Madonna is having a tough time securing funds and getting a cast together for her new film.
With stinkers like Shanghai Surprise and Body of Evidence to her credit, the Queen of Pop, 51, has never had much success in the film industry. Nonetheless, she decided to try her hand at scriptwriting earlier this year, but launching her project is proving to be difficult.
“I just finished writing a script and I am trying to get funding and casting for it, believe it or not,” Madge revealed to London’s Daily Express this month. “It’s called ‘We’ and it’s a love story. It is two parallel love stories told from a woman’s point of view, obviously.”
She added, “One is a historical story that took place with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. And the other is one I made up about a couple in New York.”
The Material Mom offering to match every dollar donated to help the children of Malawi through her Raising Malawi charity.
Madonna co-founded the organization in 2006, as a non-profit dedicated to helping Malawi’s one million orphans. Today, Madge is pledging $100,000 to match your contribution dollar-for-dollar.
“Please join me in supporting the work of Raising Malawi. Every dollar we collect will make a huge difference in a child’s life. By matching your donation, dollar for dollar, I will personally ensure that your contribution has an even greater impact,” the pop legend says in the video message.
“That’s a promise.”
On Sunday, Madonna broke ground on her Raising Malawi Academy for Girls.
Glee is getting into the groove with Madonna’s catalogue! Madonna has given the smash FOX musical comedy the rights to her entire catalogue of music and producers are planning an entire episode dedicated to the music of The Queen of Pop.
I sure hope they’ll do “Lucky Star.” I love that jam — nothing beats ’80s-era Madonna. Read the rest of this entry »
Karen George, of Manhattan, lives above Madonna in a building near Central Park and claims the superstar’s loud music and frequent dance sessions are causing a commotion for local residents.
Paging Al Sharpton! Did you know The Material Girl almost created majah drama when she released last year’s charttopping Hard Candy album? Well, before choosing that title, Madonna considered christening the album Black Madonna — and even went as far as shooting a cover wearing blackface make-up with white eyes.
Language of love? Hardly! The Material Girl is not pleased that Brazilian boytoy Jesus Luz, 22, hasn’t quite mastered English in the 10 months they’ve been dating.
Madge spies tell GLOBE that Madonna, 51, is shelling out $1,000 per week on a private tutor to work with Jesus.
“Madonna used to find Jesus’s broken English charming, but not anymore,” a snitch says. “She wants prove to her friends that he’s intelligent and sophisticated, so she’s hired a language teacher and forbidden him from speaking Portuguese anymore.”
We never would have taken Madonna for the high school geek type, but the pop legend readily admits she was far from head cheerleader during those awkward teen years.
“I was a geek in high school. I didn’t really have a drink until I got divorced for the first time [from Sean Penn] when I was 30,” the Queen of Pop reveals in a cover story for the new issue of Rolling Stone. “‘Geek’ is not a word anyone uses to describe me, except perhaps [‘Confessions on a Dance Floor’ producer] Stuart Price, who once said, ‘You know, you’re a nerd at heart, nobody knows it.’ I took it as a compliment.”Read the rest of this entry »
The Queen of Pop has donated one of her favorite pairs of Christian Dior pumps to a charity supporting gypsy child education.
In August, Madonna drew international attention by halting a concert in Bucharest and proclaiming that widespread discrimination against eastern Europe’s gypsies, also known as Roma, should end. Thousands of fans responded by booing the music legend.
The skyscraper gold heels, which are autographed by Madonna, will be sold at the Ovidiu Rom annual ball later this month, organizers said Tuesday.
“Madonna’s very mild comment regarding equality shone a spotlight on a common European attitude toward Gypsies,” says Leslie Hawke, president of Ovidiu Rom and mother of actor Ethan Hawke. “We’re thrilled to have her donation because she is such an icon of innovation and vigour and ‘can do’ spirit.”
The Queen of Pop has parted ways with celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson.
Anderson has worked with Gwyneth Paltrow and Molly Simms, but came into prominence after 51-year-old music legend Madonna took her on as a her personal trainer. Read the rest of this entry »
