Saturday 17 January 2009
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Confessions Tour Backdrop
Guy Ritchie has indeed visited Madonna at her New York apartment, but only to discuss their kids and a possible film.
Christie's auction house says a 30-year-old nude photo of Madonna, which earned her a $25 modeling fee, is expected to sell for at least $10,000.
The full frontal image was taken by Lee Friedlander and appeared in Playboy in 1985.
Matthieu Humery (mah-TYOO' OO'-meh-ree), head of Christie's photography department, says Madonna was a 20-year-old dancer trying to make ends meet when she answered Friedlander's newspaper ad seeking a nude model in 1979.
He says six photos from the shoot were sold to Playboy and the one up for auction Feb. 12 is "maybe the most explicit one."
Another photo of Madonna, by Helmut Newton, is also in the auction. In that shot, she is wearing lingerie.
Though many stars at the Golden Globes did not think Sacha Baron Cohen's joke about Madonna was funny -- the new divorcee apparently thought it was a riot. Cohen, best known now for his hit film ''Borat,'' quipped that the recession had forced many stars to cut back. He cited Madonna even having to fire ''one of her assistants. ... Our thoughts are with you, Guy Ritchie."
Madonna said, ''Come on. He's a comedian. We're public people. We're fair game ... and it was funny.''
Queen of pop Madonna still manages to look half her age even at 50, and it is all thanks to the rigorous diet and exercise regime her personal trainer Tracy Anderson has put her on.
Madge follows a gruelling two-hour workout six days a week, and Anderson, 33, remains at her side every moment of it.
The trainer had been helping the singer maintain her health even when she was divorcing her hubby Guy Ritchie.
“There are days when she doesn’t feel good and days when she’s having a hard time, but Madonna still works out for two hours whatever,” the Mirror quoted Anderson as saying.
“She’s consistent and she doesn’t ever make excuses. Nothing has changed since the divorce, Madonna hasn’t changed.
“Madonna will never look her age. She doesn’t even look half her age - she looks 19.
“I don’t have to scream at her because she’s so motivated. She organizes her time so she can train - she makes an appointment to do it and she keeps it, but two hours is the most she ever exercises in a day,” she stated.
Madonna was recently described as “half-starved” but Anderson claims that she eats well and even allows herself the occasional treat, which is sugar and gluten-free.
“All my clients eat. Madonna has a very healthy appetite. She doesn’t eat processed food, she’s very conscious of the quality of the things she eats but she has treats - she loves cupcakes,” she said.
“To say she is on a starvation diet is bull****. She burns a lot of calories.
“She will never get fat. Why would she let it go? She relaxes but she’s smart, she knows that if she stops exercising she will have loose skin tone. Why should we criticize someone who works hard, is consistent and gets results because they’re smart with their time?” she added.
Friday 16 January 2009
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Live - Oscars 1991
Tough as old boots Madonna is getting in touch with her fluffy side.
We've heard that the Material Girl - notoriously controlling when it comes to relationships - has begun a course of intense counselling sessions to make her "less domineering" in love.
Fresh from her split with Guy Ritchie, Madonna, 50, has been having one-on-one sessions with a leading rabbi at the Kabbalah centre in New York.
Guru Philip Berg, it is said, is seeking to "tweak her tikkun".
It might sound like a curry but it is in fact all to do with her spiritual path.
If her tikkun gets the right kinda tweakin', it will hopefully make her less controlling when she embarks on her next romance.
Good luck with that, Rabbi!
We're told: "Madonna has been having a tough time with Kabbalah in the wake of her and Guy's split.
"Whenever she's in New York, she's taken to having intense private sessions with Rabbi Berg, working on her tikkun.
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"She feels that previous relationships have broken down because she always takes control, not allowing the other party to flourish and be themselves.
"Madonna's a very strong woman and naturally tends to dominate and take control of a relationship.
"This is a pattern she is determined to alter in an effort to find the right person."
If she doesn't, she could be doomed to making the same old mistakes for ever...
Our source goes on: "She's been taught that if you keep experiencing the same relationship problems over and over again it's because you haven't realised where the real problem lies.
"As a result Madonna is working desperately hard to try and change herself from a control queen into someone who steps back. She is fighting her demons."
It already seems to be paying dividends.
Madge met up with Guy at her Manhattan apartment on Tuesday for a cosy night in and a catch-up.
