Happy 34th anniversary to Madonna’s first single ‘Everybody’
New Hound Dawg Music Issue 4 including Madonna articles by Chris Wade
The author of Madonna: On Screen and The Music Of Madonna has just released a new version of Hound Dawg Music Issue 4. It contains a load of Madonna articles including:
- The art of being Madonna
- George DuBose on photographing Madonna
- Dean Gant on Madonna’s first album
- Bruce Gaitsch on songwriting with Madonna
- Lucky Star: Madonna and the female pop icons of the 80’s
- Promise To Try: saluting Madonna’s ballads
- The Sex era: Madonna in the early 90’s
- and more
Order link here
“Diary of a Set Designer” new book with unseen M polaroids
Diary of a Set Designer is a book of Polaroids taken over 25 years by Happy Massee while traveling the world as a production designer. The photographic journal is a journey through time, with a collection of images taken with the now-defunct Polaroid camera–which, at the time, was essential to the art of designing for film.
- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Damiani (September 27, 2016)
- Language: English
More details on Amazon.com HERE
Madonna is charging fans $150,000 to see her Art Basel concert this December
Madonna is charging fans as much as $150,000 (over £115K) to see her perform in Miami this December.
However the Material Girl, 58, can justify the high price tag as it is all in the name of charity.
Madonna is the star performer at Art Basel Miami at Faena Forum on December 2nd with her show acting as a benefit for her Raising Malawi charity.
Only 400 guests will be able to attend the event with the cheapest tickets available at $5K (just under £4K).
Ticket prices go up from there and can include a meet and greet with the singer, and with the evening promising to be full of ‘music, art, mischief and a live performance with Madonna’.
The top price of £116K comes with a table for 10 at her gig, access for four to a VIP cocktail reception and photograph with Madonna.
The Raising Malawi charity vows to end ‘the extreme poverty and hardship endured by Malawi’s 1.4 million orphans and vulnerable children,’ in the African country.
Updating fans with current projects in Malawi, Madonna (who adopted her daughter Mercy from the country in 2009) shared a photograph on Instagram of a pediatric hospital being built and urged fans to donate to the cause.
Full details for the fund raiser in Miami this winter can be found by emailing tickets@raisingmalawievent.com – and there is an option to make a donation if the ticket price is too high.
Madonna reminds co-op that she’s the ‘Material Girl’
“Bitch, I’m Madonna!”
The pop superstar, fighting efforts by her Central Park West co-op to keep her family and hired help out of her apartment, argued in court papers that the tony building’s managers knew exactly whom they were letting in when she started living there in 2004.
“At that time, I was, and still am, a world-known performing artist,” the Material Girl sniffs in a Manhattan Supreme Court filing against One West 64th Street, which has objected to the comings and goings at a second unit she bought there in 2008.
“At that time, One West knew or should have known that I traveled extensively and owned other residences.’’
She adds that the building “is a place I call home. It is there that I have my cherished personal effects and property such as artwork, paintings, sculpture, special furniture and the like.’’
The “Bitch, I’m Madonna” singer is suing the co-op for trying to enforce strict residency requirements on who is allowed inside her unit while she is not there.
In new Manhattan Supreme Court papers obtained by The Post, Madonna and her lawyers say the board’s actions violate a state “roommate law” that “renders unenforceable lease clauses that attempt to restrict a tenant’s rights to use her apartment for her immediate family, a roommate and the children of the roommate.”
The filing suggests the singer doesn’t have time to be bothered with such legal shenanigans.
“Certainly such a requirement is ridiculous and impossible for almost any family to comply with, and certainly not someone with plaintiff’s itinerant schedule,’’ the documents say.
“To be sure, One West knew the plaintiff’s living, working, traveling lifestyle as a celebrated entertainer when she purchased the apartment; One West never objected,” the recording star’s lawyers claim in the papers.
Madonna said that the apartment is her primary residence.
“I would like to have my children and a domestic employee reside . . . with me,’’ she wrote.
Lawyers for building managers could not be immediately reached for comment.
