Another great post by LIZ SMITH: Madonna-Thon http://www.newyorksociald...donna-thon

in other Madonna news....Erotica and Bedtime Stories have just been released on 180gram vinyl I'm gonna do some early Christmas shopping for myself,lol

Happy birthday queen!!!

Since there were no replies to my other comment above, I´d like to ask the hardcore Madonna fans here on the org one thing that I´ve been wondering about for a long time now.

How come nobody ever mentions her film "Snake Eyes" ?

I mean, it was a pretty decent film directed by Abel Ferrara, in my opinion a really good director, and the film was really enjoyable and dark and twisted at the same time.

How come that movie NEVER gets a mention in any article about her movies?

She still looks great !

SoulAlive said:

Madonna Surprises 400 Fans at 25th Anniversary Screening of Madonna: Truth or Dare in N.Y.C.

Madonna surprised 400 unsuspecting fans that were in attendance at the anniversary screening of Madonna: Truth or Dare at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on Wednesday.

"She came out to support Alek Keshishian, her longtime friend and director of the celebrated documentary," a source tells PEOPLE.

Dressed in a red off-the-shoulder dress, Madge appeared to be all smiles as she interacted with her fans.

Madonna: Truth or Dare was originally released in May 1991 and followed Madonna's successful 57-show Blond Ambition World Tour across the globe.

August has been a month of celebration for the superstar.

Madonna recently returned from a birthday trip to Cuba with her children, including estranged son Rocco. The mother of four turned 58 on Aug. 16.

KoolEaze said:

Since there were no replies to my other comment above, I´d like to ask the hardcore Madonna fans here on the org one thing that I´ve been wondering about for a long time now.

How come nobody ever mentions her film "Snake Eyes" ?

I mean, it was a pretty decent film directed by Abel Ferrara, in my opinion a really good director, and the film was really enjoyable and dark and twisted at the same time.

How come that movie NEVER gets a mention in any article about her movies?

Nevermind . I just read the Guardian article and saw a positive mention of that movie, albeit under a different name (Dangerous Game). According to the director Abel Ferrara Madonna badmouthed the film. Which, if true, is too bad, because that film was actually pretty good.

KoolEaze said:

Since there were no replies to my other comment above, I´d like to ask the hardcore Madonna fans here on the org one thing that I´ve been wondering about for a long time now.

How come nobody ever mentions her film "Snake Eyes" ?

I mean, it was a pretty decent film directed by Abel Ferrara, in my opinion a really good director, and the film was really enjoyable and dark and twisted at the same time.

How come that movie NEVER gets a mention in any article about her movies?

I haven't seen it...didn't really know about it. That may be the reason there's so little talk about it. It sounds interesting and I'll check it out. It's got to be better than "Swept Away" which I saw for the first time on TV not long ago.

KoolEaze said:

Since there were no replies to my other comment above, I´d like to ask the hardcore Madonna fans here on the org one thing that I´ve been wondering about for a long time now.

How come nobody ever mentions her film "Snake Eyes" ?

I mean, it was a pretty decent film directed by Abel Ferrara, in my opinion a really good director, and the film was really enjoyable and dark and twisted at the same time.

How come that movie NEVER gets a mention in any article about her movies?

I love her music but i have never seen any of her films.

Justifying Our Love: 25 Years Later, the Madonna Doc Still Delights — And Confounds

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Outliving Michael Jackson and Prince, Madonna is the sole survivor of the holy triad of pop superstars born in 1958. She turned fifty-eight last week; also celebrating a (milestone) birthday is Alek Keshishian's immensely pleasurable vérité backstager/concert doc Madonna: Truth or Dare, now twenty-five years old. Reviewing the film in the May 14, 1991, issue of the Voice, J. Hoberman praised Truth or Dare as "a remarkable portrait of a sacred monster in her prime." The description remains unassailable — and is now all the more poignant, considering Madonna's diminished stature today. Though she is still active in a variety of fields and endures as one of the most famous people on the planet, she has, of course, been eclipsed by others in the past quarter-century; Queen Bey has for several years worn the crown that once sat atop the head of Her Madgeness. Nor has Madonna, an artist in the decadent phase of her career, been immune to the ignominious imperatives of portfolio-diversifying: She repurposed the name of Keshishian's documentary for a "lifestyle brand" that she launched in 2011 specializing in handbags, footwear, and fragrance.