According to our source, Madge - who once described herself as bad cop to Guy's good in the couple's dealings with their kids - is also trying to give the youngsters more leeway.
Hmm... she may be more mellow but we still wouldn't mess with Her Madgesty.
Madonna with Alek Keshishian, leaving the Waverly Inn after dining with Jerry Seinfeld and Gwyneth Paltrow (January 14 2009)
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British eventer Daisy Trayford is heading to Florida this week to coach Madonna for two weeks at the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival (7 January-29 March) at Wellington, Florida. Daisy, 27, has been teaching the popstar for two years with the connection starting when Madonna bought two horses from Exmoor Eventing, the business Daisy (née Binding) runs with her husband Richard.
"She had the horses on trial and asked if I would go down and help get her going on them," said Daisy. "The first year it was really busy. Last year was more difficult because she was on tour, but I was there most weekends, fitting it around my eventing."
Madonna flew one of the horses, all-rounder Boris, out to America six months ago and last week he was joined by the second one, young eventer Sportsfield Silver Lining.
"As soon as he's there and settled in she wants me to go out," said Daisy, who says she will probably get 24hr notice to fly out on Thursday or Friday.
Madonna has also bought two other horses from Daisy and Richard, who are at livery at Exmoor Eventing.
Daisy describes teaching Madonna as "really good fun".
"She's a dream pupil," she said. "She's very driven, listens to what you say and just wants to do it and improve. You can always get somewhere with someone like that.
"When I started teaching her she hadn't jumped at all and now she can jump a course of 1.05m. Jumping and hacking are her two favourite things."
Daisy says she wasn't startstruck when she started coaching the star, taking it as "just another chore".
"I'm pretty laid-back about things like that. She's very friendly and we have been to things like Christmas drinks and her 50th birthday party and met lots of stars."
Daisy is not the first eventer to teach Madonna, as in January 2006 Horse & Hound reported that Madonna was learning from William Fox-Pitt and particularly enjoyed riding Moon Man, who was put down in December.
Thursday 15 January 2009
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Bárány A & Flamemakers remix
From February 21 to March 22, 2009, there will take place in London at Old Truman Brewery the world’s largest private collection of Madonna's film and stage costumes and artefacts. Click on the image. Tickets available at TicketMaster.
Here are some of the exhibition highlights:
- • Pink dress worn in the 1985 pop video for “Material Girl”
• Black with gold tassel bustier worn in the 1986 video for “Open Your Heart”
• Baseball costume worn in the 1992 movie “A League of their Own”
• Inaugural gown worn in the 1996 movie “Evita”
• Wedding dress worn in the 1996 movie “Evita”
• 2 x MTV awards given to Madonna personally for “Ray of Light”
• The complete outfit worn in the 1999 music video for “American Pie”
• The complete outfit worn in the 2000 music video for “Music”
Miles Away 12" double lp vinil single release date February 10th
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Guy Ritchie has paid a visit to Madonna's New York apartment as the divorced couple continue to put their differences aside for the sake of their children".
Guy Ritchie is currently filming scenes for "The Sherlock Holmes" movie in Brooklyn. Guy took time away from set yesterday and was seen leaving Madonna's Manhattan residence.
"It appears the couple are doing their best to remain amicable following their divorce last year, Madonna spent Christmas in London and put her differences aside so they could enjoy the festive day together as a family."
It’s official: Madonna tops the Los Angeles Times’ Ultimate Top 10, an annual survey combining sales of concert tickets, albums and digital downloads to measure which acts were most popular with the broadest swath of music lovers.
Madonna was the No. 1 concert attraction in North America during the year, according to Pollstar, the concert-tracking magazine, and she enjoyed album sales to the tune of $12.5 million in addition to downloads of $2.3 million.This year there’s also a total split between Nielsen SoundScan’s ranking of the 10 biggest-selling performers of 2008 and Pollstar’s Top 10 highest-grossing North American concert tours. The highest any Top 10 SoundScan act finished in Pollstar’s 2008 ranking was No. 13, where the Jonas Brothers (No. 7 among album sellers) landed after playing to 1.3 million fans last year.Concert revenue hit $4.2 billion in 2008, according to Pollstar, a 7 percent rise over the previous year, even though the number of tickets sold was down. An 8.4 percent increase in average ticket prices was behind the rise, figures that are “astounding considering the economic environment in which they were generated,” Pollstar Editor Gary Bongiovanni said.
