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Discovering that Madonna had posed nude early in her career is a bit like learning that the blond pop siren streaks her hair. Not exactly shattering news. Even so, there was the Material Girl without a stitch of material last week in not one but two flesh magazines, Playboy and Penthouse. The pictures are unremarkable art school stuff, black-and-white studies of Madonna reclining on couches and sitting on windowsills. The real pleasure came from watching Playboy and Penthouse trade taunts in an old-fashioned newsstand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like a Pinup: Navel battle of the newsstands | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

According to Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse, he had the first look at Playboy's pictures, which were taken in the late 1970s by two New York photographers who had hired Madonna, then an impoverished dancer, as an artist's model (pay: $30 a session). Instead, Guccione purchased the work of another New York photographer, who had paid Madonna $50 for a two-hour sitting in 1978. "Play boy's photos were coarse, uncomplimentary and rather like scraping the bottom of the barrel," said Guccione. Nonsense, says Playboy. Guccione offered at least $100,000 for Playboy's pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like a Pinup: Navel battle of the newsstands | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Playboy printed 5.9 million copies, 350,000 more than its normal run, while Penthouse is shipping 5.2 million instead of the usual 4.9 million. If Penthouse sells well, Guccione may publish another set of Madonna nudes next month. The onetime artist's model, busy preparing for her wedding next month to Actor Sean Penn, seemed indifferent to all the exposure and declined comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like a Pinup: Navel battle of the newsstands | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...music defies description, and not in a good way. Still, this is a video review, and I have seen more than a few videos overcome atrocious songs. Unfortunately, the plot of this video centers around—you’ll never guess—a bad Madonna cover-band wooing 50 Cent’s bodyguards at a seedy Cincinnati strip joint. No joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POP SCREEN: Music Videos | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...retrospective of work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and they are doing their best right now to summon the spirit of the '80s. Basquiat, who died in 1988 at age 27, is the graffiti artist who personified certain dimensions of that decade as completely as his onetime girlfriend Madonna. So on a recent Saturday afternoon, a large area on the museum's fifth floor was given over to break dancers busting out moves. In a corner, a DJ fiddled with his turntable while a crowd of kids watched. A couple of guys in suits stood off to one side. Although they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Does '80s Art Look Now? | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

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