Queen!

:lol: only madonna would have the queen on her Jaket :heehee:

Notice on the behind the scenes dvd extras Madonna wears a Queen Of The Dance Floor Vest!. Not forgetting her "Dancing Queen" cape for Lucky Star on that tour.

Madonna unveils a sympathetic portrait of Wallis Simpson

 

After she was turned into a hate figure in the film The King's Speech and Any Human Heart, the television adaptation of William Boyd's novel, the late Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, will receive at least a measure of sympathy when Andrea Riseborough portrays her in Madonna's forthcoming film, W.E.

 

"It is a kinder, gentler portrayal," says Hugo Vickers, the author of Behind Closed Doors, a new biography of the Duchess, who acted as the film's historical adviser. "It is silly to portray her as a baddie. If there was anyone who was a baddie it was Edward VIII."

 

The author also worked as a consultant on The King's Speech in which he felt that Wallis - played by Eve Best - was turned into "too gauche" a character. "Obviously, as an adviser, I can only make sure these films are as historically accurate as possible and I have no say in the dramatic content," says Vickers. "I think Andrea Riseborough captures the character very well, however. She makes her human."

 

Madonna, who is the director and co-writer of the film, has presented a two-tiered romantic drama focusing on Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.

The film is likely to please Edward Fox. The actor, who appeared in the television series Edward & Mrs Simpson, told me just before Christmas that he had spoken to a lot of people who knew Wallis. "They told me she was fun, hospitable and welcoming," he said. "Sadly, we live in harsher times today than when we made that series. We seem to have an insatiable appetite for figures that we can hate."

 

Madonna, by the way, goes back a long way with Vickers. It was he who advised her to purchase, with her former husband Guy Ritchie, Ashcombe House in Wiltshire, the former home of Cecil Beaton, when it came up for sale in 2001.

 

From The Tekegraph

'Sure enough, we're off to Venice. That's Madonna''

 

Abbie Cornish opened up with the sideny Morning Herald about Heath Ledger, Madonna and the fuss over fantasy flick Sucker Punch.

 

Cornish counts Madonna as a friend and collaborator. Her next film, W.E, is directed and co-written by the singer and will premiere in Venice later this year. It tells the story of a lonely woman obsessed with the abdication of King Edward VIII, a subject integral to this year's best picture Oscar winner, The King's Speech. Cornish says, as with Ledger, that her new co-star has given her something inspirational to add to that teenaged view of a world where anything is possible.

 

''It's her discovery of love and sacrifice and what [they] mean,'' Cornish says of the film, in which she plays an unhappily married woman named Wally Winthrop.

 

''And I remember when we were shooting Madonna said, 'I really want to go to Venice.' And sure enough, we're off to Venice. That's Madonna. She's such a force. She's such an amazing woman. If she puts her mind to something, it'll actually exist.''

 

From smh.com.au.

More pics from saturday's bikeride across London

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Abel Korzeniowski: The score I recorded in London was for W.E. – a new feature film directed by Madonna. (via facebook)

Abel is famous for scoring the music for Tom Ford’s A Single Man.

Michael Putland: Triptychs

 

Three Madonna portraits by photographer Michael Putland are featured in a new exhibition at Snap Galleries, in Central London.

 

Snap hosted a solo show for Michael Putland in their Birmingham gallery back in 2005 which was a great success, and are now delighted to be working with Michael again on this new exhibition of triptychs.

 

In this new exhibition, Michael Putland presents a collection of work from his extensive 1970s and 80s photographic archives in a stunning new format, presenting three individual frames as a single artwork. Other artists featured in the collection are Madonna, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, John Lennon, David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Tom Waits, Bob Marley, Steven Stills, Tim Buckley and Prince.

As Michael Putland explains The inspiration for the project actually came from the Renaissance. Seeing many Renaissance originals in museums and churches over the years, it struck me that there could be a contemporary twist to this age old method of image presentation, and I started to explore images within my archive to see whether any would be suitable for combining as triptychs. The deeper I dug, the more I came up with, and Im delighted with the results. In each triptych, my guiding principle was that the three images should work together as a coherent whole - there had to be an anchor image in the centre, and then a natural image for the left and one which sat naturally to the right.

 

Michael Putland: Triptychs

13th April to 21st May 2011

8 Piccadilly Arcade

London SW1Y 6NH England

 

Monday to Friday 11.00am - 6.00pm

Saturday 11.00am - 5.00pm

Sunday Closed - Bank holidays Generally closed

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Madonna on Billboard’s 10 Awesome Coachella Moments

 

Madonna Rules the Dance Tent (2006)

 

Coachella purists raised their eyebrows when organizers announced the addition on Madonna — the most mainstream act the alt-rock-leaning event had ever booked — as the Sahara dance tent’s headlining act in 2006. But Madge proved that she belonged in the desert as she delivered a dynamic 30-minute set of club hits that had everybody but the Tool fans shaking their asses

 

Set List

1. Hung Up

2. Get Together

3. I Love New York

4. Ray of Light

5. Let it Will Be

6. Everybody

 

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kelly looks hot as madonna :D

 

Madonna has had the most amazing Hairsyles!

