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| | Madonna Sued for Supporting Gays | | Added 11 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Madonna is being sued (yay!) in Russia (awesome!) for supporting gays (oh… well then). Russian activists have sued Madonna for millions after a concert in St. Petersburg where she did the most offensive thing ever. Support gay rights.
In St. Petersburg, a law passed in February made it illegal to promote homosexuality to minors and the guy who wrote the law says children as young as 12 were at Madonna’s August 9 concert.
What were they exposed to? The performance featured Madonna”stomping on an Orthodox cross and asking fans to raise their hands to show the Pink armbands in support of gays and lesbians that were distributed among the audience.”
She’s being sued for 333 million rubles, or in non-made up currency, $10.5 million.
Responding to criticism that the plaintiffs were stuck in the Middle Ages, the lawyer said they were using civilized, modern methods to defend their rights. “No one is burning anyone at the stake or carrying out an Inquisition,” Pochuyev was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying. “Modern civilization requires tolerance and respect for different values.”
That last line right there makes me assume Russia doesn’t produce the brightest of homophobes. “Why won’t you tolerate and respect our rights to hate the queers?!,” said activists who make no sense whatsoever.
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| | Madonna: Snazzy Heel-less Heels in Vienna | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She?s always well-dressed for her fans, and last night (July 31) Madonna was out and about in the beautiful city of Vienna, Austria.
Joined by her boytoy Brahim Zaibat, the ?Express Yourself? songstress looked lovely in a pair of high heels that actually didn?t have heels on them, teamed with a black dress.
In career news, Madge is running into trouble with her Warsaw, Poland gig today (August 1), as it falls on the same day as the Warsaw Uprising.
Protesters are urging authorities to cancel the show and begging fans to stay away from the venue for fear of bad luck. Sixty-eight years ago the Nazi regime was in control of the city and an underground army tried to fight back only to lose hundreds of thousands of lives.
One critic declared, "Veteran organizations, patriots and Catholic movements are outraged by the concert held by Madonna Louise Ciccone on August 1. The date was not accidental but an anti religious and anti-Polish provocation. We are witnessing the desecration of the cross and a profanation of the holy sacrament.?
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| | Madonna Calls Her Fans Thugs | | Added 11 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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In response to the anger expressed by some fans after Madonna spent only 45 minutes performing during a special show at the Olympia with 10 of those minutes spent berating Marine Le Pen, she wrote on her website that the people who threw bottles at her on stage and yelled at her were just a few thugs pretending to be fans.
Playing the Olympia was a magical moment for me and it was real treat to do this special show for my fans and be so close to them. Unfortunately at the end of the show – after I left the stage – a few thugs who were not my fans rushed the stage and started throwing plastic bottles pretending to be angry fans. The press reports have focused on this and not the joyous aspect of the evening. But nothing can take away or ruin this very special evening for me and my fans. When I looked out in the audience, everyone I saw had a smile on their face. I look forward to having this wonderful experience again. Madonna
Oh, ok. So as long as you blindly follow Madonna, you’re a fan, but once you start expressing opinions that go against the hive mind, you’re a thug.
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| | Madonna refuses to drop the prop guns from her MDNA tour despite controversy | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last week, when I covered the latest Madonna ?controversy? in which she basically called a French politician a Nazi, I mentioned that Madonna?s MDNA stage show features a lot of ?prop guns?. She?s touring Europe right now, which doesn?t have the kind of rampant gun problems we have in America, so I kept expecting to hear more stuff from European politicians about that issue in particular, but not so much. Beyond the actual politics of ?prop guns used during a Madonna show,? seeing Madge pop her hip out while waving around a prop gun is pretty lame in general. We?re supposed to think she?s avant-garde, I think. When really she just looks out of touch.
Anyway, you know where I?m going with this. The new Madonna controversy is that, following the Colorado massacre, Madonna has not removed prop guns from her stage show. At all. Some people are offended. When she was in Scotland, the authorities even warned her about using the prop guns, and she did it anyway.
Maybe she really just doesn’t read the news, but Madonna’s managed to do it again: Despite being warned by police, the singer — who named her album after a thinly veiled drug reference — defied a ban and waved fake machine guns and pistols on stage at her show in Scotland on Saturday.
Her performance drew the ire of Mothers Against Guns, who said the 53-year-old singer “should know better.”