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And yet for this Gen X critic, the experience of revisiting Truth or Dare — which I returned to repeatedly in theaters during the spring and summer of 1991 — for the first time since its initial release prompted a flood of memories about Madonna's enormous influence on American culture, and, by extension, on my life: Nearly every conversation (public or private), academic essay, and broadsheet op-ed about race, gender, and/or sexuality from roughly the mid-Eighties through the mid-Nineties inevitably involved the Material Girl. During these peak years of postmodernism, Madonna, unparalleled provocatrice and recycler of high and low iconography, operated, per Hoberman, "as a sign system" unto herself. She was excoriated by bell hooks in her 1992 book Black Looks: Race and Representation for her cannibalizing of African-American culture and lauded in 1990 by Camille Paglia in the New York Times as "the future of feminism."

At the D.C. law firm where I had a miserable entry-level job, Madonna's '92 coffee-table book Sex was passed around like smutty samizdat among the senior partners, paralegals, and support staff; among my co-workers, she was either dismissed by the uptight and obtuse as narcissistic or looked to, primarily by secretaries living in the suburbs, as a model of aspirational bedroom practices. For a not-quite-out teen and young adult, as I was then, Madonna's role as sapphic signifier — whether covert (as the object of Rosanna Arquette's fascination in Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan from 1985; whatever she was up to with Sandra Bernhard on David Letterman's show in 1988) or overt (evidenced in the infamous Steven Meisel photos that ran in Rolling Stone shortly after Truth or Dare's release; several tableaux in Sex) — functioned as both lure and repellent.

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The Madonna captured in Truth or Dare is all and none of these things, a tiny, hard body bearing the weight of the symbols and symbolism ascribed to her (by herself, by others, by me), personas that she shrewdly dons or sheds at will. Keshishian's documentary tracks Madonna in several different cities around the globe during her 1990 "Blond Ambition" tour, her third, mounted in support of her albums Like a Prayer and I'm Breathless, the soundtrack to Dick Tracy. (The 1990 Warren Beatty–directed project is one of seven titles showcasing the singer's thespian skills — and limitations — that will screen in "Body of Work: A Madonna Retrospective," which runs concurrently with Metrograph's revival ofTruth or Dare. Beatty, Madonna's romantic partner during the "Blond Ambition" tour, smugly skulks in the background in Keshishian's film, the old guy getting his comeuppance when his girlfriend demands, "Get over here, you pussy.")

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In dressing rooms, hotel suites, and ladies' lavatories, among other intimate locations, Madonna and her crew are filmed in black-and-white 16mm; onstage, their pulse-quickening numbers ("Express Yourself," "Like a Virgin," "Holiday," and others) are rendered in effulgent, almost garish, color. Madonna is a machine; an ever-yammering, saucy mouth; and, most queasily, a "mother," a self-designated role she remarks on several times in voiceover (and for which she was especially rebuked in hooks's essay). "I think I've chosen people who are emotionally crippled or need mothering in some way," says the superstar, who lost her own mom at age five — and whose Truth or Dare visit to Ma's gravesite, scored to "Promise to Try," reveals the singer's talent for the unbearably maudlin.

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Among those "cripples" are her seven backup dancers, mostly gay black and Latino men, all of whom, along with supporting singers Niki Haris and Donna De Lory, first reached wide visibility in Madonna's "Vogue" video from 1990. (That septet is the focus of Strike a Pose, a doc that screened at Tribeca in April and that will open in theaters early next year.) Auditioning for the singer at a nightclub to land the "Blond Ambition" gig, two of the dancers, Luis Camacho and Jose Gutierez, were members of the House of Xtravaganza, one of the ballroom clans immortalized in Jennie Livingston's documentary Paris Is Burning, released the same year as Truth or Dare, with which it forms a crucial diptych. Livingston's film, like Keshishian's, is an essential investigation of queerness, race, and stardom — as lived by those whom Madonna flagrantly cribbed from and who, in turn, have achieved a kind of immortality that may forever elude her.

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Madonna: Truth or Dare
Directed by Alek Keshishian
Miramax
Opens August 26, Metrograph

KoolEaze said:

Since there were no replies to my other comment above, I´d like to ask the hardcore Madonna fans here on the org one thing that I´ve been wondering about for a long time now.

How come nobody ever mentions her film "Snake Eyes" ?

I mean, it was a pretty decent film directed by Abel Ferrara, in my opinion a really good director, and the film was really enjoyable and dark and twisted at the same time.

How come that movie NEVER gets a mention in any article about her movies?

