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...between movies, and music, books and fashion began to blur. Its not that the forms themselves changed at all but simply that they all began to work off of the same themes. What theme might that be? Well, whatever theme happened to be selling at the moment. Think of Madonna's ventures into various pop culture venues, from music to movies to books and back. Think of the recent trend of turning video games (such as Wing Commander) into movies, or releasing CDs of the music to certain games. Think of all the old TV shows now being turned into...
...simply to vocalize, he's out to entertain. On Shake Your Bon-Bon, he parties hard; on She's All I Ever Had, he delivers a power ballad with impressively aggressive sincerity. One of the CD's best cuts is Be Careful (Cuidado con Mi Corazon), a duet with Madonna. It's a compelling pairing: we feel the love, but it is not between Martin and his duet partner; it's a shared passion for superstardom, from a woman who has attained it and an up-and-comer who wants...
When the film isn't twinkling with glitter, it does manage some Shakespeare in Love-style gritty subplots. For all its dedication to the original version, Hoffman manages to imbue this retelling with a number of strangely random eccentricities. From pixies who bear distinct resemblance to Madonna and E.T. to a scene in which a catfight descends into Victorian female mud-wrestling, the film tosses enough curve balls to satisfy those who miss their Stoppard...
...Verses' author) as the devil. A few years and a little hob-nobbing later, Rushdie, once a London music critic takes on the rock world from its birth in the '50s, through the glam '70s and into the technologically-driven '90s. Pop culture references abound; Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Madonna, Simon and Garfunkel, Andy Warhol and even Joh F. Kennedy. turn up somewhere, some of them slightly veiled by changed names. Rushdie's novel even had a rock band record its title song; yep, U2 did the honors on that one as well and will release the song on their...
...celebrities are drugged up, swaggering, stylized and often foolish. Through Vina and her famous friends, Rushdie shows us how fame is often unfulfilling, lonely and trifling. Andy Warhol's cultured set is brilliantly satirized, as is the delirious glam-rock movement that yielded Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Madonna Sangria is also skillfully caricatured and probably the reason why the real-life Madonna shredded her advance copy of the book...