“Madonna and her dancers using replica guns was always in bad taste but given what happened in Colorado it is even worse,” a representative for the organization told the Saturday Morning Herald.
The singer’s camp remained defiant. “Madonna would rather cancel her show than censor her art,” a member of her tour staff told HuffPost’s Rob Shuter. “Her entire career, she has fought against people telling her what she can and cannot do. She?s not about to start listening to them now.”
[From HuffPo]
It?s not about censorship ? it?s about showing respect to the victims of one of the worst mass-shootings in American history. Madonna probably didn?t want to take the guns out of her show because there would have been barely any show left. What were they going to do, take away the guns and leave all of the crosses and the ?music?? Still, I?m not crazy about the idea that only NOW, after the Colorado thing, people are like, ?Wow, Madonna is so dumb to have all of these guns in her show.? It was asinine and offensive BEFORE Colorado. Now it?s just… Madonna being Madonna. Looking for whatever controversy she can cling to, fighting the ?good fight? against ?censorship? of her artsy prop guns that bring nothing to the conversation. All for a tour in support of an album that bombed. My point? She should take the prop guns out of her show because the whole ?waving guns around on stage? thing is so lame and stupid, not because of the politics or ?censorship? or anything like that.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Madonna Leaves London Hotel with Mystery Man | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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While overseas, Madonna was spotted leaving the Arch Hotel in London with a mystery man on Friday afternoon (July 20).
The Material Girl stepped out covered in a long black trench coat, large-framed sunglasses, and black open-toed heels.
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| | Madonna has a 'DNA sterilization team' cleaning up after her on tour. Seriously. | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are some newish photos of Madonna in Florence, Italy last week, where she was filming a new music video or commercial or something. Yes, I’m including a photo of her leather-clad grundle. You’re welcome. Anyway, Madge is still on her Magical MDNA tour, and she’s still making outlandish, crazy demands. Sure, she’s Madonna – insane riders come with the package. She makes a crazy amount of money and she IS crazy. Of course she’s going to have fresh flowers and 20 international phone lines. But did you know that she’s also got a team of cleaners to come in after her so that her DNA can be completely scrubbed from every surface? Um.
If Madonna fans had any crazy notion of nicking some of her DNA from her dressing room, bad luck. The paranoid star, 53, has ordered aides to leave no trace of her after she leaves gigs on her latest world tour.
In true diva style she set up a ?sterilisation team? to wipe away any DNA that may have been dropped in her room on hairs, skin or saliva.
Hygiene freak Madge, whose MDNA tour arrives in Coimbra City, Portugal, tomorrow has also told organisers only her and her entourage are allowed backstage passes. Concert promoter lvaro Ramos, overseeing the Portuguese leg of the spectacle, said: ?We have to take extreme care, like I have never seen for any other artist.
?We cannot even look at the dressing room, after it is ready, or even open the door. We can only enter after her sterilisation team has left the room. There will not be any of Madonna?s DNA, any hair, or anything. They will clean up everything. In the end it is all to protect her and make her feel comfortable. I do understand it, but it is taken to extremes.?
Her DNA destruction certainly beats Madonna?s many other precious concert demands in the past, such as ordering a new loo seat at every venue.
The singer will play at the Coimbra City Stadium, where the dressing rooms will be converted by her own staff to stop snoopers.
lvaro added: ?Her team will build everything for her, including fake ceilings and fake walls, so they can ensure that no one has hidden a camera somewhere.?
Last night, a source close to Madonna said: ?She is a perfectionist, and expects the best. But then, at her age and with her status, why shouldn?t she??
[From The Daily Mirror]
I don’t understand the paranoia about this if you’re A) a woman or B) Not wanted for any crimes in which comparative DNA evidence can be used in a court of law. The woman thing – like, if it was a dude who was paranoid about paternity tests or DNA evidence being used to frame him of assault or something, maybe I could understand. MAYBE. But it’s Madonna. Do people really care if you touched the same Kleenex that Madonna touched? Eh.
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Working on her latest music video, Madonna was spotted filming at an old gas station in Florence, Italy on Monday (June 18).
After a stylist touched up her voluminous hair, the "Girl Gone Wild" singer sat on the back of a convertible Cadillac and alternated between throwing her arm around a pal and shading herself from the sun with an umbrella - with her boyfriend Brahim Zaibat also seen roaming the shoot's grounds.
