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...humor, and share a love for period dramas. “We hang out a lot—almost everyday,” Keel says. They point to a wall above their fireplace mantle, which features a collection of sacred Catholic images juxtaposed with an image of pop singer Madonna in a leather dominatrix ensemble, from the cover of her “Justify My Love” video. The wall embodies the essence of their relationship—one in which personal connections and similarities enable political differences to coexist...
BEDTIME STORIES Is there anything this woman can't do--except retire, that is? At 44--an age when Christina Aguilera will be sitting on her porch knitting thong underwear--MADONNA has a new album, American Life, due out in April, and she just signed a deal with Penguin for a series of five kids' books. The first, The English Roses, will be published in September; it recounts the adventures of a red fox and a little prince. Madonna left her writing garret long enough to pose for a 44-page photo essay in April's W magazine...
Stargazing has become our governing guilty pleasure. We feel, many of us, that we know Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna or Jennifer Lopez as well as we know our best friends, and though that is clearly an illusion, it is not entirely untrue. As you float along the surfaces of Martha Sherrill's haunting and evocative first novel, you experience something of a waking dream: the It girl of the moment is telling a journalist, "At my deepest point, my still point, I am water," when suddenly, almost inexplicably, you get pulled into something deeper. Stars somehow possess...
When I was a student, I spent a lot of time in museums taking notes. Now that I know more, I find inspiration in many diverse places. On my way to work the other day, I stopped at a church in Rome and saw a painting of the Madonna. The subtle pattern of blues and golds in the embroidery of her dress was so amazing that I used it to design a new evening dress for my haute couture...
...tipping point, as with almost any fashion, was its adoption by high-profile stylish women--in the fall of 2001. Fashion is a game in which alpha-dog celebrities stay ahead of middle-class consumers, often by mimicking inner-city teenagers and other transgressive subcultures. Madonna's bold use of classic Adidas roused a posse of A-list imitators ranging from Gwyneth Paltrow and Cameron Diaz to Pink. J. Lo made the pastel Juicy Couture velour sweat suit a must-have item, then started producing...