And everybody seems to care! So Madge’s disembodied head hovered into Harpo’s Chicago studios yesterday to defend herself against cynics that say she bought her way around Malawi’s supposedly complex adoption process (saying “there are no adoption laws in Malawi”), and that she strong-armed the boy’s father into giving up her son, telling Oprah that “I looked into that man’s eyes … I believe that the press is manipulating this information out of him.” Read the transcript here.
Did ya click? You burning to know? Why do people give a fuck?! Really, that’s what we need to know. We’re not fascinated with her adoption saga, but we’re totally fascinated by the fascination. Just what is so interesting about a pop icon flying to another continent to extend her family while donating money to build orphanages and enraging litigious human rights groups? People gotta have more interesting shit to think about than this, right?
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i did click, but it just doesn’t work.
fix it.
Well, because they are claiming that she went against the law to retrieve the baby and this raises questions of her integrity in contrast to the civil rights of the native people of that country. And thus for some, it draws notice to a plight that they are passionate about.
For me. I’m gay. For the most part, we love her.
i think i’m pregnant
it seems like over the past few months this site has turned into defamer or some other celebrity rag. come on dudes. i’ve already un-bookmarked….do i need to quit coming back altogether?
madonna looks better with no body.
alternate title for this post: papa don’t preach
nice accent.
thought she was from Detroit.
oh wait, she is.
pompous douchefucking poseur.
Didn’t click, but I kind of care. Anyone who’s seen Mommy Dearest should care.
No matter how hard she tries she just can’t be Angelina Jolie, maybe that’s because Madge has no soul. And speaking of Madge the Vampire, is anybody else thinking of the Wizard of Oz right now?
/ I AM OZ (flames)!
who fucking cares?
I have no idea about the obsession with pop idols / movie stars and such. Really. Maybe it’s because peoples lives are actually that fucking boring, which is quite sad. What’s really sick, is how most people place these idols/stars on a high stool and think that they’re better than them just cause they’re famous and such. I wonder what coutry ranks in as the most obsessive … Japan, America ???
did not click, and yeah, you’re absolutely right… people seem to be soooo bored
I know, who cares about the most legitimate pop star in America trying to rescue all of those pesky little orphaned children whose parents have all died of AIDS via a situation that we all continue to ignore when THE KILLERS have a new MUSIC VIDEO?
I hope that comment was tongue-in-cheek.
did not click, ‘cos I read it doesn’t work
and no, you’re not right
I think it’s a more interesting debate than wether Fergie’s latest is worth listening to.
I think it’s the ultimate expression of spoiledness, what Madonna is doing. I’m sure her motherheart is meaning well and the kid will have an interesting life, but it’s still a twisted way of using fame & fortune.
Get a (real) life I’d say, instead of buying one.
“I beg all of those people to go to Africa and see what I saw and walk through those villages. ? To see 8-year-olds in charge of households. To see mothers dying, with Kaposi sarcoma lesions all over their bodies. To see open sewages everywhere. To see what I saw. It is a state of emergency. As far as I’m concerned, the adoption laws have to be changed to suit that state of emergency. I think if everybody went there, they’d want to bring one of those children home with them and give them a better life.”
Typical for someone who’s lived outside normal life. I mean it’s great all kinda celebs travel to Africa and are touched by it’s misery so they can help a hand. But it’s hardly a solution to take the orphaned children out of their environment and into ours. It’s a pathetic simple way of thinking.
i’m more interested in how exxon can record the 2nd largest quarterly profit ever for a publicly traded company yet there’s supposedly (supposably) a gas situation.
re: madge, i’d hit it.
I agree. I’m a fan of Madonna and even I’m not that fascinated. This is because I’m a fan of her music and creative work, rather than hanging on every piece of gossip about her personal life. I think something like this adoption is the business of her family, David’s family and the appropriate social services groups, and it’s not really the world’s business.
I did watch it because I was working from home and I try to catch Madonna’s media appearances but I agree that the fascination itself is fascinating. As a fan, I’m annoyed that I have to go on fan Web sites and wade through 3,000 tabloid reports on the adoption just to get some kernel of info about her future creative work.
Will Madonna and Oparah just go away and never come back?