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Saturday, January 17, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Nude Madonna Photo Goes on Auction Block
People
A full-frontal photograph of Madonna taken in 1979 without any material on the Material Girl and then later published in Playboy is going public – for a price.
Christie's auction house in New York, which will hold its sale Feb. 12, expects the picture to go for $10,000, at the very least, the Associated Press reports.
Matthieu Humery, head of Christie's photography department, says Madonna was a financially strapped 20-year-old dancer when she responded to photographer Lee Friedlander's newspaper ad seeking a nude model. Her fee: $25.
Playboy published six photos from the shoot in 1985, though the one going on sale is "maybe the most explicit one," says Humery. – Stephen M. Silverman
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You know, with the bush she was sporting back then, we doubt it would be too explicit.
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A full-frontal photograph of Madonna taken in 1979 without any material on the Material Girl and then later published in Playboy is going public – for a price.
Christie's auction house in New York, which will hold its sale Feb. 12, expects the picture to go for $10,000, at the very least, the Associated Press reports.
Matthieu Humery, head of Christie's photography department, says Madonna was a financially strapped 20-year-old dancer when she responded to photographer Lee Friedlander's newspaper ad seeking a nude model. Her fee: $25.
Playboy published six photos from the shoot in 1985, though the one going on sale is "maybe the most explicit one," says Humery. – Stephen M. Silverman
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You know, with the bush she was sporting back then, we doubt it would be too explicit.
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"There's not a hint of glamorizing," he added. "That's what makes it powerful."
He said he knows of no other prints of the black-and-white photo.
Friedlander has said of the photo session that Madonna "seemed very confident, a street-wise girl. She told me she was putting a band together but half the kids that age are doing that. She was a good professional model."
The other five pictures from the Playboy spread were sold together in 2003 for $7,170.
Another, later photo of Madonna, by Helmut Newton, is in the auction and is also expected to fetch $10,000 to $15,000. In that shot, also sold to Playboy, Madonna is wearing lingerie, curly blond hair and a seductive expression. A man kneels beside her.
The Madonna photos are among 150 images by some of the biggest names in photography that are being sold from the collection of Leon and Michaela Constantiner.
Sean Penn Kiss & Text
James Franco previously told Out Magazine that after Sean and his first onscreen kiss, Sean texted Madonna:
We bet M thought is was incredibly romantic. We sure would've think that it's romantic when your ex thinks of you after his first kiss with the same gender. Not kidding; it means you made your impact on him, whether you like it or not!
We never thought that Sean is the kind of guy who would kiss, (text) and tell.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
M dines at the Waverly Inn (again!) with friends - 14/01/09
After dining at the Waverly Inn Saturday night, M came back to the same spot in the
Nice to see her out oand about so much; enjoying the beautuful & wintery NYC!
Photos: Celebrity-Gossip
Guy Ritchie visits M's NY apartment Tuesday night; A-Rod rumors still out there
Guy Ritchie was seen entering Madonna's Manhattan permanent a little before 9 P.M.
Allegedly he spent the night, as the Stalkarazzi who stayed till midnight didn't see him leave...!
We kinda don't see a-la P!nk and her ex-hubby post-divorce shiz going on here, really. M owns (at least) 3 apartments in that building, so we sure he has enough place to crash the night after spending some time with the kids. She doesn't strike us the type to do lingering and shit. We don't necessarily associate sexytime with the ex as weakness, however - sex with the ex isn't a good idea, in most cases!
The rumors of M and A-Rod playing on the down-low still swirling.
M should be in Florida for a few weeks (staying in Miami, we assume), so don't be surprised to hear about those two hooking up for a ride.
Allegedly he spent the night, as the Stalkarazzi who stayed till midnight didn't see him leave...!
We kinda don't see a-la P!nk and her ex-hubby post-divorce shiz going on here, really. M owns (at least) 3 apartments in that building, so we sure he has enough place to crash the night after spending some time with the kids. She doesn't strike us the type to do lingering and shit. We don't necessarily associate sexytime with the ex as weakness, however - sex with the ex isn't a good idea, in most cases!
The rumors of M and A-Rod playing on the down-low still swirling.
M should be in Florida for a few weeks (staying in Miami, we assume), so don't be surprised to hear about those two hooking up for a ride.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Warner Acts Go Covers Crazy For Compilation
A host of unusual covers can be found on "Covered, A Revolution in Sound: Warner Bros. Records," due Feb. 24. On it, 11 current Warner Music Group acts cover a classic tune from the label's back catalog.