Madonna has four children — Lourdes Leon, 19, Rocco Ritchie, 16, Mercy James, 10, and David Banda Ritchie, 11. She has been married and divorced twice: first to actor Sean Penn and then to British director Guy Ritchie.
Madge recently settled her custody dispute with Ritchie over their son Rocco, who skipped out on his mom while they were on her 2015-16 Rebel Heart tour in London and took shelter with Dad.
Additional reporting by David K. Li
Read more at PageSix.com
New! Madonna’s West End debut as Loren in ‘Up For Grabs’ back in 2002 (press, memorabilia, video, report, pictures and more)
Madonna’s leading part as Loren in the magnificent ‘Up For Grabs’ concludes our Theater feature.
Back in 2002 (happily married to Guy Ritchie) Madonna took on the leading part in the play Up For Grabs in the Wyndhams Theater in London, her West End debut. With low ticket prices this was an absolute unique opportunity for many fans to witness Madonna’s acting in person in a very intimate setting. Madonna first agreed to do matinees as well until she realized it conflicted with her studio time for upcoming album, people with tickets for matinees either received a refund or new tickets to a different date.
Our Up For Grabs feature includes:
- Press – original magazine and newspaper scans
- Memorabilia – signed programme by the cast, flyers, the soundtrack and more
- Live Report – report on seeing Up For Grabs in person (written by Kimberly van Pinxteren)
- Photo Gallery – our personal pictures of the play and Madonna’s arrivals/departures
- Video – watch a fan video plus news report
Enjoy Up For Grabs!
New fabulous Madonna tote bag at Target (order online)
A new fabulous Madonna tote bag is available at Target, they ship worldwide (shipping fees are not cheap though), the price of the bag is only €14,23.
Click here to order, if you don’t see the bag at once please scroll to the right
Strike A Pose – Paris screening!
“Strike A Pose” documentary will be screening in Paris LGBT festival “Chéris-Chéris”. End of November 2016, (more details soon)
Madonna Wears a Diamond Grill and Nothing Else to Support Hillary Clinton
Madonna‘s never been one to be particularly uptight about displaying her body in public. After all, we’re talking about the woman who regularly wore a cone bra, donned pasties and a thong at this year’s Met Gala, and released a book titled simplySex. So, of course, when Katy Perry stripped down to the buff for a new Funny or Die video meant to inspire people to get out and vote for Hillary Clinton in November, we should have known the pop legend would be first in line to follow (in her birthday) suit.
In the image she shared to her Instagram account on Wednesday morning, the 58-year-old is completely nude, but kept things modest thanks to some careful cropping, only displaying from the bottom of her nose to the top of her breasts. But while she may be bare, she’s still flawlessly accessorized, wearing an assortment of gold pendants and chains as well as a gold-and-diamond encrusted grill peeking out from under her upper lip.
The “Like a Virgin” singer captioned the shot, “”Im voting naked with Katy Perry!! Vote for Hillary. She’s the Best we got!. Nude Voting series # 1” Which seems to imply we are all only at the beginning of a long road of semi-indecent images of Madonna coming our way as we draw ever closer to Election Day. But as a sage follower philosophically wrote in the comment section of her photo, “Are you ever really naked if you have your grills on?”
New! All about Madonna on Broadway in ‘Speed The Plow’ in 1988, press articles, memorabilia, video & more
New in our Theater section is Madonna’s Broadway debut in Speed The Plow back in 1988. We have gathered the following for you to enjoy:
- Facts
- Press – a selection of originally scanned press articles on the play
- Memorabilia – Incuding the original display used at the Lincoln theater to promote the play
- Press pictures
- Video’s
Enjoy Speed The Plow!
Madonna shirt available at Forever21
Forever21 has a fabulous Madonna shirt available inspired by the original Blond Ambition Tour tee.
