1985 - Premiere Desperately Seeking Susan - Century City, CA
2011 - Premiere W.E. - Venice, Italy
Showing posts with label 1985. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1985. Show all posts
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Madonna Incognitio
Madonna Incognito by Andy Warhol
Shot by and from Andy Warhol's America Book.
ANDY WARHOL - America - New York, Harper & Row, 1985
Black and white photographs by Andy Warhol with extensive texts by the artist.
Viva
Back in the day, here in LA, there was an infamous Madonna impersonator, his name was Viva and he was beyond fabulous. He would perform at Peanuts nightclub on Santa Monica Blvd. He would always have the outfit and whatever she did the day before done perfectly. This is from Star Hits when they covered The Virgin Tour in 1985.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
God of Pop Culture
Billboard Magazine 1985
In today's day and age where pop culture reigns supreme and there is no need to know anything, Madonna - God of Pop Culture looms over all. We see her influences everywhere. We see wannabe's in abundance. We see people not only byting her style but even her myth and template for stardom. It's fascinating to know that in January of 1984 that she said she wanted to rule the world. Within pop culture, She is.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
June 30, 1985 - Madonna and Sean Penn - Franklin, Tennessee
The biggest, greatest and sexiest love affair of the 1980's - Sean Penn and Madonna.
Before they got married and before her fabulous ass kicking performance at Live Aid, Madonna was visiting Sean Penn on the set of At Close Range in Tennessee. She had just finished her Virgin Tour on June 11, 1985. Sean had been filming for several months in Nashville, Tennessee. They were staying at the Mawxwell House Hotel.
On Sunday June 30th, Madonna went out for a run up and through Buena Vista Park and when she returned, her and Sean were walking through the hotel grounds. Sun tabloid reporters Laurence Cottrell and Ian Markham-Smith started shooting photos. Sean flipped, grabbed a rock and threw it at Cottrell and started beating the shyt out of Cottrell. From this moment on, nobody felt comfortable approaching Sean Penn on the streets. Ha!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The Sex Cunt Skirt(s)
Nice Wallpaper.
Madonna just reeks of sex. The same pose in same hotel on the couch and the bed. Fantastique! The top blue tube skirt has always been one of my favorites. This is when she went to Japan in 1985.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
January 28, 1985 - Shrine Auditorium - American Music Awards
One of the greatest Rock and Roll shots of all-time.
The first ever appearance on an award show where Madonna presented. This was for Favorite Black Album and Prince and the Revolution won for Purple Rain. Here she is sex hole wearing her Jean Paul Gaultier zip up corset dress. In the following weeks, she would head to Japan for Like a Virgin promotion and Hawaii for that legendary photo shoot. This photo by Brad Elterman is backstage with the press and here's what he had to say about it.
“I was hired by Dick Clark’s press agent to cover the American Music Awards nearly every year for a decade. I had incredible access and I wanted to make a great photograph of this new singer called Madonna. There is little potential to be creative in this small area, but it made a wonderful photograph.”
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Julien's Live Auctions Madonna Photos
Edo Bertoglio's contact sheet with her and Martin Burgoyne.
Julien's Live Auction is offering up some Madonna photos. The last one here they say is her in a bathing suit! Check it out HERE.
Mahalo! Madonna Does Hawaii
Over the last 28 years, she's been so many women that it's difficult to put them all together. But here, Madonna's Hussy Sex Bomb incarnation was superbly photographed by Herb Ritts in Hawaii ~ at the height of Like a Virgin's success.
Living in pop culture's Madonna Aftermath - it's hard to remember the furor she caused just wearing her innate sex. The Gloria Steinem feminists were horrified, saying she was setting women back 25 years. Seems tame now - throes of ecstasy, nipples and all - but you can still feel it.
Two of these shots were featured in Rolling Stone's Summer Style section in May 1985.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Happy 85th Birthday Marilyn Monroe!
Oh Marilyn, Happy Birthday! Our Madonna has referenced and paid homage to Marilyn many times in her career and rightfully so. When asked by Regis Philbin in 1991 during her promotion for Truth or Dare why the references to Monroe, Madonna said something along the lines that she identified with how everyone always focused on and obsessed over each others sexuality.
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For me, Madonna always gave Marilyn a much needed shot of adrenaline. Twisting that vulnerability and drug addiction into strength. I think public opinion is different today on Monroe than it was 25 years ago. We look at her more as a strong figure rather than weak.
I always loved this SNL sketch of Madonna as Marilyn Monroe from 1985 when she hosted the show. We have one of my favorites, the fantastic Joan Cusack as the maid and Randy Quaid as Jack Kennedy. A young Robert Downey, Jr. plays Elvis Presley. Madonna would work later with Quaid in Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) and John Lovitz in A League of Their Own (1992). And Robert Downey, Jr., of course, went on to star in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009).
Miss Monroe, Miss Monroe, I can't figure out your new vacuum cleaner....
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