Madonna - Defamer

Whatever you thought of , it seems to have subdued the outrage somewhat, filling in the comic frame images we've been seeing lately of the pop icon on her dark-baby shopping spree with at least a few dialogue bubbles indicating she hasn't completely lost her mind.

We were too transfixed by her accent to really form an opinion on the matter--could that possibly be what humans will sound like in 500 years?--but others were far less indecisive. A Madonna-on-Oprah fallout round-up:
Leading the "screw Madonna and Oprah and their army of motherfucking hair and makeup people and their misguided, self-serving Third World charity efforts"-cavalry is the NY Post's Andrea Peyser, who questions Oprah's softball-lobs (but that's what Oprah does!

), as well as Madonna's sniveling condescension towards David's "simple man" father. Worth a read--if only for the anti-Oprah blasphemies. Heavens!

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The "simple man," meanwhile, is now claiming he's worried the controversy-- including the last chapter where he expressed genuine surprise that -- would cause the rich white lady with man-muscles to back out of the agreement. [ ]
Reuters managed to get a quote from the father as well, in which he stated his clear opposition to the consortium of 67 Malawian human rights groups seeking to legally block the adoption. And to this we say: There's 67 Malawian human rights groups?

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And finally, to end on a cheerier note, CityRag blog offers a quick, inexpensive and easy costume idea for Halloween: "Celebrity Baby Smuggler." [ ]
Moments ago, the all-too-familiar image of Madonna's moving lips were beamed across the West Coast, in deliberate and measured fake-British tones the exact circumstances surrounding the newest, member of her family, little Malawian demi-orphan David Banda. And while the many details tumbled forth almost too swiftly to fully retain--David was abandoned! Malawi has no written laws!

"Confessions on a Dance Floor" makes a great stocking stuffer this holiday season!--Whitney Pastorek of Entertainment Weekly's Popwatch blog was luckily there to . Some highlights:

4:00:40 Wait.

We're getting Madonna and the Dixie Chicks today? Dear me! That is quite a lot of Women Conservatives Love To Hate for one tiny little hour of television!

4:01:19 Madonna is calling in via satellite?? Oh, now I see: The Dixie Chicks were supposed to have the whole hour, weren't they?

4:01:23 Madonna's answer to Oprah's "how are you?" is, "Well, uh, um, Thank you for asking me to do the show."

If Oprah Winfrey's audience members are good for one thing--besides screaming as if their heads were on fire whenever brought into direct contact with swag--it's blabbing about the goings on inside the top-secret celebrity visits they were explicitly instructed not to blab about. So even though the talk show host's with a with a is not set to air until Wednesday, we get to find out today what was going through Madonna's with her recent adoption-cum-PR fiasco:

"She said she met with the father, she looked him in the eye," said [audience member Sheryl] Lewis. Madonna, according to Lewis, told Oprah that she and Ritchie had followed the country's customs and had secured both "oral and written approval .

.. and just now the press have gotten to him.

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] Another audience member, Amanda Bannon of Crawfordsville, Ind., said, "the biggest thing was that Madonna wants to get the point across that she doesn't want this to be a discouragement to other families to not adopt." [.

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Yeah, we're not sure what to make of this video either, but we're sure that if Snipes gets into a chase with the cops, it's going to be a lot more exciting than the footage they've edited together here.