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| Madonna
Reads to Her Littlest Fans From Her New Book "Too Good To Be
True", The Sequel to Her Best Selling Book "The English
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| Madonna
and her family flew from Heathrow to New York yesterday. She will stay in Manhattan for several days filming TV interviews for big US networks. She is promoting her new children's book English Roses: Too Good To Be True in NYC. Madonna will be on NBC's Today Show today and tomorrow is to film an appearance on Regis & Kelly. She may also be interviewed by CNN's Soledad O'Brien on Thursday. Madonna's press agent Barbara Charone said: "She will be in New York a few days promoting her book and an NBC special on her world tour this year." |
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| At 48,
Madonna is still making music, headlines, and controversy. In an upcoming
interview to air on NBC, hear about her recent adoption, the crucifix
and much more when one of the world's favorite pop icons sits down with NBC News' Meredith Vieira for a primetime exclusive. |
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| Madonna is being nominated
in 2 categories at the NRJ Music Awards 2007 Best International Female Beyonce Christina Aguilera Madonna Pink Shakira Best International Album "Back to basics" :Christina Aguilera "Confessions on a dance floor" : Madonna "Future Sex / Love song" : Justin Timberlake "Stadium Arcadium" : Red Hot Chili Pepper "The open door" : Evanescence Voting starts on November 20 and the show will take place in January 2007 |
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| But the pop star won't
cross any borderlines for the interview, to be taped today at Oprah
Winfrey's studio in Chicago. Madonna, who lives in London, will remain
there and chat with Winfrey via satellite, said a spokeswoman for
Winfrey's production company. WATCH A TRAILER |
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| From provocative
videos to headline-making risqué concerts, Madonna is known
for pushing people's buttons. Now it's her actions off stage that
are putting her back in the center of controversy. In the fall of 2006, Madonna traveled to the African nation of Malawi where she is building an orphan care center with her foundation Raising Malawi. Soon after her trip, news broke that she and husband, Guy Ritchie, were adopting a 13-month-old boy named David. Local human rights groups have since gone to court, challenging the Malawian government's decision to allow Madonna to adopt David. They believe that Madonna used her wealth and celebrity to fast track the adoption. News outlets have also recently reported that David's birth father, whom originally was in support of the adoption, claims to not have fully understood what he was saying when he encouraged the adoption. Madonna, accustomed to being criticized in the media, says she never expected to be criticized for her family's choice to adopt a son. "I didn't realize that the adoption was causing any controversy until I came back," she says. "There were a million film crews in the airport and press camped outside my door. I don't read newspapers or watch television, but all of my friends have let me know what everybody's talking about and what's going on in the news. So it didn't really hit me until I got back to England. It's pretty shocking." |
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| Madonna
and Guy Ritchie have been granted an "interim adoption"
by the Malawian government—David will live in their care for
an initial 18 months while a London-based social worker will visit
them periodically to ensure David is being cared for and not neglected.
After the 18 months, Madonna and Guy may then legally adopt David. Madonna says that her critics don't really understand how the Malawian adoption process works if they believe she used status to speed up the process of adopting David. "I assure you it doesn't matter who you are or how much money you have, nothing goes fast in Africa," Madonna says. "There are no adoption laws in Malawi. And I was warned by my social worker that because there were no known laws in Malawi, they were more or less going to have to make them up as we went along. And she did say to me, 'Pick Ethiopia. Go to Kenya. Don't go to Malawi because you're just going to get a hard time.'" |
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| Madonna
says that she and Guy had planned on adopting a child two years ago,
not knowing where they would adopt. It was her ongoing philanthropic
work in Malawi that finally brought the Ritchies to David. "I'm financing a documentary about orphans in Malawi, so I was allowed to view footage and photographs of a lot of the children. An 8-year-old girl who is living with HIV was holding this child. I became transfixed by him. … But I didn't yet know I was going to adopt him. I was just drawn to him." David had spent most of his life in an orphanage with 500 other orphans. Madonna didn't know the state of David's health when she was visiting Malawi and considering adopting David. She brought a pediatrician to test all of the children's health for their overall well being, and later learned that David tested negative for tuberculosis, malaria, HIV and other common illnesses striking African orphans. "When I met him, he was extremely ill," Madonna says. "He had severe pneumonia, and he could hardly breathe. I was in a state of panic, because I didn't want to leave him in the orphanage because I knew they didn't have medication to take care of him. We got permission to take him to a clinic to have a bronchial dilator put on him. … He had pneumonia and was given an injection of antibiotics. He's still a little bit ill, not completely free of his pneumonia, but he's much better than he was when we found him." |
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| Madonna
and Guy now have David with them at their home in London, along with
their two other children, Lourdes and Rocco. Madonna said the children