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No she doesn't, all apart from the last 2 are hideous :puke:

Marina And The Diamonds on Madonna

 

Who do you think are pop’s best female role models?

 

The people that I admire, they might not live moral lives, but they’re just so f*cking honest. For me, John Lydon [aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols] is a hero. Madonna. I hate this kind of media training thing where people asked a question and the artist just skirts around it. I don’t think Madonna ever did that. Whatever you asked her, she’d give you an answer. And I think that’s how it should be. If people are investing in you and beliving you, at least give them the truth

''A woman above all''

 

"It wasn't like meeting a monster! She's just a woman like all the others. She's an extraordinary artist and world-famous, of course, but a woman above all."

 

"You know, she wasnt the first well-known female singer Id met. I was delighted to meet her, but not stressed out.

 

Brahim Zaibat, quoted by the New York Post from an interview to Frances Grazia.

Madonna at the Kabbalah centre in New York on saturday (16th)

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Madonna at the Kabbalah centre in New York on saturday (16th)

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Piers Don't Preach: Kelly Osbourne defends Madonna

 

On last night's Piers Morgan Tonight, Sharon and Kelly Osbourne chatted with him about pretty much everything. When Morgan brought up his well-documented hatred for Madonna - and argued that she's a bad mother for thrusting daughter Lourdes into the spotlight - an annoyed Kelly did her best to put him in his place.

 

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Go Kelly! (Never thought I'd say that).

Go to NME.com and vote Madonna as the greatest pop act of all time

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Whit Hill’s New Book Is ‘Not about Madonna’

 

Not About Madonna: My Little Pre-Icon Roommate — and Other Memoirs by Whit Hill will be published in September by Heliotrope Books (272 pages, trade paperback 978-0-9832940-0-9 $17.95).

 

“In the fall of 1977, when I came to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to enter the dance program at the University of Michigan, I thought I knew a thing or two. I had acted professionally in New York City, my hometown. I had posed nude for art classes. … I was a very modern girl. … When I met Madonna Ciccone, my initial assessment, even as I watched her leg soaring into an effortless front extension, was that I had little to learn from any young whippersnapper from Michigan, safety-pinned earlobes or no. I felt no instant flush of warmth and trust the day we met, no recognition of a kindred spirit — in fact all I recall feeling was an almost seismic wariness. But somehow, a few days later, she was my roommate. … I never knew what hit me.”

 

So begins Whit Hill’s compelling, poignant—and very funny—memoir of her life, as reflected through the lens of her junior year at the University of Michigan—with her roommate Madonna. NOT ABOUT MADONNA it is also the story of the years that followed for Whit, a life of motherhood, dance, music, love, loss, change, and the bizarre experience of unwittingly becoming a semi-professional “Madonna expert.”

 

As close as sisters (yet at times as distant as constellations), these college roommates shared not just a tiny room but experiences of looming adulthood, sexuality, affections, and hard work for their art. Madonna and Whit learned from each other, influenced each other, loved each other—then parted, taking off on their own individual roads.

 

Not about Madonna is a book about two very different women who lived alongside each other for nine months, about women artists in America, about mothers and daughters, about giving birth — to hot, squirming babies, and to huge, ionospheric pop careers. It is about loss and poverty and hope and happiness and remembrance. And it is, heartbreakingly, about all the ways you can lose your mom.

 

The book includes a never-before-published, seven-page handwritten letter Madonna wrote Whit during Christmas break, 1977. Intensely personal and beautifully written, the letter is a glimpse inside the mind of a young woman on the brink of something extraordinary.

 

When asked how the book came about, Whit says, “I’ve been working on Not About Madonna on and off for the last twenty years or so—sometimes enthusiastically, sometimes half-heartedly, sometimes with hope, other times with bewilderment. I’ll admit it: I started the project to try and support myself and my kids while trying to be an artist. But then I decided I needed to write something I could be proud of. I just wanted to take the celebrity ‘I-Knew-Her-When’ schlock and make something beautiful out of it. Like finding a piece of plastic on the beach and incorporating it into a mosaic. I hope I’ve succeeded.”

 

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W.E premiere date in Denmark

 

It seems that Madonna's W.E is set to premiere in Denmark on November 10th this year.

 

The official premiere date appears in the new calendar published by the movie's distribution company for the Danish market Filmcompagniet.