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  1. asimina
    COED magazine just put a list up based on information gathered and compiled from Google search engine results to determine who are the 50 most popular women on the Internet.
    Here’s the top 50…
    #50: Eva Longoria
    #49: Scarlett Johansson
    #48 Carmen Electra
    $47: Tina Fey
    #46: Adriana Lima
    #45 Lily Allen
    #44 Sarah Jessica Parker
    #43 Kelly Clarkson
    #42 Carrie Underwood
    #41 Amy Winehouse
    #40 Vanessa Hudgens
    #39 Katy Price
    #38 Ashley Tisdale
    #37 Hilary Duff
    #36 Marilyn Monroe
    #35 Heidi Montag
    #34 Demi Moore
    #33 Jennifer Aniston
    #32 Hillary Clinton
    #31 Ciara
    #30 Kristen Stewart
    #29 Betty White
    #28 Pamela Anderson
    #27 Fergie
    #26 Jessica Alba
    #25 Christina Aguilera
    #24 Sandra Bullock
    #23 Kim Kardashian
    #22 Katy Perry
    #21 Michelle Obama
    #20 Lindsay Lohan
    #19 Jessica Simpson
    #18 Sarah Palin
    #17 Mariah Carey
    #16 Jennifer Lopez
    #15 Megan Cox
    #14 Oprah Winfrey
    #13 Angelina Jolie
    #12 Taylor Swift
    #11 Shakira
    #10 Avril Lavigne
    #9 Paris Hilton
    #8 Miley Cyrus
    #7 Justin Bieber
    #6 Britney Spears
    #5 Rihanna
    #4 Beyonce
    #3 Madonna
    #2 Ke$ha
    #1 Lady Gaga


    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/07/madonna-in-the-top-50-most-popular-women-on-the-web/#ixzz14jLCmt7U
  2. asimina
    November 20th, 2010
    TIME Magazine surveyed the women who have most influenced our world…
    Madonna was chosen as the 11th most powerful woman in the world in the 20th century, in the list released on Thursday.

    01. Jane Addams (1860-1935)
    02. Corazon Aquino (1933-2009)
    03. Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
    04. Coco Chanel (1883-1971)
    05. Julia Child (1912-2004)
    06. Hillary Clinton (1947-Present)
    07. Marie Curie (1867-1934)
    08. Aretha Franklin (1942-Present)
    09. Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
    10. Estée Lauder (1908-2004)
    11. Madonna (1958-Present)
    12. Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
    13. Golda Meir (1898-1978)
    14. Angela Merkel (1954-Present)
    15. Sandra Day O’Connor (1930-Present)
    16. Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
    17. Jiang Qing (1914-1991)
    18. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
    19. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)
    20. Gloria Steinem (1934-Present)
    21. Martha Stewart (1941-Present)
    22. Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
    23. Margaret Thatcher (1925-Present)
    24. Oprah Winfrey (1954-Present)
    25. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
    Here’s the review of Madonna’s influential career…

    Madonna (1958-Present) By MICHELLE CASTILLO
    Every pop star of the last two to three decades has Madonna to thank in some part for his or her success. The triple threat who does it all — chart-topping singer, energetic dancer and all-around provocateur — left her home state of Michigan with $35 in her pocket and a dream to make it in New York City, and far exceeded that goal with hit singles like “Vogue,” “Like a Virgin” and “Ray of Light.” The one-named wonder’s memorable music videos and live performances, which almost always include extravagant dance numbers, over-the-top outfits and eyebrow-raising concepts, made her one of MTV’s most popular artists. After causing no shortage of controversy with her unabashed sexuality and outspokenness, Madonna has since turned some of her efforts toward being a mother and humanitarian — but not before cementing her place in pop culture as the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century.


