Bauhinias, breasts and bravado: welcome to Madonna’s first Hong Kong show. “It’s the year of the monkey, right?” she asks, appearing momentarily sweet and innocent. In her tightly choreographed show, there’s little room for improvisation. But after courting controversy in Taiwan last week for her politically charged message, she is willing to taunt an expectant…
It was 30 years ago, in January 1986, when Madonna first came to Hong Kong. She arrived here to shoot the film Shanghai Surprise, and quickly found herself sought after by fans keen to get her autograph. Married at the time to actor and Shanghai Surprise co-star Sean Penn, the couple refused all interviews and…
SINGAPORE, Feb 17 – Organisers for Madonna’s concert in Singapore have said that they will be releasing new tickets for the Queen Of Pop’s show on February 28. According to James Lee, the chief executive officer of King Lun, one of companies supporting the concert in Singapore, there will be more tickets issued in the…
Superstar Madonna gave waiting media the slip as she arrived in Hong Kong from Tokyo on Tuesday night to play two concerts as part of her spectacular Rebel Heart world tour. The Grammy-winning pop queen landed at Hong Kong International Airport on a private jet with six private bodyguards, before settling in at a luxury…
Checking in on Madonna’s Blond Ambition dancers 25 years later, this Dutch documentary looks at what happens once the performance high is over and the celebrity bubble pops. Remember when Madonna used to be playful and fierce, and her iconoclastic performance stunts were about pop provocation and spectacular chutzpah, not just frantic bids to stay…
Madonna’s upcoming Rebel Heart concert at the National Stadium on Feb 28 is costing its Taiwanese investors US$10 million, or S$14 million. The cost for her first concert here includes air freight for the pop star’s 27 containers holding the stage, lighting and wardrobe set-ups. One of the concert’s two investors, Mr James Lee, 53,…
The moving Strike A Pose documentary featuring the dancers of the Blond Ambition Tour in 1990, premiered last night at the Berlinale Festival in Berlin. So far it has been receiving nothing but praise, check the documentary out yourself when it will be shown in Dutch theaters this May. We will keep you up to…
So far at Berlinale, there have been groundbreaking films, films about love, films about current affairs, movies about the past and some looking to the future. Some push the boundaries of reality, while others really stick our noses into the nitty gritty of surviving, both at home and on the other side of the borders…