are in complete love with their new baby brother. "They just embraced him, and that's the amazing thing about children," she says. "They don't ask questions. They've never once said, 'What is he doing here', or mentioned the difference in his skin color, or questioned his presence in our life. That is an amazing lesson that children do teach us." |
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first arrived in Malawi, she says she didn't know anything about David's
parents. She was soon told that his mother had died of HIV and that
his three siblings had also died of HIV. At the time, the Minister
of Children and Mothers Welfare told Madonna that even though David's
biological father's whereabouts were unknown, they would have to find
him to give consent for the adoption. "Here's what I knew. David had been living in this orphanage since he was two weeks old," Madonna says. "He had survived malaria and tuberculosis, and no one from his extended family had visited him since the time he arrived. So from my perspective, there was no one looking after David's welfare." Once David's father was located, he initially said he gave his son up for adoption always hoping that someone like Madonna would be able to give him a better life, and agreed to the adoption. Now, according to the press, David's father is saying he did not fully understand what he was doing when he agreed to let Madonna adopt his son. "I do not believe that is true. I sat in that room, I looked into that man's eyes," Madonna says. "I believe that the press is manipulating this information out of him. I believe at this point in time, he's been terrorized by the media. They have asked him things, repeatedly, and they have put words in his mouth. They have spun a story that is completely false." |
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influence on international adoption With all the speculation, rumors and overall controversy surrounding Madonna's adoption of David, how does Madonna feel about the media? "I wouldn't say I'm hurt by it, but I would say I'm disappointed," she says. "I understand that gossip and telling negative stories sells newspapers. But I think for me, I'm disappointed because it discourages other people from doing the same thing—for anybody who had the idea that they, too, would like to open their home and give a life to a child living in an orphanage who might possibly not live past the age of 5. Anybody who had that idea would be discouraged from doing it. For me, that's what disappoints me the most. I feel like the media is doing a great disservice to all the orphans of Africa, period, not just Malawi, by turning it into such a negative thing. "I beg all of those people to go to Africa and see what I saw and walk through those villages. … To see 8-year-olds in charge of households. To see mothers dying, with Kaposi sarcoma lesions all over their bodies. To see open sewages everywhere. To see what I saw. It is a state of emergency. As far as I'm concerned, the adoption laws have to be changed to suit that state of emergency. I think if everybody went there, they'd want to bring one of those children home with them and give them a better life." |
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| Madonna
will appear on Oprah Winfrey's US chat show this week to defend her
controversial adoption of David Banda. The singer will answer the latest claims by the 13-month-old boy's biological father, who now says he never intended to give up his son "for good". Yohane Banda said he only ever meant for the pop superstar to raise and educate his child before bringing him back to Malawi. Madonna will talk about her decision to adopt David - and whether or not she intends to keep him in touch with his African heritage - on Oprah this Wednesday. A spokesman for the show said: "You've read the headlines, heard the rumours and seen the photos. Now, for the first time, Madonna speaks out with her side of the story on the adoption controversy." It is not known if the 48-year-old intends to fly David to the US with her. He is believed to have been issued with a US visa shortly before he left Malawi for a new life in London with the star and her film director husband Guy Ritchie. Controversy over the adoption is also raging in the US. One poster on the Oprah website writes: "Why are these celebrities allowed to adopt children in record time while us 'regular' folks go through years of hell?" Dates with other US talk shows are set for coming days but Oprah will be her first stop. |
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| If my husband
and I had the money, resources and power of Madonna or Brad and Angelina,
we are certain of one thing. We would have a huge house full of adopted
children who would join with our nine-year-old twin boys. Indeed, if I had 1/1,000th of the resources of Madonna, my boys would have a 13-year-old sister by the name of Nafiza and I would have a beautiful daughter. I met Nafiza at an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan in December, 2003. She stole my heart and not a week goes by that I don't think of her. Nafiza was one of 21 children living at the Mirmum Orphanage, a dumpy, though clean little building off a busy street in that once utterly destroyed capital that our troops did so much to rebuild and make safe. When I entered this humble place -- accompanied by half a dozen Canadian soldiers who had essentially adopted the entire orphanage -- bringing it food, school supplies, heating oil, cooking oil and other necessities -- Nafiza held my two hands in hers and kissed me on the cheek. Our hearts touched that very instant. I sat with this then 10-year-old girl, learned of her tragic story, peered deep into her sad brown eyes and simply fell in love. There's no explaining it. How does one explain falling in love? It just happens. I believe the very same thing likely happened to Madonna recently on her trip to Malawi. At the time -- and still -- there was and is no provision in Afghanistan to adopt anyone. No government office, no ministry in charge -- nothing. However, if I had a fraction of Madonna's resources, I could