    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/20/madonna-in-the-25-most-powerful-women-of-the-past-century/#ixzz15rYcZKD2
  3. asimina

    Madonna on Time

    By asimina,

    Every pop star of the last two to three decades has Madonna to thank in some part for his or her success. The triple threat who does it all — chart-topping singer, energetic dancer and all-around provocateur — left her home state of Michigan with $35 in her pocket and a dream to make it in New York City, and far exceeded that goal with hit singles like “Vogue,” “Like a Virgin” and “Ray of Light.” The one-named wonder’s memorable music videos and live performances, which almost always include extravagant dance numbers, over-the-top outfits and eyebrow-raising concepts, made her one of MTV’s most popular artists. After causing no shortage of controversy with her unabashed sexuality and outspokenness, Madonna has since turned some of her efforts toward being a mother and humanitarian — but not before cementing her place in pop culture as the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century.
  4. asimina
    Icon offers a discount at The Hard Candy Fitness Centers
    Icon, Madonna’s official fan club sent a new message to its members, about the Hard Candy Fitness clubs…


    Dear Iconer,
    As announced earlier, Madonna’s first Hard Candy Fitness will open its doors this month in Mexico City! The first one is a beautiful and uniquely designed 30,000 square foot space, which will be joined later by other centers in major cities around the world.
    To celebrate the opening of the Mexico City center, Icon and Hard Candy Fitness have joined forces to offer you a very special deal on the center’s yearly membership as well as a devoted contest!
    While we will come up with similar offers each time a new center opens its door, we are happy to announce the details of your exclusive discount on the center’s membership program:
    - No Enrollment fee (a MX $5,000 / US $408 savings)
    - A 30% discount on the monthly fee
    That’s right, being an Iconer allows you to save MX$15,665 / US $1,280 on your first year’s membership! Also, the 30% discount on monthly club fees will apply as long as you remain a Hard Candy Fitness member!
    If you want to join the Mexico City center, just copy and paste the following form into a new e-mail, fill it in and send to icon@moov-u-mail.com before November 29th at 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time. Please use “HARD CANDY FITNESS MEMBERSHIP” as your e-mail’s subject line.
    Icon Username:
    Firstname:
    Lastname:
    Birth Date:
    Street Address:
    City:
    Zip Code:
    Country:
    Phone Number:
    E-mail Address:
    Once done, a Hard Candy Fitness representative will contact you to set up your membership. Please note that this offer is limited to one membership per Icon member and is valid until November 29th. Please use “HARD CANDY FITNESS MEMBERSHIP” as your e-mail’s subject line.
    As part of the celebration, we also have launched the “Gonna Make You Sweat” contest, which allows 6 Icon members to win a free one-year membership to the center or to join Madonna at the Mexico City red carpet event!
    If you live in Mexico or in the Mexico City area, then it’s time to show us your muscles (or at least those arms you want to make as hard as a rock and as sweet as candy) by submitting a picture of you posing as a true athlete!
    Visit the contest page now for more details and to enter. The contest ends on November 22nd, so make sure to enter before it’s too late…
    Thank you for being part of Madonna’s Official Fan Club and stay tuned for more as the fun has just begun!
    Forbes publishes yet another list
    Madonna manages to be #5 in the Top 10 Highest Earning Hollywood Women 2010 with no record release or tour, this year…

    1. Oprah Winfrey: $324 million
    2. Beyonce Knowles: $89 million
    3. Britney Spears: $65 million
    4. Lady Gaga: $64 million
    5. Madonna: $59.9 million
    6. Sandra Bullock: $59.2 million
    7. Ellen DeGeneres: $56 million
    8. Miley Cyrus: $48 million
    9. Taylor Swift: $46 million
    10. Judge Judy: $46 million
    Aren’t we all bored with Forbes’ list yet?
    New Madonna t-shirts
    Online fashion shop ASOS is selling some great new tees.
    For men and women

    The Material Girl line is still a hit
    Macy’s Inc reported third-quarter earnings that exceeded analysts’ estimates as sales advanced 6.6 percent.
    Madonna & Lourdes’ Material Girl line is credited as one of the factors that helped reaching this results.
    The “Material Girl” Gets Sued Again
    Madonna may have to defend her Material Girl brand in Minnesota. A new lawsuit filed against her, last week says the original Material Girl can’t use that name for her products.

