Word: madonna
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...Madonna and Janet Jackson were the big acts booked, but the thrillingest personages backstage were a basketball player and a sitcom actor. Shaquille O'Neal was besieged by pose-with-me picture takers. And the man who turned every head was, curiously, Michael Richards, as spacy- and bemused-seeming in person as his Kramer character on Seinfeld...
...Love is the only shocking fact left on the fact of the earth," Sandra Bernhard declares near the beginning of her second book, Love, Love, and Love. Bernhard seems just the woman to prove it: she's flirted with Madonna on national TV, performed strip teases with the American flag and made David Letterman blush. Surely few other American entertainers know as much about the shock value of unusual pleasures. Unfortunately, her new book, composed largely of unrelated vignettes, suggests that she is an entertainer who works better on the screen than the page...
...MADONNA...
Jordan occupies a different and more difficult position, at the center of "Be Like Mike" ads that have put him at the forefront of many young boys' dreams. Everywhere you look, there is Michael -- referred to (like Elvis or Madonna) by his first name only, and asked by foreign journalists whether he is an extraterrestrial or a god. The pressures of such a position are his shadow: as the Bulls defeated the New York Knicks last week, people were talking about Jordan's late-night visit to an Atlantic City casino and his gambling habits as much as about...
Elsi is only the beginning of a long, paper-filled maze of agencies. Sallie Mae, the Student Loan Marketing Association, is the real culprit. Sallie Mae is no Madonna, but she probably makes more money in a year from poor saps like me than Madonna will make in her whole career. Sallie Mae and Madonna do, however, have one thing in common: bondage. One temptress' whips and chains are another's default notices...