While Madge is currently on a world tour, In Touch magazine has learned that the 53-year-old singer has some bizarre and outlandish requirements in order for her to be comfortable and happy while she travels for her MDNA tour.
The "Material Girl" apparently has a 200-person entourage including: 30 bodyguards, a team of personal chefs, a yoga instructor, an acupuncturist and a dry cleaner.
In addition to the massive traveling team, the mag reports that Madonna wants her dressing room to have, "20 international phone lines, be draped in a special fabric and filled with lilies and white and light-pink roses that have stems trimmed to precisely six inches."
As for her hotel room, "She requires all furniture be removed from the rooms and replaced with her own pieces that she has shipped in," a source told the magazine.
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| | Madonna's tour rider includes a 200-person entourage & 20 internat?l phone lines | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are some new photos from Madonna?s tour stops in Milan and Florence, Italy over the past few days. So far, it doesn?t seem like Madonna is going to do much more than the occasional nip-slip or butt-cheek-reveal – some outlets have her flashing her ass yet again on stage in Milan. Is it just me or are Madge?s costumes kind of boring? It feels like she?s doing some lukewarm repeats of looks we?ve already seen a dozen times before. I guess the gun is new?? Or has she had gunplay in her stage show before? Madge is so ridiculous? it?s not about age, it?s not about her crazy face, it?s that she really doesn?t have anything NEW to add to the conversation, right?
Anyway, reports about Madonna?s rider for this MDNA tour have been circulating. Apparently, Madonna likes to make a lot of international phone calls? all at once. Like, she?ll call London, New York, Toronto, Tokyo and Sydney ALL AT ONCE.
She hit headlines after flashing her nipple and her bottom while performing on stage. And if reports are to be believed Madonna’s diva demands are more outrageous than her exhibitionism. The 53-year-old singer’s rider includes all sorts of extravagant conditions as she performs her MDNA tour, according to reports.
According to In Touch magazine Madonna travels with a huge 200-person entourage and has very specific requirements to the way her dressing rooms are set up. A source tells the magazine: ‘She requires all furniture be removed from the rooms and replaced with her own pieces that she has shipped in.’
It is claimed the singer demands 20 international phone lines in the room as well as special white and Pink roses that must have the stems cut to six inches. Backstage, it?s strictly vegan snacks.
As well as all this the singer is also said to demand special fabric for her room. An insider tells In Touch, ?She requires all furniture be removed from the rooms and replaced with her own pieces that she has shipped in.?
A source told the Daily Star: ‘Madonna has probably the longest list of requirements of any of the world?s music stars. She expects things to be just right or it puts her off her stage show.’
Within the 200-strong team she is said to have 30 bodyguards, a yoga instructor as well as personal chefs, an acupuncturist and an on-site dry-cleaner.
[From The Mail & In Touch Weekly]
The 20 international lines I don?t really understand unless it?s the rider for EVERYONE on the tour, backup dancers, crew, managers, etc. If it?s for everyone, that?s nice – everyone can call home and check in. But if it?s just for Madonna – there is no reason for one woman to need 20 phone lines all at once.
As for the other stuff – I believe it. The roses cut to a certain length just seems like something Madge-tastic. Vegan snacks are fine – compared to Britney?s rider, the idea that Madonna is still so conscious of her diet is kind of amazing. I also understand traveling with a yoga instructor, a dry-cleaner (cleaning the costumes must be a task and a half) and a chef. I don?t understand why a hotel?s furniture wouldn?t be good enough, though. Why spend all of that money to travel around with your own furniture everywhere? Hotel cooties? Is that it? ?Hotel cooties.?
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| | Madonna: 'I don't watch television' everyone's a bit contest-obsessed' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Madonna has a new interview with the UK?s Now Magazine. Now Mag is a pretty budget, tabloid operation, so I came into this thinking ?Did Madge really sit down for an interview with these people?? But I think she really did. And she hints at why she?s doing a print interview with a busted UK tabloid – her album, MDNA, bombed. And Madonna blames herself for the album flop – because she didn?t have time to do all of the promotion needed, because she?s a mother of four. Basically, Madonna is saying that no one bought her album because she?s too focused on her children. Au contraire, Madge.