The road is still where artists tend to make the most money. Only three of the Nielsen SoundScan biggest-selling artists of 2008 — AC/DC, Coldplay and the Jonas Brothers — make the Ultimate Top 10, even folding in their revenue from digital track sales.
The best example? Taylor Swift sold more albums than any other act last year: 4 million, giving her $52 million in revenue from album sales using $13 as the average price of a CD. But she placed No. 12 in the Ultimate Top 10 calculations because she played only a handful of concerts as a headliner. She spent most of the year as a supporting act on Rascal Flatts’ tour.
That leaves the upper reaches of the Ultimate Top 10 to the veterans, and no one outperformed Madonna, whose combined income of $120 million is a drop from last year’s winner, the Police, which logged $140.7 million.
1. Madonna ($120 million).
The Material Girl took in $105.3 million from touring, in addition to $14.8 million from music sales. It’s hard to decide what’s more impressive. The average gross at her shows, mostly in stadiums, was $5.5 million, and she drew about 36,000 people per show. Additionally, the average ticket price was $153.88, easily the highest among Pollstar’s Top 50 grossing tours. Worldwide, according to Pollstar, she amassed $281.6 million.
YoaKustoms was asked by celebrity photographer Nicolas Wagner to create sneaker art representing his line of work. The designer responded with the Confessions on a Dance Floor Dunks, posted originally on the YoaKustoms Customsnkr.com blog. These customs Dunks are loosely based on the color scheme from Madonna’s latest album “Confessions on a Dance Floor.”
The inside edges feature the name Wagner in stylish black letters. On the outside, YoaKustoms created a black and purple portrait of Madonna to symbolize the beauty captured by Wagner’s camera. The designer used a purple background on both sides with black dots at the middle panel fading to purple by the time they hit the heel.
YoaKustoms created a great pair of custom sneakers that mesh well with Wagner’s work. This rising photographer to the stars frames his subjects to capture their outer beauty and inner spirit. YoaKustoms accomplished something similar with the Confessions on a Dance Floor Dunks.
Gwyneth Paltrow is pulling out all the stops to cheer up pal Madonna - and has planned a girlie weekend for the pair, according to reports.
The Material Girl, 50, is still getting over failed marriage to director Guy Ritchie.
So in a bid to lift Madonna's spirits, Gwyneth has planned a break for the star back in London, A source says, "Gwyneth just wants to see a smile on her face. She has even bought Madonna some sexy Agent Provocateur underwear and toys.
"She has also planned a special break for her and Madge, which will take place mostly in London. "The weekend will include some low-key nights at top eateries and bars, followed by a spa break, probably at Babington House in Somerset."
Wednesday 14 January 2009
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Madonna performs "Holiday" on American Bandstand January 14th 1984.
Giving a short interview in American Bandstand causing a shock when saying "I want to rule the world"
Madonna out and about in NYC.
On January 1989 Madonna signs a $5 million contract with Pepsi-Cola for a series of TV commercials and sponsorship of a world tour
Madonna files for divorce after 4 years of marriage with actor Sean Pen citing "irreconcilable differences" in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Jan 5th 1989.
Madonna & Sean wedding Aug 16 1985.
Tuesday 13 January 2009
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Helping Malawi's one million orphaned children is much easier than you think. By voting for Raising Malawi in this month's MySpace Impact Awards, you can help Madonna's charity win a (USD) 10,000 grant. So if you've always wanted to make an impact, now's your chance. It's fast, it's free, and it can make a real difference in the lives of impoverished children. Go to www.myspace.com/impactawards. Vote for Raising Malawi today and every day thru January 26. A better future is at your fingertips.
Raising Malawi and PowerHouse Books are proud to announce the January 2009 release of Kristin Ashburn’s I AM BECAUSE WE ARE.
A companion volume to the acclaimed documentary film of the same name, I AM BECAUSE WE ARE is a stunning collection of images by award-winning photojournalist Kristin Ashburn featuring an inspiring forward by Raising Malawi co-founder Madonna.
Madonna graces the cover of this interesting upcoming book published by Steidl.
Due May 2009, On Filmsets and Other Locations is a hardcover photography book by Jurgen Vollmer of photos he took on various film sets over the years.
