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Friday, December 9, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Madonna To Do Photoshoot For Her New Album This Week!
Fresh News From The Madonna Team:
Madonna is currently filming the video to her brand new single with M.I.A & Nicki Minaj, which is directed by "Megaforce".
Later this week, she will create her new album's photoshoot with Mert & Marcus!
Get ready for a brand new Madonna era, and stay tuned for more exclusive updates...
source: Madonna.com
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Madonna New Guinness World Records!
Madonna is featured on three categories in this year's Guinness Book Of World Records, congratulations to the Queen of Pop!
Madonna (USA) holds the record for album sales up to December 2009 of 75 million in the USA and 200 million abroad.
Madonna (USA, b. Madonna Ciccone) had her ninth No.1 on the US Music Video chart on 24 April 2010 with Sticky & Sweet Tour. No popular music artist has had more.
On 26 November 2005 Madonna became the oldest artist to simultaneously top the UK singles and album charts - with her single Hung Up from the album, Confessions On A Dance Floor, at the age of 47 years 101 days. This was the third time she had accomplished such a feat - itself a record for a female artist.
Liz Smith: "New York Swoons For Madonna And W.E!
And more from our Liz: the star presents her film at the Museum of Modern Art
“I’VE SHOWN this movie at festivals in France, Canada and England. And each time I’ve taken something different away from the movie, and recognized the different ways audiences react.
“Now, I am so thrilled to be here with the movie at the Museum of Modern Art. As a child, museums were my escape and they formed the idea that I would grow up and become an artist — of some kind.
“However, unlike my experiences in Venice, London or Toronto, nobody here has yet offered me a glass of champagne. So I’m going to see this movie sober. I hope I still like it!”
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THAT WAS part of Madonna’s charming speech as she introduced her film, “W.E.” and one of her stars Andrea Riseborough (who plays Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor) to a fashionable crowd Sunday. (It was a “hot event night” in NYC. Over at the Ziegfeld Theater, Steven Spielberg’s “War Horse” was having its premiere.)
This was supposed to be a “small” screening, but what with Madonna could ever be small? Hosted by The Cinema Society and Piaget, it ended up with a lot of media, and mobs, outside MOMA, behind barricades, screaming for the icon. She was late, of course, which only increased the tension and hysteria when she finally slid glamorously out of her car. (After an aide adjusted her skin-tight pants and glittering top. She looked delicate and petite even in her towering heels.)
Madonna gave the red-carpet reporters and photographers inside as much as she could — if they had their way, she’d still be posing.
Among the throng – Kim Cattrall, Anderson Cooper, Donna Karan, Jeffrey Donovan, Jeremy Piven, Sandy Gallin, Nina Garcia, Hamish Bowles, Julian Schnabel, Barry Diller, Jacob Bernstein, Patti Smith. And but of course, Harvey Weinstein who is distributing “W.E.” He greeted Madonna affectionately as she strode in, surrounded by her security, her press rep, her personal assistants and others who try to smooth out the bumps for one of the world’s most famous women.
Harvey introduced Madonna, praising her as a “renaissance woman” with whom he has worked happily since 1990 — they first collaborated on her documentary “Truth or Dare.” He also remarked that if “W.E.” had been “made by, you know … Joe Smith, well …” He was attempting to comment on the bad rap Madonna often receives for anything she does in film, whether acting or in this case, directing. When Madonna got to the podium she joked, “By the way, Harvey, I don’t want to be Joe Smith” (I’m sure she would have preferred Scorsese or Polanski as a comparative reference point.)
Madonna also commented ruefully that now the movie is set in stone, “I can’t change anything!” Nothing is ever perfect, nothing is ever easy for Madonna, and she has worked tirelessly on the editing of “W.E.” melding her two onscreen tales — one, the real-life legendary sensation of a king abdicating his throne for “the woman I love” — Edward VIII for divorcee Wallis Simpson. There is also the story of a contemporary young woman named Wally, suffering through an abusive marriage, who is obsessed with the story of Wallis and the man who became, briefly, King Edward VIII. (His close friends and family called him David.)
Both of these are compelling concepts. Either would have made a splendid film. It has been Madonna’s job to weave Wallis and Wally. “Every little girl loves a fairy tale, a happy ending,” Wally declares, explaining her fascination with the Duke and Duchess. Having co-written the script with Alex Keshishian, those are Madonna’s words for sure. At heart, Madonna is a romantic and she does believe in happy endings, though she has yet to find one. (She has not stopped looking, however. Madonna genuinely respects romance.)
The crowd appeared fascinated by “W.E.” which is a long movie, but there was no sense of restlessness — they loved the clothes (exquisite designs by Arianne Phillips) … they loved the eclectic score, which includes a new song by Madonna, sung over the closing credits … they loved the romance and the tragedy, too. (The Duchess was an unhappy woman, who felt she had ruined the King and trapped herself forever, “playing out the world’s greatest romance — and now I can never leave him.”)
Abbie Cornish as Wally, James D’Arcy as Edward VIII, Richard Coyle as Wally’s husband, Oscar Isaac as Wally’s charming savior, David Harbour as Ernest Simpson, James Fox as Bertie — who would step in as king after Edward abdicates — and Natalie Dormer, the future Queen Mother, are all splendid. Madonna certainly knows how to get the best out of actors. (Miss Dormer is especially delicious in her brief but telling scenes.)
And Miss Riseborough is simply brilliant as Wallis; brittle, poignant, imprisoned.
