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LONDON at a Gianni Versace retrospective in a museum with Madonna, below...
...tweed-clad phonograph, which he called upon several times during the evening to play a vinyl of Madonna’s “Material Girl.” “Come on Boston!” Adams implored: “Don’t you like Madonna? She can throw plates at me all she wants…I’ll just duck ’em,” he said, avoiding imaginary flatware...
...Traveler life is an odd composite of Old World and McWorld. Like most other Travelers, Penn has a madonna statue on his lawn. Hisdaughter was 14 when she married her 20-year-old fiance--an arranged match, like "99%" of village marriages, he says. And like many other Travelers, Penn never made it past sixth grade. But he drives a muscular black pickup with tinted windows, and the Traveler women draw stares when they go into town, dolled up with layers of makeup and halos of hair...
...Jalaluddin Rumi was, among many other things, a lover of irony, of the odd and absurd juxtapositions that life creates. So it may be that he would have savored the fact that Madonna set translations of his 13th century verses praising Allah to music on Deepak Chopra's 1998 CD, A Gift of Love; that Donna Karan has used recitations of his poetry as a background to her fashion shows; that Oliver Stone wants to make a film of his life; and that even though he hailed from Balkh, a town near Mazar-i-Sharif situated in what is today...
...might be argued, is seeding: giving new products to trendsetters to help build buzz. Fusion 5, a division of marketing giant WPP Group, gave advance models of the Ford Focus to employees of such celebrities as Adam Sandler and Madonna so the cars could be seen at hip places and parties around town. "We leverage the untapped power of word of mouth," says Matthew Stradiotto, cofounder of Matchstick, a Toronto firm that specializes in product seeding. Before a product launch, Matchstick hands out samples to key "influencers," a method credited with contributing to the success of sneaker launches...