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...presidential kneepads to Washington, is a throwback to an era when the best way to power was through a prominent man. She is a product of indulgent, divorced Beverly Hills parents. As mothers go, I don't know any quite like Monica's, and have trouble finding a touchstone: Madonna (the current one)? A character out of Dynasty (Monica's favorite soap opera)? Monica and her mom aren't simply close, as most stories posit; instead, they're gal pals, dieting together since Monica was a chubby eight-year-old, moving in as roommates after the divorce, swapping clothes...
...Motel 6; and simple meals like baked beans or tuna casserole. And for the whole weekend she is supposed to be silent. But as she walks across the abbey's 2,200 acres, past the wheat fields and down by the river, or sits near a statue of the Madonna, watching white-tailed deer dance by and listening to bullfrogs, Nolan says she finds peace. "It's mine, just my time," she says. "I can sit, think and pray...
Computers! Microscopes! The X franchise is the true revenge of the nerds. Just look at Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder (David Duchovny). Despite their stylish wardrobe in the film--they're costumed by the woman who used to dress Madonna--they're lame: they don't have sex (with each other or, it seems, anyone else). They work all the time. They believe in extraterrestrials. In real life, Mulder and Scully would be weirdos--bookish types with bad skin whom you avoid in the hallways...
...Brando culture was vital and restlessly innovative, but it carried the seeds of its own boredom. Revolutionary pop was too speedily accepted, turned into mainstream mulch and, in a trice, its own parody. Artists with any hope of staying power were forced to reinvent themselves a la Madonna. And her triumph was not any singing style, or even a winking decadence, but simply the prolonging of her career...
...female Lilith scene). Still, she's found her own platinum niche. Her debut album, Little Earthquakes (1992), which features songs about sexual awakening, sold more than a million copies; her last, Boys for Pele (1996), which featured a photo inside of Amos breast-feeding a piglet ("My 'madonna and child'--my father always wanted me to do a Christmas card," she laughs), took its first bow at No. 2 on the Billboard charts...