Livre "That’s What She Said" ("C'est ce qu'elle a dit") comprenant le conseil de Madonna.

Ashton Kutcher (Mr. Demi Moore) wrote the book's foreword of “That’s What She Said” which also contains advice from the lovely Demi and Madonna.

He read, she said.
New tome has boldfaced names dishing about love
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ
Last Updated: 4:37 AM, December 5, 2009
Posted: 1:28 AM, December 5, 2009

Considering that author T.J. Jefferson’s new dating advice book kicks off with a foreword by Ashton Kutcher, one might expect the title to be “Women Are From Venus . . . Who Farted?”
Instead, “That’s What She Said” asks women, including several celebrities, to comment on topics like sex and love — and then lets them do the talking. (As most men know, that’s generally the way to go.)
We scanned the book for sage advice and came away with a few pearls of wisdom.
Fitting for a book written for men, the first chapter is called “Sex,” a topic on which sweet little Soleil “Punky Brewster” Moon Frye offers guidance.
“We like it dirty just like you,” she writes. “Men have an angel/mama complex . . . They want their girls to be innocent . . . we can be both — innocent and dirty . . .”
It seems Shakira’s hips don’t lie, and neither do her lips, although she’s apparently impossible to please:
“You can follow to the letter every bit of advice in this book, come home early every night, give me the keys to your car, call me beautiful all the time, become the best lover in the world, a faithful husband, a devoted father, behave 24/7 like a lap dog — and if I still complain, don’t take it personally . . .”
Vanessa Minnillo chimes in with, “Women love a guy with good hygiene — take care of yourself, please smell good!” Nick Lachey’s on-again-off-again squeeze also requests, “Let a woman finish her sentence and what she’s saying.” Why do we get the feeling Minnillo’s reply came via an emoticon-filled text message?
Cameron Diaz’s entry includes this tidbit: “If you find a woman you can have fun with, don’t run from her. She could be just the woman that will make you a better man.”
Best known for “dating” New York’s former governor, former call girl Ashley Alexandra Dupre has this to say about listening: “I love corny. I love mush . . .” But, she warns, “Play games and that is when it gets complicated, because we know you are not being real.”
Not surprisingly, WWE wrestler Maria Kanellis offers advice in a chapter called “Be a Man.”
“Don’t call us crazy (even when we are) if you don’t understand,” advises Kanellis.
“Trust me, calling anyone crazy makes them crazy.” And then, we assume, someone gets clobbered with a metal folding chair.
Finally, Demi Moore, a patient woman to be sure, offers advice in a chapter called “The Little Things.”
“Guys, if you want to get our clothes off, focus on what you’re giving, not on what you can get. You may be able to score once, but we can smell the stink of selfish desire a mile away and are not interested . . . Notice the little things, and you’ll get everything.” Now, who wants to cuddle?

Source: New York Post.

That's What She Said
Women Reveal What Men Really Need to Know
Written by T. J. Jefferson 
Category: Humor
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45092-0 (0-307-45092-9)
Also available as a trade paperback.

ABOUT THIS BOOK
The book was called Everything Men Understand About Women.
Upon opening it, the reader found 100 blank pages. Get it?
Very funny. But it gave T. J. Jefferson an idea. If men know nothing about the fairer sex, then why not go straight to the source? After all, if your toilet is backed up, you don't call your dentist, you call a plumber. So he asked strangers (and even some celebrities, such as Madonna, Shakira, Demi Moore, and Cameron Diaz) to fill the blank pages of his book.
In That's What She Said, Jefferson shares 100-plus tips he's gathered from women of all ages and backgrounds in a collection of entries in their own words that are offbeat, funny, sometimes mean, often poignant–but always honest. For men, it's not a book on how to get a woman to go home with you but on how to keep her attention once you have it. And for women, think of it as an entertaining look at what other ladies are going through. You may find vindication ("amen, sister") or put it down, relieved that you aren' t "as crazy as her" or that your man isn't a complete cad.
Organized by topics, including love, sex, beauty, lying, and listening, this is the ultimate look into the mind of today's modern woman.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Source: Random House.

Couverture du dernier livre des Roses Anglaises de Madonna: ''Catch the Bouquet!''

The English Roses, Catch the Bouquet! #12
by Madonna (Author)

Released on December 24, 2009.
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Puffin
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0142411299
ISBN-13: 978-0142411292

The final installment to the chapter book series featuring Madonna's bestselling characters,the English Roses!
The English Roses' number-one teacher, Miss Fluffernutter, is getting married to Binah's father! The Roses couldn't be happier for their beloved teacher, or for Binah, whose own mother died when she was just a baby. And Binah is thrilled at the idea of having a stepmother like Miss F' that is, until she realizes that a new woman in her father's life means less time for Binah. Binah misses her father terribly. And it doesn't help that Charlotte is driving everyone nuts trying to plan the perfect wedding. Can the English Roses save this walk down the aisle from going totally awry?

