the Weinstein Company party at Soho House and the Summit Entertainment reception for “The Hurt Locker” at the Mondrian, for the gallery opening, where she spent most of the time on the lap of Steven Klein, another celebrity fashion photographer.
    Mr. Munro, who has directed a couple of videos with Madonna, said his dream was to move into the direction of feature films and he credited Madonna as “an inspiration. ”
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    Revolver Single on Charts

    By asimina,

    Belgium (Flanders)
    37-39-41-26-31-21-30-35-
    Belgium (Wallonia)
    25-12-12-16-12-
    Finland
    19-/-18-19-15-18-20-19-10-
    Ireland
    42-41-/
    UK
    170-/ 9 weeks out /-130-/
    Billboard Hot Single Sales
    4-9-15-18-25-28-
    Billboard Hot Dance Airplay
    4-7-7-
    Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
    41-28-19-11-7-5-4-
  15. asimina
    Congratulations to all the winners!!!!!!!!!!:D
    Well,I didn't really expect to win,you'll see for yourselves that my entry is really simple...Oh well...
    Here it is:)
     
    Cause the beautiful look on her face,the love shown in her eyes and her sweet,exquisite smile,make your spirit soar...

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    When “Glee” returns in April, fans will have their first new episode in over four months, as well as a new “Glee” EP. “Glee: The Music – The Power of Madonna” features the “Glee” versions of the Madonna tracks featured on the special Madonna-themed episode.
    According to Tommy2.net, among the hits being performed on the soundtrack are some of Madonna’s greatest hits, like “Vogue,” “Express Yourself,” and “Like a Prayer.” Every track performed on the show’s April 20th episode, “The Power of Madonna,” comes from the pop superstar’s discography.
    The EP will be released the week prior, when the show returns from its hiatus to Fox on April 13th. “Glee: The Music – The Power of Madonna” follows the successful “Glee: The Music” Volumes 1 and 2 soundtracks. A Volume 3 is expected to follow, which may feature some or all of the Madonna tracks.
    “Glee: The Music – The Power of Madonna”
    Track Listing:
    1. Express Yourself
    2. Borderline / Open Your Heart
    3. Vogue
    4. Like A Virgin
    5. 4 Minutes
    6. What It Feels Like For A Girl
    7. Like A Prayer
    source: allheadlinenews
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    Internet rumours have him working with everyone from Madonna to Rihanna – and most of it is correct.
    Madonna?
    “That’s done, the single will be out very soon and it’s amazing, I’m very happy,” he said.
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    Naomi Campbell’s style icon is Madonna.
    The supermodel – who won the Outstanding Contribution at this week’s Elle Style Awards – admires the ‘Material Girl’ singer’s fashion sense and her ability to reinvent herself time after time.
    She said: “I think my style icons are people that reinvent themselves – they come back with a different look, a different vibe, a different sound and Madonna is definitely one of those people.
    “It’s just amazing to watch her through all these decades-she just keeps coming back.”
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    Liz Rosenberg, longtime publicity exec at Warner Bros. Records, is ankling to form her own praisery, Liz Rosenberg Media, the label announced Tuesday.
    During the course of her 39-year career at the company, Rosenberg was closely associated with Madonna. The superstar vocalist – originally signed in 1983 to Warner’s distributed imprint Sire, and later head of her own imprint Maverick – exited the Burbank-based label last year for a 360-degree deal with Live Nation.
    As part of an ongoing consultancy with the firm, Rosenberg will continue to rep Madonna, as well as current Warner acts Michael Buble, Cher, Stevie Nicks, David Foster, Charice and Katherine Jenkins.
    Warner Bros. Records chief executive officer Tom Whalley said in a statement, “Over the course of her remarkable tenure, Liz Rosenberg’s contribution to the company has been immeasurable. We are delighted that as she begins her own enterprise, we will continue our association with her on behalf of several of our key artists.”
    source: variety
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    Leona Lewis on Madonna

    By asimina,

    Leona – who has been dating electrician Lou Al-Chamaa for five years – also hinted she may be tempted to follow in Madonna’s footsteps and release an explicit tome, after taking inspiration from the 51-year-old singer’s famous Sex book.
    She said: “I have always loved Madonna. I was too young for her Sex book period, but then when I saw it I thought, ‘Wow!’ Good for her, if that’s how she wanted to express herself. Would I express myself like that? Well, you never know…”
    While she admires Madonna, Leona says there’s one celebrity who has been very rude to her in the past but she refused to name them.
    stuff.co.nz
  24. asimina
    MadonnaTribe's longtime correspondent from Russia Rinat shares with our reader these scans of the covers of the most recent books about Madonna published in his country, including the Russian version of the "English Roses" follow up volume, and Christopher Ciccone's "Life with my Sister Madonna".
    Click on the images or the Full Article link below for the high resolution versions.


    Thanks to Rinat.






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