Thursday, June 11, 2015

Diferentes Fotos 12

2005 - Lorenzo Agius - Ladies Home Journal
 
Goodbye Golden Era Hollywood List of when all the stars of Madonna’s Vogue have passed
Madonna “Immaculate Collection” contact sheet by Herb Ritts (1990)
Madonna and Barbra Streisand on the set of “Nuts” in 1987
Madonna and Clay at LAX in 1985
Madonna and Donna Delory filming the Vogue video in 1990. Directed by David Fincher
Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow at Diane Von Furstenberg Party - 2010
Madonna and longtime publicist Liz Rosenberg in the beginning of Madonna’s career (1984)
Madonna and photographer Herb Ritts in 1989
Madonna and Sean Penn arriving at the premiere of At Close Range at the Mann’s Bruin theater in Westwood, CA on April 16, 1986
Madonna and Sean Penn in NYC (1986)
Madonna and the legendary Rudi Gernreich muse Peggy Moffitt c.1991
Madonna and Tony Ward
Madonna arriving at Le Dome restaurant on Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles in 1986
Madonna as the vamp Breathless Mahoney in Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy (1990)
Madonna at her Like A Virgin record release party on November 7, 1984 - held at the Private Eyes nightclub in NYC
Madonna attends the ‘Siesta’ Premiere Party on October 29, 1987 at MGM Studios in Culver City, California.
Madonna attends the Second Annual ‘Commitment to Life’ Gala to Benefit APLA on September 20, 1986
Madonna being made up by Francois Nars for her Vanity Fair photo shoot with Steven Meisel (1991)
Madonna by Herb Ritts (1990) Appeared in American Photo magazine Nov-Dec 1991
Madonna by Herb Ritts 1986
Madonna Expressing Herself (1989)
Madonna gagged and chained to a bed in this Sex Book outtake by Steven Meisel
Madonna in 1990 photographed by Steven Meisel
Madonna in 1999
Madonna in Japan in 1985
Madonna in Nice, France while on her Who’s That Girl tour in 1987
Madonna in Pucci (1990)
Madonna Interview magazine outtake by Mert and Marcus 2010
Madonna on the phone in her dressing room while filming her video “True Blue” directed by James Foley in late 1986
Madonna on the set of Desperately Seeking Susan in 1984
Madonna on the set of her Erotica video in 1992
Madonna on the set of Papa Don’t Preach in 1986
Madonna out and about in 1994
Madonna out and about in NYC c.1992
Madonna paparazzi shot in the Erotica era wearing men’s boxers and the JustifyMyLove cover leather vest  (1992)
Madonna performing Frozen in Italy at the San Remo Festival February 24, 1998
Madonna photographed by Alberto Tolot in 1986
Madonna photographed by Herb Ritts for the Like a Prayer album shoot in Los Angeles (1989)
Madonna photographed by Ken Regan for People magazine at the Mondrian hotel in Los Angeles (1985)
Madonna photographed by Luis Sanches during the Ray of Light era
Madonna photographed by Mario Testino (1998)
Madonna photographed by Matthew Rolston for RollingStone in 1986
Madonna photographed by Peter Cunningham in 1982
Madonna photographed by Steven Meisel in 1992 for her Sex Book designed by Fabien Baron
Madonna rehearsing Vogue for the Girlie Show in 1993
Madonna Sex Book outtake (1992)
Madonna Sex Book Outtake by Steven Meisel (1992)
Madonna shooting the Sex Book with Naomi Campbell and photographer Steven Meisel in Miami, Florida (1992)
Madonna Summer out and about in 2004
Madonna takes a break from shooting her Justify My Love video at the Royal Monceau Hotel in Paris, France. November 9, 1990
Madonna threw a party as a Thank You to her Sticky crew and dancers at Aura Nightclub in the Piccadilly district of London
 
 
Madonna wearing Azzedine Alaia and canary diamonds photographed by Francesco Scavullo for Cosmopolitan magazine (1987)
Madonna while filming Desperately Seeking Susan in Battery Park NYC in 1984 with costar Robert Joy
Madonna while shooting with Steven Meisel in 1990
Madonna with Keith Haring’s parents c.1991. Wearing her fab red pants and Justify My Love vest
Miss Ciccone Arrives by Helicopter to Lawnfest Charity -2010
Physical Attraction 1983 in Boston, Massachusetts
Platinum blonde Madonna in Louis Vuitton leather and her own bustier photographed by Alberto Tolot in 1986
Sandra Bernhard and Madonna at Bungle The Jungle 'I Got You Babe' 1989
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sean Penn and Madonna in Berlin, Germany for the At Close Range premiere at the Berlin Film Festival 1986
Shot in 1983, released officially in Mademoiselle magazine in 1984 - this is Madonna's first shoot with Steven Meisel
 
 
Steve Bray and Madonna pre-stardom
The Early Madonna
Unseen Madonna Photo by Fiorucci

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Eric Balfour 1

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Will Kemp

Will is known for Van Helsing and Step Up 2: The Streets.
He was born in June 1977, UK and is 5' 11" (1.80 m) tall.
Will trained at the Royal Ballet School.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Madonna Before She Was Madonna

Her name is Madonna Ciccone, and her face matches her name.