have stayed behind (rather than have to return to work) or hired someone to stay behind. I could have greased numerous palms, paid for a passport for Nafiza and hired a private jet to whisk her away the second the documents were in order -- all things Madonna likely did in order to gain temporary custody of David Banda, a 13-month-old motherless boy who was living in an orphanage in that impoverished nation of one-million other orphans. The boy's father, Yohane Banda wants his son to have a life of opportunity -- what parent doesn't -- and is in favour of the adoption, which is being protested by some human-rights groups within Malawi. "Where were these people when David was struggling in the orphanage? These so-called human-rights groups should leave my baby alone," he said in an interview earlier this week. "As father I have okayed this, I have no problem. The village has no problem. Who are they to cause trouble? Please let them stop." Here in North America, much ink has been spilled chastising the pop diva for wanting to adopt this child. She's even been criticized for helping to build an orphanage in the African country, listed as the second most poor country on the planet next to Sierra Leone. I can think of lots of reasons to criticize Madonna, but building an orphanage and adopting a child aren't two of them. Many columnists and commentators worry Madonna is simply following the Brangelina trend of adopting foreign children -- whom one Canadian columnist callously dismissed as "brown-skinned children." Many say they are concerned Madonna only wants the child to boost her flagging image around the world, or as a cute "accessory" to her next outfit. Nonsense. Madonna is twice a mother already. She knows a child is a lot of work and a lifelong commitment, not the flavour of the week or a Louis Vuitton bag. Much sickens me about Madonna -- and it's not her music, though I'm no fan of that either. Her arrogance and publicity grabbing stunts are so predictable and tiresome as to render onlookers com- atose. She thinks she is so risque for blaspheming Jesus Christ and offending Christians, when that is very likely the safest thing anyone could possibly do. If Madonna wants risk, she should try blaspheming Mohammed. That would get her a lot of attention -- but the sort that would force her out of the limelight in a big hurry and forever. But, I digress. I heard one commentator wonder why she would adopt a child who has a parent when so many other children have none at all. Clearly these people don't understand falling in love. One of my best friends has three children, all adopted. The thing she despises most -- next to people asking if she knows "the real mothers" rather than using the term birth mother, is the attitude that somehow she is some kind of saint for adopting her children. "My husband and I are the blessed ones," she says, pointing out that she is their "real" mother. "My children are a gift. No one considers other parents saints because they have children and we are no different. We're parents -- loving parents -- hoping and praying to provide our children with both roots and wings." So, while Madonna is no saint for trying to adopt David Banda, neither is she the devil. |
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| Madonna
had insisted that the mock crucifixion, a centerpiece of her "Confessions"
world tour staged while she performed the hit song "Live to Tell,"
be included in the two-hour special set to air on NBC on November
22. But socially conservative organizations organized a campaign urging NBC affiliate stations to refuse to carry the special if the crucifix stunt remained in the show. After weeks of uncertainty, the network said it decided it would not show the opening portion of the "Live to Tell" performance in which she sings suspended from a giant mirrored cross while wearing a crown of thorns. Instead, cameras will cut away to other shots while Madonna is on the cross, then cut back to the singer when she steps down to finish the song. "You hear the song, but you're not seeing her on the cross," one network source told Reuters. The special was filmed during her performance at Wembley Stadium in London. Madonna's New York-based spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg, said the 48-year-old entertainer, an executive producer of the special, ultimately acquiesced to the revision of the broadcast but suggested the singer was not happy about it. "She wanted it in, and they wanted it out," Rosenberg, a Warner Bros. Records executive, told Reuters. "You won't see Madonna on a crucifix. That element of the song is no longer in the show. How they came to that conclusion I really don't know." Madonna's use of the cross in her concerts drew protests from the Roman Catholic Church and Russian Orthodox Church during her performances in Rome and Moscow, where leaders of the clergy condemned the act as blasphemy. Madonna issued a statement last month insisting her act was "neither anti-Christian, sacrilegious or blasphemous. Rather it is a plea to the audience to encourage mankind to help one another and to see the world as a unified whole. "I believe if Jesus were alive today, he would be doing the same thing," she said, adding that her specific intent was to bring attention to the extreme poverty in Africa. The controversy over Madonna's mock crucifixion is not the first time the Material Girl has drawn the ire of religious groups for her use of Christian imagery. In 1989, the video for her hit song "Like a Prayer" featured the scantily clad singer cavorting in front of burning crosses and statues crying blood. |
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| The whole
issue about Madonna adopting a child from Malawi says much about our
celebrity-obsessed society and little about our commitment to ending
poverty in the Third World. Of course, the life of this child will
now be much better than if he had remained in his own country and
the plight of Malawi's one million orphans has been briefly illuminated
as the shining light which emanates from Madonna passes over them.