Amongst the most intriguing are the Flaming Lips covering Madonna's "Borderline" with help from Stardeath and White Dwarfs, the Black Keys taking on Captain Beefheart's "Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles" and Mastodon teaming with ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons for the Texas trio's "Just Gt Paid."
The project was introduced by Adam Sandler's cover of Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane," which he performed last month on "The Late Show With David Letterman."
Here is the track list for "Covered, A Revolution in Sound":
"Borderline" (Madonna), Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs
"Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles" (Captain Beefheart), the Black Keys
"A Case of You" (Joni Mitchell), Michelle Branch
"Here Comes a Regular" (the Replacements), Against Me!
"More Than This" (Roxy Music), Missy Higgins
"Into the Mystic (Van Morrison), James Otto
"Like a Hurricane" (Neil Young), Adam Sandler
"You Wreck Me" (Tom Petty), Taking Back Sunday
"Just Got Paid" ZZ Top), Mastodon with Billy Gibbons
"Burning Down The House" (Talking Heads), the Used
"Midlife Crisis" (Faith No More), Disturbed
Amongst the most intriguing are the Flaming Lips covering Madonna's "Borderline" with help from Stardeath and White Dwarfs, the Black Keys taking on Captain Beefheart's "Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles" and Mastodon teaming with ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons for the Texas trio's "Just Gt Paid."
The project was introduced by Adam Sandler's cover of Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane," which he performed last month on "The Late Show With David Letterman."
Here is the track list for "Covered, A Revolution in Sound":
"Borderline" (Madonna), Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs
"Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles" (Captain Beefheart), the Black Keys
"A Case of You" (Joni Mitchell), Michelle Branch
"Here Comes a Regular" (the Replacements), Against Me!
"More Than This" (Roxy Music), Missy Higgins
"Into the Mystic (Van Morrison), James Otto
"Like a Hurricane" (Neil Young), Adam Sandler
"You Wreck Me" (Tom Petty), Taking Back Sunday
"Just Got Paid" ZZ Top), Mastodon with Billy Gibbons
"Burning Down The House" (Talking Heads), the Used
"Midlife Crisis" (Faith No More), Disturbed
Madonna saddles up for horse riding festival
15/01/2009
Contacmusic.com
Madonna isn't horsing around when it comes to her Equestrian ambitions - the Queen of Pop is flying out a top British trainer to the U.S. in a bid to transform her into a competitive rider.
The Material Girl star has her sights set on becoming a top-class horsewoman, and has roped in U.K. eventer Daisy Trayford to coach her at the FTI Equestrian Festival at Wellington, Florida in March.
The singer has flown out two horses from the U.K. to help realise her dressage dreams.
And Trayford can't wait to get the star into the paddock - insisting the notoriously tough superstar is a "dream pupil".
She tells Britain's Horse + Hound publication, "She's very driven, listens to what you say and just wants to do it and improve. You can always get somewhere with someone like that. She's a dream pupil. When I started teaching her she hadn't jumped at all and now she can jump a course of 1.05m. Jumping and hacking are her two favourite things."
Contacmusic.com
Madonna isn't horsing around when it comes to her Equestrian ambitions - the Queen of Pop is flying out a top British trainer to the U.S. in a bid to transform her into a competitive rider.
The Material Girl star has her sights set on becoming a top-class horsewoman, and has roped in U.K. eventer Daisy Trayford to coach her at the FTI Equestrian Festival at Wellington, Florida in March.
The singer has flown out two horses from the U.K. to help realise her dressage dreams.
And Trayford can't wait to get the star into the paddock - insisting the notoriously tough superstar is a "dream pupil".
She tells Britain's Horse + Hound publication, "She's very driven, listens to what you say and just wants to do it and improve. You can always get somewhere with someone like that. She's a dream pupil. When I started teaching her she hadn't jumped at all and now she can jump a course of 1.05m. Jumping and hacking are her two favourite things."
Survey puts Madonna in league of her own
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times
It's officail: Madonna tops the Los Angeles Times' Ultimate Top 10, an annual survey combining sales of concert tickets, albums and digital downloads to measure which acts were most popular with the broadest swath of music lovers.
Madonna was the No. 1 concert attraction in North America during the year, according to Pollstar, the concert-tracking magazine, and she enjoyed album sales to the tune of $12.5 million in addition to downloads of $2.3 million.
This year there's also a total split between Nielsen SoundScan's ranking of the 10 biggest-selling performers of 2008 and Pollstar's Top 10 highest-grossing North American concert tours. The highest any Top 10 SoundScan act finished in Pollstar's 2008 ranking was No. 13, where the Jonas Brothers (No. 7 among album sellers) landed after playing to 1.3 million fans last year.
