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...Madonna e mobile. She has already moved from records to videos to movies; she is seen around with Sean Penn; someone is even publishing her biography next month. She is 24 and has been hot in the music business for all of six months. Or is that a lifetime these days? Her year-old first album, called Madonna, is now double platinum (meaning more than 2 million sales). Her second, Like a Virgin, came out three months ago and is triple platinum. Born Madonna Louise Ciccone in Bay City, Mich., the former Alvin Ailey dancer is among the sultriest...
...watching the latest Madonna video on MTV, or catching the ESPN sports update, don't be surprised when you see an advertisement for that Harvard Square haven of toothpaste and textbooks--the Coop...
...precognitive, the visions of Writer Gerard Reve (Jeroen Krabbé) have their cinematic possibilities. The trouble is his movie is mostly banal, the stuff of arrested adolescence. It contains obsessively recurring images: woman as spider, devouring her mate once she has lured him to sexual consummation; woman as elusive Madonna, offering salvation to wayward boys if only they can catch her attention; campy sacrilege committed on Catholic iconography gloomy reflections on the artist's unhappy lot in a staid bourgeois society, with particular reference to Holland, where the audience is uneconomically small and the language is not exactly...
Tyrone is a failed actor with a tragedian's soul and a Broadway tinhorn's compulsion for self-abasement in bad booze and worse sex. Josie, the daughter of his Connecticut tenant farmer, has adopted the manner of a slut in order to hide her Madonna's heart. Their tragedy is that their one night of (sexless) love comes too late. From it they achieve not redemption but a brief, bittersweet memory; not" I enough, one suspects, to light their separate darkening paths into the future...
EVEN THE OBVIOUSLY REAL scenes take on a dream-like quality. At the beginning, Eugenia visits a small chapel, a shrine to the Madonna of Childbirth. The chapel is half-dark, with ancient rows of pillars lit by hundreds of fluttering candles. All about, black clad women are performing the rituals of worship. Eugenia finds that she cannot bring herself to kneel, and asks the sacristan why only women are worshipping. He tells her that child-bearing and the church are their business; she says nothing in reply. All of a sudden, the air is full of small birds that...