On Filmsets and Other Locations
Text by Jürgen Vollmer
183 pages, 76 colour plates, 95 black & white plates
24 cm x 33 cm
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket
Steidl
ISBN: ISBN 978-3-86521-598-7
Publication date: May 2009
Monday 12 January 2009
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Wayne G. Club Mix
Last night, on the GOLDEN GLOBE awards, Sasha, better known as the man that Madonna introduced to america as the funniest import from Britian, in her 2000 MUSIC video, said that because of the struggling economic times, Madonna has had to lay off one of her personal assistance, so we are all feeling for you, Guy Ritchie!
Madonna could barely hide the smile from her face when out in New York's exclusive Waverly Inn restaurant Saturday night with longtime friend Steven Klein and rapper Kanye West.
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Madonna and Guy Ritchie have reportedly decided to extend their truce to five times a year for the sake of their children.The warring pair, locked in a sour custody battle for kids, were said to have made peace during Christmas as the Queen of Pop flew down to her ex-hubby's native England to celebrate the festive evening as a family.
And now, both the separated celebs have allegedly nodded in favour of continuing the peace deal throughout 2009 and to meet during important days for Rocco, eight, their adopted son David, three, and Lourdes, Madonna's 12-year-old daughter from a previous relationship
"When it comes down to it, they are both parents and they want to do what's right for their children," News of the World quoted a pal close to Guy as saying."Christmas was something done through gritted teeth, but it worked out in the end and was a success for the kids."But the children aren't stupid, especially Lourdes who is old enough to understand what's been going on. There was a lot of pain and nastiness last year," he added.
Sunday 11 January 2009
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BLOND AMBITION TOUR 90
Madonna with David at the Kabbalah Centre in New York, Saturday Jan 10th.
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Saturday 10 January 2009
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CLEO HYPNOTIZED ELECTRO MIX
Madonna was photographed last night going to the Kabbalah Center in NYC.
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Madge attempted to go incognito by tossing on her shades as she headed to a medical building with her assistant. With her helping hand doing her best to thwart paparazzi efforts, Madonna quickly shuffled her way into the entrance as she checked in for a specially scheduled appointment.
And while there’s no word on the reason for her doctor’s visit, inside sources say that the building does house a department that’s known for their specialization in facial surgery.
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Madonna graces the cover of Horoscopo Mia spain edition, Jan, February.
Wednesday 7 January 2009
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Adversary Mix
Tuesday 6 January 2009
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Bryan Reyes Dark Arabian Mix
Madonna will be on the cover of W magazine in the May 2009 issue.
The coverstory is set for a May release, but it could move up, W magazine people told us. Steven Klein is indeed the photographer for the shoot.
This is the first Madonna product released under her new Live Nation contract. The DVD, which will contain exciting bonus material and is being prepared as a Double Disc Release, will be distributed worldwide by Universal Music in March 2009! The release will be accompanied by a large promo campaign.
This will be the first official release under Madonna's multi-million dollar deal.
Madonna graces the cover of Woman & Home magazine, Thailand edition.
Madonna's directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom is already available on DVD in Germany (with both German and English audio) and is due to be released on DVD in France in March. There is no news yet on when other countries will get a release date.
Madonna will headline the Glastonbury Festival this summer, it has been claimed. The pop superstar is the latest name to be linked with an appearance at the 2009 event, alongside Coldplay, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Blur.
A UK tabloid reports this morning that the singer is in preliminary talks with organisers about the idea. "It's a strange decision. Madonna's only just finished her deal with Warners and hasn't been in the studio yet so there is no new material to promote", a 'source' explained.
Her recent "Sticky & Sweet" world tour, the highest grossing ever for a solo artist, concluded in December. Glastonbury 2009 takes place on June 26-29.
Monday 5 January 2009
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The first Louis Vuitton advert has appeared in the February 2009 issue of UK Elle magazine. Expect to see the campaign featured heavily in most fashion magazines in the next month!
Madonna’s ex Guy Ritchie spent a forlorn New Year’s Eve alone at his country mansion after the couple’s festive truce.
Guy, 40, hid away, shunning party invites from pals as he brooded over the couple’s failed marriage.
While superstar Madge, 50, saw in the New Year with their three kids in the Maldives, the movie maker was at Ashcombe House, Wilts, with just his housekeeper for company.