There was a party after, at a place called Crown. Madonna attended, and so too, it appeared, had everybody in the MOMA audience. It was one of those events where you had to just get over the embarrassment of being jammed up intimately against total strangers. I wouldn’t be surprised if a few pregnancies resulted from the “W.E.” party. Yeah — it was that close. Madonna was at a corner table, ringed by bodyguards. People kept reaching in frantically, attempting to touch her or get her attention. It was kind of like a well-dressed zombie movie. But she was cool with the crush. This is her life.
Madonna’s “W.E” opens in L.A. on Dec 9th for a week. (For Academy consideration.) It goes wide on Feb 3rd. Of course she is still a great pop star and concert attraction. She is scheduled to perform at halftime at the upcoming Super Bowl. Her new album will soon be upon us. But if Madonna wanted to devote herself only to filmmaking, she could. She is a fine director, and she made a beautiful, complex and moving work of art. And that, despite its vintage subject matter, reflects this most modern woman in every frame.
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MTV reviews and approves Of Madonna's Masterpiece
After almost 30 years of dominating the industry, it's safe to say that Madonna -- Queen of Pop -- has crafted one or two masterpieces in her day. But now, she's really gone and done it... literally. Produced by William Orbit (the man behind Madge's 1998 grand reawakening, Ray of Light), Masterpiece is the gorgeous ballad that will serve as part of the soundtrack for M's upcoming film, W.E.
"And I'm right by your side, like a thief in the night/I stand in front of a masterpiece," the living legend tenderly declares. With lyrics as poignant as Ray of Light 's Frozen and gentle instrumentation like the fragile (and underrated) album track To Have And Not To Hold, Masterpiece proves that the collaborative spark that began between Orbit and Madonna more than 10 years ago has yet to fade.
And although the final version has yet to leak in full (only a demo exists for now), Masterpiece may just be one of Madonna's best ballads in years, if not decades. Long live the Queen!
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Madonna promoting Valentino Garavani's Virtual Museum!
Madonna is promoting the Virtual Museum of Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani on her official website.
Discover Valentino Garavani's Virtual Museum
Madonna's friend and famous designer Valentino Garavani has worked with Giancarlo Giametti to create the Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum. Valentino is the first international fashion designer to curate a permanent exhibition of his work in a digital form, which showcases nearly 300 dresses and boasts a media library of 5,000 images including sketches, illustrations, advertising campaigns and more. Visit www.valentino-garavani-archives.org to download the desktop application and experience the museum for yourself!
Vogue Magazine Compares Madonna's Directing To George Cukor!
Patti Smith gave Madonna’s film W.E. (Wallis and Edward) a standing ovation at the Cinema Society and Piaget’s screening for 450 guests at the Museum of Modern Art last night. Director/cowriter Madonna was gracious in her opening remarks: “Harvey Weinstein and I have been working together since Truth or Dare. I think it says we are going toward embracing the idea of unconditional love.” The fashion world—represented by Francisco Costa, Olivier Theyskens, Rachel Roy, Valentino Garavani, and Giancarlo Giammetti (who were seated in the row in front of Madonna)—came out to see what I felt was a beautiful achievement of two love stories intertwined. Weinstein, whose studio is releasing the film on February 5 (the week of the Super Bowl, where Madonna is scheduled to perform at halftime) was equally generous in his praise of what he called “a Renaissance woman.”
Madonna was moved by the screening’s museum locale. “When I was a young girl growing up in Detroit, I used to escape to the Detroit Institute . . . into the Diego Rivera paintings,” she recalled. “I learned about Frida Kahlo, and those paintings gave me the inspiration to believe I could come to New York and create my own revolution with my work."
Sarah Jessica Parker and Lee Daniels were there, as were Stella Schnabel, just back from Paris in an Azzedine Alaïa redingote over jeans, and Parker Posey and Chloë Sevigny, both in red silk. Donna Karan congratulated Andrea Riseborough, wearing a short white-and-black lace Oscar de la Renta dress, on her amazing performance as Wallis Simpson. “I hope you enjoyed doing the film as much as we enjoyed watching it,” said Karan.
“It was seven months of my life, and I am happy with the journey,” replied Riseborough, who was almost in tears at the audience’s response to W.E. “Madonna had seen me play Margaret Thatcher for the BBC. I had to read once for her, in her living room. When I received the script, I thought it was one of those special screenplays.”
“She transcended the character,” said Posey. Pat McGrath loved Madonna’s lighting, calling the film “gorgeous. It was gorgeous.” “She had such beautiful details,” Valentino told me later at the standing-room-only after-party at the Crown restaurant. Valentino would know, as he and his entourage had viewed the film four times, first at his French chateau, where Madonna was a guest this summer, and later at the Venice and Toronto film festivals with her.
Madonna, with her friend Alex Keshishian, came up with a nuanced screenplay, and her editing with archival footage and historical flashbacks never derails. It’s all so breathtakingly elegant, yet it has the modern brittle quality that will lure young audiences. To me, her message is to find refuge in love and make your own happiness. Two elements help navigate the film: the costumes by Arianne Phillips and the dramatic music composed by Abel Korzeniowski. Phillips gets right the Schiaparelli and Mainbocher chevron-striped walking suits and summery hostess dresses, as well as a seventies, at-home tunic and capri trousers for a dramatic deathbed scene. The Duke of Windsor, dying of throat cancer, wearing an oxygen mask, is propped up on pillows. The Duchess asks, “Do you want me to read to you, to rub your feet?” The Duke, in pain, responds, “I want you to dance, Wallis.” In her slightly askew Alexandre de Paris Kabuki-bow coiffure, puts on Chubby Checker and dances the Twist. Madonna's second directorial effort is brilliant. Her aesthetic sensibility is akin to the refined style of George Cukor. She magnificently hones detailed exuberance into a marvelous feast for the eye and the spirit.
Monday, December 5, 2011
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