Memoir coming from Madonna's brother

The mystery is solved: Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing a memoir about his sister, to be released in mid-July by an imprint of Simon & Schuster, the publisher told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The imprint, Simon Spotlight Entertainment, had been promoting a celebrity memoir for July, without identifying the author or contents. 'Life With My Sister Madonna' will have a first printing of 350,000. Financial details were not disclosed.
'Ciccone's extraordinary memoir is based on his life and 47 years of growing up with and working with his sister — the most famous woman in the world,' the publisher said Wednesday in a statement.
Persuading stores to make 'blind' orders has been tried before. In 2006, William Morrow offered a mysterious tell-all that turned out to be by Princess Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, who had already written about her. Retailers were angered and the book sold poorly.
Ciccone will work with Wendy Leigh, who has written biographies of Liza Minnelli and Grace Kelly and a highly critical book about Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Ciccone, 47, has worked often with his older sister, designing and directing her 'Girlie Show' tour in 1993 and serving as artistic director of her 1991 documentary, 'Madonna: Truth or Dare.' But according to Madonna's spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg, they are no longer close.
Madonna, who turns 50 this summer, is among the most popular recording artists in history, with such hits as 'Like a Virgin,' 'Material Girl' and 'Vogue.'
Rosenberg had no initial comment on the book, but told the AP that 'Madonna has not cooperated with any biography about herself.'

From AP Via Yahoo! News

sad.

Xcalibre said:

to say the least. yes

Wendy Williams read that he needs money for drugs

LiquidGold said:

that was actually the first response i had typed out "what, is he out of drug money?".

I agree...very sad. Perhaps he needs the money?!

I've read Wendy Leigh's book about Schwarzenegger as well, and it was total b*llocks!! So I'll be giving this one a wide-berth to!

I wonder if things like this are why she doesn't come home to Detroit anymore

it's bad when you can't even trust your own family. prince had this problem in the past too!

applekisses said:

Chris lives/lived in Miami and apprently has a major drug problem that Madonna has offered to pay for rehab and whatnot but he has refused.

ehuffnsd said:

I guess that's not it, then. I'm trying to figure it out. Martin has had a problem for years. I don't know if he still lives here or not.

The only Madonna tell-all you'll ever need! I read that shizz in two days when it first came out.

applekisses said:

i think it has more to do with logsitics of the tour than the location. The Palace may not be able to handle the scale of stage she uses anymore. If I remember with RIT there was question on whether it could support the catwalk. Also what dates are avail and what not. I honestly don't feel it's personal as much as it just can be done there. Her Father and step mother still live in MI.

ehuffnsd said:

I wonder if she could do it at Ford Field, then?

http://www.fordfield.com/

applekisses said:

is that indoor or outdoor?

ehuffnsd said:

It's indoor and only a few years old. Plus, there's the Silverdome:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...Silverdome

applekisses said:

i dunno about this time out since it's during football season. those places may not have the dates she could realisticly do the show.

RipHer2Shreds said:

how come all these on the periphery folk always feel the need to capitaliz with books????

from Rupert Everett's autobiography, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins:



"Dessert was being served. A cluster of divas, some of them stars, others not, sat around Donatella at a corner table in the courtyard. The party moved fast around us, the table was a rock, and waves of fruits de mer crashed against it, swelling our numbers from eight to twelve, and then to sixteen. Chairs peeled off in all directions in a swastika for intimate asides over cigarettes and crossed legs, but the undertow on this particular stretch of bitch was strong and soon, they had been swept back out to sea by the acid tongue of Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone, the glum monosyllabic reply of Guy Ritchie, or the polite but firm dismissal of Gwyneth Paltrow. Madonna smiled graciously to all and sundry, secure in the knowledge that someone else would do the dirty work, and give any unwanted jellyfish 'the old heave-ho.'....

Gwyneth had been flirting with Guy Oseary, the child prodigy who ran Madonna's record company, but that liaison was another thin strand that Gwyneth cut with the brisk cheer of a dignitary opening a new wing of a hospital. 'I name this ship...Over.' It had snapped before the party even began. Actually, she was as thick as thieves with Christopher, and after midnight the two of them danced like whirling dervishes until they wound up slumped and feverish on Donatella's garden couch.

And this was the night that marked the beginning of the end for Christopher and Madonna. They had been inseparable through a trippy childhood in a huge family with a wicked stepmother, and she had taken him with her to the material world, where Christopher had provided a solid raft in the shark-infested waters. And for anyone who came into contact with Madonna, to know her at all you had to know him. The one was incomprehensible without the other. He was her dark side and she was his. People reeled in horror at the mention of his name, because he had a blunt aggressive manner, and he often looked as though he was laughing at you, particularly when he was drunk...But Guy [Ritchie] and Chris were from different planets, and in a way the one's success relied on the other not being there. Also Guy was not particularly comfortable with queens, and so, as the relationship between him and Madonna quickly deepened, it was a last call for a lot of the disco bunnies and club-mix queens that made up the fabric of Madonna's mantle. It was a surprise, because Madonna came out of the womb blowing a disco whistle, but a whole aspect of her life was about to be hit by the delete button."