The couple - whose divorce was officially finalised in court yesterday - buried the hatchet to get together on Boxing Day for the sake of Lourdes, 12, Rocco, eight, and three-year-old David.
But worried pals claim Guy “hit the emotional buffers” afterwards and finally admitted how badly the marriage breakup has affected him. One friend told The People: “Guy was on a real downer over New Year and just wanted to be alone to think.
“He watched TV, had a few beers and then had an early night. He’s been quite bullish throughout the divorce and when out with the lads he gives the impression that he is relieved to be a free man again.
“But December 22 was their eighth wedding anniversary and Guy seemed to be feeling the split more than before. He and Madonna called a truce after Christmas and spent time together with the kids. He was surprised at how friendly and natural it felt. I suppose it got him wondering whether they could have handled things differently.”
Guy flies to New York today to work on his new movie Sherlock Holmes. The divorce decree was made absolute at London’s High Court.
Madonna's teenage daughter Lourdes has taken the first steps to becoming an actress.
After moving back to Manhattan with her mother after Madonna split from Guy Ritchie, 14-year-old Lourdes has enrolled at the New York drama school made famous by Macaulay Culkin, Scarlett Johansson and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Lourdes is desperate to become an actress and has joined Manhattan’s Professional Children’s School,’ says my source.
‘She is determined to prove herself and plans to throw herself into studying the technique. The young Kabbalahist was approached a year ago to appear in the movie The Secret Life Of Bees – but turned down the part because her mother didn’t want her getting into the business so young
Saturday 3 January 2009
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THE BLOND AMBITION TOUR JAPAN 1990.
The success of Madonna’s 2008 “Sticky & Sweet” tour - she reportedly earned $280 million in ticket sales - may not have hit its final note. Madge wrapped up her world tour last week, but a source told us, “She will be back in London this summer performing a few more shows.” We know one person who won’t be in the crowd - Guy Ritchie. Madonna’s ex-husband is living in the London home they once shared, while she held on to their Manhattan place. Her rep did not return e-mails.
Madonna graces the cover of Marie Claire magazine, Japan edition, february.
“This was really different,” explains Antoine Arnault, communications director of Louis Vuitton, when asked how Madonna came to front the company’s new spring/summer campaign. “Usually, these things take much, much longer,” he explains; a lengthy process of identifying the right person to embody the fashion and luxury-goods brand, the right photographer, the right look for the campaign, plus, of course, all the deal-making a project like this involves. This time, however, pretty much everything was agreed inside a week.
“On the Monday,” Arnault recalls, “we had a meeting, and Marc Jacobs suggested Madonna. I thought, yes, great idea, but it will never happen. Then, in the meeting, Marc sent her a text saying, ‘Love, would you like to be the new Louis Vuitton woman?’ Five minutes later, she’d replied. He showed me his phone, and she’d said, ‘Yes, I’d love to do it.’” What could be simpler?
Clearly, when a big brand like Louis Vuitton chooses a new face for its campaign, it’s not just a matter of affectionate text messages between Marc Jacobs and Madonna. Men like Louis Vuitton’s CEO, Yves Carcelle, have to agree that it is a good idea, not a whim, as well as, of course, Carcelle’s boss and Antoine Arnault’s father, Bernard Arnault, head of the LVMH luxury-goods empire.
But as Antoine Arnault sees it, “Marc knows the brand probably better than anyone now,” having been artistic director for a decade, during which time Louis Vuitton has expanded massively. Jacobs had seen Madonna in concert the week before, but it wasn’t some “let’s be crazy” decision, Arnault explains, citing how Jacobs had previously picked J-Lo as the face of Louis Vuitton in 2003. “That wasn’t an obvious choice, perhaps, but it instantly put us on the top in the US in one campaign.
“Madonna is glamorous,” Arnault continues. “She has a global image. She’s the ultimate performer and businesswoman, and not someone who is just a famous singer. She has travelled; she has tried to change things.” And if her personal life isn’t perfect right now, “Well, that only makes her more human.” Once the proposal had been made, and provisionally accepted, in both cases by text, “Then we had to agree on a figure, a concept, a photographer.” Yet the whole process seems to have been plain sailing – an object lesson, if you like, in the degree of certainty that people at the top of the fashion industry tend to display about their creative choices.
