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...women in which we spent a lot of time talking about heroines and role models, especially in popular culture. Thelma and Louise were an option, but aside from the fact that they are fictional characters, I'm not sure I'm so fond of all the choices they made. Madonna is another possibility, but as much as I adore "Evita," I still can't get past envisioning her in her "Like a Virgin" phase. Looking out for a better option, over vacation I even watched the "Ladies Home Journal" salute to the "Women of 1996." But they all seemed...
MIRACLE OF LOURDES OF 1996: Bringing up baby and Evita, Madonna gets a new lease on her career
...next film, Dangerous Game--a grim, low-budget curiosity about a seedy film director whose movie about an abusive relationship is seeping into real life--got even less attention. This time, says Madonna, she was "sabotaged" by the director, Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant), who re-edited the ending and took out most of the humor. "The movie had such a different texture and meaning and outcome for me. When I went to see a screening of it, I cried. Because I really think I did a good job as an actress. I don't think it should be called Dangerous...
...first the Evita frenzy will have to be justified by a measure of success at the box office. And that is far from certain. Madonna's presence onscreen has yet to be a big draw, and the massive publicity campaign cannot obscure the fact that Evita is a two-hour opera. "I don't know if it's going to be commercial," she says. "But I am 100 percent sure that I did the best job I could." That may not be enough to finally make Madonna a major movie star. But it has accomplished at least one thing...
OPRAH WINFREY She'll receive an on-air declaration of love from Stedman. A double-wedding with Madonna? --George Roman...