Madonna en couverture du magazine anglais "Now" - 18 août 2008.
 

Le nouveau visage de Madonna va tous nous détruire.


04/08/2008

Have you had the traumatic experience of seeing Madonna without her makeup recently? The lower left thumbnail gives you a taste of the dreadful experience. But despite this sometimes ghastly visage, Madonna's face is considered something of a model for rich and vain women of a certain age, and New York magazine this month tracked down perhaps the most acclaimed sculptor of their flesh, Dr. David Rosenberg. Just to give you some idea of the pride he takes in his work: Rosenberg nearly weeps when he is informed that many divas have begun referring to one of his signature looks as "the Rosenberg nose." The key to his technique — and to what New York calls the "new new face" — is not the old stretching upward of the entire facial skin, but instead an under-skin lifting of the muscles of the lower face, preserving essential facial "architecture." A regimen of injections of fat and collagen and whatnot supplements this work by creating the appearance of baby fat. Even the young Olsen twins are maybe having some of this work done, the magazine artfully implies!
Once I starting thinking of it in these terms—the face as the new handbag, say—I started seeing New New Faces everywhere: Demi Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer, Liz Hurley, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour. They all have it! Even the Olsen twins seem to have a starter version of the New New Face, with their big crazy doll eyes and plush lips. Just to be clear, I don’t presume to know exactly what any of these women have done to their faces, if anything at all. It’s possible (though in some cases before-and-after pictures would seem to suggest otherwise) that this face is occurring entirely naturally—after all, these are women who are famous for being beautiful. The point is that there is a noticeable aesthetic shift happening in the face, and that it’s dovetailing with quantum leaps in plastic surgery and dermatology.
The article also bitchily calls out women who squandered their distinctive beauty with surgery or injections — the old new face or whatever. Most of these women are in their 50s or 60s, and had old-fashioned lifts (in which the whole face is stretched) and nose jobs. That's why it seems especially cruel that 46-year-old Meg Ryan is clumped in with them:
“Meg may think she looks beautiful,” [Rosenberg] says carefully. “But what we are picking up on is a sense that maybe there is an overinflation of the lips, there’s an overabundance of fillers in her face.” He pauses. “What I see with Demi [Moore] is more of an operation. Let me say it this way: I see preservation of definition, a preservation of facial architecture. Angularity. Very pretty.”
Virtually all the patients mentioned in the article are women, save for designer Calvin Klein. But the pretty new wave of boy-toy TV news anchors is going to need some work done in a few years (if it isn't being done already!), so probably this sad vortex of endless cosmetic work will soon draw in the half of humanity that can, at the moment, sometimes afford to let its skin sag, even in front of cameras. And maybe it can invent the new new new face!
[New York Magazine]

Source: Gawker.
 

Madonna on the cover of "New York Magazine" - August 11, 2008




Meg Ryan and Demi Moore

"Live Night & Day" is a supplement of UK newspaper "The Mail on Sunday".

Guy Ritchie en couverture du magazine "Live Night & Day" d'aujourd'hui.

"Live Night & Day" est un supplément du journal anglais "The Mail on Sunday".
 

Madonna en couverture du magazine anglais "Woman & Home" - Septembre 2008.


Madonna on turning 50, on motherhood, on Malawi
The Queen of pop, talks to us about work, family and giving back

Madonna - On turning 50
As Madonna approaches her 50th birthday (16th August), she opens up to Woman and Home about planning her best decade yet with a focus on giving back
The success of Madonna's eleventh album, Hard Candy, and sell-out performances show her enduring popularity. She recently turned her hand to directing with the well-received comedy Filth And Wisdom, and she presented the documentary I Am Because We Are, which highlights the plight of AIDS orphans in Malawi, her two-year-old adopted son David's homeland. Madonna's other children are Lourdes, 11, from her relationship with actor Carlos Leon, and Rocco, eight, from her marriage to Guy Ritchie.
Madonna on turning 50
The number 50 is not a bad word! I feel fine and am not sensitive about anyone talking about it. I see it as another excuse to have a party. I'm enjoying life as much as ever, as well as all the different things I do – directing, making music, having a family.
I am a multi-tasker. In working, I am using the right and the left side of my brain non-stop. Consequently, I don't sleep very much. But I have an incredible team around me and it's a support system I couldn't do without. I'm also a highly organised person, so between that and my obsessive-compulsive disorder, I get a lot done!