Round eyes, arched eyebrows, finely drawn mouth – Da Vinci would have loved it. It is a theatrical face, a dancer’s face. And she has a dancer’s body – thin as a blade, lithe and agile. Doll-like, she looks as if she’d snap in a strong wind.

She wouldn’t. …
Countless times over the years, critics, pundits and reporters have written some variation on that to describe Madonna, the iconic pop starlet. But the story containing this passage is different, because it dates back to a time when nobody knew who Madonna was. 
 
It’s the beginning of a Charlotte Observer story from July 1978, about the American Dance Festival’s first year at Duke University in Durham. And it might be the first notice from the press that Madonna received.

Observer staff writer Richard Maschal quoted Madonna, then 19 years old, describing the rigors of ADF as “pretty draining and demanding.” And he called her “what the American Dance Festival is about.”

Seven years later, after 1984’s “Like a Virgin” and 1985’s “Desperately Seeking Susan” established Madonna as a huge star and the it-girl of that moment, Maschal wrote a followup column about his earlier impressions of her. He noted her beauty, aura and precocious self-assurance – and also that she resembled a literal Renaissance madonna.

“I really did think she looked like a madonna and so was amazed when I asked her name and she gave it,” Maschal said recently via email. “I also found her one of the most self-absorbed persons I had ever met.”

That self-absorption also manifested as confidence, which would stand Madonna in good stead as she pursued her career. One of her 1978 ADF classmates was Eric Tyrone Smith, who later shared a West Village apartment with Madonna in New York City. In a 2007 email, he recounted a salient memory of Madonna’s evolution from dancer to singer:

She came back to the apartment one day bragging that she had just been out in Washington Sq. park singing with some black guys and that they had told her she could sing. I told her she couldn’t believe everything she was told and of course the rest is history!

Little else remains of Madonna’s long-ago time as a dance student in Durham. Her primary teachers there, Pearl Lang and Pauline Koner, are both deceased. And while ADF still has her application and school records on file, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) means they will remain private unless Madonna herself chooses to release them.

That’s doubtful, so mostly we have Maschal’s witness-bearing account. He admits he did not come away impressed, with little inkling of just how big a star she would become. Maschal’s 1985 story about Madonna concluded by asking about the 26-year-old singer, “Can you picture Madonna at 40?”

Now 56, in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and still topping charts and touring arenas, Madonna seems to have done all right for herself.

Friday, June 05, 2015

Why Don’t You…? by Madonna (Harper’s Bazaar Malaysia - 28.05.2015)

…Rebel? A rebel is someone who asks questions. You know that Shakespearean line “(the lady) doth protest too much”?  A rebel is someone who protests too much, or maybe not enough, who questions convention, who thinks outside the box; who doesn’t take the road most travelled. You can’t be a rebel and not be willing to take the consequences. Like Michael Moore said, “You can’t stick your chin out and not expect to get punched.”  That’s the way it works. He’s a rebel heart too, by the way.

…Make Your Mark? It’s people like Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Bob Marley & John Lennon, who have changed the world.  They went against the grain. They took the road less travelled and that made all the difference.

… Express Your Thoughts on Spirituality, Sex & Religion? I think they are all subjects that beg to be challenged and dissected. I’m constantly trying to come to terms with the ideal of spirituality, religion and sexuality. These are topics that are very prevalent in society, that are taken out of context in society, that are misrepresented in society; that are used to help people grow and feel self-empowered. They are also used to keep people down and imprison people. So for me, they’re topics you can never exhaust.

… Liberate Yourself It gives me a lot of satisfaction to know that I was somehow involved with liberating people – making somebody feel proud of who they are or liberating someone in making them feel good about what they stand for.

… Have an Opinion? I have opinions. What else can you do if you’re an artist? I don’t know any other way except to offer up my heart or say “Come on, you wanna mess with me? Let’s go.”We’re living in the age where popular figures or pop icons or pop culture are not nurturing people to have opinions. It’s about being a brand, playing it safe and being familiar and not offending anyone and I will never be comfortable being that.

…Really Listen to the Music and Its Lyrics? I feel (that) on all my records I write songs that are revealing about my feelings but sometimes I don’t like to be so literal or so specific. I like to be more mysterious, so I guess it depends on the mood I’m in.

… Ignore The Haters? I think if people are looking for something bad, they’re going to find it. As I’ve said before, we’re living in a fundamentalist, literalist society where there can’t be any duality to something. No one has an understanding to the meaning of irony. No one has a sense of humor. There’s no complexity to things. Everything is just surface value.  Does it bother me that people will misunderstand my songs? I like to think that my songs will find the audience that they are meant to find. And the people who can’t understand them or can’t connect to them, well, they’ll find something else that they like.

…Strip It All Down? When it came to writing my latest album The Rebel Heart, my original intention was that I was just going to sit with various songwriters and write songs. That was my goal. I’m just going to write songs and I want all the songs I write to be something that I could sit and strum a guitar to and sing from top to bottom without any other people involved.  Even “Bitch, I’m Madonna” I could sing acoustic.  It’s actually quite good.  So, that was my goal.