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Undoubtedly, a few underemployed British actresses grumbled last week, with two major theater productions opening in London featuring American women in lead roles. This, however, was not the angle taken by the local press. Instead, the coverage concerned the relative merits of MADONNA and GWYNETH PALTROW in their West End debuts. Paltrow, who stars in the Tony-winning play Proof, earned almost all raves from critics and a standing ovation. Madonna, too, received a standing ovation, but hers came at the start of the play, just for the fact that she showed up. Madonna's show, Up for Grabs, opens...
...preacher; her mother is a former Playboy Bunny. Lane herself is a single mom. (She and her ex-husband, actor Christopher Lambert, have an 8-year-old daughter.) She has absolutely no comment on her current boyfriend, actor Josh Brolin: "Who cares who I'm dating? I'm not Madonna." She says nothing about him but blushes at the mention of his name. "Doesn't that say it all?" she asks. It also says that at the moment, there's nothing at all wrong with Diane Lane's life...
Rahman, 36, may not be a household name to Westerners, but he is every bit as much a musical monarch as Lloyd Webber is, having sold well over 100 million CDs. A little perspective, folks: that's about the same as Madonna and Britney Spears combined. And he comes to a London seemingly besotted with Bollywood. In May Selfridges department store had a $1.69 million tribute to the genre, complete with visiting stars, movie-set replicas and Bollywood-inspired clothing. The British Film Institute meanwhile is running Imagine Asia, at eight months' duration England's largest Bollywood film festival ever...
Artists in need of funding often talk about requiring "the right to fail" - the implication being that only if they are free from commercial pressures can they produce their most truthful and personal work. Madonna is one of the world's biggest and most bankable stars. When she announced her London stage debut in David Williamson's Up for Grabs, the entire 10-week run sold out within days. With a reported personal fortune of more than $275 million, she transcends performers' usual financial insecurities, and yet with her iconic status comes the intense glare of public attention. Madonna, immensely...
...15th century by the famed Medici family. Owner Sergio Carpini, 71, spends every spare moment hunting for antique furniture and fine Italian marble and textiles with which to furnish his guest rooms. Carpini is putting the final touches on a hilltop villa that sleeps 20. Initial restorations uncovered a Madonna and the wooden bearings of a house from the early 16th century. "Like the masterpieces in the museums," says Carpini, "this is our patrimony that must be preserved." Here too are some 200 acres of vineyards, olive groves and small lakes. Mountain bikes are available gratis. Nearby, there are also...