Madonna - On motherhood
Having children has had an enormous effect on me as a person, and creatively. When you have children you look at life differently. You have a much fuller sense of appreciation and for the fragility of life, and how magical we all are as human beings.
As a mother, I would fall into the category of the disciplinarian. I make my children tidy up their bedrooms. I do not like them to play video games or watch television, and I make sure they do their homework.
Among my children, Lola [Lourdes] rules the roost. She is extremely maternal towards David. He is the apple of everyone's eye right now. Lola is in major competition with Rocco and he's starting to fight back. But, when nobody's looking, the two of them still creep into bed and cuddle. It's a closet kind of love.
I lost my own mother to breast cancer when I was six. Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear. You're aware of a sense of loss and feel a sense of abandonment.

Madonna - On Malawi
I first became involved with Malawi as I got to know someone who lived in the Ivory Coast. He was friends with Victoria Keelan, who had come to his rescue because there had been a water shortage in the Ivory Coast. She asked if he had an idea of someone who could help with the situation with the orphans in Malawi.
He had something to do with the distribution of my children's books in the Ivory Coast. On the back of the book it says that all the proceeds are donated to a children's charity. So he thought, “Madonna's interested in children”. He got in touch with me and that's how the whole ball got rolling.
I think the criticism that celebrities face when they are tackling humanitarian issues is down to the cynicism of the public. People like to criticise. It's human nature. They can't imagine someone could be doing something for an altruistic reason, because they are feeling generous.
But I believe that if you have one iota of compassion, you can't ignore what's going on. You have to figure out ways to be a part of the solution.
Everything that's going on in the world is pretty scary. And people know we are living on borrowed time – whether it's global warming, the 36 wars that are going on at any given time or terrorism. A lot of people in privileged positions are waking up and thinking it's a little bit absurd to be thinking about what their next film is going to be.
The planet is only going to be around for another 50 years if we don't wake up and do something about it.
It seems a little bit futile just to be worrying about your next position in the charts. So there is a lot of social consciousness going on and that can only be a good thing.
I certainly hope that people realise there's a lot more to being Madonna than taking off my clothes. I hope that the Sex book [which came out in 1992] is not the only thing that I'm identified with. I have done and plan to do many other things.

To find out more about Madonna's documentary on the plight of orphans in Malawi and what you can do to help, visit iambecauseweare.com

Read this interview in full in the September issue of Woman&Home. Discover Madonna's passions, favourite ways to relax and how she keeps her amazing body in shape.

Source: Woman and Home.
 

Madonna en couverture du magazine français "Night Life".
 

Cette semaine: A-Rod appelle Madonna 'Mon Âme Soeur' tandis que l'épouse demande le divorce.


Week in Review: A-Rod Calls Madonna 'My Soulmate' as Wife Files For Divorce
Friday July 11, 2008
Posted by Rachel Paula Ab... at 12:43 pm ET

Usmagazine.com looks back at the week in celebrity news:

- New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez was exchanging text messages with Madonna six months ago, Us Weekly reports in its new issue, on newsstands now. "He [said] he was in love with her," his friend recalls to Us.
By February, A-Rod had upped the ante. "He said, 'She's my f--king soulmate, dude,'" the friend tells Us.
Meanwhile, six days after Us Weekly broke the news that A-Rod was making late night visits to Madonna's apartment, his wife Cynthia filed for divorce. While Madonna has denied a relationship with A-Rod, Us Weekly reports otherwise. Check out the new issue for the full story on how the Material Girl lured A-Rod away from his newborn, why a friend says he's "totally brainwashed" by kabbalah, how Madonna is thriving on the attention and why her friends think A-Rod is "totally her type."

- Former Oakland A and onetime Yankee Jose Canseco revealed that Madonna begged him to impregnate her. In the new issue of Us Weekly, Canseco details how the singer tried to romance him in 1991 even though, like baseball nemesis A-Rod, he was married at the time. "She wanted to get married and have a child with me — she wanted a Cuban child," he tells Us. Conseco recalls: "We went downstairs [at her house in the Hollywood Hills] and she came over and said, "What would you do if I kissed you?' and then she sat on my lap and kissed me."

Source: Us magazine.

A-Rod et Madonna: Un Guide de Fan.


Tuesday, Jul. 08, 2008
By REBECCA WINTERS KEEGAN
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez with his wife Cynthia
Ray Stubblebine / reuters

Everything about an élite pro athlete's life — the nine-figure contract, the 20,000-sq.-ft. home, the beauteous gluteus maximus and, yes, sometimes even the 12-lawyer divorce — is a brawny spectacle. But the breakup of New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez and his wife Cynthia is surely one for the record books, with its allegations of a starry love pentagon and brainwashing via a rabbi. The relationship that appears to have helped unravel the six-year Rodriguez marriage involves no mere Vegas stripper or D-list country star. This couple is fighting about the only woman on earth who can top A-Rod in both net worth and push-ups — Madonna.

