From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: M A D O N N A
Date: 9 Oct 92 04:32:46 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Originator: lip@s1.gov


	Well, Madonna has something coming up that some of you people
may be interested in, a book of her sexual fantasies called _Sex_. In
it, she makes out with people of both sexes, among other antics. For
example, there is reportedly a picture of her sucking one of model
Naomi Campbell's toes. She also will be coming out with a rather
raunchy album called "Erotica."

	She has admitting to fantasizing about sex with women, but her
preferences are more on the hetero side. However, she is a confirmed
"fag hag", a straight woman who likes gay men. On "Truth or Dare", she
encourages two of her dancers to French kiss, and she once promised to
show up on Geraldo Rivera's show if only he would make out with MTV
reporter Kurt Loder.

	She has had a long history of being gay-friendly, starting
with her ballet teacher Christopher Flynn (who died of AIDS not long
ago), who used to take her to gay bars, where the men were much more
in touch with themselves than the high-school football players.

	She has had a taste for surrounding herself with handsome men
in her videos; she once confessed that she likes making men into sex
objects. Not that she doesn't make _herself_ into a sex object also :-)

	Some of her co-workers are known gays; six of the seven
dancers on the "Blonde Ambition" tour were gay.

	A summary of her career:

1958 or 1959: Born in Bay City, MI

1960's: Raised a strict Catholic in suburbs of Detroit, MI. Mother dies.

Early 1970's: Quits piano for dance lessons

~1976: Studies ballet on a scholarship in the University of Michigan

~1978: Goes to New York City with only $35 and studies modern dance
with several troupes.

~1979: Meets struggling rock musician Dan Gilroy. Goes to Paris,
invited by some French disco producers, whose best-known work is "Born
to be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez. Returns after going nowhere there.
Plays drums in Gilroy's band for awhile, then goes solo after Gilroy
doesn't appreciate competition for being the vocalist.

~1980: Fronts a series of bands; goes nowhere.

late 1981: Signed to Sire Records. Its head, Seymour Stein, invites
her to hospital bed for an interview.

1982: Early singles, "Everybody", "Physical Attraction" released. Some
think Madonna is black from her vocal style.

1983: Releases first album. "Burning Up" her first appearance on MTV.
"Holiday" does pretty well.

1984: Videos for "Borderline" and "Lucky Star" released. She releases
her second album, "Like a Virgin", and its video late that year. It is
about then that she is starting to become well-known.

1985: Releases video for "Material Girl", goes on "Virgin Tour". Movie
"Desperately Seeking Susan", with her as co-star, released to critical
acclaim. She marries Sean Penn.

1986: Movie "Shanghai Surprise", made with Sean and her as costars,
released. It flops miserably. She also releases her album "True Blue".
Her video "Papa Don't Preach" criticized as supposedly anti-abortion
by feminists.

1987: Goes on "Who's That Girl" tour; the movie of the same name
flops. Starts divorce proceedings, but withdraws them.

1988: Appears as a secretary in Broadway play "Speed the Plow"; the
other two characters are two sleazy Hollywood studio executives.
Sensational stories at the end of the year about Sean roughing her up.

1989: She divorces Sean early that year, then signs endorsement deal
with Pepsi. Releases "Like a Prayer" album and video, Pepsi pulls out
after video attacked for blasphemy.

1990: Goes on "Blond Ambition" tour, which gets denounced as
blasphemous by the Vatican. "Dick Tracy", with her costarring with
then-boyfriend Warren Beatty as the detective, released.

1991: Concert movie "Truth or Dare" released. Late that year, "The
Immaculate Collection" of her greatest hits released. Extra single on
it, "Justify my Love", has video made that MTV rejects as too raunchy
for its tastes.

1992 [so far]: "The Beast Within" remix of "Justify my Love" called
anti-Semitic. Movie, "A League of their Own", released, with Madonna
appearing as an outfielder, the limit of her interest in professional
sports. New album, "Erotica", and new book, _Sex_, still to come as I
write this.

/Loren

Crucifixes are sexy because there's a naked man on them -- Madonna