Concert revenue hit $4.2 billion in 2008, according to Pollstar, a 7 percent rise over the previous year, even though the number of tickets sold was down. An 8.4 percent increase in average ticket prices was behind the rise, figures that are "astounding considering the economic environment in which they were generated," Pollstar Editor Gary Bongiovanni said.
The road is still where artists tend to make the most money. Only three of the Nielsen SoundScan biggest-selling artists of 2008 -- AC/DC, Coldplay and the Jonas Brothers -- make the Ultimate Top 10, even folding in their revenue from digital track sales.
The best example? Taylor Swift sold more albums than any other act last year: 4 million, giving her $52 million in revenue from album sales using $13 as the average price of a CD. But she placed No. 12 in the Ultimate Top 10 calculations because she played only a handful of concerts as a headliner. She spent most of the year as a supporting act on Rascal Flatts' tour.
That leaves the upper reaches of the Ultimate Top 10 to the veterans, and no one outperformed Madonna, whose combined income of $120 million is a drop from last year's winner, the Police, which logged $140.7 million.
1. Madonna ($120 million). The Material Girl took in $105.3 million from touring, in addition to $14.8 million from music sales. It's hard to decide what's more impressive. The average gross at her shows, mostly in stadiums, was $5.5 million, and she drew about 36,000 people per show. Additionally, the average ticket price was $153.88, easily the highest among Pollstar's Top 50 grossing tours. Worldwide, according to Pollstar, she amassed $281.6 million.
2. Celine Dion ($106.8 million). Dion posted her highest finish in a decade after ditching her residency at the Colosseum in Las Vegas for an old-fashioned, if high-tech, tour. She grossed $94 million, added $11.4 million in album sales and $1.3 million in digital tracks. Average ticket price: $119.00. Dion finished at No. 8 last year.
3. Kenny Chesney ($95.7 million). This favorite son of Luttrell, Tenn., again proved the most popular country music act on the road last year, pulling in $72.2 million, and was the only artist to sell more than 1 million tickets in North America. Chesney sold $20.8 million worth of albums and $2.7 million in digital tracks. Average ticket price: $71.24. He's up from No. 4 on last year's list.
4. Eagles ($90.7 million). The group might have taken the long road out of Eden, but it was pretty near paradise on the concert trail with the band's take of $73.4 million. CD sales added $15.6 million and the veteran act notched $1.7 million worth of downloads. Average ticket price: $128.82.
5. AC/DC ($82 million). The new "Black Ice" album took the veteran Australian hard rock band back to the top of the charts and also made its concert tour one of the year's hot tickets. The band's tally was almost evenly divided, with $37.5 million coming at the concert box office and $44.5 million from album sales. Like Kid Rock, AC/DC doesn't do digital tracks. Average ticket price: $99.73.
6. Coldplay ($81.6 million). Although finishing sixth, Coldplay is in the enviable position of balancing its power in concert and at retail. About $40.8 million worth of concert tickets were bolstered with $35 million in CD sales and $6 million worth of 99-cent track downloads. Average ticket price: $79.87.
7. Bon Jovi ($81.4 million). The New Jersey band posted another good year, with $70.4 million from 45 shows in 31 cities, plus $8.6 million in CD sales and $2.5 million in digital tracks. Average ticket price: $95.39.
8. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band ($79 million). This year, the Boss and the E Streeters pulled in $69.3 million on the road and, without a new album, added $8 million in catalog sales and $1.8 million in digital tracks. Average ticket price: $94.17.
9. Jonas Brothers ($77.9 million). The newest act to join the Ultimate Top 10 did almost equally well at the box office as at retail: $41.5 million worth of tickets, $30.4 million in albums and $6 million digitally. An average ticket price of $43.69 made theirs the least expensive ticket among Top 10 finishers.
10. Rascal Flatts ($77.1 million). This good-time country trio is becoming a concert juggernaut, with $55.8 million on the road, $18.2 million in album sales and $3.1 million digitally in 2008. Average ticket price: $59.47.
Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times
It's officail: Madonna tops the Los Angeles Times' Ultimate Top 10, an annual survey combining sales of concert tickets, albums and digital downloads to measure which acts were most popular with the broadest swath of music lovers.
Madonna was the No. 1 concert attraction in North America during the year, according to Pollstar, the concert-tracking magazine, and she enjoyed album sales to the tune of $12.5 million in addition to downloads of $2.3 million.