Cynthia Rodriguez filed for divorce Monday, with her lawyers claiming that "Alex has emotionally abandoned his wife and children" and that the marriage "is irretrievably broken because of the husband's extramarital affairs and marital misconduct." While Madonna's name isn't mentioned in the petition, Earle Lilly, Cynthia's divorce attorney, told TMZ, "Madonna was the last straw."

Lilly later clarified to PEOPLE magazine that he was not claiming sexual infidelity by the Material Girl and Major League boy, but rather "an affair of the heart." Dodd Romero, Rodriguez's former trainer and godfather to his children, told Good Morning America that Madonna has "brainwashed" the ballplayer with teachings of Kabbalah, the form of Jewish mysticism she practices. "Something has pulled him away from his strong family values and has caused him to search and look for something that really isn't out there," Romero said. (For pro athletes, chatty former trainers pose the same threat that chatty ex-nannies do to actors: they often see their bosses at their worst, and share it.)

Madonna, whose own 7 1/2-year marriage to director Guy Ritchie has been rumored to be on shaky ground, fought back with a double play through her publicist. "My husband and I are not planning on getting a divorce," she said in a statement. "I know Alex Rodriguez through Guy Oseary, who manages both of us. I brought my kids to a Yankee game. I am not romantically involved in any way with Alex Rodriguez. I have nothing to do with the state of his marriage or what spiritual path he may choose to study."

Also drawn into the lineup — are you keeping score? we're on our fifth batter — is rocker and comforter of wealthy divorcées Lenny Kravitz. Kravitz, who recently raised eyebrows by hosting Cynthia at his home in Paris, issued his own statement: "There is absolutely no affair between Cynthia Rodriguez and myself. This is unequivocally 100% not true. She came here to escape from everything happening in New York City. I opened my home to her as a friend, and I find it extremely hurtful that I am now being referred to as an adulterer." The singer has a knack for housing those recovering from crumbling marriages; he sublet his New York City apartment to Nicole Kidman after her 2001 divorce from Tom Cruise. While describing themselves as "friends," Kidman and Kravitz canoodled at parties and went house-hunting together.

With allegations and statements whizzing by like a Nolan Ryan fastball, the one person who has stayed quiet is A-Rod. His attorney didn't return calls for comment on Monday. All the negative off-field attention doesn't seem to be hurting his game. He recently hit his 536th home run, tying Mickey Mantle for 13th place on baseball's career list, and he was just named the top vote getter for the All-Star game.

In court, however, A-Rod faces a tough matchup. In her divorce petition, Cynthia has asked for primary custody of their two daughters — Natasha, 3, and Ella, 2 months — as well as their $12 million, six-bedroom estate in Coral Gables, Fla., their luxurious Maybach car and enough child support and alimony to maintain their "lavish lifestyle." A-Rod can only hope this is a battle that doesn't require extra innings.

Source: TIME.

Séance-photo en hommage à Madonna dans le magazine allemand "Park Avenue".


Who's that Girl?
Prominente im Madonna-Outfit: Stars gratulieren der First Lady des Musikbusiness zum 50sten und zeigen sich in ihren berühmtesten Looks!

Eva Padberg
Ihre liebste Madonna-Epoche: die Erotica Phase
Eva Padberg im Evita-Look, 1996

Verona Pooth
weiß zwar auch, wie es geht, bescheinigt Madonna aber:
"Sie ist die Königin der Selbstvermarktung"
Verona Pooth, "Like a Prayer", 1989

Andrea Sawatzki
"Madonna ist das Parade-Beispiel einer Steh-auf-Frau"
Andrea Sawatzki in ihrem liebsten Madonna-Look: "Frozen", 1998

Anni Friesinger
hätte gern den Körper und den Kleiderschrank von Madonna
Anni Friesinger, "Hung Up", 2005

Silvana Koch-Mehrin
Hat Madonna die FDP-Politikerin als Typ geprägt?
Silvana Koch-Mehrin, "Music", 2000

Ute Lemper
findet, dass die Überdosis Exhibitionismus Madonna ihre Magie genommen hat
Ute Lemper, "Erotica", 1992

Tim Fischer
findet Madonna komplett überflüssig...
Tim Fischer, "Like a Virgin", 1984

Gewinnspiel: MADONNA LOOKALIKE
Auch Sie können aussehen wie die Queen of Pop! Gewinnen Sie mit PARKAVENUE.DE eine originalgetreu angefertigte Madonna-Korsage, die Ihnen direkt auf den Leib geschneidert wird

Source: PARK AVENUE Magazine.
 

Magazine de France : Madonna parmi les femmes les mieux habillées en 2007.

"ELLE"