However, when Madonna and her entourage move on to their next photo-opportunity
Malawi's children will remain in their poor, underdeveloped, debt-laden,
corrupt and Aids-infested country no doubt until another celebrity
passes by to pluck one from the mire. We live increasingly in a country where you are either a celebrity or nothing. As real and important people go about their ordinary lives unreported, a parallel world of celebrity superstars, paparazzi, PR companies and whole sections of the media tantalise us with a fantasy world of fantasy people living fantasy lives, little of which bears any relation to reality. This was at its clearest during the G8 summit last year when the antics of Bob Geldof and Bono and his assortment of friends in the music industry "solved" Third World poverty while those hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens marching in Edinburgh were consigned to a mere supporting role. That "Sir" Bob and "Sir" Bono were only there to get the government off the hook and deflect demands which would actually reduce world poverty is now clear. Why else stage a pop concert on the day of the demonstration in Edinburgh and urge everyone to stay at home and watch an assortment of multi-millionaire pop singers do their bit for the poor of Africa, and themselves? Marx wrote that religion was the opium of the people; designed to deflect people away from confronting the real issues facing society. In our increasingly secular world, celebrity culture has become a kind of religion. How can you worry about poverty or injustice when your every waking thought is taken up by Jennifer Aniston's latest relationship crisis? I, for one, have now taken action. I wrote to the editor of OK! magazine insisting that nothing about me appears in that journal. So far, it appears to have worked. The whole issue about Madonna adopting a child from Malawi says much about our celebrity-obsessed society and little about our commitment to ending poverty in the Third World. Of course, the life of this child will now be much better than if he had remained in his own country and the plight of Malawi's one million orphans has been briefly illuminated as the shining light which emanates from Madonna passes over them. However, when Madonna and her entourage move on to their next photo-opportunity Malawi's children will remain in their poor, underdeveloped, debt-laden, corrupt and Aids-infested country no doubt until another celebrity passes by to pluck one from the mire. We live increasingly in a country where you are either a celebrity or nothing. As real and important people go about their ordinary lives unreported, a parallel world of celebrity superstars, paparazzi, PR companies and whole sections of the media tantalise us with a fantasy world of fantasy people living fantasy lives, little of which bears any relation to reality. This was at its clearest during the G8 summit last year when the antics of Bob Geldof and Bono and his assortment of friends in the music industry "solved" Third World poverty while those hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens marching in Edinburgh were consigned to a mere supporting role. That "Sir" Bob and "Sir" Bono were only there to get the government off the hook and deflect demands which would actually reduce world poverty is now clear. Why else stage a pop concert on the day of the demonstration in Edinburgh and urge everyone to stay at home and watch an assortment of multi-millionaire pop singers do their bit for the poor of Africa, and themselves? Marx wrote that religion was the opium of the people; designed to deflect people away from confronting the real issues facing society. In our increasingly secular world, celebrity culture has become a kind of religion. How can you worry about poverty or injustice when your every waking thought is taken up by Jennifer Aniston's latest relationship crisis? I, for one, have now taken action. I wrote to the editor of OK! magazine insisting that nothing about me appears in that journal. So far, it appears to have worked. |
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| My husband
and I began the adoption process many months prior to our trip to
Malawi. I did not wish to disclose my intentions to the world prior
to the adoption happening as this is a private family matter. After
learning that there were over one million orphans in Malawi, it was
my wish to open up our home and help one child escape an extreme life
of hardship, poverty and in many cases death, as well as expand out
family. Nevertheless, we have gone about the adoption procedure according to the law like anyone else who adopts a child. Reports to the contrary are totally inaccurate. The procedure includes an l8 month evaluation period after which time we hope to make this adoption permanent. This was not a decision or commitment that my family or I take lightly. I am overwhelmed and inspired by my trip to Malawi and hope that it helps bring attention to how much more the world needs to do to help the children of Africa. My heartfelt thanks for all the good wishes I have received and I hope the press will allow my family some room for us to experience the joy we feel to have David home. Madonna Ritchie October 17, 2006 London, England |
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| I am tired
of everyone looking at what Madonna does trying to find hidden agendas
and calling it another stunt to get press. She has been helping others
since her career begain, have you all forgotten that Madonna started
at the bottom in the streets of NYC with nothing. So why is it so
hard to believe that she may want to give something back to people
all over the world that have given so much to her? She was not born
rich, she earned every penny of it by marketing images and ideas.
Anyone who does just a little research will discover that she used
her first royality checks to cover the expences of a very close friend
of hers who died from AIDS and he was not the first or the last she
helped both finacially and emotionally. Before everyone starts casting
stones at her do a little research and try to get past the image Madonna
has sold us. That was business this is personal and the woman Madonna
really is --is nothing like the Sex Icon you see on MTV. And last but not least Madonna has been giving millions since 1983 to many causes not since 2006. Its not a new development, its a 23 year long motive that she should be proud of and anyone who thinks differently needs to look at what they do themselves, I lay odds about everyone trashing her over this has not spent a dime on anyone but themselves. Some may not like Madonna's business style which made her the money and there is nothing wrong with that. But attacks on things like this and putting faith into tabloid filth is beneath us as human beings. by Islaroberts |
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| Here, here,
at last somebody who can view the generosity of others without cynicism.
