Madonna crosses a line but antics fail to shock

The Times ^ | May 23, 2006 | Chris Ayres

[karnage]

Good one! Maradona lives!

[Edgerunner]

She is a fine representative of the political left...anti-god, amoral, conceited, and pornographic. What a fit example of liberalism!

[MD_Willington_1976]

Saw her childrens booka at the dollar tree 2 for 0.50... she's a "winner".. lol NOT!

[Aquinasfan]

antics fail to shock

A lot is packed into those four words.

[RepoGirl]

If she really wants to shock her fans, she could put on say 20+ pounds, come out on stage wearing more than her underwear & sing songs middle aged women could relate to - about dragging kids around in minivans to sports & ballet & music lessons while trying to keep up w/ the dirty laundry, clean the bathroom, and cook dinner. All while having hot flashes and having a groups of real mean background dancers, resembling Larry the Cable Guy, shirtless, with beer guts swaying the rhythm.

I don't know if I'd pay to see that, but boy howdy, I like how your mind works! ;-)

[IronJack]

Is there anything more pathetic than a shopworn glam queen trying to relive her glory days, by pandering more and more to the pedestrian tastes of a brain-dead audience?

This must be the "new" Madonna the tabloids have been prattling about. You know, the one who takes her "religion" and her role as a mother so seriously ... Lots of moral instruction to be gleaned from on a stripper-pole/saddle and two-bit profanities hurled at the leader of the free world.

[isthisnickcool]

I remember one night in Houston Sam Kinison got a little too drunk and was thrown out of one of the local comedy clubs. Sam went across the street and "crucified" himsef on a sign out in front of a convenience store until they let him back in the club. Sam could be very bad but very funny. He was a preacher before he found comedy and some of Sams jokes relating to religion were way over the top.

Hey, what do you get when you stip Madonna nekkid and stand her on her head?

ANSWER: A brunette.

[Sabatier]

I couldn't agree more. Her poor kids must be embarrassed by her. She's acting like the "cool" Mom, who insists on wearing her teen daughter's crop top and hip huggers, no matter how ridiculous it looks.

[MadIvan]

The whole thing is incredibly boring. There is nothing more pedestrian than some "artist" heaping insults on conservatives and religion. It's almost a rite of membership in Hollywood, yet they still clap each other on the back for their supposed bravery.

Regards, Ivan

[tsomer]

“Throughout the night Madonna worked hard, not just to stay on pitch and dance well, but also to connect emotionally to her material,” Ann Powers wrote in a Los Angeles Times...

Reading between the lines....

[MadIvan]

In other words, she was off key, she moves now like an old broad with arthritis and sounded like she didn't believe her own crap anymore.

Regards, Ivan

[freekitty]

Has been is right. She thinks her formula still works; but only in the minds of people who think they are legends in their own minds.

The truth be known, Madonna thinks she is worthy enough to be in competition with God. I mean she has invented sex, a new religion(one that she is buying herself)trying to stay married to the same man for more than 5 minutes. She pretends her children are being brought up on old fashion values which is probably not true. How can one live that kind of lifestyle and not have it seep into one's family life. Impossible not to.

[IronJack]

The whole thing is incredibly boring. There is nothing more pedestrian than some "artist" heaping insults on conservatives and religion. It's almost a rite of membership in Hollywood, yet they still clap each other on the back for their supposed bravery.

Exactly. What's so ironic is that the "revolutionaries" who vowed to upset the Old Order have BECOME the Old Order! They are now "The Establishment" and -- at least in Hollywood circles -- you defy them at your peril.

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

[Clemenza]

Methinks Madge should be careful, as she may need hip replacement surgery. Maybe her new dentures contain lead that is contaminating her brain.

[Kieri]

Here's my advice for Madonna's next "Shock and Awe" tour:

1) Step onto the concert stage in a burqua
2) Walk down a ramp with a huge fan that blows upward ala Marilyn Monroe (which would harken back to her earlier days)
3) Reveal her hairy legs (she doesn't shave, remember?) and a bikini bottom with a mohammad cartoon glued to her arse.
4) Wait for the jihad announcement and death threats to start rolling in.

[oyez]

Go away Madonna who ever you are. You bore the Hell out of me.

[marty60]

Her Children are probably the adults in that household. How embarrassing for a teenager to have their Mother acting like a 10 buck whore on a stage.

[apillar]

Madonna jumped the shark about 1990. She should have retired and enjoyed her billions then. Her fans from the 80's (I admit I was one) have moved on and the kids these days have their own pop stars and don't care about "some old women".

[MinuteGal]

I'm delighted she opens right on the heels of the "Da Vinci Code" showings.

People are getting jaded and turned off by the current spate of slams on Christianity and the divinity of Christ.

I hope that Madonna gets crucified with a precipitous drop-off at the box office........that she never rises again on the third or any other day.......and that she then descends into oblivion.

Leni

[dfwgator]

And to think that Sean Penn was the "sane" one out of the two.