It retails at €18, order here
Rare! All about the ‘Truth Or Dare’ original workprint with different audio and camera angles! Read all about it
We recently stumbled upon an old VHS tape dated 1991 containing the ‘unpolished’ version of Madonna’s ‘Truth or Dare’ aka ‘In Bed With Madonna’, also known as the ‘workprint’ with unfinished audio. This was very interesting and felt like watching it for the very first time. A lot of what is being said on film is different from the final version of the film, not only that but some of the things Madonna says has later been recorded again for better audio.
Not only is the audio different from the final version of the film, some angles in the performances are different. You have to have a very good eye to spot it, especially in ‘Keep It Together’ a lot of different camera angles are used towards the end. We have summed up some of the differences without going into too much detail (after all this is an unfinished product and wasn’t meant to be released)
- The audio in the beginning where M swears at Keith, the microphone sound is extremely loud and PDP can’t barely be heard. The ‘she’s getting pissed’ bit is not there at all, this was added later
- When performing Express Yourself, Madonna greets the audience in French and adds ‘Alright Paris’ instead of ‘America’
- While dancing with Jose and Luis the ‘get up off the floor’ bit is missing, was added later
- When the Oh Father performance ends the intro to PDP is there and can be heard while M rings her dad, in the final version this was left out
- No ‘GOD?’ at the end of the Like a Virgin performance
- Lots of bits have been audio recorded again such as the ‘I want privacy please’ and the footage at Madonna’s mother’s grave site
- Madonna says something totally different in the Moira McFarland scene instead of ‘but if you think our family’s wacky….’
- lots of untouched live vocals
- Different camera angle towards the end of the Live To Tell performance
- When she meets Antonio Banderas and goes to the bathroom with Niki and says ‘I’m putting my head in the toilet’, later recorded again. She says it in a totally different tone in the untouched version
- In ‘Keep It Together’ she addresses Paris instead of ‘Europe’
- The saying goodbye to Carlton was later recorded and added again
- Lots of different camera angles in Keep It Together (see examples down below, all taken at the exact same time of the performance)
- No end credits at all after ‘Keep It Together’ but instead goes directly to the ‘Alek cut it, cut it goddammit’
- Lots of added sound effects (laughs, spit sounds, screams)
Strike a Pose op het Nederlands Film Festival (NFF)
De spraakmakende documentaire Truth or Dare – In Bed with Madonna gaf in 1991 een kijkje achter de schermen van Madonna’s wereldtournee. De zeven jonge dansers (zes homo-, één heteroseksueel) die in de film te zien waren, durfden zichzelf te zijn en groeiden zo uit tot iconen van seksuele vrijheid. Maar het mooie beeld dat Madonna opriep, blijkt niet helemaal te kloppen. De dansers onthullen vijfentwintig jaar later de werkelijkheid over hun levens tijdens en na de Blond Ambition Tour, die de kijkers toen niet te zien kregen.
Bestel tickets voor Strike a Pose:
| Strike a Pose | |||
| €9,50 Engels gesproken, Nederlands ondertiteld. Q&A met producent Rosan Boersma. | |||
| Louis Hartlooper Complex 1 | do 22 sep 16.45 | + agenda | Bestel tickets |
| Strike a Pose | |||
| €9,50 Engels gesproken, Nederlands ondertiteld. Q&A met regisseurs Reijer Zwaan en Ester Gould. | |||
| Rembrandt 2 | vr 23 sep 21.30 | + agenda | Bestel tickets |
NEW! Madonna in Theater – all about Madonna’s stage plays
In our new section ‘Theater‘ we will cover Madonna’s stage plays. Of course we don’t have the info on all the ones she joined as a child while in school, but we do have coverage of her part in ‘The Wizard Of Oz’.
The new section is now online and the first two stage plays: The Wizard Of Oz and Goose & TomTom have been added.
Madonna played the evil witch in The Wizard Of Oz back in 1975, check out the original programme used!
In 1986 Madonna and Sean Penn starred in a very limited run of Goose & TomTom, check out an original article and press pictures!
Speed The Plow and Up For Grabs will be added soon!
Madonna in Theater can be found in the menu under ‘LIVE’