If any child of mine were to be left abandoned after my death, I would
far rather they ended up with a loving, solvent family ANYWHERE in
the world than in an orphanage or children's home in Britain, no matter
how good that orphanage was. The child will miss out on just as much
by not having a family as he will by not being in his own culture. Also, having moved between cultures, I can say it's really not that bad nowadays. We live in an age of globalization; cultures are no longer hermetically sealed places unknown to the outside world. It's not like taking a child away from some place in the middle of nowhere and whisking him off to a new country where nobody knows anything about his home culture. It's easy to travel, to visit, to study native languages, and, with so much immigration going on, to meet other people from that culture. In fact, he's going to end up with two cultures. As for not adopting an AIDS orphan from Detroit... perhaps Madonna just considered that she was choosing a child who could most fully benefit from what she has to offer and the skills she has, and who would best fit in with the other child she has. Perhaps she also considered the possibilities of David being able to benefit his native culture later on in life with what she has to give him. She may have been making a perfectly responsible choice for perfectly respectable reasons. by Yamaneko |
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| Madonna and husband GUY RITCHIE have confirmed they are planning to adopt a 13-month-old boy named DAVID from Malawi. The couple left the African country on Friday (13OCT06) without the child and are waiting for the legal arrangements surrounding the adoption to be finalised. The singer's spokeswoman LIZ ROSENBERG confirmed the couple's plans to expand their family to US TV show ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT. She says, "Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie have been granted custody of their son, David. "Final legal arrangements are being made to bring him home to his new family." Last week (04OCT06), the singer arrived in the southern African country, where she has been involved in humanitarian work. The HUNG UP star is building an orphanage and child care centre and is involved in other initiatives geared toward helping children orphaned by AIDS. David will be Madonna's third child. She and Ritchie have a five-year-old son ROCCO and Madonna has a daughter LOURDES, who turns 10 today (14OCT06), from a prior relationship. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CA (BANG) - I'm sorry, Ms. Jackson, but he is for real and he'd rather
record a duet with Madonna than with you. Outkast frontman Andre 3000 recently revealed he might record a song with the music icon in the future. The two musicians met while on the set of a movie and the possibility of jamming together suddenly struck gold. Andre met the "Hung Up" singer while shooting gangster film "Revolver," which was directed by Madonna's husband Guy Ritchie. The flamboyant musician says he and Madonna discussed the possibility of working together in the future. He told Britain's Live magazine, "Madonna is a cool lady. We did talk about working together but that's something for the future." Andre recently revealed he ruined one scene during the filming of "Revolver" when Madonna walked by unexpectedly. He explained, "We were doing a scene in 'Revolver' and Guy said, 'Action' and she walked in. I had to say, 'Stop, its Madonna!' She was really cool." Meanwhile, Andre has confessed he misses getting high on marijuana. The rap star gave up all drugs a decade ago but admits he still sometimes yearns for cannabis. He said, "I liked the state of mind I got from smoking a lot of dope. I liked it at the time." |
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with the help of a donation from Madonna, who is visiting the southern
African nation. The orphanage in the impoverished village of Mphandula, 50km outside the capital, Lilongwe, will initially house 400 children who lost their parents to AIDS, said construction company clerk Denis Nyanja. The disease has ravaged the southern African nation. "She hasn't visited this place yet but we know she is in town and would visit us soon before she leaves," Nyanja said. "Funds for this place have been donated by Madonna." Madonna spent yesterday resting at the exclusive Kumbali Lodge, a tree-covered ranch that has been block booked by the pop star and husband, filmmaker Guy Ritchie. The ranch, which breeds horses and cattle, lies next to President Bingu wa Mutharika's fortified 300-bed $US100 million ($A135 million) New State House but also close to squatter camps housing the capital's poor. Guards at the ranch said it was block-booked for two weeks by the star, who arrived last Wednesday. Lodge owner Guy Pickering refused to confirm this. The singer has arranged her own security and cooks. |
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| Supermodel KATE MOSS has been named the most influential celebrity in the world, beating U2 singer BONO, soccer star DAVID BECKHAM, and pop queen MADONNA to the number one spot. The list was compiled by experts looking at how many times a celebrity has been named in the media, who has the biggest magazine covers and the most entries on the UK branch of popular search engine, Google. Moss, 32, was closely followed by Madonna at number two, with David Beckham in third place. The Real Madrid soccer ace's wife, VICTORIA, also made it into the top 10 at number seven, behind Hollywood couple ANGELINA JOLIE and BRAD PITT who were voted in at fifth and sixth place respectively. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Malawi Construction began Sunday on a children's home for AIDS orphans
being built in Malawi with the help of a donation from Madonna, who
is visiting the southern African nation. The orphanage in the impoverished village of Mphandula, 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside the capital, Lilongwe, will initially house 400 children who lost their parents to the AIDS, said construction company clerk Denis Nyanja. The disease has ravaged this southern African nation. "She hasn't visited this place yet but we know she is in town and would visit us soon before she leaves," Nyanja said. "Funds for this place have been donated by Madonna." Workers were preparing the ground for the Namitete Orphan Care Center, which will include an entertainment hall, classrooms, summer huts, a playing field and teachers houses. The center will be run under the auspices of Raising Malawi, a charity Madonna has set up. Madonna spent Sunday resting at the exclusive Kumbali Lodge, a tree-covered ranch which has been block booked by the pop-star and husband, filmmaker Guy Ritchie. The ranch, which breeds horses and cattle, lies next to President Bingu wa Mutharika's fortified 300-bed US $100 million New State House but also close to squatter camps housing the capital's poor. Guards at the ranch said it was block-booked for two weeks by the star, who arrived last Wednesday. Lodge owner Guy Pickering refused to confirm this. The singer has arranged her own security and cooks. Madonna and Ritchie have not spoken to reporters since their arrival. But Madonna's publicists and Malawi government officials said the singer is in the country to set up the orphanage and fund six other such projects. |
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looks more like a maternal godsend than a material girl as she puts