I have the DVD,where it is re-titled 'Dangerous Game'

I think this movie is interesting.Haven't watched it in a long time,though.I need to revisit it.

I recall that when Madonna saw the finished film,she was furious at the director."I did some of my best acting in that film,but the director cut so much of it out",she complained.

KoolEaze said:

She still looks great !

SoulAlive said:

indeed she does

SoulAlive said:

KoolEaze said:

She still looks great !

indeed she does

She really does, and she looks happy

Truth or Dare was a great doco I was hoping they would do a 25 Aniversary for dvd/blu-ray with new commentary, extras etc I give it 4.5 out of 5

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SoulAlive said:

KoolEaze said:

Since there were no replies to my other comment above, I´d like to ask the hardcore Madonna fans here on the org one thing that I´ve been wondering about for a long time now.

How come nobody ever mentions her film "Snake Eyes" ?

I mean, it was a pretty decent film directed by Abel Ferrara, in my opinion a really good director, and the film was really enjoyable and dark and twisted at the same time.

How come that movie NEVER gets a mention in any article about her movies?

I have the DVD,where it is re-titled 'Dangerous Game'

I think this movie is interesting.Haven't watched it in a long time,though.I need to revisit it.

I recall that when Madonna saw the finished film,she was furious at the director."I did some of my best acting in that film,but the director cut so much of it out",she complained.

When I watched it my version was still called "Snake Eyes" . I wonder what prompted them to change the title . A good friend of mine has this on VHS and he told me it was released under not only two but three different titles.

I think the movie is very intense and I must honestly say I really liked Madonna´s acting in it. The film has gotten mostly bad reviews and the rating on Rotten Tomatoes is pretty low but this is one of those films where I am baffled that critics despised it so much. I watched it without being biased and withot any expectations and I really liked it and still do.

I read an interview with Abel Ferrara where he talks about how Madonna badmouthed the movie before the critics could do so but on the other hand I also understand her if Mr. Ferrara really left out some of her intense scenes.

I´d love to see a new cut of this film, a new DVD release with an unedited , longer version.

speaking of Madonna movies...I really like 'Who's That Girl?'.It's a very funny film and Madonna is great in it.I would say that it's my favorite Madonna movie.

I found Dangerous Game (1993) with subtitles. Yes its pretty intense and Madonna is really good in it, Harvey's character is an asshole....and James Russo can't make up his mind if he wants to be Brando or Penn. I give this film a 3.5 out of 5

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MTV Awards on today and will probably suck......so in honor of this event I post this, when Madonna rocked the show

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I love her "I don't give a fuq" attitude. I LIVE for it! Fierce

mjscarousal said:

I love her "I don't give a fuq" attitude. I LIVE for it! Fierce

Oh I wish for the good ol days when there was real cool performances on the MTV Awards like this classic from 1990

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Goddess4Real said:

Oh I wish for the good ol days when there was real cool performances on the MTV Awards like this classic from 1990

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Well MTV may not have much creativity any more...but Madonna's last concert had some performances and dance numbers that left me spellbound... And I'm jaded.

How sweet Madonna wished MJ a Happy b'day too http://www.usmagazine.com...cs-w436856

Bad Movie Night: Madonna and Sean Penn’s Famous Flop ‘Shanghai Surprise’ http://flavorwire.com/587...i-surprise Its not the worst Madonna movie, so I give it a 3 out of 5 its a guilty pleasure and they gave it a good go.....they are just both miscast (though Sean can do light comedy eg. Fast Times (1982) and Sweet & Lowdown (1999) given good material)....but Madonna did looked beautiful

‘Truth or Dare’ Turns 25, But of Course Madonna Is Timeless http://observer.com/2016/...-timeless/

KoolEaze said:

Since there were no replies to my other comment above, I´d like to ask the hardcore Madonna fans here on the org one thing that I´ve been wondering about for a long time now.

How come nobody ever mentions her film "Snake Eyes" ?

I mean, it was a pretty decent film directed by Abel Ferrara, in my opinion a really good director, and the film was really enjoyable and dark and twisted at the same time.

How come that movie NEVER gets a mention in any article about her movies?

Probably because she's really good in it and it's just easier for the press to say she's a bad actress and focus on the films she's not so great in.

I recently re-watched a lot of her movies. She's not as bad an actress as I'd remembered.

I like this

Memories of Madonna: Following the Material Girl Through the Years http://www.villagevoice.c...rs-9014702

Still waiting for a DVD of the last tour...