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Christopher Ciccone's Tell-All Only Serves To Reestablish Madonna's Sorely Missed Bad Girl Rep
Posted by Molly Friedman at 9:15 AM on July 9, 2008
Madonna's epic reputation as a racy, sexual icon who lives life with "no regrets" has encountered a few speed bumps in recent years. The transition from Material Girl to Earth Mother circa Ray Of Life in 1998 marked the most significant rupture to her free-wheeling Erotica-encapsulated days of drugs, sex, and whispered rock 'n roll, an "epiphany" she credited to Kabbalah. But after the ethereal schtick grew tired, the older but not necessarily wiser Madge launched a campaign to reclaim her It Girl Woman cred by slipping Christina and Britney some tongue, spreading her legs for Hard Candy, and using that handy Husband Emasculation method perfected by Katherine Heigl to resurrect her old identity as a shockworthy icon of sorts. And after hearing just what kind of "sordid" revelations await us in her estranged brother's tell-all memoir Life With My Sister Madonna, we don't think Madge's reps should even bother issuing a denial about Christopher Ciccone's book. Anecdotes about same-sex makeout sessions, drug parties with studio execs, and straight-edge Guy Ritchie's alleged "homophobic" tendencies, all of which actually add up to a convincing pro-Madonna campaign...
In Ciccone's book, set for release next Tuesday, her brother reportedly blames his estrangement from Madonna on Guy's anti-gay attitude: "Ciccone, who is gay, alleges that his relationship with Madonna went downhill after she married Ritchie...because of the director's homophobic tendencies." Of course, we find it hard to believe that someone like Madonna, who Ciccone also claims planted a very steamy kiss on Gwyneth Paltrow during a decadent late-night birthday party years ago, would side with anyone carrying anti-gay baggage around.
Chris also promises to expose his sister's ancient habits of partaking in (shocker!) mini-drug parties every now and then with her music producers. But in today's drug-infested celebrity culture, sharing a joint or two with your boss in the music studio sounds downright G-rated compared to her fellow Brits' current escapades, filming themselves smoking crack, feeding crack to kittens, and snorting posher crack on dirty mirrors in the vicinity of yet another drug crusador, Pete Doherty. And lesbian flings? Please. Not only are same-sex couples all the rage at the moment, but they've become just as yawnworthy as the so-called scandalous details surrounding the Gwynnie kiss. I mean, it's Gwyneth Paltrow. Any "secrets" painting the hooker heel fanatic in a naughty new light are music to the burgeoning sexpot's ears.
[Photo credits: Getty, Busted His Nut]
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MadonnaHater
Posted July 9, 2008 1:05 PM
I don't understand why some people are angry that someone else dares try to "make a buck off Madonna."
Madonna is one of the most ruthless, cold, calculating, selfish, people-using scum balls to ever walk the face of the planet.
Just read any biography written about Madonna, and read any interview with anyone who has ever known her or worked with her, and most of them portray a woman who puts herself first and who treats other people with disrespect.
Goodness only knows how many people she screwed over - literally and figuratively - to make a buck for herself, so why the sympathy for her?
Also, I think that the Venereal Girl (Madonna) is thrilled about this book because it's giving her and her stupid upcoming tour more free press.
Madonna has exploited religion to make a buck for herself and to get famous.
Madonna will degrade anything to advance her career, no matter how sacred it is to some people (such as crucifixes, tefillin), so spare me your indignation that someone else may be making money off her for a change.
BogusMadonna50
Posted July 10, 2008 2:23 PM
The only thing that seems to make Madonna accountable for her actions is her Catholic guilt, and even that is short-lived. One of these days her kids are going to be dismayed by everything she hides from them, and they will remember these days of being jerked around as a family. Madonna has a huge sense of entitlement that is destined for disaster. She should be doing more than just visiting a Kaballah Center; but that would require some growing-up on her part!
kookla
Posted 10:03 AM 9/7/08
So basically, Christopher's book is an extended version of that long winded speech Madonna gave when inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
@OldTowneTavern: Brilliant. Just brilliant.
kookla
OldTowneTavern
Posted 9:50 AM 9/7/08
I see they've shortened the title from "Life With My Sister Madonna, By Me, Christopher, Her Brother, Not the One Who Kept Wearing His Sunglasses Indoors Who Claimed He Knew "What Time It Is" With Her and That She Knew "What Time It Is" With Him In That Black and White Documentary But The Other One, The Gay One, Who Stood By Cautiously As She Rolled Around Our Mother's Grave Where She and I Once Seemed So Simpatico In What Little Screentime I Was Alotted".
OldTowneTavern
Beppo
Posted 9:46 AM 9/7/08
I'll buy the book if I can use it to smack that fucking expression off her face in the pic above.
Beppo
Sloth
Posted 9:45 AM 9/7/08
I'm crossing my fingers for Madonna's next identity transformation to involve a burka.
Sloth
Old No.7
Posted 9:32 AM 9/7/08
Britney, please come back! All is forgiven.
Old No.7
MissCast
Posted 9:32 AM 9/7/08
Is the estrangement because he's gay or because he's a sleaze-ball who's still trying to make a buck off his sister?
MissCast
Sloan
Posted 9:29 AM 9/7/08
Did Madge write this book herself? 'Cuz, it seems to me, the famiglia Ciccone is too busy running vineyards in to the ground to bother with this mess.
Sloan
Shumina
Posted 10:29 AM 9/7/08
@Old No.7: You hush your mouth! Brit's got another two or three decades to do this crap and I, for one, don't want to hear about it. The Madge can only keep this stuff up so much longer. Long view, man, long view.
Shumina
elanmilo
Posted 10:27 AM 9/7/08
For someone who supposedly all about sexuality, Madonna is so cold and controlling and not sexy AT ALL. She is the president of the No Fun At All Society.
elanmilo
Desk_hack
Posted 11:22 AM 9/7/08
@OldTowneTavern: You're on fire today. I think it's the new avatar.
Desk_hack
OldTowneTavern
Posted 12:33 PM 9/7/08
@Desk_hack: Thanks, but like so many others, my original avatar has come back and won't be moved. It's a shame. Roy Batty is no match for Lucy Van Pelt.
OldTowneTavern
DrFeelgood
Posted 2:45 PM 9/7/08
@elanmilo: Exactly.
DrFeelgood
Selly11
Posted 2:46 PM 9/7/08
I admire those groups working for GLBT, also those online services like the one BiLoves. Many of my friends there have spent their careers working for equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons. I think they are really very great.
Selly11