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...country has apparently descended into a kind of navel-gazing at a time when the world is changing very fast, and we're struggling to produce popular culture. So much solicitude is touching. But hang on: what about American culture seen from Paris? Brad Pitt, successor of Humphrey Bogart? Madonna, heiress of Billie Holiday? Edouard Launet, IN LIBÉRATION...
...friends with Madonna? She’s a big Kabbalah fan?...
...political activities under President Zia ul-Haq, Hassan paints scenes of street violence and government-sanctioned thuggery as stark and bold as tabloid stills. A View Through a Window shows a goon with a gun and blood-spattered clothes looming over a corpse, watched by respectful policemen. Another Madonna, in which a wailing mother huddles over her three dead sons, their faces daubed in the emerald green of the Pakistani flag, marries a classic theme with a scene that might easily have come from today's papers...
...statement of independence from her handlers and the constraints of teen pop, “Blackout” confronts listeners with a new complexity and renews Spears’s position as a member of pop royalty. Unlike the publicity storm created by the Britney-Madonna kiss in 2003, Spears’w universally panned appearance at this year’s VMAs captured all the wrong kinds of attention. “Blackout,” then, is faced with a challenge: it has to win fans back or at least attract a new demographic of followers. Each track...
...heard some environmentalists call Gore’s decision not to return to Washington inconceivable. While it sure is cool to be friends with Bono or Madonna, common wisdom dictates that the President of the United States is still the man (or woman) who can champion issues to greatest effect. If you want to change the world, we’re told, pack your bags and head toward the swamp-land of Washington...