    Jean Paul Gaultier on Madonna
    Jean Paul Gaultier recently confessed to the Montreal Gazette, the idea behind Madonna’s costumes during the 1990 Blond Ambition…
    “I always wanted to show the feminine part of men, the masculine side of women.”
    Gaultier regaled the crowd with tales of how his teddy bear Nana was the prototype for his cone bras, worn not only by Madonna, but by photographer Cindy Sherman and various models.
    Nana, which he professes to still have, has little patches high on its chest. “It’s a monster,” Gaultier likes to say.
    It was a marvellous collaboration, he said of his work with Madonna: he also dressed her for her Confessions and Drowned World tours.
    She would tell him, “You are the only one who never broke my heart,” Gaultier recalled.
    Christopher Ciccone looks for Musicians
    Madonna’s brother Christopher Ciccone is bringing The Ciccone Factory to town.

    “The idea is to bring together photographers, musicians, artists, stylists and video directors and have them work toward a single goal of putting this person out on the club circuit.
    She (Madonna) is busy opening up a bunch of gyms, but she’s more than welcome to stop by. She’s an inspiration to a lot of people.”
    A New Madonna Biography
    Published in September 2010, Madonna by Daryl Easlea is a richly illustrated, chronological guide to every album, every tour, every film, and more. It covers the key collaborators, the countless controversies, the ever—changing fashions, and everything in between, with pullout timlines for each phase of Madonna’s career.
    Order here!

    No Madonna Brand in Switzerland
    The Swiss Federal Supreme Court affirmed a decision by the Federal Administrative Court to refuse the registration of the sign “Madonna” as a trade mark in Switzerland.
    Patti Stanger: I Need to Get Dating Advice from Madonna!
    The star of Bravo’s The Millionaire Matchmaker (which airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m.)mentionned Madonna in an interview for ivillage…

    It’s really weird (to date again) when you’re old, because you know too much. It’s kind of scary. I mean,  Madonna’s older than me, I don’t know what the hell she’s going through but I need to take notes from her. Because it’s amazing how much you see. It’s like, “I would have never wasted my time with him in my twenties, forget him!” You’re already discarding and disqualifying because you know exactly what you want. And you’re not going to waste any more time on it.

    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/12/icon-forbes-t-shirts-material-girl-chris-ciccone-a-new-book/#ixzz15ZlEe4SZ
  5. asimina
    November 17th, 2010
    Madonna’s new film ‘W.E’ is currently in post-production. Mark Romanek, the director who made some of Madonna’s videos including ‘Rain’, speaks to Absolute Radio about what he’s heard about the project and what Madonna is like as a person.
    Here’s what he had to say…

    “A lot of the crew on my film, on this film, worked on Madonna’s new film and I hear it’s going to be actually really superb. People are going to be surprised by it. But I have not spoken to her.
    I think you have to kinda have a firm hand when you’re making a film or it goes… it can go a bit pear-shaped, but she’s a tough lady.”


    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/17/absolute-radio-interview-with-mark-romanek/#ixzz15ZkL65bC
  6. asimina
    November 17th, 2010
    After the debut of the first collection of sunglasses, the MDG by Madonna for Dolce & Gabbana line will be releasing five new models.
    The collection features exclusive materials, great colorways and innovative details, like the first the collection it bears the MDG logo and are manufactured by Luxottica.
    Each style is available in a range of colorways and are releasing starting this February at Sunglass Hut.
    Have a look…













    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/17/five-new-models-for-the-mdg-line/#ixzz15ZjyTmZl
  7. asimina
    November 14th, 2010 Madonna and her son David, were spotted heading to the Kabbalah Center in New York City on Saturday (November 13).
    Have a look…



    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/14/madonna-and-david-in-the-streets-of-new-york-part-2/#ixzz15I6q4XYA
  8. asimina
    Check out a selection of Madonna related clippings that appeared on the November 4th issues of German magazines "Bunte", "Grazia", "In" and "In Touch". Click the images below for the full size version of the scans brought to you as usual by MadonnaTribe's longtime friend and contributor Susanne.





  9. asimina
    November 11th, 2010
    “Dancing with the Stars” judge Carrie Ann Inaba says she shared multiple kisses with Madonna…
    She recently revealed to Access Hollywood, details from her time as a dancer on Madonna’s 1993 Girlie Show World Tour – a job for which she had to sacrifice her long locks.

