2000 News Archive | 2001 Archive
| Friday, December 28 2001 |
Remix Madonna at ACIDplanet –
Madonna’s one of the most important cultural icons of the last
twenty years. She’s the artist that popularized remixing. Now she’s
yours to remix at ACIDplanet.
Remix “Music,” “Deeper and Deeper,” and “Ray of Light.”
Full details at:
http://madonna.acidplanet.com/default.asp
| Sunday, December 16 2001 |
Dateline & Today Show information –
NEW! Madonna on TV!
12/18-12/19 NBC Today Show interview.
12/19 – catch the Material Girl on Dateline.
And…New Year’s Eve…watch Madonna’s “Don’t Tell Me” performance on
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve!
| Wednesday, December 12 2001 |
Transcript of the Madonna MSN chat –
You can read a transcript of the Madonna / MSN chat at:
http://chat.msn.com/msnlive_feature.msnw?id=artist/madonna
“Rolling Stone” essential albums –
“Rolling Stone” is taking a survey on what ’90s album they should add
to their “essential” list.
“Ray Of Light” is nominated.
If you would like to vote, go here:
http://rollingstone.com/features/200albums/vote.asp
| Tuesday, December 11 2001 |
Madonna on the Today Show (US) –
Madoona is making an appearance on the Today show in the US.
This will be broadcast sometime next week. Stay tuned to Madonnamusic.com for more details.
Details of VH1’s Madonna Special on December 11th –
Source: VH1
2:00pm – The Virgin Years (83-86):
This hour features the videos: “Burning Up”, “Borderline”, “Lucky Star”, “Like A Virgin”, “Material Girl”, “Crazy For You”, “Gambler”, “Into The Groove”, “Dress You Up” and “Live to Tell”.
3:00pm – Blond Ambition (86-89):
This hour features the videos: “Papa Don’t Preach”, “True Blue”, “Open Your Heart”, “La Isla Bonita”, “Who’s That Girl”, “Like A Prayer”, “Express Yourself”, “Cherish”, “Oh Father” and “Dear Jessie”.
4:00pm – The Girlie Show (90-94):
This hour features the videos: “Vogue”, “This Used To Be My Playground”, “Erotica”, “Deeper and Deeper”, “Bad Girl”, “Fever”, “Holiday”, “Rain” and “I’ll Remember”.
5:00pm – Ray of Light (94-98):
This hour features the videos: “Secret”, “Take A Bow”, “Bedtime Story”, “Human Nature”, “I Want You” (with Massive Attack)”, ” You’ll See”, “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore”, “You Must Love Me”, “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”, “Frozen” and “Ray of Light”.
6:00pm – Never Gonna Stop (98):
This hour features the videos: “The Power of Goodbye”, “Nothing Really Matters”, “Beautiful Stranger”, “American Pie”, “Music”, “Don’t Tell Me”, “What it Feels Like For A Girl”, “Thunderpuss GHV2 Megamix” and an exclusive U.S. premiere of the video “Drowned World / Substitute for Love”.
Then there will be the Arsenio Hall Jams (both of her appearances, the one supporting Dick Tracy and the one with Rosie O’Donnell where her dad comes onto the show).
Arsenio Hall Jams:
7:00pm – Episode# 0306
7:30pm – Episode#0795
11:00pm – Episode#0306
11:30pm – Episode#0795
| Monday, December 10 2001 |
Madonna presents Creed with Turner prize –
From the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1698000/1698032.stm
Pop icon Madonna has presented the Turner Prize to minimalist artist
Martin Creed for his work entitled The Lights Going On and Off. Creed,
33, collected £20,000 for his controversial installation, which centres
around an empty gallery with a pair of flashing lights.
The ceremony took place at London’s Tate Britain, where Creed beat off
competition from Mike Nelson, Richard Billingham and Isaac Julien.
Presenting the controversial prize, Madonna said she was not generally a
fan of awards ceremonies, which she said were “silly”.
The star, who is also no stranger to hitting headlines, said: “Does the
artist who wins the award become a better artist? Is it nice to win 20
grand?
