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...Nagy walked on the stage with pop star Madonna's "Like a Prayer" playing over the speakers and the words "Our Hero" on the screen, students burst in a round of applause...
What's the solution? A New Elvis? There isn't much hope on the horizon. Madonna's exhibitionist tendency alienates many folks in middle America. Garth Brooks isn't kitschy enough and doesn't win over the gospel crowd. And Nirvana just won't cut it with the hygienic...
...their small galleries as a room where children (and adults, too) can participate in hands-on activities. The room features Keith Haring coloring books, black paper and chalk which visitors can use to create "subway drawings" like Haring's, and huge black and white plastic-covered photographs of Madonna and Batman which children can embellish with colored markers to create Warhol-esque images. It is Mickey Mouse, though, that is the unifying image of this exhibition. His presence here guarantees an unusually accessible and fun museum experience...
...Madonna has seen the public's wrath brought upon her for similar reasons. Her "Like A Prayer" video, which depicts Catholic icons in a questionable light and displays a large crucifix which typically covers more of her chest than her shirt, has also led many to question her interpretation of Catholic doctrine. Both Sinead and Madonna have answered such criticism with indifference...
Medved has tapped into a general queasiness about pop culture, and not just from religious and social conservatives. A large segment of the public senses that the trash has risen to eye and ear level, and it smells rank. Freddy Krueger slices his way into little girls' minds, and Madonna's siren song & turns little boys into prematurely dirty men. Once the U.S. cinema was ruled by sentiment; now it is tyrannized by cynicism. Movies have assumed the omniscient sneer of a '50s greaser; they mock or duck any authority, whether the unfeeling parent, the stodgy teacher, the irrelevant clergyman...