This year there's also a total split between Nielsen SoundScan's ranking of the 10 biggest-selling performers of 2008 and Pollstar's Top 10 highest-grossing North American concert tours. The highest any Top 10 SoundScan act finished in Pollstar's 2008 ranking was No. 13, where the Jonas Brothers (No. 7 among album sellers) landed after playing to 1.3 million fans last year.
Concert revenue hit $4.2 billion in 2008, according to Pollstar, a 7 percent rise over the previous year, even though the number of tickets sold was down. An 8.4 percent increase in average ticket prices was behind the rise, figures that are "astounding considering the economic environment in which they were generated," Pollstar Editor Gary Bongiovanni said.
The road is still where artists tend to make the most money. Only three of the Nielsen SoundScan biggest-selling artists of 2008 -- AC/DC, Coldplay and the Jonas Brothers -- make the Ultimate Top 10, even folding in their revenue from digital track sales.
The best example? Taylor Swift sold more albums than any other act last year: 4 million, giving her $52 million in revenue from album sales using $13 as the average price of a CD. But she placed No. 12 in the Ultimate Top 10 calculations because she played only a handful of concerts as a headliner. She spent most of the year as a supporting act on Rascal Flatts' tour.
That leaves the upper reaches of the Ultimate Top 10 to the veterans, and no one outperformed Madonna, whose combined income of $120 million is a drop from last year's winner, the Police, which logged $140.7 million.
1. Madonna ($120 million). The Material Girl took in $105.3 million from touring, in addition to $14.8 million from music sales. It's hard to decide what's more impressive. The average gross at her shows, mostly in stadiums, was $5.5 million, and she drew about 36,000 people per show. Additionally, the average ticket price was $153.88, easily the highest among Pollstar's Top 50 grossing tours. Worldwide, according to Pollstar, she amassed $281.6 million.
2. Celine Dion ($106.8 million). Dion posted her highest finish in a decade after ditching her residency at the Colosseum in Las Vegas for an old-fashioned, if high-tech, tour. She grossed $94 million, added $11.4 million in album sales and $1.3 million in digital tracks. Average ticket price: $119.00. Dion finished at No. 8 last year.
3. Kenny Chesney ($95.7 million). This favorite son of Luttrell, Tenn., again proved the most popular country music act on the road last year, pulling in $72.2 million, and was the only artist to sell more than 1 million tickets in North America. Chesney sold $20.8 million worth of albums and $2.7 million in digital tracks. Average ticket price: $71.24. He's up from No. 4 on last year's list.
4. Eagles ($90.7 million). The group might have taken the long road out of Eden, but it was pretty near paradise on the concert trail with the band's take of $73.4 million. CD sales added $15.6 million and the veteran act notched $1.7 million worth of downloads. Average ticket price: $128.82.
5. AC/DC ($82 million). The new "Black Ice" album took the veteran Australian hard rock band back to the top of the charts and also made its concert tour one of the year's hot tickets. The band's tally was almost evenly divided, with $37.5 million coming at the concert box office and $44.5 million from album sales. Like Kid Rock, AC/DC doesn't do digital tracks. Average ticket price: $99.73.
6. Coldplay ($81.6 million). Although finishing sixth, Coldplay is in the enviable position of balancing its power in concert and at retail. About $40.8 million worth of concert tickets were bolstered with $35 million in CD sales and $6 million worth of 99-cent track downloads. Average ticket price: $79.87.
7. Bon Jovi ($81.4 million). The New Jersey band posted another good year, with $70.4 million from 45 shows in 31 cities, plus $8.6 million in CD sales and $2.5 million in digital tracks. Average ticket price: $95.39.
8. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band ($79 million). This year, the Boss and the E Streeters pulled in $69.3 million on the road and, without a new album, added $8 million in catalog sales and $1.8 million in digital tracks. Average ticket price: $94.17.
9. Jonas Brothers ($77.9 million). The newest act to join the Ultimate Top 10 did almost equally well at the box office as at retail: $41.5 million worth of tickets, $30.4 million in albums and $6 million digitally. An average ticket price of $43.69 made theirs the least expensive ticket among Top 10 finishers.
10. Rascal Flatts ($77.1 million). This good-time country trio is becoming a concert juggernaut, with $55.8 million on the road, $18.2 million in album sales and $3.1 million digitally in 2008. Average ticket price: $59.47.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
M & Klein leaving Waverly Inn (10/01/09) - the video!
Jessica Seinfeld and Kanye West were with them as well.
Madonna on a cover of a new book: "On Filmsets And Other Locations"
Due May 2009, it's a hardcover photography book, On Filmsets And Other Locations, by Jurgen Vollmer of photos he took on various film sets over the years.
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