If there is one global personality LILLIAN TOO carries a big torch for, it has to be MADONNA. In this issue, the world’s biggest personality on feng shui brings us an exciting update on the one and only material girl… who tells her Dad, “Papa don’t preach” then goes on to sing about her own name Madonna. “Like a prayer” she says… reprising this magical song to the single largest television audience ever – the half time half hour SUPERBOWL show in front of a live crowd of 70,000 people and attracted a viewing audience of 114 million people.
MADONNA sure is a big, big superstar, and those who watched her show streamed live over the Internet for days following the Superbowl must have gasped at how a 54 year old pop star can jump, gavort, dance, even do topsy turvy somersaults AND sing with a voice so powerful you simply have to know she’s still around.
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have been a MADONNA fan for as long as I can remember. I watched her, emulated her, studied her as she became bigger and better, reinventing herself,
chasing her dreams and dealing with fame, heartbreak, jealousy and all sorts of setbacks that come to people like her. I even read her autobiography that came out many years ago and read how she had been a straight-A student all her life… and I continue to be mesmerized. Madonna is no ordinary superstar.
She has tried her hand at everything and she has been excellent at the one thing she does magnificently – sing and dance and perform, as her latest gig at the American Superbowl attests. Only the very best and most popular are invited to fi ll their half hour half time slot. T e Supebowl is America’s most popular television show, its biggest sporting event and the greatest show of patriotism ever. Only at this annual football event does America stop whatever it is doing to stay glued to the television – this year watching the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots. And if you want to understand America, you must understand their single-minded fascination of the
Superbowl Finals of the American football championships. In this age of the football superstars (not to be confused with British or European football) we meet the new hero, Eli Manning who led the Giants to victory and we read about fallen hero Tom Brady of the Patriots being consoled by his supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen. But neither of these football stars can compare with Madonna. And indeed, she has been everywhere and all over the media. Since winning the BEST SONG category at this year’s Golden Globes, Madonna has been on a roll. Needless to say I was fascinated, having just watched her movie W.E. which shows her take on the Wallis Simpson/King Edward love aff air, the love story that shook British royalty and almost brought about the demise of this august royal household. Who else but Madonna can identify with scorned royalty, putting her money where her heart lies, and using the weight of her power in show business to write, direct and bring W.E to the big screen. Go see it if you can, and watch her retell a story that
puts her on the side of the scorned Wallis. It is a lush period movie worth watching. Madonna has guts and courage, but because she is so good at her song and dance act, it is easy for the world to miss her sheer brilliance at so many other things. Or forget just how hard she works. Or how strongly she pushes herself, or how intense her convictions really are. Madonna married two brilliant guys.
Sean Penn was her fi rst husband and we all know how great an actor this Oscar winner is. She was also married to English Director Guy Ritchie, he of the Sherlock Holmes box offi ce hits. For a while, she played at being an English lady complete with country mansion. But neither marriage satisfi ed her and today she is rumoured to have a bevy of toy boys who travel around the world with her, dance with her and pleasure her when she needs to be pleasured. For awhile also, she got inspired by another amazing lady of our Age, the one and only Angelina Jolie, so she too went to Africa to adopt some orphans. Today, her son and daughter from Africa enjoy the same privileges as her own son and daughter. Madonna enjoys the joys of motherhood much like other mothers do, in spite of her being single.