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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...
...women's undergarments, the seemingly ubiquitous thong may be overextended. Full-bottom panties, says Victoria's Secret spokeswoman Monica Mitro, "are on the uptick." J. Lo sported a pair in the video Jenny from the Block, and Halle Berry donned a sporty wide-side, low-hip brief in Die Another Day. "The shape is fresh and functional," says Sarah Easley, co-owner of the hip Manhattan clothing store Kirna Zabete, which, along with specialty lingerie shops like Agent Provocateur, is selling a lot of panties. The trend takes its cue from sports, especially surfing--hence the low-sitting bikini...
Howe points to a photo on the wall: “That’s a picture of Jamie-Lee Curtis in her bathroom wearing the Hasty Pudding thong we gave her when she was Woman of the Year...
...Fineman P.R.: Top 10 P.R. Blunders. Martha Stewart's mess got nosed out by Abercrombie & Fitch, for its marketing of thong underwear to preteen girls, which prompted boycotts by profamily groups...
...could say that pop culture was the one American institution that whipped terrorism. Osama bin Laden would have liked little better than to subdue America's entertainment-media machine. That thong-wearing, freedom-flaunting international corrupter of values inflames his followers as painfully as any military base in Saudi Arabia, and there is no irony in Osama's Islam. But pop culture, as it turns out, is the Western equivalent of al-Qaeda: it's hard to kill because it is borderless, amorphous and stateless, and because it throws back at you the weapons you use against...