She?s directed a movie, recorded a new album and performed at the Super Bowl — all within the last few months. So it?s not bragging when Madonna says: ?Sometimes I think I?m Superwoman.?
In a new interview with a British magazine, Madonna opened up about her hectic work and personal life admitting that she?s ?grumpy? from non-stop work and that she?s skimped on promoting her new album MDNA to spend more time with her children.
?Just going from my movie to my record and the Super Bowl and rehearsing for my tour I really haven?t had a break,? said Madge. ?Sometimes I think I?m Superwoman and I can do it all. But right about now I?m thinking, ?Maybe I should?ve taken a few months off.? But I have four kids so that factors into all of my decisions. Being on tour in the summertime is better because they can be on the road with me and they don?t miss school. I don?t make decisions on my own anymore.?
One decision she has made is to cut back on promoting the new album, which set a dubious record for the biggest sales drop from Week 1 to Week 2.
?It?s hard,? Madonna told NOW magazine. ?It?s always a juggling act. So often to the irritation of my manager I say no to things. I should be out promoting my record a lot more but if I do that then I have no free time with my children. I have to make sacrifices.?
And one thing she will definitely say no to ? if asked ? is a stint as judge on American Idol, The Voice, The X Factor or any singing competition show. In fact, Madonna reveals she?s never watched any of them!
?I don?t watch television,? she said, before expressing mild disdain for the shows. ?Everyone?s a bit contest obsessed. I don?t actually like the idea of being a judge. It?s so, I don?t know, subjective ? what?s good and what isn?t. I think perhaps we?re too obsessed with it.?
Proving that she is completely unfamiliar with the singing shows and their products, when asked about Simon Cowell?s group One Direction, Madonna said: ?That?s a pop group, right? I haven?t seen them yet, sorry.?
[From Radar]
The kicker is that I think Madonna probably is a pretty good mother, as far as celebrity moms go. Years ago, she seemed really strict, but you can see Lola?s teenage drama infecting the whole household and suddenly barriers are being broken and before you know it, Rocco and Mercy and going to be eating Lucky Charms in front of the TV!
As for her comments about TV and reality shows – ?Everyone?s a bit contest obsessed. I don?t actually like the idea of being a judge? I think perhaps we?re too obsessed with it?? -LMAO. Isn?t it a wonder that Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow are no longer friends? Because I feel like Gwyneth would say or has said those exact words. Madge is throwing shade at reality shows, but she?s also pretending that she?s not a judgy bitch. So maybe Gwyneth wouldn?t say those words – I don?t think Goop has any problems acknowledging that she would be a natural at reality show judging. She sits in judgment of all the peasants on a daily basis. As does Madonna.
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| | Madonna claims (with English accent) she's 'survived with sanity & humor intact' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Madonna has a new interview! The complete thing airs tonight on Rock Center, but the Today Show had a preview this morning, and it?s pretty decent. Madonna answers questions about those recent photos of Lourdes puffing away on a cigarette – Madge says she ?wasn?t very happy? about the photos: ?Honestly, I don’t think I’m as tough as I should be. I think I need to be maybe tougher. It’s hard — every day is a negotiation. But cigarette smoking I’m not very fond of — for anyone.” When Madonna is reminded of the fact that she was smoking a cigarette in her latest ?Girl Gone Wild? video, Madge joked that the cig was ?just a prop.? She also talks about life as a single mother: ?It must be hard, because I complain all the time! We all have our challenges? To be a single mother of four and to work as much as I do, with my life in a kind of metaphorical fish bowl, it’s pretty challenging. But so far I’ve survived with sanity and humor intact.” All in all, this is one of the better Madonna interviews:
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I mean? at one point, I was rolling my eyes at her pretension and her ?default? safe place of falling casually into a clipped English accent, but I also think she was pretty honest in this piece. I don?t know when this interview was conducted, but with the way Madge is all puffed up with her ?number one debut? on the charts, it probably was done two weeks ago. Because MDNA bombed – big time – last week, and now everyone is saying that Madonna probably didn?t even reach number one on the charts because of her label?s sketchy math (they were giving the album away for free and counting those as ?sales?). They reference that in the voiceover, but Madge doesn?t talk about it.
Oh, and are we going to talk about her face or how soft and Oprah-like the lighting was? No. Let?s skip it.
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