The figure? Well, just how much Madonna is being paid for what is, in a sense, both one day’s work and the product of many years at the top of her game is a moot point. Some have claimed it’s $10 million (£6.6 million). But Arnault is careful to puncture that, saying, “The figure is really, really lower than that. In times like these, it would be totally irresponsible to pay anyone $10 million.”
The concept? Madonna has been photographed in a nostalgic, Parisian bistro setting, perhaps at that “waiters whistling as the last bar closes” moment in the early hours. “Only it’s in LA,” Arnault quips, not Paris – “One of those French bistros in California where you really think you’re in France” – and it’s daytime and there are hundreds of paparazzi outside. Madonna smoulders quietly, all fishnets and high kicks, with a glamour that gives more than a nod to Dietrich, long an acknowledged influence. She’s wearing Marc Jacobs’ ready-to-wear clothes for Louis Vuitton, styled by Marie-Amélie Sauvé, with, of course, due prominence given to some lovely bags and shoes, those accessories that have long been such steady earners for the brand.
But there is a certain quietness to the images, a kind of gentleness, perhaps, which might also (along with that willingly professed prudence over Madonna’s fee) be a sign of the extraordinary times we live in. Certainly, when I put it to Arnault that the crunch might be changing the aesthetic and that, in particular, a certain kind of flash advertising message now looks passé, even wrong somehow, he doesn’t exactly demur. “Other people can try to rationalise every campaign, but there is certainly a feeling that emerges from designers, photographers, creatives of all kinds, which is maybe something they don’t talk about, but which they can feel.”
The photographer in question here is Steven Meisel, rather than Mert and Marcus, who have shot all of Louis Vuitton’s campaigns since 2002, including those amazingly effective shots of J-Lo. “We were very happy with them,” Arnault insists, but all good things come to an end – and, after all, it was Meisel who photographed the wilder, younger, more in-your-face Madonna who leapt off the pages of Sex, the book which caused such a storm back in 1992. So this campaign can be seen as something of a reunion, Meisel additionally having photographed Madonna for Vanity Fair late last year. Jacobs and Meisel are old friends, too, Arnault explains, “from the crazy years of the Eighties”.
And once Antoine Arnault had assembled his dream team? “I think the three of them were in touch with each other on the phone almost every day,” he says of the run-up to the shoot, “talking about ideas, sharing references, then talking about individual shots.” On the big day itself, “About 50 people were on the set, which sounds like a lot, but it’s all in the preparation, in the make-up and the set and so on. Once that was in place, Madonna would come out, get into position, and the shots went amazingly quickly, sometimes in about 15 minutes. It was a delight.”
A rare red diamond, known as Kazanjian Red, is on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County through Feb. 1, museum officials announced today.
The rare gem is one of three large, red stones known to exist.
Discovered in South Africa in 1927, the red diamond was stolen during World War II and later recovered by American soldiers.
It was purchased by a collector in 1970 and remained hidden until it was purchased by Los Angeles-based Kazanjian Bros. Inc. in 2007.
This is the diamond's first exhibition in America.
Also on display at the museum is the "Hollywood Jewels Collection," which features the tiara worn by Madonna when she wed ex-husband Guy Ritchie, a bejeweled compact give to Carole Lombard by Clark Gable, and a gold and diamond necklace that actress Terry Moore received from Cary Grant.
She hit 50, split from hubby GUY RITCHIE and put herself through the wringer with a punishing world tour schedule to promote latest album Hard Candy.
So the put-upon songstress must have been looking forward to happier times in 2009.
But unfortunately for Madge one of her old friends has got other ideas.
Cutting comic actor SACHA BARON COHEN, most famous for his Borat and Ali G characters, will make Madonna the butt of a series of cruel jokes in his new film Bruno (or, to give it its proper title, Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America For The Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable In The Presence Of A Gay Foreigner In A Mesh T-Shirt).
The movie features the outrageously camp antics of Sasha’s latest favourite character, gay fashion journalist Bruno.
A major plotline sees Bruno and his boyfriend adopting an African baby called David, who they then happily parade around the chic fashion capitals of the world.
The joke is an open slap at Madonna, who adopted Malawian tot David Banda.
Sacha and Madonna became great mates a couple of years ago and he even
featured as Ali G in the video for her hit single Music.
I don’t know what Madonna has done to upset him but one thing’s for sure — she
won’t be happy when she gets wind of his film.
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Madonna graces the cover of Istoe Gente magazine, Brazi edition.
Wednesday 31 December 2008
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