Let’s take a look at this rare original VHD format for Madonna’s first ever video compilation simply titled ‘Madonna’ also known as ‘4 videos’. Only this release was ever released in this large VHD format in stunning sleeve with insert.
This item has been added to our Like a Virgin album promo page.
A job application from 19-year-old Madonna – hoping for a starring role in an erotic thriller – has drawn applause from literature lovers.
The teenager was a drummer in 1978 and keen to make headlines in the movies when she wrote a covering letter asking to appear in A Certain Sacrifice – her first film role.
She told first-time film-maker Stephen Lewicki that she knew she wanted to be “a nun or a movie star” by the time she was in fifth grade.
Madonna in the 1996 film version of Evita,.
The personal text, written decades before Madonna would go on to be the Queen of Pop, was read to an audience at the Letters Live evening in central London, an event which celebrates remarkable letters and the enduring power of correspondence.
Madonna states that her career began “in petulance and precociousness” in her home town of Detroit, Michigan.
Madonna states that her career began “in petulance and precociousness” in her home town of Detroit, Michigan.
Madonna tells Lewicki that she did unfulfilling dancing tours in Italy, sang in a New Wave band, worked with a filmmaker and modelled for artists and photographers before being spotted by French record producers in May 1979.
She worked across Europe but did not really like it.
Paris had a “sterility” and so she headed back to New York to play the drums, take dance classes and wait for her 20th birthday.
Madonna signed off the letter with her personal detail – including her height at 5ft 4ins, her weight at 102lbs, plus stating she had brown hair and hazel eyes.
She got the part, the audience heard.
– AAP
MU note: to read Madonna’s letter to lewicki, visit our A Certain Sacrifice page (memorabilia section)
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:
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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.
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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.
“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
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:
Enjoy Up For Grabs!
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.
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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 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:
Enjoy Speed The Plow!
Forever21 has a fabulous Madonna shirt available inspired by the original Blond Ambition Tour tee.
It retails at €18, order here
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)