a smile on the face of these poverty-stricken children. The Queen of Pop visited the young Aids orphans with her director husband Guy Ritchie during their tour of Malawi. She was greeted by the happy faces as her four-vehicle convoy arrived, and she handed out copies of her book English Rose to a group of 50 kids. Relaxed Madonna knelt in the gardens of the orphanage, home to 128 young Aids victims, as Guy filmed her playing with the children. In a white shirt and with hair tied back, mum-of-two Madge soon bonded with the giggling African youngsters. The orphans gathered round to hear her read from her new book. And the star spent nearly an hour chatting and laughing with them. Orphanage director Anne Chikhwaza said yesterday: "She and her husband are very lovely. She has a kind heart. She really wants to help." Madonna, 48, said she plans to spend at least £1.6million on charity programmes to support orphans in Malawi - plus £530,000 to fund a documentary about their plight. She spent Wednesday in a village just outside the capital Lilongwe, where she is funding an education centre for 1,000 orphans. |
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Malawi Madonna's mission to help Malawi's AIDS orphans remained shrouded
in mystery Friday with a scheduled meeting between the pop star and
a government minister failing to take place. The celebrity, who has kept a low-profile since arriving in the impoverished southern African country Wednesday, made a secretive visit to an orphanage near the capital, while rumors that she was to adopt a child persisted. Malawi is among the poorest countries in the world, trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of hunger and disease. Just over 14 percent of the 12 million population are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and an estimated 1 million children have been orphaned. Madonna had been scheduled to meet Mines, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Henry Chimunthu Banda — the top government official in the absence of President Bingu wa Mutharika who was abroad. The meeting was expected to take place at 3 p.m. (1500 GMT) but by late afternoon the star had not arrived at his offices. Banda said Madonna had been "caught up" and the meeting had been postponed but he had no further information. Shortly after Madonna's arrival in Malawi, government officials said she planned to adopt an orphaned boy. But by Friday there was still no confirmation of this. Andrina Mchiela, a senior official with Malawi's Ministry for Gender and Child Welfare, said no adoption papers had been filed yet, even though Madonna had voiced her intention to adopt a child. "As far as we are concerned her plans remain unchanged," she said. Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg, has denied any knowledge that that star was to adopt a baby. It was unclear how long the pop star would remain in the country, but the private plane she arrived in returned to Lilongwe Friday after a reported routine stopover in the South African city of Johannesburg. On Friday Madonna was reported to have visited the Chezi Orphan Care Center near the lake-shore district of Salima about 20 kilometers from the capital. But no further details were available. On Thursday she was greeted by a crowd of about 28 singing orphans at the Kondanani children's village near Malawi's commercial capital of Blantyre. Bodyguards and four vehicles kept a tight ring around the star and her entourage. Orphanage officials said Ritchie accompanied the singer and filmed the children who received copies of Madonna's book "English Rose". Madonna's project, called Raising Malawi, aims to set up an orphan care center to provide food, education and shelter for up to 4,000 children. It will have projects based on Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism that has gained popularity in recent years and which counts the 48-year-old singer among its devotees. Madonna and Ritchie have a son, Rocco, 5, and the singer also has a daughter, Lourdes, 9. In a letter on the organization's Web site, Madonna said she hoped to help "bring an end to the extreme poverty and degradation suffered by Malawi's orphans." |
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| This handout photo provided by Liz Rosenberg on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006, shows music legend Madonna visiting with children during her trip to Malawi. Madonna visited an orphanage in Malawi's commercial capital Thursday on the second day of a trip to highlight the plight of AIDS orphans, which prompted speculation she was about to adopt a child herself. 'Madonna has not adopted a baby boy as has been previously and incorrectly reported,' Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg said in an e-mail to The Associated Press in Los Angeles. 'She is on a private visit to Malawi and is involved in the building of an orphanage/child care center as well as other initiatives to help the children of that country who have lost parents to AIDS. (AP Photo/Shavawn Rissman) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Children from the Kondanani orphanage in Bvumbwe, on the outskirts of Malawi's commercial capital Blantyre, walk to visit with pop star Madonna, Thursday Oct. 5, 2006. Malawi is among the poorest countries in the world, trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of hunger and disease. Just over 14 percent of the 12 million population is infected with HIV , the virus that causes AIDS , and an estimated 1 million children have been orphaned. Madonna's project, called Raising Malawi, aims to set up an orphan care center to provide food, education and shelter for up to 4,000 children. It will have projects based on Kabbalah, a Jewish mysticism that has gained popularity in recent years and which counts the 48-year-old singer among its devotees. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pop star Madonna walks between cars to avoid photographers at the end of her visit to the Kondanani orphanage in Bvumbwe, on the outskirt of Malawi's commercial capital Blantyre, Thursday Oct. 5, 2006. Madonna visited an orphanage on the second day of a trip to this desperately poor African nation to highlight the plight of AIDS orphans, prompting speculation that she was about to adopt a child herself. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Guy Ritchie, husband of Pop star Madonna, walks to a waiting car at the end of their visit to the Kondanani orphanage in Bvumbwe, on the outskirts of Malawi's commercial capital Blantyre, Thursday Oct. 5, 2006. Madonna visited an orphanage on the second day of a trip to this desperately poor African nation to highlight the plight of AIDS orphans, prompting speculation that she was about to adopt a child herself. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pop star Madonna gets into a car at Kondanani Children's Village, some 20 kilometers east of the commercial capital, Blantyre. Madonna found herself in the audience when the AIDS orphans of Malawi performed a private concert for the visiting "Queen of Pop"(AFP/Eldson Chagara) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Madonna visits the Kondanani Children's village near Malawi's commercial capital Blantyre, October 5, 2006. (Eldson Chagara/Reuters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Madonna's New Children Book, The English Roses: Too Good To Be True Blooms In New York And Worldwide | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NEW
YORK, September 25, 2006. For Immediate Release . . . Callaway Arts
& Entertainment is pleased to announce the October 24th release
of Madonna’s The English Roses: Too Good to Be True, the sequel
to 2003’s best-selling The English Roses, which debuted at No.