“Definitely – but after spending time in this city, I can tell you that
it won’t last very long.”
But she insisted the money was an irrelevance.
“Art is always at its best when there is no money, because it is nothing
to do with money and everything to do with love,” she said.
“It can be inspiring, inexplicable, provocative and infuriating, but we
cannot live without it.”
And she said she was keen to back artists had the nerve to express
themselves.
Madonna also made a four-letter outburst during the live broadcast, for
which Channel 4 had to apologise because it was before the 9pm
watershed.
In an acceptance speech nearly as minimal as his art, Creed said merely
that he wanted to say “thanks very much to a lot of people – nearly
everyone”.
He later admitted he did not have any plans on spending his prize,
saying he would probably put it in the bank.
Billboard Year End Charts –
Don’t Tell Me is at #34 on Billboard Hot 100 Year End Chart.
For the top 50 positions, go to
http://www.billboard.com/billboard/yearend/2001/hot100.jsp
Music album is at #49 on Billboard 200 Albums Year End Chart.
For the top 100 positions, go to
http://www.billboard.com/billboard/yearend/2001/bb2002.jsp
| Thursday, December 6 2001 |
Chat Live on MSN with MADONNA!!! –
Live from London, the world’s biggest pop star will take questions from her fans all over the globe. Don’t miss this rare opportunity.
Date & Time: Wednesday, Dec. 12, 12pm ET/9am PT
http://chat.msn.com/features/madonna.asp
Rolling Stone Year-End Issue –
Source: Rolling Stone
Madonna’s DWT was the first mention in the July notes, page 90:
“Madonna conquers planet, shakes ass. Put it this way: When Elvis was
forty-two, he was too busy keeling over dead to consider donning a kilt and finding whole new ways to outrage Western civilization. But Madonna outdid the King himself in the awesome Drowned World Tour, which hit the U.S. in July. What a show: punk-rock screaming, urban-cowboy dancing, Japanese butoh, mechanical-bull riding, What It Feels Like for a Girl in Spanish and a Crouching Tiger-style martial-arts display. Maddie even played her first-ever guitar solo in Candy Perfume Girl, the same one-note solo as Neil Young’s Cinnamon Girl (Ironic cross-reference? Or just a crappy solo?) No, she didn’t do Like A Virgin – but the Madonna of 2001 was nobody’s oldies act.”
Roberts, Madonna Make Hollywood Reporter Power List –
Source: dailynews.yahoo.com
By Sue Zeidler
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – What do “Pretty Woman” Julia Roberts and ”The Material Girl” Madonna (news – web sites) have in common besides wealth, fame and beauty?
They are the two lone superstars to grace this year’s Hollywood Reporter list of the 50 most influential women in show business, a ranking started 10 years ago to shine the spotlight on the women doing great work behind the scenes.
Roberts and Madonna, who ranked No. 3 and 42 respectively on the list,
however, were just too powerful to ignore, said officials at the
Hollywood Reporter.
“We try to make room for the women who have superseded the celebrity
aspect of their jobs,” said Christy Grosz, managing editor of special
issues for Hollywood Reporter.
In celebration of the list’s 10th anniversary, it was expanded to include 100 women, up 50 from last year and will be unveiled in Tuesday’s edition.
Sherry Lansing, chairman and chief executive officer of the Paramount
Pictures Motion Picture Group, who ranked No. 1 last year for the second year running, dropped to No. 2, while Stacey Snider, chairman of production for Universal Pictures, moved from No. 2 last year to the top slot.
“Snider has taken the studio from last to first in box office market
share, breaking the hex of a years-long slump,” said Robert Dowling,
Hollywood Reporter’s editor-in-chief and publisher.
The list is compiled each year by reporters and editors who rank women
according to their power to change the direction of their companies or
affect the industry’s future.
Roberts, Hollywood’s highest-paid actress with a $20 million per movie
price tag, made the list two years running based on her ability to turn small projects into major vehicles and her clout in securing financing for films.