Read also here: Two New Madonna Books: ''American Dreams'' on Oct. 15 and ''Catch The Bouquet'' on Dec. 24

Lire aussi ici: Deux Nouveaux Livres de Madonna: "American Dreams" le 15 oct. et "Catch The Bouquet" le 24 déc.

Deux Nouveaux Livres de Madonna: "American Dreams" le 15 oct. et "Catch The Bouquet" le 24 déc.

July 31, 2009
New Madonna Books Coming This Fall

Two new Madonna books are to be released as part of ‘The English Roses’ series this fall.
First, is book #11, ‘American Dreams’, to be released on October 15, 2009. The book is already available for pre-order from Amazon.
The 12th and last book of the series, ‘Catch The Bouquet’, will be in stores on December 24.
For more info about The English Roses collection, please visit www.myenglishroses.net
Source: Madonna.com.

Madonna Confessions: exposition et signature du livre par Guy Oseary à New York.
 

Source: THE POWERHOUSE ARENA.

Christopher Ciccone présente la version tchèque de son livre à Prague.


Christopher Ciccone, brother of pop star Madonna, presents the Czech version of his and Wendy Leigh's book 'Life With My Sister Madonna', or 'Zivot s Madonnou' in Prague's Luxor Palace bookshop on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. Christopher, who worked with his sister Madonna Louise Ciccone, for most of the time of her career, says he reveals the secrets of her life. The brother-sister cooperation ended with Madonna husband Guy Ritchie's arrival on the scene, whom she married in the year 2000.
 

Photo: AP/CTK, Stanislav Zbynek.

Quand Madonna se marie avec son Guy.


2008/08/29

Christopher Ciccone gives a revealing account of what transpired before and during his sister Madonna’s wedding to Guy Ritchie.