    “On that tour, when we all auditioned [Madonna] said, ‘If you take this job you all have to shave your head.’
    I was cool with that because, you know, I’m Asian and there are so many stereotypes that we have a to be a doctor or graphic designer or lawyer or something like that.
    I was like, ‘I’m going for it! I’m going to be the bald bold girl!’
    Madonna is amazing. She works so hard and she pushes your buttons.
    And, you know, we made out on the stage.
    Well, there was like an orgy thing on stage and we were doing this and that and it felt so good and one night my boyfriend was in the audience and her friend at the time was in the audience…
    I’m not saying whether it was a boy or girl, and they were in the audience.
    And she was, I think, trying to tempt them and trying to make them jealous, so she turned around and I just saw this tongue coming at me and we had this full on make out session on stage.”
    [My boyfriend] was mad because he was a Virgo. And he was like, ‘That is wrong!’
    So, I approached her about it and I said, ‘You know, that wasn’t cool,’ and she said, ‘It’s acting.’
    I said, ‘If it was acting then we would have done it everyday in rehearsal,’ and I said, ‘If you want to kiss me you have to come to my room and knock on my door and ask me,’
    We did play truth or dare the last night of the tour… I had another kiss. We had the second kiss,”
    Source: Access Hollywood



    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/11/carrie-ann-inaba-tells-how-she-made-out-with-madonna/#ixzz150ZznA6f
  10. asimina

    Russian Magazines: Elle

    By asimina,

    Madonna is one of the inspirations for this fashion article on 1980's inspired jewelry that is featured in the November 2010 issue of the Russian edition of Elle magazine. Click on the article to enlarge.
     
  11. asimina
    Madonna made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show via satellite to speak out against suicide and bullying.
    Troubled gay students have hit headlines across the U.S. in recent weeks after several allegedly took their own lives following cruel taunts from their peers. And Madonna admits she is heartbroken by the tragic deaths – because it was her gay friends who ultimately made her feel accepted.
    Here’s what she had to say:

    Ellen Degeneres: I appreciate that you wanted to speak to this cause here because it is a very important cause to me and I understand for you. So speak to us.
    Madonna: Well, I just feel it would be incredible remiss of me to not say something. I’m incredibly disturbed and saddened by the overwhelming number of teen suicides that have been reported lately because of bullying. Suicide in general is disturbing. Teenagers committing suicide is extremely disturbing but to hear that teenagers are taking their lives because they are being bullied in schools and dormitories, what have you, is kind of unfathomable. I know a number of people have spoken out about it but I feel like I need to say something. The gay community has been incredibly supportive of me. I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for the gay community…I have a teenage daughter and I have ongoing discussions with her about this topic so I feel like I need to say a few words…
    Ellen Degeneres: Were you bullied as a kid? Did you feel different than other people when you were younger?
    Madonna: Yes, that’s an understatement. I still feel different. I can totally relate to the idea of feeling isolated and alienated. I was incredibly lonely as a child, as a teenager. I have to say I never felt like I fit in in school. I wasn’t a jock. I wasn’t an intellectual. There was no group that I felt a part of. I just felt like a weirdo…It wasn’t until my ballet teacher who was also gay took me under his wing and introduced me to a community of artists of other unique individuals who told me it was good and okay to be different and brought me to my first gay disco and ironically made me feel I was part of the world and it was okay to be different.
    Ellen Degeneres: What do you say to your children, Madonna? You said you started having these conversations when you talk about bullying. What do you say?
    Madonna:..We talk a lot about the importance of not judging people who are different. Not judging people who don’t fit into our expected view of what’s cool and what isn’t. Think about it across the board. The concept that we are torturing teenagers because they are gay. It’s kind of like I said earlier. It’s unfathomable. It’s like lynching black people or Hitler exterminating Jews. Sorry if I’m going on a rampage right now but this is America. The land of the free and the home of the brave….
    Madonna: I think it would be interesting for everybody to try one simple experiment. If you want to talk about solutions or how can we solve this problem? Try to get through the day each and everyone of us…without gossiping about somebody. Without gossiping about anybody. And not only that. Not even listening to gossip. Walking away from it. Can you imagine what your day would be like? How much more free time you’d have? I also feel like you’d feel about better about yourself…
    Ellen Degeneres: I think it’s a good challenge. Just thinking that there is somebody on the other end of that….Madonna, I think you’re an amazing woman and before I let you go, when are we going to hear another album? We’re waiting for another album.
    Madonna: Ellen, never let me go.
    Ellen Degeneres: I know you are finishing up a film right now…
    Madonna: I’m editing it (her film) and as soon as I’m done. I’ve got to get my butt in the studio and make some more music.
    Ellen Degeneres: We can’t wait.

