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When Garbage was juxtaposed with Morissette and her backing band at the FleetCenter earlier this week, they neutralized any remaining bets. These women commanded their audiences with the likes of Courtney Love, Tori Amos and Madonna, regardless of genre, and it was difficult for even the most discerning observer to weigh who outcommanded the other. In order to begin figuring out who the Deathmatch winner would be, let's start with an inventory of comparisons from the show...
With Stephen Spielberg's recent purchase of therights to the movie and the antics of America'sfavorite pop icon, Madonna the simplecinderella-like plot of Memoirs promises tobe the year's great multimedia phenomenon. Ms.Ciccone appeared on the February cover ofHarper's Bazaar clad in a black kimono(Jean Paul Gaultier) and with the pale face, darkhair and red lips characteristic of a geisha. Inthe article "Like A Geisha," written by DaisanMcLane, Madonna likens what she does to "being amodern-day geisha...
While few would venture to call the UnitedStates a "woman's world" today, Madonna hasapparently taken the idea of a "geisha asentertainer" to heart and was so inspired that thevideo of her new single "Nothing Really Matters"is based on the au currant geisha-look, asis Gaultier's last collection. The infatuationhardly stops there, as, according to theBazaar article, Madonna and her assistantstalk about Golden's characters as if they're realpeople, with Madonna identifying with the evilHatsumomo. Rumor also has it that Madonna wouldlike a role in Spielberg's up coming movie, and atthe Public Library talk Golden confirmed...
...Clearly Madonna isn't the only one whoidentifies with Golden's strong characters. TheBoston Public Library's auditorium was filled toits capacity, and the crowd of roughly 400overflowed into the aisles. The crowd, like themajority of Golden's characters, was predominantlyfemale, spotted here and there with a reluctanthusband, an enlightened male or an entire bookclub. Instead of filling the hour by readingexcerpts from his book ("We're all literatebecause our parents read to us every night," hequipped, "read us to sleep!"), Golden chose totell about the ten-year odyssey that lead to thepublication of Memoirs of a Geisha...
Boston Ballet Studios. Because Madonna has maybe done it. Bring...