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...singer has no shortage of projects and offers these days (her husband says she turned down the title role in the movie Evita that eventually went to Madonna), and is currently preparing for a world tour that kicks off July 18. "I'm not the same person I was 10 years ago," says Estefan. "After Mi Tierra I could never go back to doing the same old thing." Clearly, Estefan's Destiny lies elsewhere...
Think of the implications of this startling fact for the average woman facing a fitting-room mirror. Nothing can make you fully beach ready: not total abstinence from carbos and fat, not Madonna's workout regimen, not even a $100 suit hot-wired for maximum curves. If Julia Roberts is deemed too unsightly for a seminude scene, what hope can there be for the rest...
Such behavior might seem cloyingly disingenuous were Rosie's persona not built in part on a seemingly real reverence for show business. She is insider and Everygal all at once. For although O'Donnell has purchased Helen Hayes' former New York estate and pals around with Madonna, she can still work up a Nebraska housewife's enthusiasm for soap-opera star Susan Lucci, with whom she passionately discussed All My Children plot lines from more than 10 years ago on her premiere show. Unlike David Letterman, O'Donnell doesn't seem to be forcing a good mood; nor does...
...example among many is Woman with a Coffeepot, circa 1895. One would need to go back 400 years, to Piero della Francesca's Madonna del Parto, to find a painted human figure of such monumental gravity. All is volume, all is power, not only the large masses--the head that seems hewn from some skin-colored rock, the torso and the flaring blue pyramid of the skirt, the cylindrical coffeepot and the cup with the spoon set vertically in it--but also the microforms, such as the knot tying the woman's apron at her waist, which has the finality...
...Madonna: No problem, friend who is a girl...