IT’s Dec 31, 1999. Donatella Versace has a New Year’s Eve party at Casa Casuarina, her Miami mansion, where I first meet Guy Ritchie, the new man in Madonna’s life.
He is personable and respectful and seems as if he might be fun to hang out with.
Nonetheless, I doubt he’ll outlast my big sister’s usual two-year relationship cycle. I can’t imagine that Guy will be around for long. I am wrong, of course.
Barely three months later, on March 20, 2000, Madonna announces that she is pregnant with Guy’s child. I am still not convinced that he is in her life to stay. She had Lola, her daughter, with Carlos Leon, a personal trainer she met in Central Park, but didn’t stay with him.
On Aug 11, their son Rocco is born. Madonna breaks the news to me that she and Guy are getting married. I am glad for her, because I realise that she is vulnerable and needs him.
Apart from the fact that Guy must remind her of Sean Penn, her first husband — both are from comfortable homes yet are prone to present themselves as tough street kids — she is getting older and needs a father for her children.
She casts such a big shadow and most men just aren’t prepared to subjugate themselves to her. I guess that Guy isn’t either, but at least he is prepared to marry her.
Madonna is now permanently based in England.
On Oct 9, 2000, she sends me a letter inviting me to her wedding in Scotland.
In a backhanded compliment, she says she is inviting “my close friends and family members that are not insane”.
A week before the wedding I will fly to London and then to Inverness, a 45-minute drive from Skibo Castle on the shores of Dornoch Firth in the Scottish Highlands.
On Dec 21, Rocco will be christened and the wedding will take place on Dec 22.
Later, I discover that none of the guests is allowed a mobile phone and that we are all banned from leaving the castle during the five-day wedding celebrations.
Moreover, 70 security guards will be on hand to ensure that no Press infiltrates Skibo (and no guest escapes).
After the flights, a car meets me at Inverness airport.
At Dornoch, we drive up a sweeping beech-lined drive and Skibo Castle looms in the mist: big, beautiful and mysterious. A crackling log fire burns in the main hall. I expect Errol Flynn to swagger down the magnificent staircase and start fencing with me.
My room is on the top floor in a turret attic. I go through a little door into a small hallway, then into a room with a claw-footed Victorian bathtub in the middle and a toilet against the wall. That leads to another doorway, another low-ceilinged room, and there is my bed.
The phone rings and I am informed that dinner will be at eight. Moreover, it is black tie. Madonna never warned me that there would be black tie events. I’ve only brought one suit with me — Prada. It looks like I’ll be wearing it every night.
I go down the six flights of stairs. I pass a library and a billiards room. I take a walk outside, see the small gym and serene spa and the Edwardian indoor swimming pool. A pretty girl rides by on a horse.
She introduces herself to me as Stella. The penny drops. Stella McCartney.
As far as I know, she and Madonna have only just met, yet Madonna has chosen her to be her maid of honour. Stella designs and makes a free US$30,000 (RM96,000) dress specially for Madonna.
Stella explains the drill to me. Every morning the men will go shooting and the women will have a themed luncheon. She knows, because Madonna has told her.
Guy’s pride in his own heterosexuality swells noticeably when he’s in the presence of a gay man like me.
And during this wedding week, when there are nightly after-dinner toasts made by his male friends — many of whom are aimed at underscoring his overt masculinity — he is in his element.
The next day my parents arrive, along with my sister Paula. Initially, Madonna didn’t invite her.
Paula tells me that she called Madonna and said she really wanted to be at her wedding, and Madonna said that as long as Paula paid her way she could come.
Paula is working as a graphic artist and earns only a modest salary. Yet Madonna still expects her to pay her own plane fare to this far-flung place.
My mood improves when Rupert Everett, Gwyneth and Donatella arrive. We take a golf-cart ride and I tell them about the homophobic toasts and how awful everything has been. They laugh and console me. Gwyneth says, “Poor Christopher, we’ll look after you.”
The christening is in the evening. A long line of Range Rovers pulls up in front of the castle to take us to Dornoch cathedral.
A pack of 500 photographers and even more journalists is waiting at the castle gate and follows us.
More than a thousand fans are gathered outside the small, 776-year-old cathedral. Inside, it is lit with candles and garlanded with ivy and flowers.
I sit with Gwyneth and Rupert and only see Rocco — swaddled in his white-and-gold US$45,000 Versace christening outfit, a gift from Donatella — from a distance.
I learn afterwards that a journalist has been hiding in the massive pipe organ for three days. By the time someone discovers him, he has passed out cold.
Guy Oseary, Madonna’s manager, has been awarded the distinction of being Rocco’s godfather. I try not to mind. We are driven back to the house, with the Press following close behind.
Dinner is served, toasts are given. I experience a sudden urge to smoke but know that I can’t as Madonna has banned smoking.
The next evening we all gather for the wedding ceremony in the Great Hall, now lit by candles, and take our seats at the foot of the staircase, which is garlanded in ivy and white orchids. Lola, in a long, ivory high-necked dress, descends, scattering red rose petals.
Madonna, beautiful in a fitted ivory silk dress, joins Guy on the staircase. He is wearing a kilt that someone explains to me is in the plaid of the Mackintosh clan. Rocco, snuggling in his nanny’s arms, is dressed in a kilt of identical fabric.
Guy and Madonna exchange diamond wedding rings. Then, in front of a female pastor, they speak the vows they’ve written themselves.
I wish I could hear them, but the ceremony is so far from where we are all sitting that none of us can make out a word. Deja vu — Sean and Madonna’s wedding in Malibu all over again. We couldn’t hear a single word of the vows then because we were deafened by the racket of Press helicopters above us.
Later we are piped into dinner. The best man, nightclub owner Piers Adam, stands up to give his toast.
Behind him, a screen features several images of Guy throughout his childhood.
I leave the dinner, go upstairs and fall asleep. I wake up at around two in the morning and go downstairs to get something to eat. I hear music coming from the castle’s cellars. A big party is going on and everyone is dancing.
Among them is Madonna’s maid from America. While a nice gesture that she paid her maid’s way, it is almost beyond my comprehension that she categorically refused to pay for our sister Paula to fly to Scotland as well.
When I arrive back home in America, open my mail and find an invitation to join Skibo’s exclusive private members’ club, I don’t, for one second, consider accepting it.

- Extracted from Life with My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone with Wendy Leigh. It’s published by Simon & Schuster.

Source: The New Straits Times Online.
 

Christopher Ciccone a envoyé un e-mail à Madonna.

"Je ne ferais jamais rien intentionnellement pour te blesser".


Me, me, me and Madge
Jon Wise
Another week of great interviewing skills from GMTV.

Guest Christopher Ciccone told us living with his sister Madonna "can't possibly be easy."
To which host Kate Garraway asked: "But do you think it would be hard being married to her?" Newsnight it ain't.
Chris said he'd emailed Madge to reassure her, "I'd never do anything intentionally to hurt you".
Well, apart from bringing out a book lifting the lid on all her secrets that he knows she will hate.
He did justify the book well. "No matter how you look at it, the book's about me and my perspective on the whole thing."
Someone's wanting the limelight. Anyway, enough about me. What do you think about me?

Source: The People.

Tom Cruise moins aimé que Madonna?