    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/09/madonna-talks-to-ellen-about-suicide-and-bullying/#ixzz14omsfpGG
  12. asimina
    November 9th, 2010 Frienemies?
    Back in the day, Sandra Bernhard and Madonna were BFFs.
    Twenty years later, their friendship has dissolved.
    Bernhard went on The Wendy Williams Show and talked about the fall-out. We feel she kinda misses that AbFab friendship even though she uses cynism to cover it up.
    Read this…

    Wendy Williams: Let’s talk about your old friendship with Madonna. Is that still an active friendship?
    Sandra Bernhard: (singing) “Old Madonna had a farm, E-I-E-I-O…” No.
    Wendy Williams: Are you still cool with that now?
    Sandra Bernhard: I’m cool with her, but we’re not friends anymore. It’s a bummer… In the day we were like super super super…
    Wendy Williams: You were Patsy and Edina.
    Sandra Bernhard: Yeah, we really were. She came to my show in 1988, came backstage and then we started hanging out. I guess to a certain degree anytime two performers connect, there’s a little bit of publicity. That’s legitimate. In those days, before the internet, before TMZ.
    Wendy Williams: Before The Kids. So you were able to be wild and crazy.
    Sandra Bernhard: We would go out, have a genuinely great time and I think we were a really good example of two women being friends.To me that was the saddest part of our friendship dissolving. I would have liked that to have gone on for a while. Certain people can’t handle those kind of friendships. That’s not my style. I like to maintain my friendships throughout my life.
    Wendy Williams: Am I the only one who smells something bitter going on that I’m not going to ask any more about?
    Sandra Bernhard: No no, it’s not bitter.
    Wendy Williams: Did she mess it up for you guys?
    Sandra Bernhard: It’s ok, you know. All is forgiven. You know, once you gone to kabbalah…


    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/09/sandra-bernhard-we-really-were-patsy-and-edina/#ixzz14omIWXvR
  13. asimina
    November 9th, 2010
    Dolce & Gabbana admitted one of the most memorable moments in their 20-year career is when Madonna donned one of their creations.
    Domenico Dolce said…

    “A memorable moment for me was when we met Madonna in New York.
    We had always looked at Madonna as fans.
    We would say, ‘Ah, can you imagine if one day Madonna dressed in Dolce&Gabbana?’
    18 months later the dream came true.”
    The designers also revealed that they believe Linda Evangelista is the best model in the industry because she is both “masculine and feminine”
    Source: seek4media


    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/09/dolce-gabbana-love-madonna-and-evangelista/#ixzz14om6sfhP
  15. asimina
    November 7th, 2010
    Montreal-born photographer Marcus Leatherdale has been exhibiting for more than 20 years in galleries worldwide. His work has been published in such magazines as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair or Details.
    He photographed Madonna in the very early stage of her career and talked about it in Lid Magazine…

    “Madonna was the roommate of Martin Borgoyne and had come along with Martin to my studio because Martin, a good friend of mine, wanted to be photographed with her.
    No one knew anything about her. Martin played the cassette of her music “Borderline” and “Holiday,” which I heard for the first time and loved it.
    I dressed her up in my jean vest and sat her crosslegged on an office stool like a lilypad.
    It was purely visual…
    Neither one of us in 1983 were prone to Eastern Mystism. Shades of things to come… for both of us.”
    Check out the available pictures from that session…




    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/07/marcus-leatherdale-talks-about-madonna/#ixzz14jKaLRoX
  16. asimina
    November 7th, 2010
    Photgrapher Deborah Feingold gave a mini-interview to MFD Magazine talking about her lollipop photoshoot with the Madonna.
    Here’s some excerpts of the interview…