1 on the New York Times’ children’s bestseller list. Madonna will celebrate the release of Too Good to Be True with a reading at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York City. The children’s book author and artist will also make a select number of television appearances in support of the book. All of Madonna’s proceeds from The English Roses: Too Good to Be True will be donated to Raising Malawi (www.raisingmalawi.com), an orphan-care initiative. In support of the charity, Callaway has published a limited edition of the book in Chichewa, the official language of Malawi, which Madonna will distribute to children when she visits the country in November. Too Good to Be True continues the story of the English Roses, five girls who are the best of friends. In this next installment, their friendship is tested by the arrival of a new student, Dominic de la Guardia, whose dashing looks and charming manners have them vying for his attention. The colorful 64-page jacketed hardcover is stylishly illustrated by Stacy Peterson. Publisher Nicholas Callaway remarks, “The first English Roses book captured the imagination of a worldwide audience. With The English Roses: Too Good to Be True, Madonna now takes us farther into the lives of these five charming friends with an insightful tale about the joys and difficulties of experiencing one’s first crush.” Callaway will publish a limited-edition deluxe boxed set of The English Roses and The English Roses: Too Good to Be True exclusively for Amazon.com. The set will include a signed letter from Madonna and a signed print by illustrator Stacy Peterson. Additionally, a miniature edition of The English Roses, perfect for gift-giving and with a glittery cover, will be released this holiday season. Madonna made publishing history with the global release of The English Roses, published simultaneously in 30 languages in more than 100 countries in 2003. It became the fastest-selling book written by a first-time children's author and stayed on the New York Times’ children’s bestseller list for 18 weeks. The English Roses is now available in 40 languages worldwide. Her following four books—Mr. Peabody’s Apples, Yakov and the Seven Thieves, The Adventures of Abdi, and Lotsa de Casha—are also worldwide bestsellers. In the United States, The English Roses: Too Good to Be True is published by Callaway Arts & Entertainment and distributed by Penguin Young Readers Group. Foreign rights are licensed by The Wylie Agency, New York and London. Callaway Arts & Entertainment is a leading creator of family entertainment properties across all media, including book publishing, animated entertainment, and children's lifestyle products. The company's hugely successful Miss Spider series, created by David Kirk, has sold more than 5 million books and inspired Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, a computer-animated television series that airs weekday mornings on Nickelodeon, and the Sunny Patch™ line of children's lifestyle products available at Target stores nationwide. Starting in Fall 2006, the company will release Callaway Classics, a deluxe series of fairy tales and folktales from around the world. |
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the press statement released by Warner Brothers today Madonna's schedule
for the next couple of months is also released In late October she will promote her new childrens book The English Roses - in New York City. In November Madonna will travel to Malawi for a several weeks to participate in the building of an orphanage and care center for the children of that country as part of the www.raisingmalawi.com campaign. |
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Mr. Bob Wright chairman of NBC As many of you know NBC is considering not airing the upcoming Madonna special that is scheduled to be shown on NBC in November due to the controversial Live to tell performance. It appears that NBC is going to give into pressure from the religious groups who have been condemning Madonna’s show. Many of these people have never even seen the performance. I like many of you have seen this performance and don’t see anything wrong with it in fact I think it was a beautiful performance that is in no way mocking the crucifixion or any other aspect of any religion. Please join me in showing support for Madonna and her show by signing this and letting NBC know that there are a lot of people out there who want the show broadcast and that we want Live to tell included. |
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| A
Gibson Les Paul custom-designed for Madonna for her Drowned World
tour in 2001 -- the first time the singer played guitar onstage --
will be auctioned on eBay beginning on Oct. 6. After the tour Madge
signed the guitar, the only survivor of two identical models made
for her, and gave it to John Griswold, a veteran guitar technician
(Eagles, George Harrison, Shania Twain) who served in that role on
the Drowned World tour. What's in a (tour) name? In a strange twist, Griswold is parting with the guitar because his family lost most of their possessions in Hurricane Katrina -- they were living in New Orleans when it flooded. The opening bid for the guitar is $49,999. The seller says it has been appraised at $400,000-600,000. |
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guitar is the only surviving guitar of two that were custom made for
Madonna and played by her on her 2001 Drowned World concert tour.
This tour was the first time Madonna every played a guitar in concert.
The Drowned World tour ended on September 15, 2001 in Los Angeles.