Friday, August 08, 2008
By Roger Friedman
FOX NEWS

Madonna has millions of fanatic fans, but not so many that want to know about her dirty laundry.
According to Nielsen’s Book Scan, the book “Life with My Sister Madonna,” by the publicity-seeking pop star’s brother Christopher Ciccone, has been a resounding flop. Total sales: 35,000.
To make matters worse, Madonna is less disliked, let’s say, by people willing to fork over $20, than Tom Cruise. Andrew Morton’s biography of Cruise has sold 50,000 copies, according to BookScan.
The Cruise book, of course, had real revelations about his connection to Scientology, raised questions about his relationships and even the conception of baby Suri.
The Madonna book, on the other hand, was a gloss on life with the world’s most heat-seeking diva. There was a lot of promise, but not so much delivery about sex, drugs or rock 'n' roll.
One wonders now if Ciccone thinks it was all worth it. Whatever fee he got from Simon & Schuster for ratting out his sis had to be split with British celebrity muckraker Wendy Leigh.
Leigh has several of these “tell-nothing” books under her belt, so it’s likely she got a nice piece of change to formulate Ciccone’s bland recollections into something that sounded salacious. If Ciccone netted less than $500,000 just to bash Madonna publicly, which is probably the case, after taxes that can’t seem like enough to have been cut off from his $100 million sister for life.
Simon & Schuster can’t be too happy, either. The net take on sales of 35,000 for a celebrity bio is pretty low once all costs are deducted — like printing a book with a lot of pictures and then paying lawyers to make sure Ciccone didn’t get sued.
Of course, there’s always the theory that Madonna let brother Christopher publish the book with the philosophy that all publicity is good, and it might help ticket sales for her tour. Ciccone’s book came exactly at the moment that Madonna was rumored to be divorcing because she was rumored to be having an affair with New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez. That story, you may have noticed, disappeared as quickly as it started — which was right after rumors that Madonna’s tour wasn’t selling well.

Source: FOX NEWS.
 

Tom Cruise

"I Am Because We Are" va sortir en livre en janvier prochain.


August 6, 2008

powerHouse Books is pleased to announce the January 2009 release of I Am Because We Are. Photographs by Kristen Ashburn. Foreword by Madonna.
I Am Because We Are is the companion volume to the acclaimed forthcoming documentary film directed by Nathan Rissman and written and produced by Madonna. This book of images by award-winning photojournalist Kristen Ashburn--culled from her own work in Malawi and Africa over the past seven years as well as from her specially commissioned photographs for the film--provides an intimate look at the lives of eight Malawian children featured in the film and reveals the harsh reality of the AIDS pandemic throughout southern Africa.
The title is derived from the concept of "Ubuntu," an idea in African spirituality that states that all of humanity is connected, that we cannot be ourselves without community, that an individual's well-being is dependent upon the well-being of others.
These heart-wrenching stories are a call to action. In Malawi, a country of 13 million people, over one million are orphans. Looking into the hearts and minds of children who have suffered more than one can imagine, the book provides an unflinching view of life at the center of the global AIDS crisis. This is not just a story about orphans in Malawi, but about global responsibility and human interconnectedness.
I Am Because We Are includes a foreword by Madonna, an afterword by Ashburn, excerpts from interviews with Malawian children, their biographies, and extended captions. Author proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the charitable organization Raising Malawi for their extensive work with orphans throughout Malawi.
Kristen Ashburn's photographs and stories from the Middle East, Europe, and Africa have appeared in many publications worldwide. Her accolades include a 2007 Emmy Award nomination, two World Press Photo prizes, a Getty Foundation grant in 2006, Canon's Female Photojournalist Award in 2004, and other honors. She began photographing the impact of AIDS in southern Africa in 2001, and since then has also produced stories on the war in Iraq, Jewish settlers and suicide bombers in Israel's occupied territories, and the aftermath of the tsunami in Sri Lanka and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. In addition to her humanitarian photography, Ashburn is one of the directors of Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project, a charity that teaches photography to Rwandan orphans of the 1994 genocide and supports them through the sale of their images.

Click here to preview and/or pre-order the book.

For more info about the 'I Am Because We Are' documentary, please visit www.iambecauseweare.com

Source: Madonna.com.
 

Les confessions de Madonna viennent à vous.


July 29, 2008

Everyone is cashing in on Madonna's fame, including her manager Guy Oseary, who is planning on releasing a book about the pop queen.
This isn't going to be a scandalous tell-all though, "Madonna: Confessions" is going to be a 224-page coffee-table book of photos from her 2006 world tour.
There won't be any shocking surprises either, Madge was fully involved in the project and even helped handpick the pics and provided quotes. Sounds a little boring, but we're sure Madonna enthusiasts will be happy with the end result.
The $39.95 volume is set to his stores this coming October, just in time for her tour.

Source: Hollyscoop.