    MFD: You have managed to create some very iconic portraits of a favorite lady of ours, Madonna. What is your most treasured portrait shot of her?
    Deborah Feingold: I must have shot no more than 36 images of her that day in about 20 minutes. They are one shot in my mind. They were very similar in tone and when I see them I see both of us at our beginning.
    MFD: What was Madonna like to work with? Any charming or idiosyncratic habits she possessed?
    Deborah Feingold: She was quiet almost shy. We barely spoke but I can see that I did manage to ask her to make little changes through out the shoot and I supplied the lollipop and gum!
    Check out a few HQ pictures from that session…



    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/07/deborah-feingold-36-images-of-madonna-in-20-minutes/#ixzz14jKRU0ws
  17. asimina

    By asimina,

    November 5th, 2010
    A few days ago, photographer Mary McCartney released a book titled “From Where I Stand.”
    The book reveals her best work from the 1990’s to date.
    Her photographs are decadent, often voyeuristic peep-ins, sprinkled with backstage and onstage depictions at fashion shows, rock concerts, the theatre, and the ballet; all stylistically represented in a visual narrative.
    McCartney’s archive represents her friends, her family and her idols including Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow paying tribute to Madonna…
    Have a look…

    For fans in New York, Mary McCartney will do a Book Signing at the ICP Museum, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, Friday, November 5, 6:00pm–7:30pm


    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/05/from-where-i-stand-by-mary-mccartney/#ixzz14RyNzQSH
  18. asimina
    Madonna makes a rare appearance at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, on November 3, 2010, at the 5th Annual Fashion Delivery awards.
    She presented an award to honoree Neil Cole (Kenneth Cole’s brother), Iconix Brand Chairman and CEO, a man who according to Madonna “get’s things done”.
    She was wearing an over-the-knee skin tight boots with catchy matching outfit.
    The event is a charitable function through which clothing manufacturers donate clothings to disaster victims.
    Download



    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/04/madonna-at-the-5th-annual-fashion-delivery-awards-44-hq-pictures/#ixzz14LfeuuOB
  19. asimina

    IN SHORT: Rosie O

    By asimina,

    Madonna’s latest interview for US Weekly
    The October 25 issue of Us Weekly featured a small interview with Madonna…

    Rosie: Madonna’s my sister
    Rosie O’Donnell recently gave an interview to Broadway World magazine and if you wondered if she was still close to Madonna, here’s your answer…
    Interviewer: Have you kept in touch with Madonna? You were so close.
    Rosie O’Donnell: Yeah, yeah. She’s doing well. She’s in England and directing and she’s got her kids and her life. And so do I. But, we keep in touch via e-mail and the phone and I now love her and always will. She’s like a sister. She’s a great person.
    Madonna’s Fashion Moments
    Website WWD.com did an all-time Fashion Moments list…
    Fashion Moment #55 is Madonna’s Ever Changing with the following comment and picture from the Buffalo Gals party in 1983…
    Moment 55: Who’s That Girl?
    Into the pop culture stratosphere she came, a peroxide blonde bedecked in piles of bangles, crosses, rosaries, cheap lace crop tops, biker shorts and her favorite Boy Toy belt. In the beginning, Madonna was the poster girl for Eighties mall fashion, but not for long. Just when the impressionable masses embraced her trashy mash-up look, she was on to her next incarnation—the chastened brunette of Like A Prayer, the power babe with a platinum pixie of Express Yourself, the dominatrix of Erotica. But no reinvention was more famous than that of her 1990 Blond Ambition Tour in all of its cone-bra glory, which forever linked Madonna to French fashion provocateur Jean Paul Gaultier. Together they shocked the world with their overt innerwear-as-outerwear statement, an iconic moment they stretched until literal overexposure: In 1992, Gaultier staged a charity fashion show for AmFAR with Madonna as his muse, “who was dressed in black with her gold tooth as her only accessory,” reported WWD. “At the end of the runway she paused to peel off a jacket, revealing one of Gaultier’s harness dresses and a lot more. It was like a coming attraction: As everybody’s been reading ad nauseam, Madonna’s boobs are about to go into wide, wide release.”


