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Madge may be moving back to London, but her music is front and center in the new promo for “Glee” season dos. The White guys in suits over at Fox know their audience well, because these promos are gay, gay, gay. (Maybe a little conspicuously gay?) Too bad their sister network, Fox News, lacks the same open door policy. Below, Sue Sylvester ponders the hidden complexity of “sneaky gays.” Genius.
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Let’s be honest; it’s probably going to happen in the near future. We’re going to see J.D. Salinger’s masterpiece of teenage angst and rebellion translated (twisted?) onto the silver screen. With his passing earlier this week, I imagine producers are circling the estate with hopes of securing the movie rights for The Catcher in the Rye
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There is a certain cushy feeling of smug superiority in being the lone dissenter in a room full of the converted. However, while criticism will always be valid and necessary, there is no glory in contrariness for its own sake. More and more in recent days I have come to question my own rejection of a certain disco-stick-wielding Fame Monster who has improbably taken the world by storm making that most un-American form of low art, dance music.
The velocity of Lady Gaga’s‘ rise to global prominence since late 2008 is both startling and stultifying predictable. In an age where reality TV has seemed to become the rule rather than the exception it is increasingly effective to, as the Lady says , “self-proclaim [one's own] fame.” Tila Tequila may have done it first and parlayed MySpace infamy into a hit reality show on VH1, but Gaga has surely done her one better by having something other than herself to promote: music.
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While the rest of us were were watching NCIS on CBS on Tuesday night, the A-Listers came out for the New York premiere of ”NINE” @ the Ziegfeld Theater. Two very special guests were Madonna (wearing vintage Dolce & Gabbana) and daughter Lourdes–who is perhaps the fiercest teen in America right now. “I think it’s great that [Lourdes] dresses like a normal, adjusted, and confident teenage girl who is in tune with popular culture, has a social life, and has not in the least bit let her mother’s celebrity get in the way of of it,” noted our resident fashion critic, Jeremy Lewis. Hear, Hear! Love the docs.
“NINE” opens in New York and Los Angeles this Friday, and expands wide on Christmas day (Our review is forthcoming).
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- Madonna & Lourdes
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- Dame Judi Dench
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- Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
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- The Cast
UPDATE | Full disclosure. We didn’t, see this skit live on television because we were out dancing. SNL had some brilliant moments last fall — mostly, due to Tina Fey’s brief return — but, we can probably agree, that Saturday nights on NBC just aren’t that funny lately. So, we were surprised — shocked even — when this morning the bloggers were all a twitter about the Madonna and Lady Gaga cat-fight on SNL last night. We should have been warned. Both ladies were in perfect form. The Material Girl (more like material mommy these days), looked especially gorgeous. And Gaga’s on-point comedic timing says a great deal about her star power. Madonna may not be ready to pass the baton, but she certainly has a viable successor in Gaga. In the meantime, let’s hope Gaga can keep her cool in the coming years and not flail like Madge’s other pop-proteges.
MADGE + CHILD // Madonna and Whitney on the same day — What year is this? Check out Lourdes and Jesus Luz (shakes head in jealousy). We can’t show you the full video (it’s too large to upload — and it keeps removing itself from YouTube). So here are some stills for your evening pleasure. The video is available today only for free on iTunes (surely you knew that). Don’t know about you, but taking in this “look” on Madge, I think I just figured out my Halloween costume.
Madonna scammed the subculture in her 1990 hit song “Vogue”, Beyonce has ripped it to shreds with her “Sasha Fierce” persona, even Ciara has recently given a nod to house culture with her newest single “Work”, yet the voguing scene remains in obscurity seen only in its past through “Paris is Burning.” What people fail to find out is that the scene is very much thriving and is one of the most innovative and relentless arenas for expression, glamor, power, and community–as it has always been. Thank you producers at MTV for allowing your programming to become a voice for something more than arrogant, overfed, heterosexual, alcoholic, slutty, white young adults and their privilege. Visit Vogue Evolution — ABDC’s first all gay dance group — on their space.
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Madonna opens her coffers for yet another infusion of cash, thanks to the generosity of Marc Jacobs and company (aka Louis Vuitton). The new advertising campaign features the original material girl shot by fashion photographer Steven Meisel in one of the more anticipated campaigns of the season.
Missed Madonna’s “Confessions” Tour? No worries.
For $49.95 you can pre-order a copy of the book MADONNA: CONFESSIONS. Published by powerHouse Books, this is the official book of quintessential images taken by manager Guy Oseary. Replete with 250+ never-before-seen images, CONFESSIONS is almost as good as a front row seat and a backstage pass. The book “drops” on October 4, 2008 in conjunction with the premier show of Madge’s “Sticky and Sweet” Tour.
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- Bleeding Love
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- I Kissed A Girl
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- 4 Minutes
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- Lollipop
NO JUDGMENT — These songs are great and all (mostly), gays love them some Lollipop. but after Leona Lewis’s Bleeding Love Remix plays for the 3rd time at the SAME party, that’s when you know you’ve reached the apex of overplay. And I’m not surprised that more gay men than lesbian women enjoy Katy Perry. The women must see through Perry’s faux girl/girl appeal. Other overplayed nominees include Danity Kane’s Damaged and Rihanna’s Disturbia.
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