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...Louise. "This whole idea that women are powerful because they're sexy is a crock. Sex isn't power. Money is power. But the women who do best in this society are the ones who are the most complacent in the role of women as sexual commodity, be it Madonna, Julia Roberts or Sharon Stone. If Stone hadn't spread her legs, would Basic Instinct have done as well...
Boxing Helena is a thriller about a surgeon so obsessed with a woman that he amputates her limbs and puts her in a box. After Madonna backed out of the title role, director Jennifer Lynch discussed it with Basinger. Lynch assured the actress that the nude scenes would be tasteful: "I wanted to photograph her like a work...
George Bush's 1992 re-election campaign was so cheap and so tawdry that it would have made Madonna blush. The President reached out to every coalition and every constituency but his own base...
...world is becoming both more religious and more secular simultaneously. In the U.S., for example, respect for religion in areas of popular culture like music, books and television is as low as it has ever been (see Madonna, or Gore Vidal's elaborately blasphemous novel called LIVE from Golgotha). At the same time, both religious observance and the press of religious issues (questions of uncertainty, faith, anguish) are rising. Church leaders repeatedly condemn violence done in the name of religious tribalism -- as Orthodox churchmen speak against "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia and as some Muslim leaders criticize the bombing...
...gossip all the time, and Madonna's as out of fashion here as it is everywhere else...