    Madonna, Michael Jackson and Kylie Minogue on X Factor
    Next Sunday, UK’s X Factor contestants are about to do a Madonna and Michael Jackson themed week.
    Kylie Minogue will be performing her single, Get Outta My Way, on that same show.
    Malawi’s Madonna lawyer denies pre-Christmas visit
    Madonna’s Malawian lawyer Allan Chinula dismissed her supposedly pre-Christmas visit in Malawi as untrue. He told private-owned Capital FM: “I was not instructed [that she was coming], am just hearing the reports in the media.”
    Marks & Spencer goes Vogue
    Fans in the UK may have spotted the Marks and Spencer Christmas advert that hit TV screen this week. The advert pays homage to different dances from films.
    Madonna’s iconic Vogue video is included, featuring 60′s supermodel Twiggy recreating Madonna’s moves with some ‘help’ from comedian Peter Kay.
    Thanks to Madonnalicious.



    Read more: http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2010/11/03/in-short-rosie-xfactor-fashion-marksandspencer/#ixzz14LfJPuzK
  20. asimina
    November 3rd, 2010
    Ricky Martin was on Oprah, today, and Madonna came up in the conversation…
    Oprah: There was a time when – you describe in the book – Madonna comes up and she said to you “Stop doing interviews, because people already know who you are.” And you said it wasn’t until later that you really understood what she meant. What was it that you understood?
    Ricky Martin: That you need to step out of the picture for a second and look at everything that’s going on. I was obsessed with work, because if I stopped working and I dare to go to that moment of silence, a lot was going to come in and I was just not ready to listen to what my body, my feelings were telling me. So she said “Dude, step out of the picture. You need a break. Everybody knows who you are. Why do you keep doing interviews.”
    Oprah: I thought that was such a profound moment.


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  21. asimina

    Madonna live in Korea?

    By asimina,

    November 3rd, 2010
    The news that Madonna will hold her first concert in Seoul next May made headlines in the Korean media over the weekend.
    But some Korean entertainment insiders are doubtful about whether she will really be able to add her name to the list of pop superstars that have come to Korea in recent years – names that include Beyonce, Billy Joel and Stevie Wonder.
    On Spot E Korea, which claims to be the Korean branch of the U.S.-based firm On-Spot Enterprises, said on Sunday it has “finalized talks with Madonna to proceed with her concert in Seoul in May,” but that “details related to the concert date, schedule and security policies are still under discussion.”
    It added that it had formed a partnership with Korean company Again Don Quixote in early October to prepare for the event.
    But industry insiders say that On Spot E Korea’s announcement – which, at six months in advance of the actual dates, is much earlier than most concerts involving major-label pop stars – is a stunt to beat out local competitors, rather than being based on fact.
    Koreans fans have waited a long time for a concert by the “Queen of Pop.” She has toured neighboring countrie Japan but has yet to come to Korea.
    Given the revenue such a concert would bring, concert promoters have long fought to bring her here.
    One possibility, according to a source well acquainted with the situation, is that On Spot E Korea has not actually finalized a concert deal but is buying time so that rival bidders will give up.
    “The new firm has few funds and not much experience,” the source said. “The only way it could sign her would be to take advantage of the time vacuum to round up investors.”
    On Spot E Korea has a history of cancelling heavily publicized events. It was scheduled to hold an event called the “On Spot Hip Hop Festival” on Oct. 30, but it was cancelled less than two weeks before the festival. The company promoted the event by advertising the appearance of U.S. hip-hop stars such as T-Pain.
    On Oct. 28, the company claimed that actor Kevin Bacon would show up at a press conference in Seoul the following day to announce he would be filming the movie “My Life, My Secret” in Korea. But only 30 minutes before the event was scheduled to begin, the company sent out a notice saying that it could not verify whether Bacon had gotten on a plane to Korea.
    On Spot E Korea could not be reached for comment.
    Source: http://joongangdaily.joins.com/


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  22. asimina
    Last Sunday, Madonna was spotted boarding a helicopter in New York today with her two sons Rocco and David.
    Later that day she went trick or treating for Halloween wearing an Obama mask!



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  23. asimina

    UK Magazines: Grazia

    By asimina,

    The current edition of the UK version of Grazia magazine (01 November issue) features this two-page article about Madonna and Brahim Zaibat. It is illustrated with a new picture from the Material Girl Launch party at Macy's last month.
     
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