Madonna returns to the list at No. 42 after ranking No. 28 in 1998.
“Madonna made the list again by force of her personality and her
sold-out ‘Drowned World Tour” this year,” Grosz said. “She’s had a
huge resurgence this year after being on the sidelines for a while,”
said Grosz, noting Madonna also heads her own production company and
record label.
Other significant changes this year include Oprah Winfrey’s move up to
No. 8 from No. 15, and Lifetime Television’s Carole Black and Dawn
Tarnofsky-Ostroff move up to the No. 10 slot from No. 23.
The top 10 is rounded out by Gail Berman, President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting (4), Nancy Tellem, President, CBS Entertainment (5), Michele Anthony, Executive vice president, Sony Music Entertainment (6), Nikki Rocco, President, Universal Pictures Distribution (7), Winfrey, Head of Harpo Entertainment Group and Harpo Prods. (8), Judy McGrath, President, MTV Group (9).
Roberts, Madonna Make Hollywood Reporter Power List –
Source: dailynews.yahoo.com
By Sue Zeidler
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – What do “Pretty Woman” Julia Roberts and ”The Material Girl” Madonna (news – web sites) have in common besides wealth, fame and beauty?
They are the two lone superstars to grace this year’s Hollywood Reporter list of the 50 most influential women in show business, a ranking started 10 years ago to shine the spotlight on the women doing great work behind the scenes.
Roberts and Madonna, who ranked No. 3 and 42 respectively on the list,
however, were just too powerful to ignore, said officials at the
Hollywood Reporter.
“We try to make room for the women who have superseded the celebrity
aspect of their jobs,” said Christy Grosz, managing editor of special
issues for Hollywood Reporter.
In celebration of the list’s 10th anniversary, it was expanded to include 100 women, up 50 from last year and will be unveiled in Tuesday’s edition.
Sherry Lansing, chairman and chief executive officer of the Paramount
Pictures Motion Picture Group, who ranked No. 1 last year for the second year running, dropped to No. 2, while Stacey Snider, chairman of production for Universal Pictures, moved from No. 2 last year to the top slot.
“Snider has taken the studio from last to first in box office market
share, breaking the hex of a years-long slump,” said Robert Dowling,
Hollywood Reporter’s editor-in-chief and publisher.
The list is compiled each year by reporters and editors who rank women
according to their power to change the direction of their companies or
affect the industry’s future.
Roberts, Hollywood’s highest-paid actress with a $20 million per movie
price tag, made the list two years running based on her ability to turn small projects into major vehicles and her clout in securing financing for films.
Madonna returns to the list at No. 42 after ranking No. 28 in 1998.
“Madonna made the list again by force of her personality and her
sold-out ‘Drowned World Tour” this year,” Grosz said. “She’s had a
huge resurgence this year after being on the sidelines for a while,”
said Grosz, noting Madonna also heads her own production company and
record label.
Other significant changes this year include Oprah Winfrey’s move up to
No. 8 from No. 15, and Lifetime Television’s Carole Black and Dawn
Tarnofsky-Ostroff move up to the No. 10 slot from No. 23.
The top 10 is rounded out by Gail Berman, President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting (4), Nancy Tellem, President, CBS Entertainment (5), Michele Anthony, Executive vice president, Sony Music Entertainment (6), Nikki Rocco, President, Universal Pictures Distribution (7), Winfrey, Head of Harpo Entertainment Group and Harpo Prods. (8), Judy McGrath, President, MTV Group (9).
| Monday, December 3 2001 |
Spin’s Year in Music 2001 –
Source: Spin
In the Spin Magazine Singles of the Year section, “Don’t Tell Me”
was selected as second best with the following write-up:
It may be that nobody has ever had a hit this great
this long after their first masterpiece. It may be
the emotionally richest pop throwaway since the
Supremes and the most off-kilter guitar part to hit
the Top 5 since Bill met Board. Not bad for the
American Kylie Minogue.
Dick Tracy DVD –
Amazon lists Dick Tracy as being released on DVD April 2, 2002.