After the show, Madonna autographed this guitar "Love, Madonna"
in gold paint pen and gave it to her Guitar Technician, John Griswold,
as a big "Thank You" for all his tour services. This guitar has been photographed and video taped world-wide thousands of times! I show a photo below of this guitar as it appeared in the Aug. 27, 2001 issue of People Magazine with Guitar Technician John Griswold holding it (see below). This is one of the most photographed guitars in the world! Madonna's guitar and included matching tour case are numbered with the Gibson serial number of 001360 which is verified on all the tour's manifests and carnet. While the guitar has back scratches and light wear from Madonna's costumes and belt buckles rubbing against it during her performances, it is in perfect working order and has been clear coated to protect the autograph from wear (standard procedure in guitar preserving). This guitar can be played without wearing down the autograph. With original strings as Madonna last played them, this guitar has been kept very well and secure the last 5 years. A year prior to her 2001 Drowned World Tour, Madonna contacted guitar maker Gibson about making her 2 custom Les Paul guitars to use on her Drowned World tour. Gibson made only two of these custom guitars just for Madonna. Within Gibson, this guitar became known as the "Madonna Les Paul Model". They were originally made with silver tuners and fittings. Madonna decided she wanted the guitars to fit better with her stage costumes so she consulted with her Guitar Technician John Griswold. They decided on simple "gold on black" and John replaced the outer hardware with gold fittings and removed the pick guards. These two identical guitars were made so Madonna could have a Primary and a Backup guitar while on tour. The guitar in this auction was her Primary guitar and used 90% of the time on the Drowned World Tour only. John Griswold said that he would only give Madonna the backup guitar to play every now and then just to keep it in working order. When she preformed, Madonna never knew if she was playing her primary or backup guitar. Madonna kept her backup Gibson guitar which was later stolen at a venue rehearsal for her Re-Invention Tour of 2004. So this autographed guitar of John's is the only one to exist and is truly "one of a kind" and rare. John Griswold has been a Guitar Technician since the early 1970's and has worked with such acts as Journey, The Eagles, Jimmy Buffet, The Jacksons, George Harrison, Ringo Star, Shania Twain, and many many others. John was hired by Madonna as her guitar technician early on and was with her during the promotional pre-tour rehearsal and tours and the Drowned World rehearsals and throughout the final 2001 concert tour. John and his family lived in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit the city. His house was flooded to the top of the first floor and he lost most of his possessions and studio equipment. This guitar was one of the first things he and his family saved. John and his wife and son evacuated and relocated to Sonora, CA. While John is reluctant to present this precious guitar for auction, the financial loss and hardship his family has suffered from the impact of Hurricane Katrina has necessitated such a bold move. The seller, Pierce Jensen of Sonora, CA (Ebay seller "pierceandshelly"), has been a member of Ebay since March 1999 and has thousands of successful auctions to his credit along with a wonderful feedback rating. He's an Ebay "Power Seller" ranking among the most successful sellers in terms of product sales and customer satisfaction on Ebay. |
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READ CAREFULLY THIS AUCTION IS RESTRICTED TO PRE APPROVED BIDDERS
ONLY! This is an "Approved Bidder" auction so you must email me me with your contact information such as name, Ebay user name, and a home and/or business phone number so I can get in touch with you if needed. I can also give you my telephone number so we can talk directly if necessary. I can then add you to Ebay's Pre-Approved Bidder List for this auction. This is to stop phony fraudulent bids and for your protection and mine. Also it insures that you know what you are bidding on as I can talk personally with you and can answer all of your questions. To protect bidder's privacy, this auction will be set up as a "PRIVATE AUCTION" so bidders identities will not shown or known to the public. Registering as a bidder on Ebay is FREE and only takes a few minutes. Go to www.ebay.com to sign up as a bidder then email me. My name is Pierce Jensen and I live in Sonora, California, U.S.A. I have been contracted by John Griswold (the guitar's owner) to assist him in auctioning this guitar on Ebay. Please email me at: pierce@intergate.com |
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| In
one episode from Rupert Everett's memoir, the author and a friend
stay up all night brainstorming. They are supposed to be coming up
with ideas to fix the script to a doomed film Everett is making.
They have an appointment the following morning to see Madonna,
the movie's co-star. They turn up late, with no sleep and no big idea.
Madonna is practising yoga. As the pop
diva assumes ever more elaborate bodily contortions, her guests doze
off in the corner. This, presumably, is one of the slip-ups referred to in the book's title, which implies a slapstick romp through the world of showbiz celebrity. Up to a point, that's what the book is. But the title is disingenuous. Whereas banana skins turn up by accident, Everett's periodic career skids are self-inflicted. He might, for example, have had more luck brainstorming on the script if he hadn't invited a third party to the session - his drug dealer. Likewise, decades earlier, he might not have been expelled from drama school if he hadn't been out all night, every night, cruising west London looking for a party. But he prefers to blame the inverted snobbery of 1970s proletarian theatre culture that took against his poshness and only gave him uninspiring roles. It was never like that at Ampleforth, where young Rupert wowed pupils and parents with his mesmeric portrayal of Titania. No matter. After a brief spell slumming it in a freebie apartment in Chelsea, Everett's stage career takes off. Soon, he is in the West End taking the lead in Another Country. After that, his progress is, roughly speaking, as follows: some more theatre, a few very successful films, a lot of celebrity parties and shared lavatory cubicles, some less successful films, a spectacularly hopeless attempt to be a pop star, a voiceover part in Shrek 2. |
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